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by delazeur 9y ago
With apologies for the extremely unscientific anecdata, I've seen too many examples of individuals who profess to support the ACA while opposing Obamacare to believe that there isn't something here.
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by delazeur 9y ago
> But what adults used Facebook for 10 years ago, adults still use Facebook for today. I am a twenty-something without a Facebook account (used to have one, though). IMO, there isn't much I would want to do with Facebook that I can
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by delazeur 10y ago
That's all true, but we're talking specifically about the extermination of Jews. Is there evidence that the Nazis planned T4 as a trial run of Jewish extermination, and if so would NYT have known about those intentions in 1939?
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by delazeur 10y ago
I am also too cheap to buy the article, but I think it is noteworthy that the full title is "NAZIS HINT 'PURGE' OF JEWS IN POLAND; 'Special Report' From Invaded Region Discusses Possible Solution of Problem GROUP EU
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by delazeur 10y ago
I believe the above commenter was being hyperbolic, but plenty of government money has supported private industry. That's not just defense contractors, either. Where would Silicon Valley be without ARPANET?
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by delazeur 10y ago
When I click on the source link I get redirected to http://www.cnet.com/topics/tech-industry/ , which tells me nothing. It doesn't strike me as very plausible that NYT would be reporting on the extermination o
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by delazeur 10y ago
"Best" practices may be a misnomer, but I don't believe it's possible to execute large projects without some kind of standardization. It is inevitable that in some cases that standardization will hinder the optimal stra
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by delazeur 10y ago
Yeah, I was definitely being unfair. I was irritated with my HR people when I wrote that comment.
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by delazeur 10y ago
Is it possible to build a megacorporation without falling into this management pattern? It clearly hurts top performers, but if you have more than a couple hundred employees it seems inevitable that a significant percentage of the staff is
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by delazeur 10y ago
At this point, I'm convinced that people go into HR because they aren't competent enough to do anything useful with their careers. My firm's HR people have wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars of our time holding mandator
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by delazeur 10y ago
That's wonderful! I work under several layers of managers who are each more interested in doing hands-on work than management work, and it is truly awful. I have literally gone almost two years without substantive, actionable feedbac
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by delazeur 10y ago
Nature and Science appear to accept a lot a "controversial" articles that don't really live up to their reputation for rigor.
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by delazeur 10y ago
> I am 100% convinced that if Magnus could be properly motivated (think big $$$ and somehow convincing him that scoring a decent proportion of draws as White would be a "win") he could deliver for humanity :-) Interesting theor
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by delazeur 10y ago
> I would love to believe this is true, unfortunately I do not think it is. This is the blog post that introduced me to the idea that human + computer might be better a computer alone: https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2015&
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by delazeur 10y ago
> Doctors disagreed with each other frequently. Most senior won. I'm told this is a huge problem in medicine. They might be even more hierarchical than the military.
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by delazeur 10y ago
I'm pretty sure Cargill has filed similar suits, but I'm not sure about ADM.
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by delazeur 10y ago
It was not an attack. Being addressed by name is a natural consequence of telling people your name.
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by delazeur 10y ago
We have both clearly broken the civility rule and I apologize for my part in it, but if someone chooses to identify themselves I don't see how it's uncivil to address them by name. Indeed, I see it done fairly regularly here on HN
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by delazeur 10y ago
Why does your "philosophy" have to presume that such hypothetical uncomfortable discoveries are actual fact? Why can't you accept that we don't understand genetics nearly that well and that human rights aren't bas
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by delazeur 10y ago
Quiet you, we're supposed to be subtler than that!
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by delazeur 10y ago
> It's only surprising to you because you're ascribing to me views I don't hold. Fine, you're just a terrible communicator then. > Second, though my details are in my profile, your use of my name is clearly mean
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by delazeur 10y ago
You're right [1]. Interesting, I've always seen et alia before, but it looks like et alii is more often correct. [1] http://latin-dictionary.net/search/latin/alia
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by delazeur 10y ago
The Latin word is actually alia . It could be a pun from Wolfe, but it could also be a typo.
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by delazeur 10y ago
> You're plainly layering a bunch of your own stuff on top of my argument. There is baggage associated with your argument, and it didn't originate from me. You can't deny that. What you can do is acknowledge the baggag
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by delazeur 10y ago
> The scientists doesn't enjoy as much academia freedom as in USA, but it is not as restrictive as the news media said. There are problems with scientific freedom in the U.S. related to funding and job retention. Even if the situ
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by delazeur 10y ago
There's really nothing like a determined and intelligent debate opponent for honing your arguments, and Einstein was immensely valuable in that regard. Similarly, when Scalia died Ginsburg said she would miss his rebuttals to her opini
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by delazeur 10y ago
Look, if you're going to go around blowing white supremacist dog whistles then you don't get to act surprised when people call you a white supremacist. Is it possible that you're not really a white supremacist, and that you&#
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by delazeur 10y ago
False dichotomy. People who currently assume that there is no correlation between skin pigmentation and intelligence are unlikely to stop believing in equal human rights if genetic studies were to prove them wrong. On the other hand, peopl
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by delazeur 10y ago
I think "occupancy" is pretty much a solved problem for purposes of taxation. In the U.S., for example, there are settled rules about which state gets your income taxes if you live or work in multiple states. A simple solution to
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by delazeur 10y ago
Sure, he produced work that was foundational to QM. I still think it's fair to say that he was hostile to the consequences of that work.

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