arkades

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by arkades 13y ago
New York didn't make texting while driving illegal - it made driving while distracted illegal, so as to encompass all smartphone-related and unrelated issues that make the road dangerous.
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by arkades 13y ago
I'm fairly confident his point wasn't that cell phones were the most dangerous possible toy while driving. I think he was trying to convey that driving was the most dangerous possible task people regularly undertake, and any distr
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by arkades 13y ago
When I've bought prepaid cards, I either bought them for zero-value or with pre-stored value, and in either case they were not usable until I registered them online. I haven't found any prepaid cards yet that do not follow this pa
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by arkades 13y ago
As much as any normal credit card. They're linked to your social security number.
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by arkades 13y ago
The wire didn't coin the term. Burners have been burners for... well, I've been familiar with it since the 80s, so at least 3 decades now.
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by arkades 13y ago
What is a "skill school" for software development? I'm not from Canada, and unfamiliar with this.
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by arkades 13y ago
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifprid... The data suggests that it is hyperbole to say that Monsanto owns the market, but judging by the CR4 and HHI - standard economics measures for concentration of market power -
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by arkades 13y ago
Can you elaborate on your comment about why working a weekend as a contractor is a sure way to lose people's respect? I don't understand.
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by arkades 13y ago
In part the problem arises from the interface between systems. If you walk into any normal hospital internal medicine floor you'll see about 5 different systems in use, with varying levels of interoperability: the VA, operating what is the
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by arkades 13y ago
The VA has the largest, best-maintained electronic medical records system in the country. It is open-source and available to the public. The problem with vets is not the absence of software. I am rather tired of seeing this particular horse
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by arkades 13y ago
You may want to consider reading "Winning", by Jack Welch. If that little bit made you reconsider your job, his chapter on job fit would probably be right up your alley.
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by arkades 13y ago
Jack Welch called it the corporate immune system. Once you've been hurt, you tend to over-bureaucratize the response to ensure that it never happens again. I think it has to do with the fact that human psychology tends to over-value possibl