dabraham1248

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by dabraham1248 4y ago
> Why not talk about actual Computer Science and what she did? She was a prime mover in doubling the number of people who were allowed into the field. Personally, I think that's bigger than the LSP.
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by dabraham1248 4y ago
We read different history books. In the 40s, the 6 people hired to program the ENIAC were all female. google "ENIAC girls". _Cosmopolitan_ ran articles about how programming was one of the few professional fields open to women.
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by dabraham1248 4y ago
No. There's one that made noise about it, but I personally know more than one other from working on their code. Not going to name anyone because I'm not sure they want their tech decisions publicized. Also some performance-sensi
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by dabraham1248 6y ago
It might be that people from disadvantaged communities _need_ to have more talent & insight to become experts than people like me (straight, white, male, speaks English, went to college, ...) and (I assume) you. And even more so to bec
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by dabraham1248 6y ago
My wife wouldn't entertain the idea. Then the pediatrician pointed out that children screaming in their cribs have a much better survival rate than kids whose parents fall asleep at the wheel because they haven't slept in a week.
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by dabraham1248 6y ago
I've known too many people who work at Google to agree with this. They've hired some people who were just plain incompetent, some who were great, but mostly in the middle, much like every other company. TBF, they do seem to have
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by dabraham1248 6y ago
Umm, you do realize that the top .001% of incomes going up will (with most distributions) raise the median income, even if the mode family income decreases?
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by dabraham1248 7y ago
There is no place on earth that has said "Not symptomatic? Wear a mask and carry on." and seen the curve flatten. As you say, a lot of asian countries _are_ enforcing mask usage. But none of them are just "carrying on"
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by dabraham1248 7y ago
1) That's per 250 kcal. A plate of pasta has significantly fewer calories than a plate of steak. Sauces on either can alter this, but they'll likely have their own indices to pay attention to. 2) The low ends are equal. The hig
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by dabraham1248 7y ago
Umm, are you trying to get someone to break Godwin's law? Because I think that might mean that you're the one breaking it...
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by dabraham1248 7y ago
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119 is 664 words, including links, author's contact info, headers/footers, etc. Also it's basically "what that word means in English". I don't think it take