ewanmcteagle

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by ewanmcteagle 18y ago
Not at all. There's nothing obsolete about it. There's a social aspect to switching because others have done so but that's all. Except for that it's change for change's sake. An inch, a foot, a yard are all very intuitive measures that
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by ewanmcteagle 18y ago
What more would it accomplish? It would just be emotional ranting. Often that kind of thing adds more adversarial elements to the problem and improves nothing.
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by ewanmcteagle 18y ago
FWIW, I've found Salary.com to be pretty good with it's mean and distribution information.
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by ewanmcteagle 18y ago
$8/hour = $16k per year (roughly). Since this is greater than the standard deduction you will not be avoiding federal income tax at this level.
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by ewanmcteagle 18y ago
This market cap stuff is not really meaningful when looked at this way. Microsoft pays a dividend if it didn't all that cash would stay on its books and would have to result in an increase in its market cap. If you want to make a proper c
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by ewanmcteagle 18y ago
How much is the work that http://recaptcha.net/ is doing worth? Not only would it keep some of these people busy breaking useful captchas but we could get some good books digitized out of it. $1.25/1000 ? You could get a book digitized
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by ewanmcteagle 18y ago
Do you know any data sources for these things? I'm doubtful of the mineral content claim unless the fraction you mention is something like 9/10. Housing stock that is on average lasting for much less time is also suspicious to me. The b
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by ewanmcteagle 18y ago
That's a common mistake. Most Mormon's aren't bothered by sodas, caffeinated or not. They are specifically opposed to tea and coffee which gets interpreted as caffeine. No, it doesn't make sense and a caffeine prohibition would at least
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by ewanmcteagle 18y ago
Visual Studio is not profitable for Microsoft (from what I've heard from MS employees) but that is also not its purpose. It's there to guarantee the success of the Windows desktop and server platforms. Microsoft knows development and ease
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by ewanmcteagle 18y ago
We don't fully understand what the best approach is. Yes, we can see that a lot of US education is poor but the US also generates a huge amount of creative output and invention and it isn't all from immigrants. It's also not clear that it
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by ewanmcteagle 19y ago
"This supposed refutation can itself be disproven by reductio ad absurdum, because it could be applied to any explanation of our inclinations based on how we evolved." Your argument doesn't do what you think. Just because every evolutionar