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by elgenie 10y ago
It's not salary parity per se, but rather that in the comparison the doctors are paying both the actual cost of medical school (and the servicing of the resulting debt) and the opportunity cost of spending seven-to-ten years in school&
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Writing Code: if (migration_complete) { write_new_data_model(); } else if (migration_in_progress) { write_old_data_model(); write_new_data_model(); } else { write_old_data_model(); } Reading Code:
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His point is that if the voters don't have any knowledge about how government works, they can't evaluate (or check) politicians' explanations for the reasons that they did or did not get what they wanted. And the effect of th
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You're saying that they succeeded at creating a good database. The author seems to agree. The author is saying that they failed at creating a viable business. The postmortem is about why the former didn't lead to the latter.
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There are significant economies of scale for infrastructure that happen with density. The amount of road surface a tall, mixed-use building requires per occupant is dramatically less than what a detached single family home does, but the lat
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Sprawl is pretty easy to avoid when car ownership rates are as low as they were in the Soviet Union.
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by elgenie 10y ago
Can #2 really stand up to scrutiny? My understanding is that decisions and statutes are not copyrightable in the US as they are "edicts of government", and thus owning rights to them aught to be impossible.
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by elgenie 10y ago
Congratulations, you have successfully answered a rhetorical question in the way that its author intended, thereby making the intended point. Well done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question
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The English word for the Russian "шантаж" (shantazh; loan-word from the French chantage) is "blackmail".
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The MLB system isn't similar at all. Home field advantage in baseball is small and no certain road to victory and there's no specific series/game situation in which it would come into play in determining the result. To wit, t
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A public company is obligated to report quarterly, in a prescribed format, a bunch of high-level information material to the business by Regulation S-K and Regulation S-X. A public company is not obligated to rush out details like "We’
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by elgenie 10y ago
If you need help parsing, it's "actually (roughly 35% greater)".
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> They counted a 3 sec play as a video view and that's a big thing. 3+ seconds representing a single FB view has been the definition of a video view on FB since the metric became public.
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The NY Post are the ones that didn't do their homework. Their source for this article is FB trying for transparency. If you have proof of inflating metrics and numbers, especially deliberately, you're welcome to post some. Posting
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FB audited a bunch of metrics and found issues with 4 out of 220. The narrative being pushed here is that all of them nefariously favored FB. The only problem with that is that it's not true. > """Elsewhere, Facebook
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by elgenie 10y ago
The reason this comment is getting downvoted is not because it's (necessarily) incorrect, but because saying only "You just don't get it" in fancier words contributes neither to understanding nor to the discussion.
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The results on this are quite wishy-washy. And the applicability of studies of the value of diversity in an executive team attempting to strategically position themselves in a market to a team building a compiler is questionable to say the
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HHVM implements a good async I/O system [0] and has the ability to run HTTP. [0] https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/async/introduction
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> Feudal Europe wasn't libertarian at all. Feudal lords had legal privileges that everyone else didn't. Libertarians believe in a legal system that doesn't afford special privileges to anyone [...] "In its majestic eq
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All these are examples of claims that are misleading because they're misleading, not because of who is making the claim. You can of course read the claims made by the article with a more critical eye, but identifying the author doesn&#
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How amazing is the post-exit career of the average great founder? What if the success of the "really great founders" similarly has quite a bit of randomness involved? The halo effect and associated myth-making doesn't get app
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Aston's tenure at Dropbox (four and half years) is "very long" in Silicon Valley terms in general and in early stage startup terms in particular. As for being "randos that aren't very impressive in their own right&q
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HW won in 1988 and lost in 1992. 1996 was two decades ago.
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The cited first sage of "goat"-as-common-idiom-for-failure in that article is from 1912. The acronym dates back to maybe 1992 or thereabouts: http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2016/07/goat.html GOAT
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Those numbers actually aren't too compelling. 25 years * 5 days a week * 48 working weeks a year = 6000 hours spent commuting. Assuming 8 hours sleeping and 8 hours working, those 6k translate to 375 days worth of waking hours and 750
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"Over-scheduling" is by definition harmful, but the core disconnect is that there's a 9-month calendar of organized learning (with occasional breaks) and year-around parental commitments. If the article is correct and boredom
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That's pretty much the shtick of qz. From the footer: "This post originally appeared at Likewise A Blog" (linked to https://likewise.am/2016/05/08/why-suburbia-sucks/)"
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He's also involved in the thread from May 2014.
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I believe this is Twitter once again attempting to integrate their use of watchman (open sourced by FB) into the git core. Their first attempt was in May 2014: http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg230487.html
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"Herp derp! Successful software companies that move fast and write lots of code quickly despite their size are obviously fools that don't know how to set up their codebases." http://danluu.com/monorepo/

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