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by bugsy 15y ago
In the US, wait staff at restaurants are paid $2.35/hr, same as the minimum wage in 1975. Each time since then that the minimum wage has been raised, there has been an exception for agricultural labor (field workers can be paid $10 for a 12
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Well I was all set to sympathize, but I don't think it's necessarily unfair that the coupon couldn't be applied to any bottle of wine on the menu. I do think that if the point of the coupon is to attract new customers, then it is extremely
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Oh how hilariously condescending coming from someone whose sentences aren't even clear enough to parse unambiguously. Look, you can flex your muscles and rant all you like, you have not stated clearly even now what you are really measuring
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Great catch. Here's their statistics on graduation rates by degree. It's a few years old but the latest isn't going to be all that different. http://sitemaker.umich.edu/obpinfo/files/umaa_degrsbystudyfi... Aerospace engineering - 102 Biom
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Sounds pretty rational to me for both of you. The important thing is whether someone can deliver the goods, not how long it took them or where they were sitting at the time. Most of my critical design work is done in the shower or laying fl
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Yeah... I'm just going to have to say that I've never considered current use of a specific favored version control system in someone I am considering hiring to be correlated to their design capability in any sense whatsover. And you know wh
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If it's really true that you screen out otherwise qualified developers because they don't use your favorite version control system, and don't give away free labor in your specific field, then I'm not surprised at all you can't find people.
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Things that are extremely, trivially easy to do: 1. Throw wads of money at something. 2. Pay off politicians. 3. Shmoozing. 4. I'm the sales and idea guy. Things that are very hard to do: 1. Design a product that people find useful and are
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> officials declined to say where they believe the attack originated Which means they know. Which means it's China since if it was some backwater country they'd just go ahead and say it, and if it was a western one they'd assume it was
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Thanks, I also found Dan's other site here: http://computing2.com/ So in this case the inventor did make some money off it at some point. Abelow has a bunch of other patents that he seems to have never used himself but just sells to these
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This is HN we talk about business issues sometimes here. Permit me to make some comments. I've had Pixelmator since it came out. I use it, Acorn, and Photoshop Elements. I would really like to get off the Adobe bandwagon since Elements has
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It's never discussed in these cases where the original inventor has gotten to. Apple licenses from Lodsys who bought from Intellectual Ventures who owns 30,000 patents, apparently none of which they have invented themselves. Where are the o
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You have two separate and unrelated issues here. 1. Your last venture failed. 2. You have to take care of your elderly parents, apparently in an obscure small town hundreds of miles from any tech or cultural center. The first issue, busines
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In the video that is found at the cited link, Knuth doesn't clearly say there that the incident didn't happen. He says that he gets asked about this story and he met both Jobs and Gates only a few times and that in each case he was more imp
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This was a bank robbery, and the customer is just out the loss for money taken from the bank? That's a novel legal argument.
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The criticism of Germany's culture of designing well made products that are an excellent value is a bit odd. Germany's economy has done much better than most others during the Great Depression II, and has avoided the problems with crime, fr
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Palin's account was more correct than the accounts of her detractors. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/06/sarah-pal... This is similar to the Orwellian incident where Palin made a true and factual comment about the fact tha
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by bugsy 15y ago
Wow, awesome list. Those are some incredible insights. You did extremely well with my giving you a hard time, this means that you are definitely going to be successful, just keep at it. (Whether 'it' is to continue with this one or to start
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As a former registered user of Kaleidoscope, I have to say it destabilized your system because of the necessary system hacks. What you say about Apple stealing good designs is definitely true ( http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/ ), b
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Check out "Health Sentry". There's a 1999 application that was cancelled in 2007, so maybe you could file for it and it's a good term.
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There are state trademarks and national ones from the USPTO. If his is a state trademark and he is in another state, it shouldn't affect you at all and him harassing you would be malicious interference with a business. If it is national, yo
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It's not a business, it's the publishing arm of the National Academy of Science, which was chartered to "investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science" by the US Congress and signed into law by President Lincoln i
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There's a lot of other stuff I would much rather see "declared a human right". I'd also like to see what we mean by "human right" defined more clearly. It certainly doesn't seem to mean that everyone has a right to it, or that depriving it
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Thanks for posting that, it's good to see some other explanations for reduced crime. Crime in a society is a very complex phenomenon and not easily explained. I remember a few years ago when Freakanomics popularized the theory that crime we
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Ah, thanks. I went back and read it two more times and didn't find it, but there it is. (For any one else looking for this excerpt, it's mentioned in passing mid-paragraph half way down page 3.)
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Did we read different articles? He doesn't make the argument about the negative side effects of linking pay and advancement to student evaluations in the article that is linked. Perhaps you are thinking of another article by the same author
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I found the article irritating. He trisects reasons for colleges into three categories, which he sees as worthy goals, but which I paraphrase from a critical perspective thus: 1. Society is a machine that trains worker ants for roles in pro
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I feel very comfortable stating with 100% certainty that your claim that the study said 85% of all people report being marijuana users (exact words: "around 85% of Americans use marijuana alone") was completely and outrageously inaccurate.
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85% sounds pretty wild. Hm, looking at pg 78 of the linked document, it says among people surveyed who were exactly 50 years old when surveyed, graduating in 1977, those who tried marijuana were 82%. 1977 has got to have been the historical
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The article starts by claiming that "Delivery of first-class mail is falling at a staggering rate." I have never seen this to be the case. The article also fails to substantiate this strange claim. Delivery of first-class mail is succeeding

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