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by ap22213 11y ago
Well, at least they weren't being politically correct, right? Personally, I look down on people who are members of any political party. I truly try not to be biased, but it's pretty hard not to generalize. People who seek out as
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So, the alternative is what? Allow wages to move toward zero? Then what?
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They'd love full-time; it's just not offered. One is taking classes at the community college, but the classes are apparently very poor quality and still around $3500 a semester (her annual income is ~$9000 / year). I told he
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I know a few people that can't afford college but who are relatively well motivated and have at least average intelligence. What path should they take? (They're currently making minimum wage, part-time, and I haven't been ab
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An API is an interface. Like all interfaces, an API has an 'audience'. Generally, the successful team will try to make their interface as usable as possible to that 'audience' (considering diminishing returns).
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Man, how far Google as fallen. Reading that corporate press release made me feel embarrassed and uncomfortable for all the people who had (unwisely) trusted Google over the years. Maybe they are not (currently) using the data in the very l
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I hear lots of people saying similar things about 'rights' these days. It's like people think that declaring something as a 'right' is all that it takes to enable free action. If only it was that easy. My experien
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Copyright is such an amazingly profitable concept. Just how profitable it is just really blows my mind. I had a friend who created one of the early, best-selling games on mobile. Early into his success I was like, 'Your game is aweso
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Then why can't the talent be leveraged elsewhere? We all know that capital moves around quite easily. So, what makes some places more effective at turning talent into wealth than others? Could be a lot of things, for sure. But, my gue
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I call B.S. I looked up this "1 Corinthians 13", and I have severe doubts that a "student came forward ... feeling uncomfortable" about this homily. By itself, I have doubts. But, the fact that a president of a univers
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Maybe I'm cynical, but this problem can only be solved with legislation. Data and metadata collected on individuals needs to be considered implicit property of the person. And, any use of that data needs to be licensed and pay royalti
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Unfortunately, you are not going to be able to keep things weird (in this case). The only person who has complete control over the corporate culture is the CEO. And, even then, the CEO takes orders from the board and owners. From your desc
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Though my 7 month old isn't a baby anymore, it's pretty clear to most people that she knows that she has a great sense of humor. Not only does she understand what's funny and what's not (subtleties in expectations and a
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And, yet, having been in dozens of states and many different rural, suburban, and urban areas, the U.S. is surprisingly homogenized. All that unnecessary political conflict, posturing, and inefficiency, just so we citizens feel like a good
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Sorry, not where I live.
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I have so many connected devices in my home. How do I determine which ones have microphones and which don't?
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It's definitely an interesting experiment. The conventional wisdom has been that governments cannot respond correctly and efficiently to economic demand. And, I think that's the real reason why most westerners raise an eyebrow.
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This advice and the advice of the parent are both very useful, in my experiences. One thing I would add is to make sure you love working for your boss. If you don't love working for your boss, get a new boss.
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On the other hand, with our population of 7.3 billion, it's kind of amazing that we don't see more terrorism. Personally, it kind of makes me feel good about Humans, given all the negatives that I usually hear about them. To me,
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These are great! Can't believe that I didn't know about them before - I've been looking for simple metrics that compare the impact of things on mortality. It's interesting that running one marathon per year is almost eq
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Interestingly enough, the technique was used pretty heavily in a web-based BI software product that I wrote back in 1999. The UI was designed to be responsive and interactive, and I had to 'invent' a lot of the AJAX-type features
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As a species (or society) do we have clear objectives in mind when we seek to 'increase intelligence'? Is it higher productivity? more progress? enhanced capability? faster learning? Aren't there lots of low hanging fruit t
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Why is that surprising? If you're not in the infrastructure business, why would you build infrastructure? It's like criticizing an auto manufacturer for not manufacturing their own tires. If you mean that AWS prices are too high
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Maybe in a past age, deep and wasteful US military budgets actually did benefit most Americans. But, personally, I haven't see any real return on investment. On the other hand, having lived in Northern Virginia over the last decade, I
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Back in 2004, I worked for a SaaS startup that sold reverse auctioning services for low-cost suppliers (e.g. China) to huge US manufacturers. The biggest problem that we faced was that the final auction price would end up ridiculously low.
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HDF5 is great, but has anyone developed a native Java version? The official version has a Java binding with a nonintuitive interface. And, it requires a lot of prerequisite installations which makes it a bit difficult to deploy. But, I ma
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This is an important point. If you have a system that processes billions of inputs a day along a fairly complex pipeline, you're constantly scaling up and down. It would suck pretty bad if you had to scale mostly vertically.
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It's important to solve problems, but if you want to win at this startup game, how you solve those problems can make or break you. In most cases there others solving the same problem. If you are the team bringing a better solution to m
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I'm 40, and this year I finally feel the pressure. I grew up in a world without google. My first instinct is to figure out a solution to the problem - and it's really hard to break that habit. Although the strategy had served me
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There seems to be quite a bit of FUD and a lot of apparent guessing in these comments. Regardless of politics, are there any studies or evidence to back up or even discount any of these claims? How does one separate the politics from the re

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