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721.
What It's Like to Live on Low Pay in a Land of Plenty(npr.org)
63 points by brown9-2 13y ago|108 comments
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by brown9-2 13y ago
The New Yorker did a great profile on TED last year and it was hard to come away from the article without feeling like they were making a similar critique: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/07/09/12
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by brown9-2 13y ago
If you follow this sort of belief to it's logical conclusion, then why should we have any sort of intelligence agency?
724.
by brown9-2 13y ago
If you scroll down to the bottom of this page ( http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/ ) you'll see that the author intended these as humor pieces for USENIX magazine and not as research paper
725.
by brown9-2 13y ago
A different topic, but http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/theslowwi... is a good read too.
726.
by brown9-2 13y ago
Who benefits from this change?
727.
by brown9-2 13y ago
More info: http://www.sfbg.com/googleshoutdown
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by brown9-2 13y ago
My argument to her was that my experience dealing with intelligence agencies Just curious - what experience is that?
729.
by brown9-2 13y ago
Are you sure that it is fair to blame Mandela for what some parts of the ANC did while he was imprisoned? Did he have control over all of the factions then?
730.
by brown9-2 13y ago
By the same argument we should criticize and negatively judge the American Revolution as well. This path of argument seems unable to acknowledge that there are times where "the law" is so unjust that you are left with no non-viole
731.
by brown9-2 13y ago
I would think that introducing an alias for a pointer which could be confused for a filesystem path would be more confusing than "@".
732.
by brown9-2 13y ago
Aren't most of the variable name suggestions based on the method being called? If I extract a variable for service.getUserRecommendations(), I believe the recommendation list would look like "userRecommendations", "recom
733.
by brown9-2 13y ago
Assuming they are building in Java, it's pretty common to publish source JARs to the repository along with the compiled classes.
734.
by brown9-2 13y ago
Well the credentials in the properties file shouldn't have ended up in a public place ever. So if you replace username/password with a key, a human can still accidentally publicize the key.
735.
by brown9-2 13y ago
"Duty" is somewhat subjective. They also have a "duty" to those shareholders to keep those plans secret if they deem that secrecy is beneficial for the business plans.
736.
The Fair Price Of A Bitcoin Is Zero(businessinsider.com)
6 points by brown9-2 13y ago|1 comments
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Nice for you, but potentially not so nice for the poster of the photo who thinks that only his or her friends can access it.
738.
by brown9-2 13y ago
Are you considering land mass or where people actually live? Large sections of the country are practically unpopulated.
739.
by brown9-2 13y ago
It's a R&D project and the video footage shown on 60 Minutes was a combination rendering and marketing video, so we shouldn't really assume that this future is already written. You're seeing mockups. I think it's saf
740.
by brown9-2 13y ago
It scares me that not a word in here has anything to do with wanting to own units of this "currency" for any sort of utility or actual use, but just blind belief that the "value" will continue to go up.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Is there seriously an argument to be made for a pro-"he" side? I don't understand how people both say "there should be a debate" and also "it's one word in meaningless documentation".
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by brown9-2 13y ago
It's not the pronoun, it's the bad attitude and commit reversal.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Not so sure about that. I had no opinion about Joyent before but now they sound quite positive in my book.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
This ignores the part where you're not sure if that same pizza will cost 0.01 BTC tomorrow or 0.04 BTC or 10 BTC tomorrow. If I think that my 0.02 BTC could get me two pizzas tomorrow, why would I trade that amount for one pizza today?
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Looks neat, but you might want to dig into what went wrong with this Bitcoin story: Rise of Bitcoin: Is the digital currency a solution or a menace? (+video) The Christian Science Monitor - Yesterday She downloaded the software that would
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by brown9-2 13y ago
The map could be where Renesys's "vantage points" are.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Which makes the idea that people who fall on hard times have no one to blame but themselves quite silly - people shouldn't be punished for failing to accurately predict the future of an industry. In other words, the fact that these onc
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by brown9-2 13y ago
I'm skeptical when people claim that their lack of managers mean they don't have a hierarchy. If there isn't an official hierarchy there will still be an unofficial one in some way - founders and early employees with more est
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by brown9-2 13y ago
The evil, destructive, part of stack ranking is when you need to apply the 20%/70%/10% breakdowns to all teams equally, meaning that even a team of 5 people needs to have one and only one "exceeds expectation" person and
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by brown9-2 13y ago
So a member of Congress laments poor Congressional oversight of the US intelligence community. How about trying to do something about it?

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