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by elevenfist 11y ago
Thank you so much for posting this!
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by elevenfist 11y ago
Author (CEO of Drift) doesn't hire people with previous product manager experience to be product managers. He makes the usual arguments. PMs need to try new things and learn new skills, care about the product, the customers.
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by elevenfist 11y ago
This article talks about a research project studying the virality of propaganda in social media. The article paints a political picture, the only paper cited by the article (one of at least 30 published by the project) discovered that a vir
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by elevenfist 11y ago
The US will not seek the death penalty for Snowden. [1] So functionally what Sanders is describing is the same. [1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LzcZPxv...
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by elevenfist 11y ago
Identity theft/impersonation, the company, ceo
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by elevenfist 11y ago
A stopgap measure would be banning public advertisements for the entire industry and taxing tge industry to fund education and rehabilitation.
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by elevenfist 11y ago
> Aside: the original Creature House version of Expression is still available as a download from Microsoft ( http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=3124... ). The Mac version is PPC only, but the
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by elevenfist 11y ago
Then they should be taxed like businesses. Higher education has a responsibility that includes not catering to cheaters because they pay more. Universities can lower their costs, this is a cash/land grab where public resources are like
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by elevenfist 11y ago
The problem is neither of what you mentioned. My concern was universities catering to cheaters because they pay more to attend.
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by elevenfist 11y ago
More honest professors admit that it's universities that are really dropping the ball.
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by elevenfist 11y ago
Surprised about the down vote, Koch brothers fund voter suppression of minorities and democratic voters, could've sworn we've had articles about this on hn.
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by elevenfist 11y ago
As a counterpoint, many of the international students I encountered weren't particularly interested in interacting with students from other backgrounds, or even particularly curious about America. I do remember one student who may have
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by elevenfist 11y ago
The second part of my comment was in fact racist, and I apologize. Thinking back to the effect rampant cheating and stealing had on my university class, it could've been started by anyone. As others have pointed out, there are people f
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by elevenfist 11y ago
Careful there, the libertarian party's primary source of financial support is David Koch.
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by elevenfist 11y ago
Edit window has expired, so I will say this I do not, and never will, simply assume something about someone. My goal was to present a different perspective than the article which could be misinterpreted to view international chinese student
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by elevenfist 11y ago
I steered clear of the greek sustem, you may be right, although I thought my university started kicking out fraternities that wouldn't abide by the moral code.
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by elevenfist 11y ago
Well, perhaps I should make it clear that this was how the vast majority of international chinese undergraduate and graduate students I encountered behaved. I have a few friends who were kinder, but I'd argue it's a cultural diffe
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by elevenfist 11y ago
I'd be careful with buying "Japanese" stuff, many companies are aware of this consumer strategy and fabricate japanese name brand products elsewhere. Also, plenty made in the usa products are of high quality.
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by elevenfist 11y ago
Public universities (and private universities with some public missions like mit) are becoming more like private corporations, for the benefit of the administrators first. International students pay more. Edit: I am not generalizing to all
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by elevenfist 11y ago
Professors across the country (three West coast, two east coast, one sw) have told me that undergrad is going to shit actually, but grad school is still ok for now.
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by elevenfist 11y ago
Edit: It's important to note though that this might be just another attempt by psychologists to paint technical folk as lacking empathy. Usually people who make such claims lack empathy themselves. What @ilostmykeys is saying is proba
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by elevenfist 11y ago
How about a simple, preliminary measure for morality: How much suffering does someone inflict upon the rest of humanity?
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by elevenfist 11y ago
This isn't a secret, most people are aware of people whose "friends" are simply those who have skills or knowledge they want. In the context of what's important in life though, this drive for status and financial success
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by elevenfist 11y ago
Dude, this doesn't sound like fun at all. "Social power and influence" to what end? With whom are you getting this power and influence? Are these relationships even genuine? > "this attracts them to you, and having a
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by elevenfist 11y ago
As a native speaker he was speaking at a fairly normal pace, and his intonation was fine, just more subtle. Voices like his are not uncommon, especially in engineering. That being said, based on his accent it is possible that english is not
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by elevenfist 11y ago
> Maybe an inevitable fact of human behavior. In brief I disagree. More the product of determined coalitions and misinformation. Things we can change, regardless. > There is a tendency for capital to be more valuable than the results
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by elevenfist 11y ago
This reverse in inequality isn't some inevitable fact of economies, but a result of changing government policies, globalization, and the loss of power of labor, engineers, and professionals. Talking about means and normal distributions
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Bill Gates AMA on Reddit(reddit.com)
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by elevenfist 11y ago
One reason that also explains why there aren't many reviews of universities, relative to the number of people who attend: When your career depends in part upon the esteem of your degrees or certifications, speaking negatively about the
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by elevenfist 11y ago
That makes sense--the comment wasn't speculative, and we do not know for sure. Given the history though it might very well be true.

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