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by Veelox 7y ago
Because the College Board isn't doing it in a way that truly reflects the adversity each kid faced. For example, if Alice is raised by two loving parents in a so-so neighborhood she gets a score of 50. If Bob was abused as a child, put
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by Veelox 7y ago
While I am sure you are well intentioned in your efforts to increase diversity in the Bay Area, your comment makes me think the end result of your hiring policy is going to be diversity in everything but thought. That makes me sad.
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by Veelox 7y ago
Agreed also, these jobs involved putting items in boxes for 8+ hours. These are exactly the kind of mind numbing jobs where robots are great.
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by Veelox 7y ago
>You're not going to multiply your salary by 2x-20x Well damn, I guess I am going to have to make do with 200k being a rank and file developer at a FAANG company.
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by Veelox 8y ago
I would agree that Damore is not a Shining White Knight of Truth. His actions since being fired are questionable. That said, in most of the Damore discussion I got a sense that there was a "right answer" to most of the questions h
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by Veelox 8y ago
So you set up a spectrum and seem reasonable so I would like to know where on your above spectrum of acceptable to not allowed to "influence the public discourse". As a predicate, say I have a professional history of interacting w
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by Veelox 8y ago
>This person was peddling in ludicrous Obama-killed-his-friend conspiracy theories. Can I get a link to what you are talking about? You are very clearly referencing something but I have no idea what it is.
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by Veelox 8y ago
I would just like to provide my outlook. tweet 1: Against the Equality Act which would have made sexual orientation and gender identity federally protected classes using standard right wing talking points. tweet 2: Promoting Heritage founda
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by Veelox 8y ago
To put the point user redwood made differently. There is a trend that certain questions have a "right answer" and if you don't believe the "right answer" it is okay to bar you from any and all discourse. While you m
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by Veelox 8y ago
Part of it is the US has a lot of land. Japan is one of the more extreme examples but they have ~8.7x people per unit of land. That makes a big difference on the kind of buildings and transportation you build.
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by Veelox 8y ago
>it is about Walmart structuring their employment in such a way as to funnel labor costs onto taxpayers. I am having a really hard time thinking about the situation and agreeing with your implied premise that Walmart should employee peop
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by Veelox 8y ago
The author implied "without costing taxpayers a dime" to mean "without directly receiving tax dollars" which is true. Taking "without costing taxpayers a dime" to mean "ensuring their employee's recei
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by Veelox 8y ago
The author's claim is that Walmart is "most successful social welfare system ever implemented" because it saves Americans billions of dollars every year due to the cost savings it provides. Your claim is that this is wrong be
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by Veelox 8y ago
Job titles/level are really nice at my company because they have a help provide a language and social acceptable way to talk about the scope of tasks someone can accomplish AND a way to talk about the scope of a task or project.
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by Veelox 8y ago
It might be that I don't see how what you classify as Product A and Product B are different products. I see Product B as the monetization feature of Product A. If I "squint" I can see how they are different products but I am
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by Veelox 8y ago
From the press release >Google has abused this market dominance by preventing rivals from competing in the online search advertising intermediation market. >Based on a broad range of evidence, the Commission found that Google's c
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by Veelox 8y ago
How do you propose that Google should be split?
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by Veelox 8y ago
While I agreed the shopping issue was an issue of leveraging dominance, this seems more reasonable, if you want to monitize our free service, you have to use us to do it. At the moment I cannot come up with an example of that situation that
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by Veelox 8y ago
In all seriousness, who is it that you think is running the country?
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by Veelox 8y ago
>you were prohibited from showing non-Google ads anywhere else on the site. Can I get a link or a quote to support that? If that is the case then yes, it crosses a line but I didn't see any in the linked article to support that view
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by Veelox 8y ago
I forget, is it Big Banks, Big Tech, Big Pharm, Big Oil, Big Agriculture, Big Telecom, For-Profit Prisons, or the Military Industrial Complex that is most in charge of legislators? I can never seem to remember which one is really running th
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by Veelox 8y ago
Just trying to get the facts straight. Google provided the ability to search your site. They also allowed you to show ads/make money from these searches. If you wanted to use this, you had to only show Google ads. I don't understa
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by Veelox 8y ago
I think there is an important difference if we are talking about the distinction between programmers and nonprogrammers and between senior engineers and nonsenior engineers. Yes, programmers have very good jobs compared to nonprogrammers. P
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by Veelox 8y ago
I don't think spending years working hard to develop a skill set that is highly sought after counts as privilege...
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by Veelox 8y ago
Possibly, depends on what the fee was.
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by Veelox 8y ago
What I don't understand is why there is the monthly shipping subscription. As someone who has free coffee at work and only drinks coffee at home on the weekend it doesn't seem like it would be worth paying monthly shipping. I woul
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by Veelox 8y ago
If you want to get VC funding, pick the one with the biggest market. If you want to build a profitable business sooner rather than later. Figure out which 3 would give you the best marginal profit and choose the one you think you can execut
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by Veelox 8y ago
>I think it's a large scale astroturfing effort by the nuclear industry Just to be clear, you think that the nuclear industry is paying people to go on line and say positive things about nuclear power? Can I get some kind of source
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by Veelox 8y ago
I am with you until you got to the nationalizing part. I don't know if that would be long term best for the country.
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by Veelox 8y ago
I still don't get what logic is used to arrive at the conclusion that Google deploying search in China should be stopped. Everyone I have seen simply assumes it.

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