Kroem3r

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by Kroem3r 13y ago
Did you mean "agitprop"? It's been a while since I've seen that. Thanks for the belly-laugh.
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by Kroem3r 13y ago
Here's a reason to take the prediction / analysis seriously: The analyst makes these statements, the market joins in, and then management begins to follow along. Not a happy model, nor one that is always followed, but certainly a
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by Kroem3r 13y ago
Absolutely fantastic. Don't miss the projects control.
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by Kroem3r 13y ago
You might be looking to read in the vein of "creative non-fiction". Many practitioners, at least the ones I tend to appreciate, also had careers as journalists. Into Thin Air was a mammothly famous example.
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Privacy Breach on Bloomberg’s Data Terminals(nytimes.com)
1 points by Kroem3r 13y ago|0 comments
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by Kroem3r 13y ago
That's pretty close to how it works in Canada. The difference is the difference between "free" and $60/mo if your income is sufficiently high. So, in addition to the nominal required subscription, we optionally pay for additional services a
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by Kroem3r 13y ago
I get the point of view. I disagree with it, but even more, I find it jarring to apply a faith-based approach to thinking about these things in lieu of a critical assessment one. As if it were sufficient to cut through all the tangle and un
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
It's a nationally delivered service and one of the primary mandates is equality; of availability, of quality, etc. So, yes, really. If you're suggesting that this overlooks 'positive medical outcomes' I think you're missing the point.
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
If you're going to indulge in flights of imagination, maybe try to imagine why what this guy, who seems to have every attribute of an expert in the field, says, might be true. Or even, attempt some introspection to see why you'd prefer to d
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Canada’s top science prize goes to computer and math whiz Stephen Cook(vancouversun.com)
1 points by Kroem3r 14y ago|0 comments
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
Generally, Norwegians. They just get paid decently for them. It makes, for example, going out for dinner a little more costly than North Americans are accustomed to.
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
I am definitely going to have to sit down in front of a movie screen sometime soon. I've really missed out on how to think about stuff. If I could only get someone to follow me around playing music, I'd have a soundtrack to help me feel stu
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
My experience and belief is different: It's clear and obvious where the line is. People who provide constructive criticism in such a way that you can tolerate repeated critiques are strikingly different than people who are assholes under co
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
Having been to a few universities, including UW, I'm going to suppose that it's due to a well-tuned culture in the math faculty. There's not so much BS; there are good, committed and intense instructors; the curriculum is great; the resourc
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
As books go, this one is a waste of trees. The book is made up of a series of more or less disjoint pieces. Some of them are right off the wall. He's an AIDs denier - a loaded term, but you get the idea. I vaguely recall one about him being
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
My recollection is of a deep irritation, like, "You people have me dorking around with all these hopeless special cases, when all along we could have been doing this? For fuck's sake, why?"
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
If you have a 'home office' then the interest you pay on your mortgage is an expense, and is thus a business deduction, as are hydro, gas, communications, etc. If you have a business that borrows to buy and then rent houses, the same princi
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
This is a concern that's very often raised. I get the point, but there are two things to keep in mind: Having aligned interests makes this tractable. When someone raises this concern they typically posit participants who don't have aligned
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
Because it's difficult to have aligned interests among all the people working in an enterprise. Having sufficiently and appropriately aligned interests is the starting point for a non-hierarchical structure. People coming into jobs don't ha
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Social Media Profiteers Owe Children Safety by Design(thetyee.ca)
1 points by Kroem3r 14y ago|0 comments
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
Maybe yes, maybe no. Some CANDU negatives I'll chip in though: CANDU is one of the more successful vectors to creating nuclear-armed states; and it's not all that reliable - the uptime of the Bruce reactors is tolerable if you adopt a flexi
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
Very nice. Thanks for sharing. I think that I'd like to see the ability to <tab> off the dialog onto the underlying document restricted. The concept of 'semi-modal' is pervasive but undefined :)
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
Avoid cliches. A cliche being a phrase that is familiar but content-free or even contradictory. Like, "I don't mean to be a jerk, but ..." This helps tune your focus on making each word participate in creating meaning in the head of your re
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
It must get tedious listening to Canadians go on about it, but this is about what we pay in British Columbia for people with full incomes. The coverage is pretty good, including 'out there' stuff like acupuncture. We top it up with private
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
It's very easy to encourage and support an outlook where the default gender is female, where heroes are female (even if they are princesses who favour pink). For us, all that was easy and natural. I'm now flummoxed by "Math is hard." And sp
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
WatFIV is so long ago that I can't even make a illuminating joke about this. Maybe he meant Smalltalk.
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
The Economist has a distinct and significant point of view. If you can assess their material appropriately, it is an excellent weekly. There are stacks and stacks of excellent periodicals. You've named a few rather "pop" publications; if y
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
How about conservation of momentum? Or, introduce levels of difficulty - perhaps as something slightly subtle like ratio of the space-bar missile? The invisible zones as you wrap around to the other side are way too big.
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
Wow. That's some comment. Hard to know where to start to unpack it. You must have been having a lousy day. It's probably not cool to tag the result of the essay, and by extension, the girl, as "cruel", etc. You're just short of blaming the
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
It's interesting that the discussion is in terms of God exists/doesn't exist. I think that already includes a pretty significant context. It's worth also considering the relevancy of the belief; the degree to which one's beliefs operate wit

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