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by bcgraham 13y ago
>At the 2012 American Academy of Nursing Conference, the expert panels were roughly 100% female. Is this prima facie evidence that one of the most important qualifications was being a woman? I think we'll have to agree to disagree, beca
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by bcgraham 13y ago
When "their qualifications" results in a selection rate of men approaching 100%, I think that's prima facie case that one of the most important qualifications is being a man. Furthermore, (% of industry that is women) x (% of women intere
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by bcgraham 13y ago
She asks if quotas are marginalizing women's achievements. The function being used to evaluate speakers is broken - that much is clear from the rate of women being selected. A solid guess is that the specific way in which it is broken is
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by bcgraham 13y ago
Are they good?
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by bcgraham 13y ago
This really says it all: >"Demand for visas may well not be because their [sic] is a need for skilled labour but rather because their is a demand for workers who can be underpaid," said Costa. He said the GAO study showed 54% of those o
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by bcgraham 13y ago
Because that's the only type of home on the market!
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by bcgraham 14y ago
This is one of my favorites: About Shyamalan's "The Village": "To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a D
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by bcgraham 14y ago
Ebert rated movies by how well they succeeded at what was trying to be accomplished - by that measure, isn't his rating accurate? That movie did almost everything its makers were trying to accomplish.
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by bcgraham 14y ago
>As a professional movie critic, he earned respect through his craft, but I think world of cinema is better off without any movie critic. Totally disagree - the critic, at his best, spotlights movies you would have missed, unlocks movie
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by bcgraham 14y ago
I might be mistaken, but it seems like "technical intelligence" is another way of saying "high tolerance for poor UI," i.e. a person with very low T.I. needs something really well designed, and a person with high T.I. can still be effective
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by bcgraham 14y ago
This is really unfair. This comment: >A lot of Heroku's apparent value came from the intelligent routing feature. Everybody knew that it was harder to implement than random routing, that's why they were willing to pay Heroku for it. is
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by bcgraham 14y ago
But most nerds want to be smart as a proxy/substitute for being popular. This isn't necessarily bad, as reallocating "popularity" based on "intelligence" rather than "secondary sexual characteristics" seems like a beneficial thing for socie
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by bcgraham 14y ago
Thanks for the advice!
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What are good projects to showcase my technical ability in a portfolio?
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by bcgraham 14y ago
Has anyone seen a situation like this before where it turns out Ted just wasn't really up to snuff as a team member? In my (limited) experience, this has never turned out to be a recoverable situation; the team basically hobbles along a) un
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by bcgraham 14y ago
Salesforce does $3-4b in annual revenue.
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by bcgraham 14y ago
I don't think your viewpoint is fit for dignified public discourse. It's theft. It's not a new, modern crime, with deep implications still being processed by moral intuitions, legislatures, and courts. When something becomes easy to steal,
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by bcgraham 14y ago
In general, it breaks down into "less time discount," "more of what other people want," "more of what I want". That's a simplification, but broadly speaks to the tensions in the system. I used to like this system because it helped identify
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by bcgraham 14y ago
I thought it was a reference to Brian Regan Live, 1997: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxenUzZPFiQ#t=01m56s
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by bcgraham 14y ago
A system of measurements dating back 300 years is not ancient by any sane scale. It's still the newcomer to the set of systems of measurement.
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by bcgraham 14y ago
I think being unwavering in ideology is bad, but being unwavering for a policy is good - i.e., 13th amendment, civil rights act, etc.
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by bcgraham 14y ago
Samus is hardly an exception; put into a suit that erases secondary sexual characteristics, the question of gender was (in the first game) left until the last possible minute, as nothing more than a "gotcha." In future games, Samus's gender
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by bcgraham 14y ago
It's because if you change your mind frequently enough, people stop listening to you or giving your opinion any weight. I'm not saying this is right, or that it occurs as often as is feared, but it is the fear, and it does occur.
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by bcgraham 14y ago
If you were actually going the speed of light, all travel becomes instantaneous from your reference frame.
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by bcgraham 14y ago
Can you provide a link to the Brand New Blog or some additional search terms? I'm interested, but "brand new blog" and "brand new blog logo" Google searches don't seem to bring up anything relevant.