MrApathy

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by MrApathy 11y ago
As an even older millennial (35), I have very fond memories of Yahoo. I remember receiving a two-disk copy of Netscape Navigator from a local ISP at a computer show in early 1995 and setting the home-page immediately to Yahoo. At the time I
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by MrApathy 11y ago
Very likely the offer is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check. A thorough background check (criminal, education, credit) can cost a few hundred dollars, so firms won't proceed until an offer has been accepted
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by MrApathy 11y ago
Not just business: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Cargo_Flight_8509 In most cultures co-pilots are encouraged to speak out when the pilot has or is about to make a mistake. There were several Korean Air crash
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by MrApathy 11y ago
Could you provide a source for your anecdote? I find it hard to believe that the FDIC would look at a mere six loans when their own guidelines [1] call for at least eight, and that's with a population of a mere ten loans. For a higher
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by MrApathy 11y ago
Munroe recently wrote a book full of these explanations, "Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words." Bill Gates' review is here: http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Thing-Explainer
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by MrApathy 11y ago
Quite a lot, actually. Certainly relative to almost all other areas of the country the rate of car ownership is low, but the streets are so packed with parked cars that many vehicle owners are willing to pay for private storage with monthly
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by MrApathy 11y ago
Some years back NYC [1] (under Mayor Giuliani) instituted a policy whereby drivers suspected of driving while intoxicated would have their vehicles seized by the police. Unlike unlicensed limos, DWI is a real public safety problem. The prob
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by MrApathy 11y ago
One solution to this is to create a plain text resume to be used when submitting through an applicant tracking system. You can still perform some basic formatting in plain text (e.g., string of hyphens for a horizontal line, asterisk for bu
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by MrApathy 11y ago
Yes, QlikView can do histograms easily. They're basically bar charts where the expression is counted, not summed, with the width between bars set to zero. They're not labeled as histograms in QlikView, which may be why there was s
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by MrApathy 11y ago
Regarding the statistics portion of your comment, QlikView has built in functions in the load script for chi squared, t and z tests (including confidence intervals), linear regression, least squares, residuals, r squared, F statistic, etc.
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by MrApathy 11y ago
QlikView is similar to Tableau, though more powerful and with a steeper learning curve. But if Tableau is too expensive, likely that QlikView is, too. Another option is Looker, a relatively new product that relies more heavily on existing t