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by crpatino 11y ago
People that reason like you are in the exception, even if they come to the same conclusion, they will do so for different reasons. There is a market for SUVs, and they are sensitive to oil prices. Specially because when oil prices go up, ot
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by crpatino 11y ago
No, it gets destroyed. Assests are not abstract. They are deployed to one particular site, and a big part of the cost goes to install them in that site. That's why all producers are basically operating at a cost right now. You may reop
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by crpatino 11y ago
The problem with that reasoning is that there's no fundamental law of nature that dictactes what "normal" means; instead there is a complex network of interrelated forces that is itself kind of resilient but whose individual
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The problem with that approach is that while Mike Tyson keeps flexing his muscles and banging heads around the neighbourhood, some scrawny nerdy type is quietly toying in his basement with ultralight drones and shrapnel grenades. I think if
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by crpatino 11y ago
I guess you're right, I overdid the hyperbole. The part I disagree with is looking at a disfunctional system, taking the component producing the loudest symptoms and declaring it "non value added". I agree that, in general, Q
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by crpatino 11y ago
Bullshit... If the Emperor has no clothes, and QA keep saying "naked", there is value there. The value lies in highlighting the fact that there's a bunch of advisors that either have been actively profiteering from the fake g
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by crpatino 11y ago
So, now you want to write open source code, launch projects, co-author papers,... not on my watch, kiddo. Now go put your nose down on those damned spreadsheets. Copy from column A to column Q - no, no macros, thankyouverymuch - but convert
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by crpatino 11y ago
What happens when you find out that what most people think they "like" is to hang up with friends, drink beer, play games and have as much sex as you possibly can? What happens when said group of people finds out there's such
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by crpatino 11y ago
What I am hearing is that, as long as you do "something with computers" and it does not cost any extra money, you'd be happy to exchange 4 years of your time for a Bs in CS? What about getting - gasps, the horror - and actual
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by crpatino 11y ago
Yes, part of it should be that the student gets academic credits that count towards graduation. Even establishing minimum and maximum quotas of which credits come from apprenticeships is healthy with moderation. But a bigger part of it is t
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by crpatino 11y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. In principle, I applaud the initiative to put the sacred theories given from above to the test. We need more of this and much earlier. Every CS 101 course should be presenting something similar. On the othe
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by crpatino 11y ago
> We have the internet now... I prefer to pull what I want to know when I need to know it. This meme needs to be put to rest; preferably with a stake thru the hearth, the head chopped off and the mouth full of garlic. Information is just
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by crpatino 11y ago
Historically speaking, there's no such thing as Hacker News. One could draw parallels and say that programmers are managers that control not fellow human workers but machines. But we would be splitting hairs. The point of the argument
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by crpatino 11y ago
Historically speaking, the so called "middle class" does not imply the median of population, but the people in the range from 80% to 96% of wealth/income. Paraphrasing a comment I read earlier today: "[Middle class] is s
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by crpatino 11y ago
I am almost afraid to ask, but what do you mean by "more efficiently" and "with a positive attitude"? I confess what I imagine out of those frases is roughly: "for less money/with no strings attached" and
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by crpatino 11y ago
> I believe we need to get the strong science into sports medicine. Professional sports already bring on board the best (applied) science that money can buy. The approach is practical because there are billions of dollars on the line. If
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by crpatino 11y ago
No one, that's the beauty of it. Commoners trained themselves, in times of war, sample bias of the soldiers returning home loaded with treasure was incentive enough to put a generation of kids to practices for hours. In times of peace,
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by crpatino 11y ago
And if more than half of households are one unexpected expense away from bankrupcy, what does that mean?
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by crpatino 11y ago
Right, I forgot most European cuisines do make use of the whole animal. I stand corrected. I kind of dislike blood (you have to eat it quickly, or the flavor deteriorates in your very plate before you notice), but otherwise everything that
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by crpatino 11y ago
Median income does not mean what you think it means. There are basically 4 socioeconomic classes in modern society: the disposessed, the working poor, the middle class and the wealthy class. You can split hairs and make different cuts, but
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by crpatino 11y ago
And to whom do you think the Chinese and Indians are selling all the products of their export oriented industries? Or for the matter, where do you think all the American safe, high-paying, manufacturing jobs went? Outsourcing to a hitman do
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by crpatino 11y ago
Nonetheless, Neanderthal were smart/skillful enough to survive in Europe during the Ice Ages. That's not the mild climate of today, but a harsh place that will kill you in hours unless you go in with some serious know-how and pr
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by crpatino 11y ago
In an quasi-ideal world[1]: 1. Framing a suspect should be a career terminating offense, for both the law enforcement side and the prosecution side. This is not limited to the actual perpetrators, but also to the people higher up in the cha
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by crpatino 11y ago
As long as you are talking about mathematical aliens, as in mathematical objects that are so different from every other know mathematical object currently recognized in the corpus of Math. If you further claim that this objects are, like,
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by crpatino 11y ago
Disagreed. Procrastination is letting for tomorrow what you know you should be doing today. Technical debt is what happens when you try to do today what is due for tomorrow but you know deep down it cannot be done properly in less than 3 da
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by crpatino 11y ago
> I think student, ... happiness should be one of the key metrics I have seen it first hand. Students are always happiest when a charming instructor provides bland infotainment that allows them to sustain a pretense of high achievement w
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by crpatino 11y ago
That would be very valid if you believe the local police department would respond more promptly to a report by an average job, than a case that involves someone the city major goes to golf with every Tuesday. But still, I consider your comm
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by crpatino 11y ago
> Also, why would this person be any more of a target than the publicly known shareholders of public companies that have more than a billion? Because rich people have (sometimes multi-generational) experience at being rich. They have mul
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by crpatino 11y ago
The really scare thought is that so called "beta testing" may happen in fairly unambiguous contexts, and the real problems will be discovered after wide scale deployment. As painful as it might be, it's straighforward to turn
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by crpatino 11y ago
Sure, if she was over 25 and fully aware that it is "no strings attached".

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