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by aplusbi 11y ago
What I find most interesting about this is that most of the changes they implemented weren't necessarily targeted towards women and benefited everyone (emphasis on group work, research projects, splitting the into classes by experience
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by aplusbi 11y ago
"Six-figure salary" encompasses everything from $100k to $999,999 (okay, that's a bit pedantic perhaps but you get what I mean). $185k is still low six-figures.
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by aplusbi 11y ago
I agree with your general sentiment and I too pretty much ignore equity when considering a new position. However equity becomes very important upon leaving a company. I think extending the exercise window to 10 years is an excellent idea
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by aplusbi 11y ago
And I suppose that rice isn't Latin food because it originated in Asia?
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by aplusbi 12y ago
Your numbers don't add up. Rounding up to 3 billion gallons/day comes out to just under 1.1 trillion gallons per year. I know you pulled those numbers directly from the links you provided, but clearly one (or both) of them is er
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by aplusbi 12y ago
OCaml objects are pretty neat, although I rarely ever end up using them. Although I also rarely ever use OCaml for that matter. One issue with the article - the author confuses duck typing and structural typing. While they are similar, th
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by aplusbi 12y ago
>a lack of political diversity that was every bit as dangerous as a lack of, say, racial or religious or gender diversity. The lack of young-earth creationists in science is very worrisome.
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by aplusbi 13y ago
10 years of links to previous blog posts.
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by aplusbi 13y ago
HN isn't reddit, and jokes/puns generally aren't well tolerated here. The comments are supposed to be reserved for more serious discussion about the article and providing supplemental information.
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by aplusbi 13y ago
Perhaps jxf should have written "dunk your hands up to the elbows ". If you are washing clothes with gloves on, you can expect at least some water to make its way in through the top.
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by aplusbi 13y ago
>I hardly think that office disagreements are the sort of thing the advice is meant to deal with. Actually I think that's exactly the sort of thing the advice is meant to deal with.
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by aplusbi 13y ago
You're missing the forest for the trees, but if it will make you happy, "congress shall make no law...abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble". Illegal immigrants and visitors have the right to assembly be
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by aplusbi 13y ago
The constitution makes a distinction between "person" and "citizen" and is careful to grant rights to "people" and not just "citizens". This is why freedom of speech applies to illegal immigrants and
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by aplusbi 13y ago
There is also this Reuters blurb: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/02/us-crime-silkroad-...
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by aplusbi 13y ago
I haven't studied this law either, but look at what happened to David Miranda who was in a situation very similar to the one I proposed - he was transporting information but didn't know what he was carrying (and given the people i
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by aplusbi 13y ago
The assumption is that you are okay with having your laptop seized. Obviously the best approach is to just not have your laptop.
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by aplusbi 13y ago
This obviously depends on your travel plans. For the US, for example, CBP can only search your belongings on entry into the US. If you are traveling from the US -> wherever -> US then you only need to secure your laptop for your ret
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by aplusbi 13y ago
Then change your password to something that you don't actually know. Generate a random password before your trip and print out a few copies. Take one with you and secure the remaining ones. Before you fly through the UK, change the p
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by aplusbi 13y ago
usr originally contained user files ( http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/notes.html ). I'm not really sure why or when that changed, but supposedly "Unix System Resources" is a backronym
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by aplusbi 13y ago
Student athletes have less time and energy to devote to school work. Speaking from personal experience, it's pretty hard to do homework when you have 2-3 hours of practice after school everyday. First, you lose 2-3 hours of time ever
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by aplusbi 13y ago
It depends on which 0 is bigger.
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by aplusbi 13y ago
"Succeeded" sounds so much better than "rejected the null hypothesis."
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by aplusbi 13y ago
That doesn't really answer the question. There has to be some incentive to justify the expense. Politically Venezuela has a lot to gain by offering asylum and almost nothing to gain (and plenty to lose) by actually giving Snowden asy
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by aplusbi 13y ago
Who do you propose pay for a private jet with a military escort?
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by aplusbi 13y ago
http://www.usap.gov/jobsAndOpportunities/ And in particular: http://www.gscgov.com/jobsmcmurdo.htm
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by aplusbi 13y ago
I used to develop nintendo DS games and once received a very memorable bug report - something to the effect of "got error [error message] when playing the game in a microwave". We weren't handling lost wifi connections gracef
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by aplusbi 13y ago
Depends on exactly what you mean, but I predict someone will seriously injure/kill themselves with a malfunctioning 3D printed gun in the near future.
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by aplusbi 13y ago
Columbine had a major effect on the way US schools deal with violence, threats or even just weird kids. 9/11 had a profound effect on how the US deals with terrorism, threats of terrorism or even just brown people. Certainly not the first,
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by aplusbi 13y ago
Nevada.
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by aplusbi 13y ago
I get what you are saying, but that issue has almost nothing to do with Tor. Tor doesn't ensure the secrecy of your content, it only attempts to hide its origin. If you don't trust the recipient then it doesn't matter if Tor is run by the

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