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by crpatino 11y ago
> There has been only one brand that I can recall to have bought because of "hidden" advertising. If you recall it, then they did not do a very good job at hiding it, right?
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by crpatino 11y ago
You cannot combat climate change by producing electricity cheaper than coal. If that was the case, the market would find a way not to replace coal, but to consume the extra on top of coal.
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by crpatino 11y ago
> For much of human history, workers have been paid poorly, if at all. I think you are extrapolating the experience of the 19th century industrialization into the distant past. There have always been poor people, but I think "labour
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by crpatino 11y ago
You seem to forget which is the only country in the world who has (twice) deployed a nuclear weapon upon a city full of civilians.
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by crpatino 11y ago
They still need to be fed objectives/missions or something. Hopefully you are not suggesting to release robotic serial killers with no strategic purpose, are you?
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by crpatino 11y ago
Ok, thanks a lot. Like many things in life, it is not rocket science, but it requires other skills like courage and perseverance. :) I gave a visit to your ebook. Nice stuff. congrats!
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by crpatino 11y ago
Spending money on getting a healthy lifestyle has diminishing returns. Sure, if you are holding two part time jobs and barely holding yourself above poverty line, getting an extra $100 per month to put into fresh produce (or simply keep int
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by crpatino 11y ago
Would you care to share a bit more on how you pulled that off? I am not asking in bad faith but everything I know says that you should have become unemployable after the first 7-10 years of doing that. Even assuming you quit (and convenient
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by crpatino 11y ago
Just marginally. AFAIK, the bacteria used in this experiment is not related to measles. However, there is the fact that the US government (all governments really) have repeatedly been found to inflict these kinds of nefarious deeds on their
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by crpatino 11y ago
Sorry, I fail to see the point in your second paragraph. Of course in the business logic level you need to allocate variables that can hold every possible value in the valid range, but as long as this is the case, why does it matter that yo
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by crpatino 11y ago
Sounds like you are mixing up you data's in-memory representation with their storage/transmission representation. This is risky business. If you have no requirement that says otherwise, you should have an explicit marshalling and
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by crpatino 11y ago
I don't think that means what you think it means. The claim that says people get measurable benefits from "cures" and "solutions" that have no physical effect are scientist, medical researchers actually. That claim
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by crpatino 11y ago
> Do you have any evidence to support the benefits of a placebo effect in relation to religion and/or prayer? So, you are implying that there is a switch that will magically turn off beneficial parts of human biology (such as some w
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by crpatino 11y ago
There are 7+ billions of "evidences" sitting around. Look at the people alive today, chances are that either their ancestors did something like this, may be as little as 1 or 2 generations ago. Over the last 10 thousand years (or
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by crpatino 11y ago
I see, sorry... sarcasm does not carry well in text. Sorry to hear you went through this on a regular basis. I know what you mean by the fleeting trepidation thing. Won't go into details, but I had a quite unnerving experience some wee
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by crpatino 11y ago
Would you care to elaborate? I don't see why you would want to inflict unjustified fear spikes on half of the population. Unless, you know, you are a class-A jerk and happen to belong to the other half of the population.
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by crpatino 11y ago
Somehow I read the title as "The single most useless Web site on the Internet: washingtonpost.com". LOL
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by crpatino 11y ago
You are not worth more because you know more technologies, though it is an unfair fact on this industry that there will be one or two over-hyped stacks at any time. But back to the point, you are worth more because you have been exposed to
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by crpatino 11y ago
> Don't hate the mercenary, hate the employer who won't pay you what you are worth! I think you fail to see a fact, the same fact that was overlooked by all your former bosses actually. Your 6-years-ago self was probably not wo
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by crpatino 11y ago
I think the author is perfectly entitled to use "we" for the phenomena he is both experimenting first hand and observing around his environment. I can say his experience seems uncomfortably familiar to me, and have talked with mor
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by crpatino 11y ago
The advantage of the 10x-er is that he will be reporting directly to a Jr. Executive and therefore cutting ahead of the middle management echo-chamber. If you genuinely can write code 10x as fast as the average developer, and get feed requi
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by crpatino 11y ago
Because if you don't let them come in and compete fairly, your employer is going to bring them anyways, at half of your salary, and let you go with a kick in the ass. Those are not your jobs, those are jobs for the take. If you
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by crpatino 11y ago
That is a very narrow mindset. For starters, there are important falsifiable questions that theoretically could be answered, but which would require resources (including time) orders of magnitude beyond any single human organization has had
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by crpatino 11y ago
> Why should I care about the beliefs of the spiritual leader of a religion I don't subscribe to? That is the whole point. If you do not share his spiritual beliefs, then you should not care any more or less than any other public pe
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by crpatino 11y ago
As others have mentioned before it depends on the context. From the perspective of HR departments, "Senior" means "Has worked in this field for at least N years, and therefore can command a salary between $X and $(X+Y)".
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by crpatino 11y ago
It is permutations if the order of events is relevant to the outcome. Theoretically, every single step you take may look "correct", but still end up badly if performed in disorder.
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by crpatino 11y ago
Without commenting on the goodness/badness of deriving happiness out of a sport car... If you can buy the thing in cash, out of pocket, without depleting more than half of your liquid savings... sure, why not. If on the other hand you
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by crpatino 11y ago
At risk of going extremely off-topic, let me ask. Are you saying that because there are idiots who drink and drive, all cars should be banned. But if there end up being criminals with cars that get away from the police on bikes... then it i
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by crpatino 11y ago
It was not my intention to fear monger. I was speaking by analogy, not sure if it was not clear or if you disagree with my argument. What I am saying is this: in a world where weapons of mass destruction becomes more available, privacy&#x2F
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by crpatino 11y ago
Yes, because giving up privacy and anonymity will only marginally slow down (if at all) the would be evildoers, at least those smart enough to not brag about their evil doings in Facebook. In my home country, we have one of the more strict

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