blueben

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by blueben 17y ago
Correction. You get paid the minimum the company you work for thinks they can get away with.
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by blueben 17y ago
You avoided the actual issue. This isn't about founders. This is about engineers. Engineers aren't the ones getting the million dollar payout (if the startup lottery is in even in their favor). This is about engineers looking for work. The
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by blueben 17y ago
You think humans never ran across rock or hard packed dirt?
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by blueben 17y ago
Why is it Google's responsibility to become the Internet Police? Is Italy going to pay for those policing costs? Would you be happy if your government press ganged you into police service without compensation? Lets call this for what it rea
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by blueben 17y ago
"However, compare that with what's accomplished with rather less money in the private sector" You got a little confirmation bias on your shirt there. It's easy to look around and find successful private-industry projects that had limited bu
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by blueben 17y ago
"I have a podium, and I can't resist preaching from it."
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by blueben 17y ago
Mr. Shapiro is completely right. Nothing good ever came of government programs. Take DARPA for example. We pour billions into that program, but what has DARPA ever done to spur technological innovation? Created a few infrastructure projects
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by blueben 17y ago
Don't let the iPhone fans hear you say that. Apple's competitive advantage is the UI handed down from Olympus! The sleek hardware! The brand! The integration with iTunes! How could you possibly imply that their advantage is actually just th
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by blueben 17y ago
Zed is having an awfully hard time convincing people about this idea. He really needs to either just build it already or drop it. I mean, we get it. You want to build a music browser. We don't "get" your vision. Yes, ok, fine. Get on with i
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by blueben 17y ago
The problem is that you're not a sysadmin. I'm going to assume that you are a programmer since you are assuming this is simply a programming problem. I am a sysadmin, and I can tell you that I outgrew cute server names many years ago becaus
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by blueben 17y ago
"The fiber does not compensate for the high levels of fructose in modern fruits." Why not?
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by blueben 17y ago
Why so angry? You just made my claim for me. %5 is nothing to sneeze at. Further, the US is more than a "top 10" list. You cannot simply discard vast portions of the country because they don't appear in the top 10 list and thusly don't supp
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by blueben 17y ago
The pain of not knowing what you're doing, such that you can't even explain it to a willing listener.
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by blueben 17y ago
I still fail to see how any political victory for or against climate change research is going to change actual reality. Should climate change naysayers win their political fight even as the Earth continues to warm, the victory seems hollow
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by blueben 17y ago
Are you making the argument that the world is worse off because you have to share?
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by blueben 17y ago
On this point, you are very wrong. There are large immigrant communities all through the Midwest, Great Lakes, and plains states. And if that isn't good enough, we have another tool in our box. We can find incentive's (or simply create regu
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by blueben 17y ago
Because there isn't enough pornography on DVD already... You know the author of this story was hot and bothered during the entire writing process. A Christian, no doubt, too. Probably skipped Bible study when they covered the section that s
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by blueben 17y ago
Iran has nuclear technology now, so they're no longer idiots, just evil dobaddies. Nobody claimed this was logical or reasonable...
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by blueben 17y ago
You haven't listed valid reasons, but rather arbitrary reasons. That's fine, but let's paint them for what they really are. I think it may be you who missed the key point. Large swaths of the web are real time now. Content, metadata, releva
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by blueben 17y ago
Experimental results can't speak for themselves. They are experiments. Only people can speak and weave stories, and only stories will move a population to action. This is the reality of communicating with human beings. Marketing is the prac
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by blueben 17y ago
I tell you I have a knife in my pocket. If you don't admit that I have a knife in my pocket, I will kill you. If you admit I have a knife in my pocket and give me your wallet, I might spare you. There is strong evidence to suggest that ther
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by blueben 17y ago
Yes, I can see how this might trouble you. I mean, you've paid good money for a 100% performance SLA.
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by blueben 17y ago
For the same reason there are dozens of NSAIDS and pain killers. Humans are complex systems, and complex systems exhibit complex behaviors including differing reactions to similar inputs.
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by blueben 17y ago
It's not a reduction in activity, but rather disinhibition. The PFC fails to inhibit activity that is regularly controlled in normal brains.
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by blueben 17y ago
Actually, the results won't "surprise" a lot of people. For most ADHD sufferers: Exercise and therapy are somewhat effective, medication is even more effective, and combining the two approaches is the most effective. Big surprise. The resul
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by blueben 17y ago
Much like vaccination, this only works because many other people are covered by insurance. What the hospital doesn't charge you (and thousands of other people without insurance), they make up for by raising rates across the board. Just beca
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by blueben 17y ago
Who said he was pinging? He said "query", not "ttl".
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by blueben 17y ago
So version 1.0 isn't perfect. Why don't you call the regional health office and make a feature request that ensures families all go in at once. Also, I suspect you aren't actually familiar with FastPass. Tickets all collected together (such
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by blueben 17y ago
1. Setting up a centralized high volume phone reservation system on short notice is not easy or cheap. 2. Setting up a centralized high volume system to print tickets is easy and cheap. There's a reason why the landscape is littered with so
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by blueben 17y ago
It should also be pointed out that this person is a partner at an intellectual property law firm. Forgive me if I'm not persuaded by the placations of an IP lawyer on this particular matter.

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