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by ahi 8y ago
The more likely answer is that the PR department isn't being told the truth by corporate security. Security clearances trump corporate hierarchy.
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by ahi 8y ago
IP theft is a long-term risk, while cheap labor and access to the Chinese market are short term benefits. Company executives may have short term incentives, and little interest in the long term health of their organizations. Company executi
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by ahi 8y ago
This is true even on Amazon. Very often the Prime price is exactly the same as their third-party price + shipping. This will be my last year of Prime.
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by ahi 8y ago
Their HQ is actually in Ann Arbor which is nice so long as you don't want big city accoutrements. Pay isn't terrible especially considering cost of living. As far as I can tell their recruiting problem is how many people want to w
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by ahi 9y ago
It's not a matter of principal, it's a matter of statistics. Even empty sidewalks are more dangerous to ride on than riding with traffic.
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by ahi 9y ago
I do that regularly on my commute on a mixed-use trail. Half the time the pedestrian looks to their left and their feet follow. The other half have headphones on so they don't hear me anyway. I might be exaggerating a bit.
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by ahi 9y ago
I work in academia. Our performance review process is mostly a make-work scheme for HR. There are some forms for goal setting and reviewing how your goals/progress fit with organization goals (which are vague enough to be useless). In
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by ahi 9y ago
Some rudimentary googling, MIT campus is 168 acres or .26 sq miles. So the 810 sq miles in 3 years is still pretty impressive.
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by ahi 9y ago
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/jamie-dimon-billion-...
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by ahi 10y ago
This has also been my experience. Millions of large documents on a single (beefy) node with a single user it's been fine. Although, the sysadmins had previously left me with flat file xml on shared storage so the bar was pretty low.
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by ahi 10y ago
> There's no expectation that people need to take precautions against being victims of crime in order to avoid abusing police resources. Yes, yes there is. Soaking up police resources due to fundamental incompetence makes everyone e
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by ahi 10y ago
If I leave my car unlocked with the keys in the ignition and it gets stolen, I am a victim. I don't deserve to be punished for a mistake. If I do it once a week, I am still a victim but also an idiot who doesn't deserve much sympa
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by ahi 11y ago
Next door in Ypsi there seems to be only one point for Wireless Ypsi when the town is pretty well covered.
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by ahi 11y ago
HathiTrust.org, 13-14 million volumes has less than 20 FTEs and the vast majority of them are on new development projects. Put into maintenance it might take 2 FT sysadmins to keep going. Maybe double the cost for operations. Preservation a
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by ahi 11y ago
Sanders won't win, but it will be nice to be able to vote for someone I don't hate for once. In an ideal world it would be Rand Paul/Bernie Sanders race. Two people who actually believe what they are saying.
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by ahi 11y ago
I work for a public university so all salaries are public. There's no fixed salary levels, but everyonein the same position ends up very close. It completely eliminates office politics, but I don't see the downsides. If you want m
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by ahi 12y ago
If I am returning to a piece of code frequently it's not because the code is good, but because the documentation is bad.
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by ahi 12y ago
After 3 years of freelancing from home I just started a cubicle job. First addition was headphones. Next will be a sunlamp. How do people work like this?
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by ahi 12y ago
I am class of 05 so my intro class was the last one to use ada. I also remember it being very easy on beginners. At the time I was annoyed the underclassmen got java, but now that I know java, no thank you.
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by ahi 12y ago
It's not fking awesome. Most people should not be entrepreneurs. They don't have the correct risk profile. We're turning every job into a casual arrangement, and because there is a tech based intermediary we cheer it on. How
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by ahi 12y ago
You have bits and pieces of the real story. It was the chairman of the Michigan State Highway Commission. http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/rivalry_week_how...
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by ahi 12y ago
You have causation wrong. Cuba is now communist because it was one of those dictatorships. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista The countless dictatorships, puppet governments, and US/European interven
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by ahi 12y ago
If I was born tomorrow, I would definitely pick Cuba (infant mortality 5/1000) instead of Chile (8/1000). United States is 6/1000 by the way.
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by ahi 12y ago
Here is some support for that argument: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site A lot of smart people being very very sloppy.
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by ahi 12y ago
Water with a lot of pathogens is likely to have high turbidity as well so your lens is going to be a bit opaque.
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by ahi 12y ago
Might the deindustrialization of the United States have similar causes? Bad governance by stateless corporate colonizers?
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by ahi 12y ago
Ask the World Bank/IMF for advice. Then do the exact opposite. More seriously, historically it has required a strong industrial policy with selective and targeted trade barriers / industry support. With poor governance this is inc
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by ahi 12y ago
"It remained unsaid, of course, that this “paper” had often been purchased for as little as one penny on the dollar, and there was no mention of the fact that many of the debts that Wilson specialized in were too old to appear on a cre
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by ahi 12y ago
At least where I live the stereotypical summer jobs don't exist even if a teen was pushed to take one. Those McDs fry cook positions are now filled by former manufacturing workers making ends meet with three part time jobs.
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by ahi 12y ago
Hospital operating margins are decent. They are stuck in the same trap as higher ed. Immense investments in tangentially related infrastructure.

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