Duff

48 ms·

421.
by Duff 15y ago
Somehow I don't buy the $0.50 thing. I remember that my dad laid out some serious coin to "upgrade" from an old TV to a proper monitor.
422.
by Duff 15y ago
Incidence varies by community and definition. Sexual assaults are very common on college campuses. The stereotypical scary guy with pantyhose pulled over his head is only one manifestation of rape. "Date-rape" and taking advantage of people
423.
by Duff 15y ago
Not at all. I just don't think that hiding gender is meaningful beyond making some people feel good. It's a false set of security -- gender and identity are linked. It's a social networking application. Knowing what people put on social net
424.
by Duff 15y ago
Great statistics. What is the point? Are you suggesting that knowing the gender of people is a risk factor for rape? It seems like a few people are making this odd connection between assault, stalking and rape with knowing somebody's gender
425.
by Duff 15y ago
The same logic is applied by extremist religious groups to "protect" women from lecherous men. Enter the burka or the nun's habit. If you have a service where you publish your name, link people together into social networks, engage in video
426.
by Duff 15y ago
Ok, so a person who by fate grows up poor in a rural area is dumb, because the government allows farmers and industry to systematically ship in a lower class of labor to exploit? The US discriminates against poor people. The fully-loaded co
427.
by Duff 15y ago
Unplanned pregnancy used to be a catalyst for marriage. No longer. That has alot of impact and limits earning potential or limits the actual value of working! What percentage of a single parents income goes to daycare? Check out old census
428.
by Duff 15y ago
Problem is the wrong word. It's different. In central planning, the dynamics are different. Whomever influences the planners ultimately makes the decisions. The quality of those decisions depends on your perspective and the motivation of th
429.
by Duff 15y ago
What is the "viable life line"? Minimum wage jobs are supplements to other income. The actual minimum wage required to support a small family without external assistance is probably more like $15-18/hour. I'm not white-washing and pretendin
430.
by Duff 15y ago
Lower than survival? Please. People need a purpose. Something to do. That's a big part of what work is -- and our society provides all sorts of incentives that take those opportunities away and destroy the communities (as in people communit
431.
by Duff 15y ago
I couldn't disagree more. I do think that what we do today is set a price floor on both labor and family that makes things worse for people on the lower end of the income spectrum. I'll give you two examples. The first is housing and social
432.
by Duff 15y ago
Back in the good old days, the old-school knobs weren't made of crappy plastic and were easy to remove and clean.
433.
by Duff 15y ago
You're describing a bully. As long as compensation is enough to afford whatever you need to live, bullying is generally the worst motivator. Employees learn quickly that they can produce just enough to not get fired -- then they do so.
434.
by Duff 15y ago
Your example #1 is a destructive narcissist. #2 is a Laissez-faire type in an inappropriate situation. Corporate cultures tend to produce explicit or cultural incentives that encourage particular leadership styles. Government is a great exa
435.
More, disturbing facts re the Fukushima disaster come to light.(theatlanticwire.com)
2 points by Duff 15y ago|0 comments
436.
by Duff 15y ago
That's my point -- you can change stuff and people will deal with it, as long as it's better. Take an extended tour of OpenOffice for an afternoon, then use Office 2010 for a few minutes. It's no contest.
437.
by Duff 15y ago
Tech companies like Google have nearly unlimited pools of money, so they can spend ridiculously large amounts of money for things that make sense to them. People do the same thing. How many rich guys buy a $500k Ferrari that is never driven
438.
by Duff 15y ago
The government is immune to lawsuit, hence it never has liability.
439.
by Duff 15y ago
Oh totally true. But coming up with a few more tedious Twitter cleanup type activities might make it an offering that is more valuable to more people! (While adding minimal cost)
440.
by Duff 15y ago
How about adding a few features? You're solving a infinitesimally small problem. Remember when GMail was missing a "Delete" button and people wrote greasemonkey scripts to implement one? You're selling that for $5.
441.
by Duff 15y ago
If you say that, you don't know anything about Access. Access is a veritable swiss army knife for non-computer people. A smart business user can do all sorts of things in an afternoon that normally require a programmer a few days to get don
442.
by Duff 15y ago
No way! Look at the Office 2007 transition. They fundamentally changed the UI, broke alot of (poorly conceived and implemented) customer-implemented applications and changed the file format. They were in many respects new applications. I wo
443.
by Duff 15y ago
Uh, what was GMail then? When it first came out, the chosen few got invites, and they invited friends. Rinse, repeat.
444.
by Duff 15y ago
Yeah, sure. Expecting a third-party to maintain an installer is not a recipe for success. A few projects try to do that and provide some sort of group policy support -- but they're trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. It just doesn't
445.
by Duff 15y ago
Mozilla doesn't want to do something? Shocking! This is the same organization that feels that producing a MSI installer for Windows or providing some other way to customize the installation/patching experience is a waste of time.
446.
by Duff 15y ago
It worked pretty well for Gmail.
447.
by Duff 15y ago
What I'm talking about is that the author made up some meaningless statistic (ie "net price") to support an assertion with no basis in reality -- that tuition at the 4-year public university costs about the same as a 5-day vacation. By that
448.
by Duff 15y ago
People living in the desert dress in a particular way and adapt to the heat. They also build their permanent structures in a way that maximizes airflow and cools the building. There was a NYT article a few years ago about an 800 year old, u
449.
by Duff 15y ago
I wonder if the author went to college? By his logic, my $200k house only costs me $16,000, because of financial aid. (ie. mortgage)
450.
by Duff 15y ago
The article implies that college magically gives you skills that make you a successful plumber. I argue that getting into (and out of) college means that you have the basic academic skills to be a successful plumber. Those aren't the same a

More ›