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Amazon doubles its cut of Turk piecework from 10% to 20%(mechanicalturk.typepad.com)
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by cplease 11y ago
They may or may not, depending on their domestic status with regards to the country of operation. Foreign corporations, for- or non-profit can operate in the USA. But they need to register in their state of operation in the U.S. as a foreig
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by cplease 11y ago
Your entire post is minimizing potential risks.
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by cplease 11y ago
Probably because neo is not in the source corpus.
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by cplease 11y ago
Actually, good technical writing is among the most reliably lucrative genre of writing. That might not be saying much, but how many people make money writing poetry or genre fiction?
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by cplease 11y ago
That's not how GPS works.
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by cplease 11y ago
That's not serialization.
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by cplease 11y ago
Multiple petitions with multiple legitimate sponsors is not actually disallowed. That being said, there are few situations where a legitimate sponsor would be on-board with an applicant simultaneously filing another petition. I'm not s
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by cplease 11y ago
I fail to see the problem here under this proposal. Small companies can buy the same talent at the same price, whether it's domestically or abroad. You seem to be arguing that small companies should have special dispensation versus lar
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by cplease 11y ago
Hey armchair lawyer, you're wrong. You can apply for adjustment of status immediately after exchanging vows. This gives you an independent legal immigration status while the application is adjudicated; "pending adjustment." U
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by cplease 12y ago
That number doesn't count migrant workers, which would grossly inflate the US average. Also, the US average is not typical.
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by cplease 12y ago
ok bro.
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by cplease 12y ago
Where did I hold it out as a model? I said we're not going to feed 7 billion people much less 10 billion with composting toilets and raised beds. The point is we have industrial agriculture, pesticides, herbicides, and massive amounts
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by cplease 12y ago
> How does "we don't need to use virgin wilderness" equate to "let's pave and plow every single inch of the planet"? Be specific. Virtual all arable land is already cultivated and grazable pasture is cowburn
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by cplease 12y ago
Having to support a panoply of marshaling standards would suck battery more, not less. I doubt XML vs. JSON vs. YAML per se makes any substantial difference in CPU usage. You might get a little mileage in going to a compact binary format an
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by cplease 12y ago
True enough, but rather than "doesn't support" end-to-end encryption, it doesn't standardize it. You can slap OTR on pretty much any messaging protocol. Client support is a problem though.
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by cplease 12y ago
> Good thing we're not seeing that, then. The world population growth rate has halved since its peak in the early 1960s, and the rate is continuing to decline. Good thing? World population was 3 billion in 1960, in the post-war baby
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by cplease 12y ago
The Rails community at least is infamous for drunken boorishness and generally being gratuitously offensive and unprofessional. Rails is the spiritual capital, if not the origin, of the worst of the brogrammer attitude.
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by cplease 12y ago
Feeding people is, sad to say, among the least of our problems. One that, incidentally, we are lousy at already with 7 billion people in the world and a big fraction hungry or food-insecure. It's not just a matter of waste or inefficie
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by cplease 12y ago
The point is it's not diminishing returns or "not helping", approaching some maximum efficiency, but rather it is negative returns. Even before you get to the point of squeezing out maximum yield, more farmers are going to ea
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by cplease 12y ago
First of all, I'll wager a supermajority of iPhone users do not understand any distinction between iMessage and SMS. Apple designs away the distinction. Secondly, when an ex-iPhone user ports away their number and is able to send SMS&#
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by cplease 12y ago
@briantakita If you read between the lines, what that says is all of our options are bad. Unchecked population growth will exceed the limits of any system. No amount of conservation and "permaculture" will reduce the footprint of
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by cplease 12y ago
Really? So, we go from, say, 450M agriculture waged workers today, to 2 billion. Or 3 billion. Or 5. Slaving away with hoes on their tiny biodynamic farmsteads . Problem solved, 10 billion fed (although living in abject circumstances, ignor
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by cplease 12y ago
> a certain (fairly low) point having more farmers would not help anything. Not help anything? Those farmers have to eat. After a certain low point you are in Nigeria.
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by cplease 12y ago
So what? Is biodynamic farming going to feed 10B people? The free-marketers and the greens are by and large ignoring the elephant in the room: unsustainable human population growth. Technology is reaching the limit as far as pie-slicing goe
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by cplease 12y ago
Right, and how far did you get with that? Nowhere. Your PAP won't even vote on it. Where's the SCLU on this fight? Oh right, there isn't one. There's M. Ravi fighting the good fight all by himself, in between stays in th
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by cplease 12y ago
I don't see how you can say Hong Kong is more democratic/free. It was a colony, now it's a SAR of PRC, which has been tightening its fingers. The people are certainly more free to protest (for the time being), but their polit
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by cplease 12y ago
Well, as a gay Singaporean, I assume you are familiar with section 377A of the penal code that makes having sex or trying to pick up a date punishable by two years in prison? And that your parliament is basically unanimously in favor of ret
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I have a big problem with this. The header says "The GNU C Library" and then in big letters "By: Elmer Landaverde". You did not write either glibc or the manual. The original authors did not credit themselves, yet you&#x
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Because it's the standard terminal browser, and it works well for reading the vast majority of web content that I care about in the terminal. No one is saying to design for Lynx; while in the minority, much more than the "incredib

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