KevinEldon

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by KevinEldon 10y ago
Stop federally funding education. In the US we have 50 different opportunities to learn about how to create the best education system: all of these systems could learn from each other. When we allow federal funding of education we get much
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by KevinEldon 10y ago
College football is a huge institution and money maker. 100k attendees to college football games in the South Eastern US is a norm. It's like a minor league for the NFL. Most of the schools represented are excellent, but not necessaril
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by KevinEldon 10y ago
Gumroad has a feature called PDF stamping [1] that puts the buyer's email address on the PDF. It's not perfect security, anyone who wants to ignore your copy rights probably will, but it might deter unthoughtful sharing. Also cons
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by KevinEldon 10y ago
Guadalajara has year-round nice weather too I understand (I've visited, but haven't lived there) and has less pollution than Mexico City. The area around lake Chapala is supposed to be very nice if you don't need the trapping
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by KevinEldon 10y ago
Thanks for the link. I haven't watched that talk, but I will, and I was thinking of Brian when I wrote my comment. His work and he work of others on the Java team is important, serious, and hard.
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by KevinEldon 10y ago
Oracle pays very senior engineers and innovators to create a stable and still evolving ecosystem. Java is slow and steady. The JVM enables other innovators to explore and create languages radically different than Java. I am very thankful fo
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by KevinEldon 10y ago
While these companies do sell products I thought one interesting point was 'The combined company will have access to “400 million endpoints”'. That's 400 million mobile devices and computers that are collecting information ab
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by KevinEldon 10y ago
That's not my experience at all. My Magic keyboard and mouse work fine. I've used them with my Mac mini and my Macbook without any problems. They paired without any trouble. Pairing my phone with my car was a pain, but I've g
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by KevinEldon 10y ago
This site is kinda silly because of the #brexit, but I like the city specific approach and think it would be fun for people to have debates about the "ratings" in a positive way. For example, Chattanooga, TN, USA is listed as &#x2
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by KevinEldon 10y ago
I think you're probably right and wonder then if it's not the players themselves who are to blame (at least when the fans/public gets "outraged" about this issue). It's awkward to assign (some) blame to the sam
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by KevinEldon 10y ago
When this issue of safety comes up I wonder why the NFL is being assigned responsibility for protecting the players when the players have the ability to define rules to protect their own safety through their union. The union should fund stu
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by KevinEldon 11y ago
I've eaten chapulines (grasshoppers). Their taste reminded me of what I think slightly toasted grass might taste like. I didn't care for them, but would try them again if someone who liked them recommended a different preparation
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by KevinEldon 11y ago
Or effective bait for activists to troll public institutions for publicity and cash settlements. Settlements paid by tax payers that take funds from education, public safety, infrastructure, and other public insitutions.
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by KevinEldon 11y ago
> It destroyed the morale of Athenian commanders and led indirectly to total defeat a year later Foolish crowd; perhaps most of them are.
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by KevinEldon 11y ago
Large companies will create smaller companies to do the hiring or will work through proxies.
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by KevinEldon 11y ago
ISIS doesn't have an Air Force; they can't really defend the desert they don't occupy event if it's terrorist with little strategic importance. Had the maps shown ISIS with more territory someone might suggest a psychoig
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by KevinEldon 11y ago
I have not read the entire series so I may be misnifored or speaking to other topics covered in the series, but I think many if not the majority of contracts are signed between parties with power asymmetry. One party write a standard contra
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by KevinEldon 11y ago
I believe, at least in the US, the ideas it that arbitration is for civil dispustes, not criminal disputes. I believe your concern is that a person will be dealt with unfairly in a civil dispute... I would argue that if any arbitration clau
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by KevinEldon 11y ago
That was hilarious. The comment about crowd sourcing made me fall over laughing.
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by KevinEldon 11y ago
I don't know about the logo, but I'll do know about Google's voice recognition. Yesterday, on my commute home I came across an accident that blocked the road. I pulled out my iPhone, loaded the Google app, and asked "giv
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by KevinEldon 11y ago
Any article about corporate consumption of public water in California feels a little silly without reference to San Francisco's $30k/year right to Hetch Hetchy. Yosemite Valley's neighboring valley, on a national park that ev
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by KevinEldon 11y ago
If anyone is curious about this, from the FAQ: "Assignment to a field of the "unknown" type is rejected because the compiler cannot judge whether the object to be assigned is an acceptable one. Read access to a field of the
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by KevinEldon 12y ago
Another take might by... In the United States' tipping economy employees who can attract and retain customers can achieve higher per hour wages and can bring more money to the business they work for by offering incentives to the custom
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by KevinEldon 12y ago
My cashier, although I do recognize them and enjoy a short conversation with them occassionally, cannot offer me any real benefits. They ring me up, take my money and let me go. Nurses? I (and my insurance) pay a hell of a lot whenver I vis
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by KevinEldon 12y ago
What I want is to create a mutually beneficial business relationship with someone. Loyalty and my demeanor definitely help, but tips are the proof that I'm providing some value too (as charming as I am, the few extra bucks the server k
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by KevinEldon 12y ago
Tips are not begging any more then putting a price on a menu is begging; just because a price is not fixed up front doesn't make it begging. I think restaurants are different in that the interaction is more frequent and personal than m
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by KevinEldon 12y ago
Tipping can be an excuse to build a really nice win-win relationship. I have a few local restaurants I frequent where I tip the servers well, 20% rounded up to the nearest dollar to start. They know me by name. They know what I like to eat.
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by KevinEldon 12y ago
A colleague of mine in Sacramento has installed solar power and expects to recover the investment in 6 years. If you're serious about using solar it seems like something that's achievable without mortgaging your life.
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by KevinEldon 12y ago
Yes, let's have a government jail people and take responsibility for their children because some government beuracrat decided a certains vaccine was required. The Tuskegee expirement is one example of why the government shouldn't
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by KevinEldon 12y ago
Very cool MVP, but can this service support Big Data like 42,000,000,000,000?

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