ewanmcteagle

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by ewanmcteagle 15y ago
It was the refuse of Europe that made this continent what it is not the elites. We would be selecting for qualities that have an unknown relationship to our past results (and perhaps values).
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by ewanmcteagle 15y ago
Why? Was this country built up by the best of Old World or those that were considered the worst? Our bigger risk may not be on the dimension of education and skills but political and economic attitudes.
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by ewanmcteagle 15y ago
Your numbers have nothing to do with being Hispanic. Is making $40000/year so rare for families with 2 or 3 kids? First we socialize schools then we complain when the costs are not covered by those using the schools. This is a very common
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by ewanmcteagle 15y ago
Look into salaries very carefully. This is not high or unusual or only in Silicon Valley. It's important to know what's typical. salary.com is not terrible for this, also try glassdoor.com.
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
I do not meditate because I fear that doing so may cause me to ascend to a higher plane of existence and I'm not prepared for that.
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
What is the principle of freedom of speech here? How do you view it? What do you view as Amazon's obligations? What rights does Amazon have and how do those rights interact with the principle as you see it?
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
This is because you are using your intuitive definition of creationism and not the one that has been historically used in this argument.
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition) http://www.amazon.com/Framework-Design-Guidelines-Convention... is an interesting read and contains the result of actual work on buil
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
Those who want can always do so. The thing that's often missed is that there is no choice not to participate. If they don't mind then why are the laws needed?
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
Personal experience and the experience of colleagues. I spent 11 years in the undergraduate/graduate system both learning and teaching. It's also something you can learn if you ever have to look for work in academia. It's very rare that
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
Most professors at those institutions care very little about the teaching part of their job. The incentives they face make it that way.
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
Google Wave... whatever. What annoys me is that we lost etherpad for this. That was a really effective product.
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
If students weren't locked into schools enrollment levels and parent feedback would provide a lot of information.
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
What I'd want to know is what percentage of users faced with a choice of iPhone and Android (on the same carrier) would pick one or the other. As it is right now a lot of people are buying Android phones because the iPhone is not available
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
This is not the same. Once a company has sold stock it does not gain money from the ups and downs of the market. If it made agreements contingent on its stock maintaining a particular value then it has chosen a separate risk. A company c
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
This is the problem with this form of healthcare. First we insist on socializing these costs then the socialization of costs is used as justification for meddling in the details of other people's lives. After all, as you said, now it's in
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
I have the same experience but I don't do it anymore. Doesn't it just mean that with certain types of music we can ignore it enough to do other tasks? Why do we want to have inputs that we then ignore? If the music is worthwhile doesn't
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
Yes, but have you noticed how many awesome imprisoned heroes we have? It's no wonder we keep relying on them. Would you have us do otherwise?
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
Why would a libertarian viewpoint defend this? Are you suggesting that this is happening because it's an unregulated industry? Also, what is the success criterion for number and severity of accidents before whatever approach to regulation
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
Buffet falls from grace every few years. But this is not a good article. The problem with derivatives and retrospective changes is that this messes with agreements that have already been made. Not only is that not right but it may have c
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
It is. I agree with you but if you're working with programmers better than you which one of these three is the situation from their perspective? At least some of the better programmers have to be willing to bend on this or you never work w
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
It may not be about completely different alternatives but instead the degree to which government power should be limited.
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
Makes me happy to hear. The news is fresh but already you're thinking higher, faster, different and more.
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
2 and (especially) your version of 3 are incompatible. Something has to give way. Some of us don't want to give way on 2.
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
I think the trouble is what they leave uncontrolled. If type of food is important and you only measure total calories you have a problem in your experiment design. It seems here there is also a subject selection problem. A 5% body fat dif
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by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
There is good evidence that you cannot simply burn off calories this way. That the body will reduce energy consumption at other times to compensate. The overall effect of exercise on energy consumed by the body is minimal. That is, exerc
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
I find it to be about the same in RC in terms of speed for most things. But memory use is lower and the delays when loading things seem to be shorter.
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
I don't think this is rare at big companies especially when taking into account stock grants and bonuses. With stock grants engineer salaries can reach the lower end of this range from what I have seen.
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
This comes up a lot but it always misses one aspect of this. Microsoft has returned many many billions to shareholders and continues to do so with a quarterly dividend. When they started along this dividend path they made a large special
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
Many companies are reluctant to say anything about why they didn't choose you because there is no upside and potential legal downside for them. I don't know what top 100 Putnam is or DE Shaw or how picky you are but I'm sure you are great.

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