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_wo6a
10y ago
I'm sure hobbyists with liberal arts majors and liberal arts majors with computer science minors can both be very good developers and leaders, but to really be "by far the sharpest, best-performing software developers and technol
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_wo6a
10y ago
This is not actually that true. Germany is 7x as dense as the US, but Germany is only 5.9x as dense as the contiguous US. About a third of the contiguous US has almost no people relative to the rest except for a few population centers (Inte
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_wo6a
10y ago
So, formalizing the existing arrangement?
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_wo6a
10y ago
They don't impact the ability of the reader to eventually understand the message, but they do decrease the speed at which you can do so if you read any faster than purely phonetically. When your reading begins to involve visual patter
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_wo6a
11y ago
Good article on Ancient Greek IQ: http://www.unz.com/akarlin/ancient-greeks-not-geniuses/
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_wo6a
11y ago
In the linked article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heck_cattle (an attempt to breed back aurochs), this is amusing: "Derek Gow, a British conservationist who operates a rare breeds farm at Lifton near Okehampton
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_wo6a
11y ago
Side note: quick research seems to indicate that it may not actually be Genghis Khan who is the male-line ancestor of all those men, but a common ancestor of his and the rest of his tribe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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11y ago
For the lazy, murders per death by cop, based on those numbers: Germany: 83 California: 17 Murders per capita: Germany: 1/124,000 California: 1/23,000 So California's murder rate is 5.4x Germany's, and its death by cop p
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_wo6a
12y ago
This is very interesting. I'm currently a little bit of the way through solving some of the problems solved by Relay using an existing open source stack, and I'm curious if anyone has any thoughts on how it would compare. I'
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14y ago
This was great until he started confusing sex with porn.
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_wo6a
15y ago
I used to work at a retail outfit that used the really old-fashioned credit card system involving carbon paper slips and handwritten amounts, which would be entered into a credit card processing system at another location at a later time.
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_wo6a
16y ago
As a junior at a university outside Boston who has dealt with the same questions, here's my advice: Personally (this may not be you), I would say drop the lab job unless you're really enjoying it or it's very clearly worth the time. You've