Thrymr

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by Thrymr 13y ago
"The best and the brightest" has been a backhanded complement for quite some time now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_and_the_Brightest
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by Thrymr 13y ago
"Quite common" is an overstatement. The market is nowhere near as liquid. Only a small number of tenured jobs are advertised each year compared to the number of junior tenure-track jobs. Superstars can get hired somewhere else, bu
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Natural Earth data [0] is public domain. Their terms of use state "No permission is needed to use Natural Earth. Crediting the authors is unnecessary." But I think they only have down to admin level 1. [0]: http://www.n
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Except that what a lot of startups mean by "fit" is "they think just like me" or even, "they have a similar background to the rest of the team." Sure, that may make them easier for you to talk to or hang out wi
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by Thrymr 13y ago
That's because Social Security has been running a surplus for many years (until 2010). The question is whether the US government, which already spent that surplus, but gave a bunch of bonds as promissory notes to repay, will actually
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by Thrymr 13y ago
The author has some reasonable points. There is old cruft in the standard library, and there are vital 3rd party libraries that will never go into the standard library. I don't think the path example is particularly strong, but things
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by Thrymr 13y ago
There are checkpoints, they are (usually) manned and funnel traffic through single lanes, it's just that they rarely actually stop people.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
My understanding is that that is true for immigration, but not for customs. There are still limits on the amounts that can be imported into Switzerland, even from the EU, without duties [1]. Some products are more restricted, e.g. a limit o
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Whatever these positions were "meant for", the reality is that an ever larger share of classes are taught by people in these positions. Some of them are retired from other jobs; some are postdocs or working on the side; some are t
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by Thrymr 13y ago
> Nuclear weapons serve a purpose in war Not really, in a tactical sense in any war short of WWIII. No one can really use them without the threat of massive reprisal. No rational player would use them to take out an air force base. Strat
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by Thrymr 13y ago
"comparatively little concern"? The US and USSR stopped above-ground testing in 1963 and there has not been an above-ground test anywhere on earth since 1980. 159 countries have ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty [1]. Th
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by Thrymr 13y ago
You can read it that way, sure. But why would anyone with hiring authority ever make a comment like that on a public forum about his own job posting?
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Speech and consequences(popehat.com)
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by Thrymr 13y ago
He made this public comment on a BI job posting thread [1]: "@Liberal Insider: Haha, you'd feel pretty silly for writing that comment if you ever saw my twitter feed and read all the horrible things I say about Obama. :)" [1]
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by Thrymr 13y ago
We even have a Ministry of Medical Magic in the US now: http://nccam.nih.gov
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by Thrymr 13y ago
> Just like 'forking' code was frowned about before open source software came about ;) Long after that, in fact. Forking an open source project was a desperate measure to free it from unresponsive/difficult/differentl
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by Thrymr 13y ago
And the one before it: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
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by Thrymr 13y ago
See especially the 9th amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
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by Thrymr 13y ago
I would argue that this title could be improved, quite a bit. edit: The original title was "22 years 16 hours 48 minutes 25 seconds ago". It has now been improved (IMO).
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Exposing yourself to regular doses of unnecessary x-rays is probably not a great idea. The human [ed.: backscatter] x-ray machines are mostly phased out already, though. Millimeter wave (the most common scanners now) is non-ionizing radiati
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Causation? One of the comments points out that the rupee has fallen 25% since the adoption of the new rupee symbol ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rupee_sign ).
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by Thrymr 13y ago
In which case, the waiver may be invalid anyway, since there are rights that you cannot legally waive.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
> transportation infrastructure is a very low-risk investment. That's a good one. Building out a technology that has never been proven in a lab, let alone at production scale, in an industry where 2x cost overruns are inevitable and
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by Thrymr 13y ago
> it's entirely based on earth's magnetic field. No, north is based on Earth's rotational axis. Magnetic north is not true north, as a good topographic map will indicate. North is a convention of rotation direction: from a
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Daniel_Newby is likely referring to the third aqueduct tunnel, under construction for ~40 years now. It's not small: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Water_Tunnel_No._...
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by Thrymr 13y ago
> everywhere I read tells me that Arduino is not power efficient at all, and people have to get creative to conserve power. Not sure what you mean here, a microcontroller platform like Arduino can be extremely low power. The AVR chip its
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by Thrymr 13y ago
In the article, Malda is not all that enthusiastic about Twitter being the heir to those sites: "But I think Twitter is fundamentally broken in certain regards. You get a lot of mediocre stuff along with that. Everyone thinks they’re i
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by Thrymr 13y ago
You're not going to get the turning point from accelerometer data, as the phone is in free fall the whole time. The non-zero acceleration will be on takeoff & landing (or launch & catch, or impact...).
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by Thrymr 13y ago
No, it's a chaotic system that is quasistable for an average of 11 years at a time before it flips to the opposite orientation with respect to the spin axis. The Earth's magnetic field, generated by currents in the liquid outer co
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by Thrymr 13y ago
> So green energy is on par with trips to the moon? Providing renewable energy on the same scale as fossil fuels is at least as hard a problem as the Apollo program. We've got a long way to go. Graph for the US: http://ww

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