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by elgenie 9y ago
"Slaying" is mostly archaic outside of literary contexts at this point, but it does refer to both humans and animals. It's still used pretty often in North American crime journalism. Some AP stories from the past two weeks fo
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by elgenie 9y ago
There's a very big difference. Assassination = murder of a prominent person for political reasons, often carried out by a third party (an assassin). Slaying = a killing. That's it. Besides not having any political motive, a slayin
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by elgenie 9y ago
Did you look at the graph? "Annual revenue ($bn, real)"
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by elgenie 9y ago
That's the ideal. Except that in the status quo, only the good teachers need to get the kids that don't want to DO anything to DO anything, and the practical consequences for failing to motivate the slackers are nil. Otherwise, th
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by elgenie 9y ago
That 'managing psychopaths' portion of the teacher skill set sure seems similar to that required of babysitters.
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by elgenie 9y ago
The author is a woman; Masha is the Russian diminutive for Maria.
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by elgenie 9y ago
Prop 13 and the resulting lack of liquidity in the housing market applies everywhere in California. There are multiple causes in play in the Bay Area specifically, of which Prop 13 is merely one.
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by elgenie 9y ago
The application to naturalized citizens but not born Americans won't stand up to the barest Constitutional challenge. Specifically, the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment: """ All persons born or naturalized
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by elgenie 9y ago
Of course it's an enjoyable setting for you. Your team "won't disturb unless necessary", but you have no problem disturbing them whenever you want to have "a quick discussion".
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by elgenie 9y ago
That's nice and all, but how is it relevant to my paraphrasing of the grandparent comment to clarify the distinction from the parent's misreading? As the sibling comment points out, you managed to misidentify the trope to boot.
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by elgenie 9y ago
Much more likely is that they've grown to a headcount that would require making quarterly disclosures as a public company would and thus might as well IPO.
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by elgenie 9y ago
I personally think Go and Java were developed for the same audience with similar intentions and language designer skill and are going to face the same criticisms. For natural languages, the research seems to indicate that information is tra
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by elgenie 9y ago
That seems to be an intentional misreading. The criticism of Go being presented is that it's intentionally underpowered so as to make it possible for poor developers to verbosely muddle their way through to developing working real appl
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by elgenie 9y ago
The Double Irish + Dutch is merely the most extreme example of the transfer pricing morass (and will go away in a few years). There are a bunch of other funky methods described in the wikipedia article I posted on the topic; defining and pr
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by elgenie 9y ago
Taxing on revenue is simpler but utterly non-sensical. If selling a phone that cost $800 to make for $805 incurs an 80x tax liability compared to selling hammer that cost $5 to make for $10, then the modern economy of long supply chains and
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by elgenie 9y ago
Taxing multinational corps is pretty difficult. Let's say a parent company UsTech, which makes money from ads on a ubiquitous digital platform, has an Irish subsidiary UsTechDublin,LLC and a German subsidiary UsTechBerlin,GMBH. UsTechB
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by elgenie 9y ago
Literally the next sentence: """Similarly, the number of critical issues arising from mobile releases is almost constant regardless of the number of deployments, indicating that our code quality does not suffer as we continue
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by elgenie 9y ago
An undiversified portfolio maximizes possible upside … and possible downside. If you have a rational level of risk aversion, that should persuade you to strive for balance and a more certain return. The fact that in this case the portfolio
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by elgenie 9y ago
It totally can be that easy, though. Imagine the software in the car has the following pseudo-code… if (emissions_test_running()) { run_efficiently(); } else { business_as_usual(); } … which could get replaced
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by elgenie 9y ago
Well, yeah, an area that routinely gets hail and requires roof replacement more often would not have as long of a window for a solar roof to recoup the investment. And the parts of the US that one would expect to dominate HN are overwhelmin
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by elgenie 9y ago
"While males are 4 times more likely than females to die by suicide, females attempt suicide 3 times as often as males." So a suicide attempt by a man is 12x more likely to succeed than one by a woman.
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by elgenie 9y ago
Firing someone on the spot in a public setting is either a drastic overreaction (and why that's fireable is obvious), or a response to a complete blindsiding … at a level at which the job is to not get blindsided.
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by elgenie 9y ago
The ACLU claim to be non-partisan and crucially actually put their money where their mouth is. The ACLU has defended: • The KKK ( https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-em-defends-kkks-right-free-sp... ) • Neo-Nazis ( https:&#x2
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by elgenie 9y ago
A service with curbside pickup is not identical to one where the ingredients and instructions are waiting when one comes home. Consider, for instance, the logistics for someone who doesn't own a car.
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by elgenie 9y ago
> Since Kotlin runs on the same jvm, it is a subset of Java, and therefore impossible for Kotlin to create code (and achieve speeds) that Java couldn't match. This doesn't follow for several reasons. First, there are JVM byteco
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by elgenie 9y ago
Attention of people currently inside the community doing outreach and outside the community is finite. In analysis of their outreach efforts, I'd hope that they would know what the trade-offs are. I don't. Hence the question. For
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by elgenie 9y ago
> Increased diversity could lead to new project-wide perspectives and overall community enrichment, if solely due to life-experience-based heterogeneity. One might wonder what benefits alternate uses for scarce resources spent chasing
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by elgenie 9y ago
I don't see where the Perspectives contributor is using the UW researchers' motivations as the main thrust of his (not particularly great) arguments -- he seems to be interested in comparing study design at the very least. And eve
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by elgenie 9y ago
So, let me get this straight: founding a group 49 years ago means that "he's very clearly biased toward proving minimum wage increase's success". This seems like a lack of familiarity with the scientific method. First, t
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by elgenie 9y ago
"Eliminating the costly middleman" can be read more honestly as "Eliminating the costlier middleman that adds little value in favor of ourselves, a (theoretically) less costly middleman that adds more value".

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