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by T-hawk 11y ago
> I don't think unemployment among 50 year olds is higher today than in 1990. Unemployment numbers don't show it, because that only includes people looking for work. The missing 50-year-old workers are on disability and don&#x
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by T-hawk 11y ago
Figuring out "exactly what the law tells you to do" is the tricky part. The law merely prescribes the step-by-step instructions for each form. It will not explain the emergent behavior that you'll need to know to optimize
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by T-hawk 11y ago
Nitpick: that's not a 25% raise, it's 33%. Example: $80 / 8 hours = $10/hour $80 / 6 hours = $13.33/hour The latter is 33% more than the former.
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Building Facebook and participating in Facebook are entirely different activities.
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Well, you were right, but not for the right reason. The distribution has strong peaks at 33 and 22, which are one and two iterations of 2/3 multipliers away from 50. There's no peak whatsoever at 42 or 28. You just happened to
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by T-hawk 11y ago
Wouldn't all four walls still function as a plane, topologically? Think about looking into a cube (box) with one side open, so that you see five faces. The projection of those faces onto your retina or a photograph is a direct mappin
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by T-hawk 11y ago
LASIK patient here too, 8 years ago then at age 29, about 90% satisfied. Yes, it is life-changing, especially for one such as me who couldn't tolerate contacts. I played noticeably better in pickup sports games now that I could move
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by T-hawk 11y ago
Let's also remember the fallacy of multiple endpoints. Many artists have rendered visual guesses at what Pluto might look like. And many will be totally wrong. We're cherry-picking the best example in Dixon, not a typical one.
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by T-hawk 11y ago
Same idea, attributed to Bill Gates: "Measuring software by lines of code is like measuring an airplane by weight."
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Shareware conflated two different concepts that are now separated: the distribution model, and the pricing model. The distribution model was the genius of shareware at the time. In the days before the Internet and websites, physical distri
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Those both essentially do run on wait timers. You can earn the components needed to play at a high level gradually with a limited number of plays per day, or pay to accelerate that process. This model isn't as harsh as actually lockin
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by T-hawk 11y ago
I like it, but can certainly see where some wouldn't. Tastes like slightly sweeter and thinner oatmeal. Reddit has a good amount of discussion and is probably a better place than HN for it: http://reddit.com/r/soy
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by T-hawk 11y ago
Great point, you are correct. It's not enough for the distribution of the random vectors to be rotationally symmetric. It must be isotropic, looking the same in every direction from the origin, which a cube does not. (Nor does any o
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by T-hawk 11y ago
> One can't very well overlook a bad interview because the candidate is older. That would also be age discrimination. Legally, in the US, it isn't. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act specifically only protects workers 40
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by T-hawk 11y ago
The PATH is not the MTA, it's the Port Authority. And the PATH is reliable just fine. It doesn't get "canceled due to a signal problem". I've lived in Jersey City or Hoboken and commuted on the PATH for over ten y
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by T-hawk 12y ago
I don't think anyone's really talking about the literal math, the adding and subtracting. It's more about pulling and putting the right numbers in the right places. Here's an illustration. Say you sell a security that
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by T-hawk 12y ago
Intel did in fact build a RISC chip contemporary with the 386/486: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860 It had great instruction throughput performance by the specs but lacked in real applications, thanks to th
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by T-hawk 12y ago
Point counts vary by time. Weekends such as today see less traffic and upvotes. The threshold you might really want is upvotes as a percentage of readership, but it's not clear whether that data is available or whether the functionali
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by T-hawk 12y ago
XSLT is conceptually sound indeed, a transformation of tree structures. But the requirements and real-world usage cases thrown at it are often terribly suited for it. Real applications just don't fall neatly into tree transformati
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by T-hawk 12y ago
A counterexample: Las Vegas. All the casinos on the Strip have big parking garages that are free and don't fill up. Perhaps it's possible only when the margins of a business are as spectacularly high as those of Vegas casinos, so
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by T-hawk 12y ago
What this usage pattern is really doing is using search as an extra semantic layer on top of DNS. It could be for any number of reasons - ignorance of the differences, or as typo checking, or as an intentional shortcut for a cumbersome url
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by T-hawk 12y ago
It's surprising (water is perceived to be scarce) because: - oxygen just as readily binds to everything else, to form metal oxides (the well-known rust on Mars) or silicates (rock) or just CO2 (Venus) - hydrogen is so light it readily
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by T-hawk 12y ago
Google handles some constructs with punctuation as atomic tokens as special cases. C# and C++ are examples. A# through G# also return appropriate results, for the musical notes. H# and onward through the alphabet do not. .NET is another
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by T-hawk 12y ago
Not exactly; this overstates the complexity of the chessboard display. The order isn't exactly what you wrote, it's bits 4567 / 76543210 / 01234567 for the three playfield registers for the left half of the screen. This
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by T-hawk 12y ago
You were fine. The Playstation 1's CD drive spins at only 2x regular audio speed which is no more than 16 Hz rotational speed. It's nothing like the 48x fighter jet turbines of desktop computers. It's only 2x as much as a
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by T-hawk 12y ago
> Why would you think the host has the option of not opening a door? Because the actual TV show of Let's Make A Deal worked that way. Here is Monty's own take on it (click to page 2.) http://www.nytimes.com/19
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There is room for users in a hostile jurisdiction to avoid uploading, while users in a permissive jurisdiction provide the uploading to keep the torrents functional.
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I don't think so. There will always be usage cases involving a couple orders of magnitude less capacity or bandwidth than the leading edge. Lossy compression will always be appropriate for these. Anything involving wireless is a good
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My general conclusion is more like, if it relates to food or drink, there's both positives and negatives that can be spun either way. Take eggs, an easy example. The protein is good for muscles, but the cholesterol is bad for arteries
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Example, in the top-left corner of the board: 2 _ _ R _ _ _ _ R _ _ _ The location to the right of the 2 must be blue. If it's red, then there's no way for the 2 to see two blues. That's what it means, that that

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