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by clavalle 11y ago
I've thought about this, too but I can't figure out how you'd prevent those tokens from being bartered for more traditional currency outside of the necessary conversion by landlords and grocers and other providers. With ubiqu
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by clavalle 11y ago
> “People say they are not going to try as hard to find a job,” Or they will bargain for a job that is worth their time so they won't accept a job that won't improve their lives. That is a subtle but important difference from
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by clavalle 11y ago
Non-existent because they do not provide a public accommodation and are exempt from legal entanglements based on discrimination. IOW, even though they provide a service, it is not the same class of service, legally, as a cake maker or any o
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by clavalle 11y ago
Well, the SCOTUS just decided that same sex unions are, in fact, weddings and sex is an existing protected class based on actual legislation and precedent. That means the baker would be discriminating illegally as a public accommodation on
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by clavalle 11y ago
Is there any example of a religious marriage service being funded by the government? It seems like an unlikely, and possibly illegal, situation.
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by clavalle 11y ago
Oh, I see. You are conflating a 'religious service provider' with, say, a business who bakes cakes. Religious institutions are not considered public accommodations so they are not required to offer their services without discrimi
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by clavalle 11y ago
Luckily their participation is not necessary.
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by clavalle 11y ago
Maybe it was the monk aspect but it felt very much like Eco's In the Name of the Rose -- another book that everyone seems to love but that just didn't reach me for some reason.
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by clavalle 11y ago
I really hope Seveneves is the first of a series. It left a few seemingly important dangling questions and teasers. Also, I wonder if he's angling for an RPG spinoff. Not to give too much of the last third up but the character type
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by clavalle 11y ago
Anathem is seen as his seminal work? Huh. It is, by far, my least favorite of his books. The Baroque Cycle is fantastic and I just finished Seveneves which is really good as well.
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by clavalle 11y ago
This is all solid advice. Is there a 'Genius' (nee 'Rap.Genius') type resource that annotates well known open source code?
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by clavalle 11y ago
Yes, well, if your name is Don Knuth, you know you can ignore the opinions and advice of mere mortals.
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by clavalle 11y ago
The word you're looking for is 'resourceful' and, yes, the top developers are resourceful. No one knows everything. Not even close. If that is what you are looking for, some Godlike mastery of the esoteric, you are in the w
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by clavalle 11y ago
> 1. Get rid of the minimum wage. It makes as much sense as rent control... none. This would only work if we got rid of welfare. Otherwise we are just going to create more government subsidized jobs. > 4. Set the levels of 2 high eno
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by clavalle 11y ago
>How would you get a candidate to agree to an anonymous interview though? Don't tell them it will be anonymous :) Just kidding. Sell it as a new format that is more likely to get at real answers and pick some candidates that aren&#
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by clavalle 11y ago
You might get people who intimately know an issue from reddit, but they won't know the politics or political players as well. Also, if you do get someone that intimately knows an issue from reddit it is likely from a very personal poin
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by clavalle 11y ago
It just takes one user to ask a good question. Besides, Reddit is just one echo chamber of many. And there are plenty of smaller echo chambers within reddit which boasts some pretty large conservative communities of different stripes -- es
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by clavalle 11y ago
Here's the thing about traditional journalists and their organizations: they have to maintain a relationship with these people. If they ask hard questions that might make the candidates look bad they don't get invited back or pay
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by clavalle 11y ago
Don't forget to build a culture of expectations that one can last 50 years in. Constant crisis mode is a sure way to lose good people.
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by clavalle 11y ago
The fickle are not a protected class in the US, so yes, it is legal.
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by clavalle 11y ago
This attitude is incredibly short sighted. No one is suggesting that you just miss deadlines. The suggestion is that you get better at setting deadlines. You may be living and breathing your exciting project but, really, how many lives wer
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by clavalle 11y ago
While the frontpage and default subs are drastically down in quality the smaller more specialized subs are still valuable to me. /r/writing /r/math /r/boardgames /r/Debate<topic> and programming
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by clavalle 11y ago
Actually the screen readers are pretty decent these days. If web creators follow good form and images are annotated blind people can do ok. Javascript heavy sites can be a killer but screen readers do a fairly good job at reacting to thos
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by clavalle 11y ago
Right. I was struggling with the right phrasing. Basically the difference between a general contractor and an architect.
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by clavalle 11y ago
If only this were true. For chemical engineering I (barely) remember taking Latin. And this at a school that prides itself on engineering focus and keeping things tight. Hell, my wife had to retake an art and history class to get into a nu
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by clavalle 11y ago
I would guess that even Software Engineering students would have to go through Calculus (just because it is a good weed out if for nothing else) and other math heavy, theoretical practice -- just like other Engineers. What they want is almo
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by clavalle 11y ago
I've argued for none of the nasty things you think. I am not arguing for a caste system or eugenics. I believe in meritocracy. I believe, though, that people are shaped by their genes to some extent. It is not the whole of the perso
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by clavalle 11y ago
You might not remember your great-grandparents but your DNA does. Your family culture does. Much of what makes you, you is built from their legacy. If you are out there learning and applying skills that are making the world better, you c
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by clavalle 11y ago
My uncle did that. Spent his life on eliminating malaria. Good work. Now he's dead and there are no kids in his line that might carry his intellectual legacy or create their own. Human life is short term. Good genes and culture are
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by clavalle 11y ago
Mars will be there in 20 years. Your kids' childhood won't.

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