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by donw 7y ago
Very true. Mine was a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation based on a highly charitable scenario.
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by donw 7y ago
> Your logic is off. In the absence of data there is more fear because you have no idea who might possibly be sick. There is a massive gap between "test everybody!" and "test nobody!" We have a finite capacity to test
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by donw 7y ago
There is a gross difference between "quarantine" and "limit your physical contact, especially with the young and old, while we sort this out".
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by donw 7y ago
> The solution is aggressive, continuous testing so that people can feel safe going back out. I disagree, and strongly. This would be a knee-jerk, hyberbolic, and woefully ineffective over-response. Typical for the times. The only thing
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by donw 7y ago
So is this a not-broken keyboard design? I have the (now) previous-generation Air, and need a keyboard repair. Would be seriously tempted to just buy a new one if I was confident the keyboard wasn't absolute garbage. Typing on it was f
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by donw 7y ago
A large part of the problem is the sheer amount of spin present in every form of news media. Is there a genuine level of threat beyond a particularly bad influenza season -- which is no joke! -- or is the quoted 3.4 percent mortality rate a
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by donw 7y ago
Except for the fact that doesn’t actually happen when you look at real-world data.
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by donw 7y ago
> And yes, there are external tools for code review. But that all should be a part of version control. There are many different code-review workflows, and for teams that do full-time pair-programming, code review happens in real-time as
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by donw 7y ago
Well, first we should establish what we mean by "quality code". From my standpoint, both as an engineer and as a manager, quality means that the code: (1) Does what it is supposed to do and nothing more; (2) Is easy to read; (3) I
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by donw 7y ago
Both of my parents were educators, so this question is right up my alley. I will attempt to provide suggestions that are topical to "Information and Communications Technology". You haven't specified the length of the curricul
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by donw 7y ago
Agreed that more data is required to draw any sort of conclusion from this. That said, my understanding of behavioral therapy is that you reward desired behaviors and ignore unwanted behaviors. Punishment is also on the table for flagrant v
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by donw 7y ago
But can't those plants just pull from the (now cheaper) power on the grid?
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by donw 7y ago
I'm going to hazard a guess. If we assume the numbers for a sort of medium-size nuclear plant, we've got a total power generation of 500MW. Dumping that kind of power is... hard. If I haven't missed an order of magnitude, tha
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by donw 7y ago
I think it's a pretty far stretch to say that the power of the Federal government has been "significantly reduced" in the past hundred years or so. Happy to hear a good counter-argument, though...?
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by donw 7y ago
> It doesn't apply for many cultures. I'm struggling to come up with a list of those. Middle names are definitely not universal, sure, but I can't seem to find a list of cultures that can't map down to "first nam
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by donw 7y ago
Good on you for coming here to clarify! :)
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by donw 7y ago
> Can the punishment also be scaled to the harm, or potential harm, caused by the fraud? In a case like this, that would be nothing. The harm is indeed relevant! "Crimes" without a victim, or where the victim and the perpetrato
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by donw 7y ago
I don't think it is entirely unfair that restaurants be required to prove origin when challenged, especially for commonly counterfeited ingredients. Let's say that I go to a restaurant that claims they only use true cinnamon and K
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by donw 7y ago
That may not be the best analogy. If shark fin is illegal, then being able to order it in Mandarin isn't a "loophole" -- it doesn't magically become legal on a technicality. It's just a means of avoiding enforcement
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by donw 7y ago
This is one of the reasons I recommend that when reviewing any body of work -- code reviews, reviewing a resume, etc. -- you make it a point to highlight the bad and the good. Constructive criticism may help us improve, but compliments he
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by donw 7y ago
They were destroyed for publishing revenge porn[1]. Whoever at that organization gave the greenlight on publishing and publicizing sexually explicit videos without the express consent of the people appearing in them are lucky to not be in p
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by donw 7y ago
But it's so... smooth ! (Yeah, I know, Reddit-style jokery, bring on the downvotes...)
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by donw 7y ago
> If such deeply-held values can flip within 40 years... I'm afraid you've lost me...? > ...what does it mean to say one set is "Eastern" and one is "Western"? I suspect that's more of a historical c
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by donw 7y ago
Ah, I suspect we're in violent agreement with each other. The Enlightenment certainly originated in the West (Western Europe), and while there are certain cultural aspects that are more compatible with Enlightenment ideals -- primus in
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by donw 7y ago
Pretty much every major social change has been violently opposed by pre-existing power structures, so I'm not sure that's a meaningful distinction. Is there another region outside of Europe that independently came up with a simila
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by donw 7y ago
Not intending to speak for others, but I believe that the original poster intended "ideals as practiced by the CCP" (e.g., Cultural Revolution, Red Guards, etc), and it sounds to me like you are espousing the Chinese culture of th
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by donw 7y ago
In Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, your position in society is reflected in part by the uniqueness of the goods you own. Poor people have lots of flashy, brand-name merchandise. Wealthy people, on the other hand, own things that are hand-cr
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by donw 7y ago
If that's true, this is the real problem. Is there legal precedent for this? I can't imagine that there were cases in the pre-GMO world where seed suppliers claimed that they owned all of the seeds grown by a farmer, but I could b
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by donw 7y ago
I strongly disagree. Economic transactions are rarely zero-sum. If I spend $100, I expect to get something back for that. If I spend it on a charity, then I'm supporting something I value -- helping homeless veterans, supporting nation
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by donw 7y ago
A thousand times, this. In my experience, this stems from the shocking number of "Agile Coaches" lacking practical experience in any of the three main disciplines within a functioning product team (software engineering, product ma

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