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by auctiontheory 13y ago
my cat trusts human females inherently but it takes her a long time to trust males Huh. What's your best guess how she tells males and females (of another species: humans) apart?
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
The otherwise well-written article omits to mention that most current PhD students should have thought a few moves ahead and not matriculated in the first place. That's the real problem. PhD programs should no more need to teach "
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
You misunderstand how "unadvertised jobs" work. They are "sold" through word of mouth. Unless you're within the employer's personal network - and your message does not indicate it - you'd never find out. Y
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
Recruiting is a huge industry. They are obviously not all bad or useless. Most small companies simply cannot afford to employ a full-time in-house recruiter. If you were running a startup, with a thousand things to do daily, you too would o
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
Unfortunate side-effect May be unfortunate, but it's also highly predictable. "Solving" one problem to create a much larger (longer-lasting) one has been a cornerstone of our foreign policy.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
Isn't it better to let a recruitment company do the hard work for you? If you want to entrust your professional future to someone who doesn't understand the work you do and whose interests aren't necessarily aligned with yo
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
Yup. On the one hand, recruiting is hardly the rocket science of software engineering, and on the other hand, it's hard to imagine a more user-unfriendly system than Taleo, yet somehow they seem to dominate the market.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
It is partly a fixed cost versus variable cost argument, although these guys don't express it that way. (And I realize that fixed isn't really "fixed.") If you can't afford decent housing, adequate healthcare, and a
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
US? Mexico?! Ignoring the graph, you want to end up in a company with strong social services and wealth redistribution - Norway or somewhere similar. The US is not the best place to be poor. It also depends who "you" are. Are you
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
a 5% raise to someone making 1M dollars a year is about as significant to his life as a 5% raise for someone making 100k Are you asserting that as fact? Where I live, someone making 100K is just getting by and not saving very much, even w
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
You got it. My mother made $27,177 last month just sitting at home answering the phone.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
The fact that both wages fall a similiar percentage relative to 2007 only tells us that the gap between both wage classes remained the same Well, no. In dollar terms, the gap would have become smaller.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
I never see anyone being bothered by them at all. WTF. How on earth would you know whether drivers going in the opposite direction were being blinded by your lights?!
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
America does many things well, but it does not do cities well. So many of our "cities" are little more than a glorified suburb ringed by an arbitrary boundary.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
It isn't unprofessional to abruptly walk out on the job if giving notice was never in the requirements. I don't think "unprofessional" means what you think it means. It is not, for instance, a synonym for "illegal
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
Cool site! I wonder how it will look after another decade of climate change. (And ... I don't know Seattle except by reputation, but SF has at least a couple of very distinct microclimates; the charts for the Mission and the Marina are
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
People has this belief that we are somehow rewarded for passing thousands of new laws every year. The people in Congress are called "lawmakers." That's the problem right there. Even if society were to reach an ideal 100% pe
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
The only way to win is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
Eventually (soon I hope) internet connectivity will be truly like electricity. I live in Silicon Valley, and based on my internet options (one sole unreliable option: Comcast), I have to say that we're far from the day that connectiv
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
Based on your last two responses, you might want to google "begging the question."
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
If (as claimed) the NSA has hacked the major BIOS/firmware as well as encryption, is there such as thing as "fully open hardware" and would it help?
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
IIRC Tom Cruise didn't have the laser beams - he was avoiding the laser beams. So the responsibility to set up a defense perimeter with laser beams is yours.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
Assuming you were carrying secret information on a business or government trip, wouldn't you carry the data on your person in an encrypted USB drive, with a blank/vanilla OS install on your laptop? That seems more efficient (and e
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
You are completely (deliberately?) missing my point. If bribery is the way business is done in China (and many places around the world), then the anti-bribery regulations serve only to hamstring US businesses. From everyone I've spoken
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
Wrong-o. At that level (or any level) of business, it's all about the relationship. You buy from the person you know and trust. That's true in the US, and even more so in China.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
This is so ridiculous. From the fire station to Harvard to Goldman, hiring and admissions in the US are overwhelmingly influenced (i.e. it "makes a difference") by who you know. What are we trying to prove with this witch hunt in
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
Wow. Yours looks a lot better than mine did. It's like magic, really - I wouldn't have believed it had I not seen it for myself.
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
If I could learn to draw (as an adult, earlier this year), you most certainly can. Check out Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain . What surprised me is how technical and detail-oriented drawing is - at least how I was taught. Didn'
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
Rather than music, I use brown noise. Try the "Getting Wet" preset here: mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/rainNoiseGenerator.php
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by auctiontheory 13y ago
Suggestions from my own experience: 1) Set written goals: quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily. I have a pre-printed "form" that I populate with my goals. Then I check them off at the end of a period (day, week, etc.), grade my

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