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by apalmer 13y ago
Ahhh man... you got a chicken and egg problem.
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by apalmer 13y ago
This is pretty much the official reason why Toyota and the rest of its Japanese brethren took over car manufacturing. The opportunity wasn't lost, American companies ignored it, japanese companies didnt and so after a decade of applica
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by apalmer 13y ago
Valid point but given the context, going from zero to some generic application of scientific resource management will definitely have a profound effect. This isn't Amazon trying to move from 92% efficiency to 93% which probably is extr
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by apalmer 13y ago
I have both sides of this: on one hand its true, cuz i spent almost my entire last 2 years in 'hardcore' optimization, network flows, computer simulation etc, with only a couple 'filler' courses in facilities design, eff
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by apalmer 13y ago
I studied Operation Research & Industrial Engineering in college. The rest of the engineering students called ORIE, 'Oh Really It's Engineering?'
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by apalmer 13y ago
Its not really against net neutrality in the 'traditional' sense... but its more inappropriate advertising. Google and all the other ISPs advertise their service as 10 Mbps Down/5 Mbps Up, when really if you read the fine pri
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by apalmer 13y ago
dont really agree with his analysis. I think the vocal group probably felt if i have to explicitly pay a separate line item for service then I want explicit control of that... the whole 'primary service is control' angle feels to
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by apalmer 13y ago
-- 'So, the two servers make a total of about $26/hour each, while everyone else in the restaurant is stuck at $8/hour.' the waiters would have made 26 dollars an hour under a tipping scheme instead they make 22 dollars
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by apalmer 13y ago
everyone is allowed to be whatever they want... I dont see the other guy as being rude though, he just made it clear that he expected defined terms...
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by apalmer 13y ago
uhh... I think your missing the point
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by apalmer 13y ago
the tipping phenomenon only occurs because the resturant industry gamed the system to legally pay their wait staff below minimum wage. So now I got to tip the wait staff because you can legally pay them 4 bucks an hour? OK... Ohhh and tip p
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by apalmer 13y ago
naw not really... i mean bottomline, if you pay someone more to do a good job they are more likely to do a good job
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by apalmer 13y ago
Well, probably a variety of reasons but certainly one key reason is... if you have to ask for 100K to get 25K, then if you ask for 25K your only going to get 8K?... All prices are always negotiable, just that the individual consumer is so u
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by apalmer 13y ago
Naw, not true, at least on the east coast indian doctors (with american MDs) are common and are not generally viewed as 'inferior' in any way to caucasian doctors.
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by apalmer 13y ago
This is being done on a large scale, health tourism is a real thing. I think probably you dont realize how widespread this phenomenon is, and conversely I think more than a 'large scale' you are really asking, why isn't virtu
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by apalmer 13y ago
I had the same impression, basically the core arguments presented in the article really were a rejection of OOP information hiding, not really the specific technical implementation of using closures for information hiding.
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by apalmer 13y ago
I kinda get your point, but your analysis as far as capitalism/greed etc seems more ideological than logically rational. The problem as you state it isn't insurance, its the inelasticity of health insurance. Simply put a significa
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by apalmer 13y ago
--What Google did back in the 90s is almost laughably simple to what most of us do today. Do you really think this is true or is this some kind of sarcasm?
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by apalmer 13y ago
This isnt a mugging or an assault. This is a company charged with processing financial information that apparently didnt sufficiently protect the data.
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by apalmer 13y ago
I definitely see your point, but from her description she spends 10 hours a day on this excersize. I could see that level of progress given those constraints, 10 hours a day every days for a month and a half is insane dedication. On the oth
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by apalmer 13y ago
People really get their pants in a bunch about Linus' abrasive personality. I wouldnt want to work for him, but on an open source project that he has lead for over a decade I think its a pretty clear cut case of 'vote with your fe
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by apalmer 13y ago
ehh the language is what it is, its a good language within its constraints but if your philosophically opposed to its core tenets you arent going to like it
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by apalmer 13y ago
Well the point of the article was that movies are following this pattern down to the minute so its not unreasonable to expect a few examples
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by apalmer 13y ago
I really was intrigued by comparing this vision to the previous vision of putting a computer in every home... The previous was while completely open ended at least on some level measurable. The current is basically saying, we will make stuf
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by apalmer 13y ago
I dont really agree with your statement, but I did find it perplexing that a C# .Net technical interviewer would not know the fundamentals of LINQ 5 years after its inception.
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by apalmer 13y ago
If snowden stayed in the country he would be locked in solitary, and wouldnt even have a trial scheduled for 2 to 3 years. And his trial would have been 'classified' and the public would have no knowledge of the precedings.
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by apalmer 13y ago
I don't know that this analogy is valid or not.
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by apalmer 13y ago
My assumption is this is a buy and destroy a competitor move. Would almost make sense, except that the splash page publicaly announced who the purchasing company is.
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by apalmer 13y ago
--To be honest, I am against ever striking, forming/joining a union, or ever going to a rally. Aside, but why? I am too lazy to do such things myself, and I know many who don't see the need as things are good enough as they are fr
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by apalmer 13y ago
The NSA program has true oversight, the 'problem' is that the overseers cant be bothered to actually excersize any restraints on the program.

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