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by Sacho 10y ago
One reason would be an assumption that ROWE requires a manager like the person that quit to maintain it, and without him, the production would drop through the floor. Upper management were conservatively rolling back to what worked before h
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by Sacho 10y ago
Unlike private companies, the CEO of Information Services is a political position rather than an actual management position. The decision-making power within the company rests in the hands of the regional chapter executives, who devise and
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by Sacho 10y ago
Voter turnout among the young was half compared to voter turnout by the elderly, I think, so that would reinforce parent's point. Here's a FT article with a graph* of voter turnout by age - https://next.ft.com/cont
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by Sacho 10y ago
Are you charging him with murder or lying to the police? A weak or even shattered alibi still leaves him with a presumption of innocence which the prosecution must overcome beyond a reasonable doubt.
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by Sacho 10y ago
How can you differentiate between grade inflation and knowledge inflation? Perhaps the increase in grades is because the difficulty of the material doesn't rise as fast as our ability to teach it and students' ability to learn?
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by Sacho 10y ago
Is that a useful metric? How often is the general sentiment similar, without leading to a war? How often has there been a war, without such a general sentiment prior to it? It doesn't seem like being aware of this piece of data is very
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by Sacho 10y ago
Perhaps you havent considered all the possible options. What about wiping your debt, saving money and moving to a developing country to start your family?
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by Sacho 10y ago
$20 billion comes up under $100 per person per year in the US. Even giving it a generous x4 multiplier to account for the people subsidizing the industry without being consumers, at $400 per year, given the $3 and $7 prices by parent, you w
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by Sacho 10y ago
> Liberal democracies usually operate under the principle that you can ask anything you want of someone Except in cases like blackmail, extortion, racketeering... even harassment - you won't get much luck asserting the person you we
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by Sacho 10y ago
Interesting - this story came up last time I read a thread about Satoshi on HN. Here's my reply to it: The appraiser did not do his work properly - after all, anyone can place a sticker on a Strad, but that doesn't make it any les
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by Sacho 10y ago
> So paying people more and giving them jobs destabilizes the local economy because these people now have money and spend more on housing and other items? And if they're paid less, they're being exploited? You're not payin
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by Sacho 10y ago
They're willing to work for less because in their local economy, the pay is actually good to great. This destabilizes the local economy, creating gentrified districts or entire cities(See: SF) where only the privileged laborers for a f
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by Sacho 10y ago
Isn't that just a parallel of driving rules?
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by Sacho 10y ago
There was some talk about them not being appropriate for HN, because it was all hearsay within a fairly tightly-knit group. However, none of them were flagged, as far as I know. I don't know what flagging means on HN - this post is mar
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by Sacho 10y ago
Yes, there is - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_stop Consider, however, that the law in theory differs very much from its practice. In a Terry stop, just like most encounters with the police, the officer holds all
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by Sacho 10y ago
> "Boilerplate" implies copying a bunch of code into your project that should be library code but isn't because it's too poorly designed to have an API cleaner than "just fork it, YOLO". It's dramatical
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by Sacho 10y ago
> For me Porn is easy too. If it only involves consenting adults, it's fine. If it doesn't then other crimes have been committed and distributing it is de facto complicity by association in those crimes. You only have to deal w
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by Sacho 10y ago
> If you've got a study that is generally accepted by the medical community If you want to get unsubstantiated and speculative anti-vaccination speech outlawed, you need to convince a majority of people to do it. In such a case, it
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by Sacho 10y ago
Not every action by a country must be taken by the government. Being un-American is in fact something that the government must tolerate under the First Amendment. However, if you believe that American culture and values creates a good socie
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by Sacho 10y ago
> It is a racist and xenophobic presumption that an immigrant will be unfriendly, rude, or difficult to communicate with, and that natural-born citizens will not be. You have in front of you the following information: "outsiders&quo
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by Sacho 10y ago
What's the principle difference between denying former convicted felons a job as a taxi driver, and denying outsiders because they are "unfriendly, rude, difficult to communicate"? They both make broad assumptions, which migh
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by Sacho 10y ago
So they're investing in local businesses!
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by Sacho 10y ago
We've gone from "the kid is actually guilty", to "well if the kid is innocent it would be trivial to get his money back", to "well if the kid is innocent it's not trivial to get his money back but because
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by Sacho 10y ago
Creating a site that alleges you are a rapist is an amazingly stressful process for the presumed innocent person, requiring him to respond to a torrent of media and social hate and shunning, being tried in the public eye, open to claims o
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by Sacho 10y ago
What legitimate use does that request serve?
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by Sacho 10y ago
I don't think his criticism is too harsh. Two of the main problems I had with angular - the template syntax and the way the digest cycle worked, both contributed to its scaling factor. The template syntax meant you would always wonder
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by Sacho 10y ago
Does the number 0211 after it hold any significance?
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by Sacho 10y ago
> This means I can just write JavaScript and add comments for types. No transplier step, no messing around in a different but similar language, no additional complexity, just easy. Can't you do the same thing with TypeScript's
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by Sacho 10y ago
The 2FA authentication is only useful if you whitelist your account. The default settings, just as you mentioned, allow anyone to access your computer should they somehow guess the random password. My guess is that the hackers have found a
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by Sacho 10y ago
Yes, for several years.

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