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by Dove 15y ago
Everybody says the way to become wealthy is to let money make money for you I don't think so. I guess it depends on what you mean by "wealthy", but I'd say that's the way to go from "rich" to "super rich". The way to become wealthy is to
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by Dove 15y ago
Think metaphorically. Around you are people with money who have to do odd jobs they don't like. If you're willing to do that work, they will pay you for it. It doesn't have to be skilled. Think shoveling dog poop http://www.azcentral.co
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by Dove 15y ago
The symptom is anhedonia -- the inability to experience pleasure. You can eat a delicious meal, play outside in the sunshine with little kids, have great sex, and through it all feel nothing . It's like when a finger is numb -- you touch
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by Dove 15y ago
You know, I would normally let this sort of argument go, but you've stepped on a pet peeve of mine and it's been a while since it got some fresh air. I dislike arguments that focus on a particular consequence producing a particular strain o
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by Dove 15y ago
Yeah, nobody ever outsources technical work. ;) I don't think anyone is ever entitled to work, whatever the industry. Especially if someone else wants to do the same work for cheaper -- be it with a machine or in another country. If you
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by Dove 15y ago
I once needed to find several elements in a ~500,000 object array several times a second. And the criterion by which I could judge whether they were the objects I wanted was expensive to compute, and often complex -- involving looking at n
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by Dove 15y ago
Hey, now. Rockets have gimbals and nozzles and aerodynamic considerations. Rocket Science may not be as tough as NASA makes it out to be, but it definately involves advanced math and control systems and stuff like that. Calling it as a pl
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by Dove 15y ago
I don't mind. Sending manufacturing jobs overseas raises the standard of living there and introduces technology and industry to the region. The folks doing those jobs won't be stuck at that income level forever. I think my standard of liv
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by Dove 16y ago
No one is saying caps, in principle, ought to be illegal, the argument you seem to be attacking. The article is arguing that the caps are out of sync with the actual scarcity of the resource. Prices are rising and caps are dropping, even t
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by Dove 16y ago
Making a crop circle with that equation in it is one of the most awesome things I've ever heard of anyone doing. Somehow that makes it extra tragic that they got it wrong (it's missing a rather critical +).
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by Dove 16y ago
I'm confused. It sounds like she was given the sim card and didn't know it was stolen. Does Australia not do mens rea ? Or does it not apply here for some reason? I mean, common sense says she didn't think she was doing anything wrong.
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by Dove 16y ago
I've been surprised how often a software engineer will describe something technical and arcane, and everyone in the room assumes it must be comprehensible to everyone else . After a few such incidents, I decided it was my responsibility
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by Dove 16y ago
A college student is privileged in that they have the free time to learn , all day every day. They may not realize how special this is until they decide, at thirty while supporting a family, that they want another degree -- and they do it
854.
by Dove 16y ago
Can you really get an original paper written at a price that's at least conceivable for a high school student to pay? Nuts. Oh, absolutely. I see 400-level programming and engineering homework assignments crop up on vworker from time to
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by Dove 16y ago
Er. . . how the guy got the other offer, be it via a rich father, taking the trouble of applying to more than one job, or sacrificing pigs to demons is completely irrelevant. Someone out there is willing to pay $110k for his time. Ergo,
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by Dove 16y ago
Actually, yes, it is irrelevant, and yes, you don't understand. But it's not your fault. :P You're missing some context: this is a followon to a previous thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438980 The idea isn't to see how much
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by Dove 16y ago
You're not acting in your own best interest. No, he misunderstood the goal of the exercise. I'd argue it's not entirely his fault, either. "What's your salary" -- asked as a general question, without further context, justifiably might no
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by Dove 16y ago
you're trying to exploit a competitive offer rather than arrive at what is fair What definition of fair are you using such that what you're worth to someone else isn't a key consideration?
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by Dove 16y ago
Oh, I know none of that proves anything -- neither does the original poster's experience at parties, or my personal read as a woman that it's a slight positive. I'd be more curious about the data. Though, another data point -- I've never
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by Dove 16y ago
most women find bald men very unappealing Really? I know for a fact that there are women who are crazy about bald guys in particular. And I know that in men, maturity is a good thing, not a bad thing -- you have male sex symbols of acto
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by Dove 16y ago
Maybe "people you don't know" is a little strong. But you wrote, Back when Facebook was new . . . the friends that you had were people that you actually wanted to keep in touch with. That's still the case with me -- I only make friends
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by Dove 16y ago
Asking "what's an ebook cost" is too wide a scope. It's like asking "what's a physical item cost?" It's unsurprising to find a large range. When you narrow the search, you find established values. Digitized classics go for $0.99. Novel
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by Dove 16y ago
To complete the exercise (in no particular language), Imperative and stateful: var factorialResult = 1; factorial(n) { if(n <= 1) { factorialResult = 1 } else { factorial(n-1) } factorialResu
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by Dove 16y ago
That was . . . really enlightening. Thank you for taking the time to educate me. I've found the Haskell community uncannily welcoming to newbies, and you seem to be continuing the tradition.
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by Dove 16y ago
The idea that we have a sufficient quantity of accurate data about Chernobyl to make sweeping claims about its impact on people living there, including how many died as a result, is frankly idiotic. We do not and never will have such data.
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by Dove 16y ago
If you see finance as infrastructure to help other businesses grow (as I do), then it's growth should result in the growth of other industries. Instead what we see is finance growing and other industries declining. To me that suggests a ge
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by Dove 16y ago
Thanks for that. I did know about the do syntax in Haskell, but I didn't think it really made the language usefully imperative. Sure, it's okay if you're trying to kick off two or three unrelated calculations, maybe if you're after side ef
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by Dove 16y ago
I still find it hard to parse that as a problem. I mean, power generation only provides a benefit to society when someone uses the electricity to do something. So what? Infrastructure isn't inherently parasitic. Lots and lots of infrastr
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by Dove 16y ago
> On one hand, 'imperative' means 'a list of operations > that produce a sequence of results'. We contrast that > with 'declarative programming', which means 'a list of > results which are calculated (someho
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by Dove 16y ago
Methodology varies with the terrain. Studies of human genetics are limited to observation, as experimentation is unethical. Studies of history -- archeology, evolution -- don't have a lot going on in the repeatability department. Studies

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