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by caskance 11y ago
I studied there, and during that time, spoke to and tutored many such students. Anecdotal evidence is better than no evidence.
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by caskance 11y ago
Harrison sued UCB for sexual discrimination 20 years ago and she's continued working there the whole time.
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by caskance 11y ago
Hald in particular is everything Coward wishes he could be. He does a great job of teaching undergrad calculus in a way that is engaging while still meeting expectations of other departments.
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by caskance 11y ago
Student ratings for undergrad math in particular are problematic because courses like 1* and 16* are mostly taken by students majoring in non-math subjects who are only taking the course because they are required to pass it.
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by caskance 11y ago
And that by itself is inconclusive, as all the lazy students looking for easy A's know to sign up for Coward's class.
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by caskance 11y ago
Perelman? He's brilliant, but certainly put off a lot of engineering and other students who were just there to fill recs and expected to be handheld through the course.
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by caskance 11y ago
Tax evasion is a crime. You're describing tax optimization.
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by caskance 11y ago
You're not "supposed" to do anything. If you want to raise tax, raise tax. Just keep in mind that this changes incentives for anyone who has to pay that tax. That's not a threat, it's a fact.
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by caskance 11y ago
The fact that companies are able to create loopholes via lobbying is the problem. When you accept corrupt government as an unchangeable fact of nature, you've already conceded defeat.
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by caskance 11y ago
The protection IS a state investment. It's just contributing the threat of resources rather than actual resources, which is even more efficient.
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by caskance 11y ago
A prime acquisition target, would you say?
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by caskance 11y ago
By that reasoning we can order soldiers to torture if we simply fragment the process enough. One to strap in the left wrist, one to strap in the right wrist, one to switch on the gas to the blowtorch, etc.
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by caskance 11y ago
You don't have to have a software engineering degree or an EIT/PE to be a "software engineer". I know plenty of people who have vaguely related degrees like mathematics or statistics that never had to take such courses.
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by caskance 11y ago
It's pretty close to the end. Fines will be levied against the Volkswagen company, not to him personally. His stock options will become worthless but he's still set for life. I think in this area, at least, China does it right. Sh
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by caskance 11y ago
Considering all we've learned in this saga about the industry in general and Volkswagen in particular, I would say it's more than likely that it had cheating software anyway.
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by caskance 11y ago
Macbooks don't have them, never have, and probably never will. The quality of the touchpad is not the issue. You are trying to sell a blind man a book by saying "no seriously, this one has REALLY BIG print" because you don&#x
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by caskance 11y ago
That's essentially just the divide between fee for service and capitation, both common models. HMOs work the way you describe. ACOs have been around not as long (at least, by that name) but became big with Obamacare and essentially do
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by caskance 11y ago
Yes, far worse. A laptop without a nub-style pointer is effectively keyboard-only. Worse than keyboard-only if there is no way to disable the touchpad. I know that elitebooks, latitudes, etc used to have these too. None of them do anymore.
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by caskance 11y ago
No, I don't think YOU understand how unusable some people find a touchpad compared to a pointing stick. Your examples are still better than a car that does not run or a gun that explodes in my hand as soon as I touch it. You even tried
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by caskance 11y ago
I know, and stand by what I said.
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by caskance 11y ago
I support the company that makes the closest thing to a product I want. Reimaging the computer is a lot easier than installing your own pointing stick.
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by caskance 11y ago
Not having a Thinkpad-style nub mouse is a fatal flaw.
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by caskance 11y ago
Straw man nothing. You yourself said that they don't even really believe that, they are just lashing out because of other problems in their life.
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by caskance 11y ago
You missed the point. In the original loan example, the lender may want to screw you, but they also know that the one that screws you least is the one you will do business with. And your good character, as determined by omnipresent surveill
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by caskance 11y ago
I'd rather just use SAML, OAuth, SQRL, etc.
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by caskance 11y ago
If your point is that people rarely evaluate the long term consequences of their life choices, you've failed to engender any sympathy from me.
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by caskance 11y ago
We have no assurances of anything in life.
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by caskance 11y ago
Or we accept that the net good that will happen is so great that it's okay even for my ideological enemies to have this power, just so long as SOMEONE does. Lots of people would admit this of space travel. Eugenics is closer to the bor
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by caskance 11y ago
Then we will either tolerate the associated defect or find a way to achieve the benefit without it.
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by caskance 11y ago
If you want to be pedantic, having sex with people you find attractive is already eugenics.

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