bmm6o

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by bmm6o 12y ago
Following on GP's advice, you might find it therapeutic to write something up about your experience. What (if anything) could you have done differently to be more successful? What skills should you work on to be more successful in th
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by bmm6o 12y ago
I don't question that the state can revoke a charter, I meant if it had done so as a result of a perceived threat (rather than as a result of criminal behavior). I'm aware that since the state also defines criminal behavior the l
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Has this ever happened? I know governments have taken over/privatized businesses, but when was the last time one was just shut down because it presented a threat? I'd think you'd be well into "too big to fail/jail
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Of course I don't think Facebook shot the guy, and I don't deny that there is a widely accepted meaning that is specific to an employee changing jobs. It's more of a cranky rant that it's a terrible metaphor that I wish
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by bmm6o 12y ago
I'm not sure if you're saying you're not familiar with the meaning that the word has had since the early 15th century, but http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/poaching?s=t . It's application to b
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Maybe I'm being nit-picky, I wish we would stop using "poaching" to refer to the (legal) hiring of a person already employed at another company. Actual poaching is illegal, conversely anti-"poaching" pacts are coll
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Some of the examples were probably written all at once, but in some examples the last case was probably added some time later. The pattern followed by the previous cases was no longer fresh in the mind, and a mistake was made.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
How do you see this work in practice? Would you still have government assistance programs to subsidize workers at the low end? I mean, you would expect wages for a lot of people to drop drastically, right?
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Not only that, it's based on byte offset and length: "SourceContent=8BIT,1279,492, https://archive.org/download/MoeJusteOrigins/8-BigBang-LostS... "? Is the idea that the target file is never modifi
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by bmm6o 12y ago
I'm surprised that a minimum wage job provided 401k, health insurance and paid holiday and vacation. Does anyone know how common that is? Also, did the company drop its 401k program entirely? I don't think you can exclude certai
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by bmm6o 12y ago
For anyone who thinks that $15 minimum wage is a bad idea, what do you think is the "correct" value for a legislated minimum wage? Is the current value also too high? Should there be such a thing as a minimum wage?
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by bmm6o 12y ago
That's the standard rule of thumb, that your cost to your employer is roughly double your salary. Of course it depends on tax rates, insurance rates, quality of benefits, etc. But if you are just estimating for a company you don&#x27
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by bmm6o 12y ago
I'm sure more ideas won't hurt, but they just raised $80 million. How did that happen without vision? Do none of those investors have any ideas to offer?
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Make it http://www.quora.com/Quora-company/Why-did-Quora-join-the-20... so you don't have to log in to read that answer.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
I've had similar experiences with my [monopolistic, US] cable provider. Everyone who has come out to do any service has been surprisingly competent and very willing to do more than what needs to be done. I had a guy come out this pas
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Is the source available? I'd be curious what his technique is. I wrote something similar a few years ago, based on pattern matching against a dictionary (which has obvious drawbacks but is very fast when it works).
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by bmm6o 12y ago
It's essentially the Tragedy of the Commons. People come and claim part of the common green, which pushes newcomers out to the more undesirable real estate. I'm not convinced there is a workable market solution, though I'm
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by bmm6o 12y ago
You seem to have an excessively narrow definition for planning. If I plan to go to the gym today and it turns out that I do not, would you really say that I broke a promise? Something else came up and I changed my plans. It's possib
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by bmm6o 12y ago
> Ordinarily I'd vote this down for snark not contributing to the conversation [...] You're right, it doesn't contribute to the conversation. > I actually do this the underlying thought here is worthy and contributes
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by bmm6o 13y ago
> Oh, great. I'm very curious. I am honestly very interested to hear what you feel Snowden has done wrong? Oh jeez, not this shit again. It's not even relevant to the topic of the OP this time. That is to say, here comes anoth
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by bmm6o 13y ago
I think it's just a LOC comparison.
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by bmm6o 13y ago
It's an interesting exercise in brute-forcing a hash, but the question is just one questionable premise after another.
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by bmm6o 13y ago
I read it as saying that the data has redundancy added to it so that some amount of unreadable ("erased") bits can be interpolated. CD's do this with Reed-Solomon encoding, and there's a decoder in the hardware.
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by bmm6o 13y ago
It's so sad that the generation that benefited from the free/low tuition is the same one that has voted it out of existence for the next generation. Just another example of the boomers pulling up the ladder behind them. Their st
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by bmm6o 13y ago
Is anyone in this area looking at balanced block designs? There's a rich area of math concerned with placing elements in sets subject to various constraints (e.g. minimizing cardinality of intersections). It's been a long time s
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by bmm6o 13y ago
That's essentially the defining characteristic of a "syndrome". It is predicated on the condition or symptoms and not on the underlying cause, which isn't always known. As knowledge grows, more specific diseases can be
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by bmm6o 13y ago
I don't buy the argument about GC being a hindrance. If you have sensitive data (e.g. a key) that you don't want sitting around in your process memory, you should wipe it as soon as you are done with it (e.g. zero out the byte ar
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by bmm6o 13y ago
I forgot to clarify the opposing view. Some people see or foresee a negative outcome of an unfettered market, and want to take steps to prevent it. Then they pass laws or regulations, like hotel zoning. They see the improvement as justif
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by bmm6o 13y ago
It's a common belief - especially on the internet - that whatever the unfettered free market decides (or would decide) is good and correct. You may believe this, and you may even take it as axiomatic, but you should be aware that very
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by bmm6o 13y ago
That was a quick moving of the goalposts.

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