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by dhume 15y ago
when you know absolutely nothing on a subject how do you even know if you're teacher is bad? Not that this is a complete solution, but I would expect a company getting into social media to have some goals it would like to accomplish in do
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by dhume 15y ago
+ You should never end a sentence with a preposition. (Sheer bullshit: English uses countless phrasal verbs ('throw away') and in many other cases avoiding the final preposition produces stuffy nonsense.) This is an ineffective counterexa
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by dhume 15y ago
I have no idea how the Facebook PR team thought that they’d avoid being caught doing this. Perhaps Facebook's managers think themselves exempt from the changing privacy norms they keep telling us to accept?
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by dhume 15y ago
There would be many fewer cars around today, and our economy would be much slower were it not for advertising. Or we wouldn't have built sprawling suburbs that make cars necessary.
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by dhume 15y ago
but it doesn't sound kooky to me The idea that expecting a product you buy to have the features it was described by the seller as having is a "sense of entitlement" seems pretty kooky to me. We can't have a functioning market like that.
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by dhume 15y ago
Carrots also have intrinsic value because they are directly useful: should I get hungry, I can eat them.
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by dhume 15y ago
I'm aware of its use as a courtesy to the readers. I was amused to see it on something that got posted here multiple times and hoped to let everyone else in on the joke.
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by dhume 15y ago
Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. Like the other one still on the front page? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2453832
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by dhume 16y ago
Because I don't want my children to grow up in a world where someone would walk by them getting raped and ignore it. I would rather they grow up in a world where their father died to help someone. Keep in mind when making this decision th
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by dhume 16y ago
I wonder how much of this it would take to get him to seek asylum in another country?
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by dhume 16y ago
You don't even accept the interview if there's no chance you'd work there. You don't know that there's no chance of working there until you know what your other options are. If you're still interviewing (i.e. you don't have offers/rejecti
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by dhume 16y ago
Consider if a Windows user said he didn't want to work at a Unix shop because Windows is a better-designed operating system. Would you not consider this a judgement of Unix? Judgment of a platform and judgment of its users are separate is
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by dhume 16y ago
I found it surprising that it took as much as an interview for him to learn that "company X" uses Windows. I didn't catch anything in the post saying he didn't find that out until the interview.
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by dhume 16y ago
you can pay your hardware investments back maybe in 2-6 months Can you clarify the logistics of this? Do I borrow BTC, find a hardware vendor that accepts it as payment, then repay with what I've mined? Or do I find a lender that will giv
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by dhume 16y ago
Health insurance makes a sudden medical emergency not quite so scary. Until the insurer refuses to pay, and the "insured" lacks the resources to pursue a lawsuit. Maybe I'm the only one who's ever had that happen, but I rather doubt it. R
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by dhume 16y ago
I don't think anyone is claiming that there aren't freely available resources for learning the basics of other fields, so this isn't much of a counterexample.
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by dhume 16y ago
Rather reminds me of The Pirate Bay's legal threat response archive.
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by dhume 16y ago
At least (AFAICT) it's just for people who signed up. Probably saves a few "suspicious package" reports.
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by dhume 16y ago
Asking the general public to evaluate the contributions, impact, applicability, etc. of a research project is a pretty good way to get a lot of useful projects shot down. There's a reason we use people who know enough about the fields in qu
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by dhume 16y ago
At this point, it's probably worth pointing out that a lot of the value of the NSF derives from its political independence.
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by dhume 16y ago
Unless fuel or other concerns limit their operating range and you want to deploy them someplace overseas. Kind of like why we used them for aircraft, which can also be launched from a field.
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by dhume 16y ago
Programming work is so readily available it’s ridiculous. A quick search on monster.com or dice.com will show that there’s a constant need for decent programmers. I say decent because you don’t even have to be a top shelf developer to enjo
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by dhume 16y ago
I completely agree with this, but I think this is something the educational system should be able to impart. By the time the schools get access to a kid, he's already had years to learn from his parents to value or to not value learning.
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by dhume 16y ago
but half of all students "study" like this all the way throughout high school and college If the students decided to study like this, they weren't cheated by the school, just by themselves.
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by dhume 16y ago
I think GP was referring to the undergrad program. For what it's worth, I haven't met many students who knew much about their degree program's curricula or their general education requirements. Not knowing this makes them seem ineffective a
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by dhume 16y ago
If I tell someone, "bring me a sandwich or a bowl of chili," and the person brings me a bowl of chili, that person has done exactly what I told them to do.
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by dhume 16y ago
The programmer is still allowed to specify operations to perform as well as restrictions on the order in which the operations are performed. Not fully specifying what to do just gives the computer more options to pick from -- it will still
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by dhume 16y ago
I read up to the point where they cited GoodHealthInfo.net (this site is full new-agey pseudoscience). Is it worth reading the rest of it?
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by dhume 16y ago
I was a bit dissappointed to not see any discussion of the confidence interval on a predicted checkout time. I see so much variation in how long people take to figure out which pocket contains their wallets, how they're paying, etc. that I
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by dhume 16y ago
Depends where you go, I guess. My university was willing to acknowledge advanced coursework I'd done in high school, so I didn't waste the entire year repeating material I'd already covered (calculus, introductory programming, etc.).

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