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by cal5k 8y ago
This is the issue I have with the media - moreso than any particular bias, media loves to paint a narrative when, in truth, random events are more likely to blame (though in fairness this is a human flaw borne from the heuristic value of na
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by cal5k 8y ago
I recently had major orthognathic surgery, a two-step process: surgically-assisted rapid palatal expansion (SARPE), where your palate is basically "mobilized" and cracked down the midline to allow for expansion in adults, and then
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by cal5k 8y ago
Perhaps Facebook’s algorithms aren’t the issue. Maybe WE are the problem :)
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by cal5k 8y ago
In my mind I replaced "chicken" with "developer" and had a good chuckle.
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by cal5k 8y ago
My father used to work for Transport Canada (Canada's version of the FAA), and I've found it rather dismaying how little faith people seem to have in the FAA/NTSB despite many years of evidence as to their competence. They&#x
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by cal5k 8y ago
Not uncommon for a brand new aircraft. They addressed that issue fairly quickly.
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by cal5k 8y ago
The 777 is the second-safest aircraft in the world, next to the Airbus A340. The 787 is on track to demonstrate a similar safety record (in terms of fatal incidents). So overall, they seem to be quite good.
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by cal5k 8y ago
This. Their posted fees mask exchange rates that are horrendous.
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by cal5k 8y ago
It's a distributed protocol with wide adoption and enough liquidity to be easily traded anywhere in the world. That makes it great as a medium of common exchange... I can easily convert from Canadian Dollars to BTC in Canada, then conv
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by cal5k 8y ago
That's just ill-informed. "If you don't accept the banking oligopoly you're clearly trying to launder money" is the kind of nonsense that tries to shut down legitimate concerns over self-determination. Money is an e
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by cal5k 8y ago
So? There's a huge amount of currency flowing to and from North America to Europe, Asia, etc. Just because the euro zone has standardized their banking system doesn't mean a) that America will ever do the same ( cough the metric
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by cal5k 8y ago
I have a better analogy: Bitcoin has the same sort of issues as TCP/IP. It's weird that people are expected to interact with it on the protocol level. I think the term "cryptocurrency" is the "Big Data" of 2018
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by cal5k 8y ago
But maybe this time we'll be able to prevent it! ;-) The media loves to point fingers at specific individuals/organizations that are ostensibly responsible for each recession, but there's no known way to completely dampen t
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by cal5k 8y ago
Hey now, we have guaranteed eventual consistency! ...at the heat death of the universe
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by cal5k 8y ago
Jarred was probably young when the internet was first taking shape, and every generation shares the feeling that things were better in their youth (aka the Golden Age Fallacy). The internet was a lot smaller and inhabited by curious nerds -
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by cal5k 8y ago
I find that a lot of articles/talks by designers make such declarative statements... "Design for PEOPLE, not USERS!". Lots of time spent on semantics. Even basic "user personas", however, attempt to capture the &quo
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by cal5k 8y ago
...has anyone ever taken video of such a thing? For research purposes, of course...
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by cal5k 8y ago
This. Living in Toronto means living in a sea of Canada Goose wearers come winter. They're very well-made and warm coats - honestly far too warm for typical Toronto temperatures - but I wouldn't buy one currently because of the ov
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by cal5k 8y ago
I mean yes, you could just call them dollars. That was just to differentiate them from cash for the purposes of this discussion.
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by cal5k 8y ago
I think there are plenty of ways that privacy could be regained... layer 1 settlements, use of an anonymous protocol like MimbleWimble, etc. It wouldn't necessarily need to be Bitcoin as it's implemented today. But I agree... that
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by cal5k 8y ago
Bingo. Cognitive skills are compensated at a much higher rate.
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by cal5k 8y ago
I'd love to see a government experiment with having its central bank issue a dollar-backed stablecoin. I mean, fundamentally the issue is that the rise in digital payments puts most of the money supply in bank ledgers... if the money s
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by cal5k 8y ago
As with any phenomenon, I don't buy a single-cause explanation. It's way too pat. What about substitutes? Has anyone tried to demonstrate that OxyContin addiction, for example, might not have been heroin addiction if OxyContin was
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by cal5k 8y ago
Here's the problem, though: what do you do about individuals with a low IQ? Not even crazy low, but low enough that STEM fields are out of their grasp? There's little evidence that IQ can be substantially increased through educati
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Confessions of a professional crypto trader(medium.com)
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by cal5k 8y ago
This has nothing to do with lack of technology adoption and everything to do with avoiding taxes.
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by cal5k 8y ago
A great portfolio is a huge plus (and I've hired people purely based on their open source contributions, usually remote), but as mentioned elsewhere your previous code tells me very little about what you're like to work with day-t
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by cal5k 8y ago
Generally-speaking if we're hiring someone to work in React or, say, Kotlin for Android, they need to know at least a bit about the framework they're working with. The process would be different for co-op positions/new hires
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by cal5k 8y ago
Hiring is hard. It's very difficult to figure out what combination of activities/questions will correlate to actual job performance, not to mention uncover someone's day-to-day personality when their guard is up. With that sa
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by cal5k 8y ago
I doubt you'd notice, since it would tend to happen throughout the year. Anecdotally, sales times have MUCH higher attrition rates than this - if they don't they're probably retaining too many underperforming staff.

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