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by adevine 11y ago
The number of "visually muscular" women contributing to the rise in the average US female body weight is essentially a rounding error.
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by adevine 11y ago
The biggest disadvantage I see isn't in the branching model per se - it's that git itself does not record branch history. By "does not record branch history" I mean that branches are really just pointers to a specific co
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by adevine 11y ago
Google "Vizcaino v. Microsoft". Whether or not a coder is a contractor or an employee depends very much on the level of control they have over how, when and where they do the work.
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by adevine 11y ago
Weight and height are easy to accurately measure - tissue composition not so much. And while tissue composition is important for individuals, at a societal level, BMI (ratio of weight to height) is good enough because it's easy to show
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by adevine 11y ago
Exactly. I also wonder whether it would even have been possible to start Jetbrains in the US. Being based in the Czech Republic gave them a much lower cost structure, and in the beginning, competing with Eclipse's free price tag meant
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by adevine 11y ago
As you say, though, it all depends on tone. Excuse me can either be respectful, or it can be an accusation that you're being rude. When it's the latter, what the speaker really means is "Excuse you!"
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by adevine 11y ago
I think smart campaigns, especially for manufacturing projects, should limit funding so that they can work out the kinks in their product, and if they're wrong on cost estimates, they limit their losses. If they're successful, the
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by adevine 11y ago
They did that. By then I think they were too far gone (for example, they vastly underestimated how long UL certification would take).
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by adevine 11y ago
As someone in a 14 year DINK relationship, I totally disagree with this. When you are in a relationship, decisions need to be collaborative - you can't just chase any opportunity that comes along without thinking about how it will affe
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by adevine 11y ago
"If 50 year old programmers are cheaper, why are they being discriminated against?" There are lots of other ways to interpret this data. Looking at the graph, note that salaries are actually lower for 20 and 30 somethings that 50+
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by adevine 11y ago
Yeah, because all experienced engineers are perfect and all "wet behind the ears fuckers straight from college" are idiots... Well, Watts Humphrey, creator of CMM, PSP and TSP, had a nice saying along the lines of "Most devel
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by adevine 11y ago
Not really. Apple takes something on the order of 90% of ALL cell phone profits worldwide (I've seen figures from 89 to 93%). Even Samsung is having difficulty because there have been lots of new Android competitors. That said, while
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by adevine 11y ago
The ZPM Espresso project was a great example of both of these. Founders were woefully inexperienced and underestimated the difficulties of manufacturing at every turn. Plus, the fact that they wildly overshot their initial goal meant they w
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by adevine 11y ago
Apparently Apple announced that once iOS 9 is released, all apps will be required to support ipv6. Given the large number of apps that use AWS as a backend, how will this be feasible?
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by adevine 11y ago
There are many other countries that have similar poor plumbing infrastructure like India, but no where near the rates of open defecation. I had a friend who took a summer job in Mexico with an NGO that built pit-style toilets, and the villa
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by adevine 11y ago
Here's the problem, though: since student loan debt is one of the ONLY types is debt that is almost impossible to discharge through bankruptcy, banks and colleges have almost no incentive to do proper underwriting. They are pretty posi
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by adevine 11y ago
The air pollution in Bangalore is now ranked worse than Delhi: http://m.thehindu.com/news/national/air-quality-levels-benga...
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by adevine 11y ago
This just isn't true: > A new household survey of nearly 23,000 north Indians offers more evidence, especially from Hindu households. Led by Diane Coffey, an economist at Princeton, it found that even among households with a working
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by adevine 11y ago
Hmm, how is blackmail money classified? Gifts are not taxable by the recipient, but if you're being blackmailed, it hardly sounds like you're making a gift. Similarly, insurance money that "makes you whole" is not taxed,
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by adevine 11y ago
I apologize for not having a reference, but I remember reading a study that looked at different types of painful events, and found there are 2 main events that have a pretty much permanent effect on happiness levels: death of a child and de
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by adevine 11y ago
The thing I like so much about LWT is that some of the segments are a good 12-15 minutes long, which is an eternity in TV land. With that time, he can actually dig into topics with more depth to give viewers a better understanding of the ba
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by adevine 11y ago
In addition, while I understand his protesting that "we just sell software", pretty much by definition he sells software to businesses (i.e. people who will be paying with Stripe) whose legality is a gray area, especially in the b
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by adevine 11y ago
By "base urges", I mean that quite literally, and not with a negative connotation. I mean the most fundamental of human needs: food, sex, emotional expression. I mean that we should take delight in a great meal, but not to the poi
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by adevine 11y ago
Ugh, that culture sounds like hell on earth. I am amazed by the unique capability of humans to take our most ingrained needs and desires and turn them into shame. Whether it be sex, or food, or "wasting time", or even just display
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by adevine 11y ago
But it's already true that German workers are much more expensive than most other countries, yet Germany still has very low unemployment. Yes, a constrained labor supply will be problematic for everyone who is NOT a worker (most import
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by adevine 11y ago
I'm not so sure I understand the point of view that labor shortages will be such a bad thing for the economy. If you are a worker, "high labor costs" is a very GOOD thing. For decades we've seen the value of labor fall b
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by adevine 11y ago
Because past 3 hours the time/cost savings compared to air starts to look really unfavorable. Air travel has a high "fixed cost" (getting to the airport, going through security, picking up any checked luggage) but a low &quot
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by adevine 11y ago
Well, here's a somewhat analogous issue where the courts have decided differently. A 10b5-1 plan is set of rules set up by someone, like a company exec, to trade stock even if that person holds inside information at the time of the tra
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by adevine 11y ago
For most places in the US at least, given the ubiquity of the iPhone, I think the days of it being considered exclusive are long gone. If you want to make a fashion statement, there's always the 17k Apple Watch.
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by adevine 11y ago
And oddly enough, even if it worked as expected, in the end it's not Apple that would bail them out, it's the American taxpayer who would never have recourse to collect on taxes owed because all of these rich companies would just

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