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by bcoates 13y ago
Is there some reason to think health-care related "Job Lock" is a thing in the US after COBRA and HIPPA?
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by bcoates 13y ago
I think you're right, something's wrong with my source. I'm not sure the SHEEO number's usable "raw", as it uses its own ad-hoc inflation calculation (HECA) instead of CPI or GDP, but even correcting for that I
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by bcoates 13y ago
American culture leads kids to believe that trades jobs have low social standing, so they borrow obscene amounts of money to go to college because they think it will get them a good job where they do paperwork for lots of money. Instead the
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by bcoates 13y ago
While it's true that tuition is a larger source of revenue than it used to be, most of that increase can't be explained by falling subsidies. According to this http://www.higheredinfo.org/dbrowser/index.php?su
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by bcoates 13y ago
Prescriptive, not descriptive. If you actually believed that stuff to be true about the world you'd be factually incorrect, but the guy who embraces work with that attitude will do better and be happier than the guy who doesn't. P
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by bcoates 13y ago
I don't think this exactly right -- an evil node can't send a false nay because it would have to be able to forge the conflicting transaction, the signature prevents that. Bitcoin already essentially does the 2PC that the author i
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by bcoates 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_external_defibrillato... -- the AED is worse in every way than a properly trained professional with the right tools, except for one way: its there, it sort-of works, and you can&#
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by bcoates 13y ago
I installed TF2 on my work tablet yesterday, it worked just fine. Civ 5 and X-Com are great on it. Is that "real" enough?
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by bcoates 13y ago
If you have the income to support a $3k/mo housing cost you should be saving enough to afford a $100k downpayment in a few years. Also, as another poster pointed out, it probably qualifies for an FHA loan with much lower down payment.
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by bcoates 13y ago
One thing I don't see you accounting for is the increased transaction costs of ownership -- I live in the kind of place you're encouraging people to buy apartments, on a rent-controlled month-to-month lease. If change jobs or have
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by bcoates 13y ago
China doesn't exactly have a successful track record of bringing neighboring Communist states under control.
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by bcoates 13y ago
Does the unpleasant physical shape of the USB connector improve the electrical properties somehow? I've always been curious why the 3.5mm jack isn't used for more things, it's small, easy to use, makes a sturdy connection, an
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by bcoates 13y ago
Skimming the list and the cites, the page seems to be combining topics from a mishmash of different domains (mixing unconscious decision biases, rhetorical fallacies, misunderstandings of statistics, heuristics, and perception/memory e
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by bcoates 13y ago
In fairness to C++, that rule mostly has effects where it silently does the right thing even if you don't know the rule rather than breaking things. It's just kind of surprising when it fixes code that looks broken.
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by bcoates 13y ago
The "defending sensitive locations" thing doesn't make any sense -- you can just put in the clutch or shift your carbomb into neutral and let your inertia carry you from anywhere this could be realistically be deployed right
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by bcoates 13y ago
I use OneNote with a stylus and tablet, both for notes for myself and collaboration. It's like a portable, persistent whiteboard. I used to mostly take notes with pens on sticky notes, but after a particularly tricky production debuggi
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by bcoates 13y ago
Advertising can perform a signalling function without anybody involved being irrational.
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I prefer http://☃.net/
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by bcoates 13y ago
Short of rewriting the whole system around a threaded model, the only reason to use threads over processes in Node is to make the IPC faster. This means that ultimately supporting threads is an optimization that has to compete for cost-be
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by bcoates 13y ago
Static destruction order is way more deterministic than I thought, and I have no idea how function template specialization rules work.
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by bcoates 13y ago
Despite Warren Buffet's quote, what he actually does with his investments is nothing at all like stock picking -- he acquires substantial fractions of companies and then uses that control (and his personal brand) to change how those bu
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by bcoates 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_Biscuit
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by bcoates 13y ago
That's a gratuitously category-theoretic explanation, all you need to explain covariance and contravariance is is-a. An immutable List of Foos is a List of Bars if a Foo is a Bar. A function taking X and returning Y is a function takin
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by bcoates 13y ago
> All money is a bubble, IMO. Not really -- between the US government and the Federal Reserve banks, there's enough assets and turnover to unwind all the US dollars in existence in a fairly short amount of time, if there was a long-
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by bcoates 13y ago
The guy who wrote the initial pull request should get some sort of medal for efficiency in trolling, it's not common that you can make this many alleged professionals look like idiots with a 3 character patch.
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by bcoates 13y ago
I think you're experiencing some culture shock. Even if you can trust people to be decent, you still have to share norms as to what the other guy considers "decent". Americans tend to have a fairly individualist/independ
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by bcoates 13y ago
SQL injection is caused by exactly the confusion between human- and machine- readable text that the author is warning against.
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The exchanges are illiquid as all hell, so arbitrage carries a lot of risk. Bitcoin is a nice demonstration that market efficiency isn't magic, but has underlying rational-actor mechanisms that will break down in exceptional circumstan
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by bcoates 13y ago
I suspect you are right, and the high qualifications just serve to filter out anyone who has compunctions about boldly lying to a small organization about what they've done and what they're capable of. The ideal candidate is a ded
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by bcoates 13y ago
In "The Devil Wears Prada" aren't the employees all entry-level, trying to break into a competitive industry? This application is confusing because they're demanding several years of professional experience on a large-sc

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