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by aero142 12y ago
Because American exceptionalism is a core element of national identity, and includes the idea that all elements of American government are basically democratic. This believe is convenient for those in power who are not very accountable to
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by aero142 12y ago
Even though it catchy, it's still bullshit. Spending much more money and still failing miserably is a likely outcome of lots of projects.
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by aero142 12y ago
As far as I can tell, we have culturally decided that all is fair if you are working for a company. Things that are clearly criminal if done on your own time are seen as just clever manipulation of contracts if you are working for a company
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by aero142 12y ago
Yes, I was assuming that the cleaning fee was listed upfront. I have frequently seen these listed when booking right in the pricing section. If they aren't listed, then they are definitely unethical and I wouldn't pay it.
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by aero142 12y ago
Cleaning fees make perfect sense to me. When renting a house out, if I stay 1 night, the owner has to clean the house once. If I stay 1 week, the owner has to clean the house once. Seems like this is just matching pricing to costs.
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by aero142 12y ago
It's obvious to a software person. The question is whether they made that obvious to their non-technical user. It seems to me that their marketing loves to imply that the message disappears and there is nothing that can be done to sa
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by aero142 13y ago
This is not the only variant of DevOps. There are companies where the developers are responsible for creating the automation scripts to deploy their code into production as services and expected to keep in running in production.
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by aero142 13y ago
Many people believe that the Oregon Health Study is the best chance we have of teasing causation out of the data. It is still in progress but it is being watched closely. http://oregonhealthstudy.org/
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by aero142 13y ago
Clearly the truth is exactly on one extreme or the other and fits exactly into one of the two dominant political narratives.
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by aero142 13y ago
This area is just one that Bill Joy covers in http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html Why the Future Doesn't Need Us , which is my favorite essay on lots of these ideas.
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by aero142 13y ago
This actually seems measurable. Do teams that are behind perform worse on average? Do teams perform worse than normal after failing a 4th down attempt?
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by aero142 13y ago
Nick Saban can call any number of schools right now and be the highest paid coach in NCAAF. He has a reputation for going for it on 4th down and taking risks. Also, it was Auburn, not Baylor.
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by aero142 13y ago
No one eats every meal with their family, and people who switch to Soylent for every meal are doing so for the interesting story and proof that Soylent, at least in the short term, is not harmful and is complete. The fact that eating toget
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by aero142 13y ago
Anyone know what this map is implemented in?
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by aero142 13y ago
I think the author is more arguing that believing that talent is innate leads to worse performance.
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by aero142 13y ago
I think his last paragraph sums it up. "I have long been an admirer of Gladwell's; I wish I could put stories together the way he does. But I'm now afraid to read him. My work, my intellectual life, and even my social and emo
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by aero142 13y ago
I'll ask a question. Have you seen a correlation between companies that have simpler code bases and are more successful in the long run? Personally, I've never seen it. The most successful companies have horrible code bases tha
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by aero142 13y ago
You've now expanded your argument a lot further than original. I'm not a bitcoin hoarder so I won't try to defend that approach. Your original comment said that he was living off dollars, as though they are equivalent, whic
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by aero142 13y ago
You're not making an attempt to understand the conversation, just being pedantic. He said he was keeping his money in bitcoins to make it so that his money was harder to seize. Yes, he is spending dollars, but the savings is in bitco
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by aero142 13y ago
I really hate analogies in law because it always seems to provide very little support for whether a law is a good idea or not. Your analogy is to breaking and entering a physical residence, but you skip over the fact that this is a publicl
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by aero142 13y ago
Sometimes I feel like there are two different versions of Atlas Shrugged out in the world and different people read different ones. I just don't understand how someone can read the book I read and think that "snowplow drivers&quo
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by aero142 13y ago
Do you have any evidence that isn't based on a video game plot?
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by aero142 13y ago
Yours is broken.
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by aero142 13y ago
I was taught in early rhetoric and composition classes that it is poor style to include "In my opinion" and other qualifiers in pieces that are clearly rhetorical or opinion based. The repetition is unneeded. In engineering discussions it
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by aero142 13y ago
Well, I guess we just disagree on the definition of rent-seeking. Matching willing buyers and sellers creates value by increasing the satisfaction of both the buyer and the seller since both should be better off after the transaction. The
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by aero142 13y ago
Morals of being a drug market aside, in what way is SilkRoad a "rent-seeking enterprise" any more than any other transaction facilitating entity? Every transaction has friction and facilitators provide the service of matching buyers and se
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by aero142 13y ago
I think one interesting model missing is the cross publisher subscription model. Think Netflix for Journalism. I send in 10 dollars a month for access to a bunch of different Journalism sites. The publishers get paid a bulk rate for acce
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by aero142 14y ago
So, what do you think the intrinsic or non-monetary price of gold is?
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by aero142 14y ago
Ah, nothing like pointing out someone else's flaws to feel better about your own. Git is powerful but hard to learn and is often not intuitive. Knowing Hg also has issues doesn't help me when I'm trying to use git.
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by aero142 14y ago
Yeah, the depreciation is higher but comparing it to a Mercedes S seems perfectly fair to me. The Tesla is not competing with the Corolla.

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