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by fyi80 13y ago
It's also bizarrely tone-deaf metaphor-mixing. the pejorative "basement" refers to an adult who doesn't have their own residence, and so lives in extra space in (but near the edge of) their parent's home, while pretending it is a separate r
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by fyi80 13y ago
> work each day trying to make their city a little nicer, or pay teachers a bit more, or cut down on crime, etc. These are examples of very local politicians, except maybe the last one. Interesting.
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by fyi80 13y ago
Oh, I thought you were going to mention http://sivers.org/1pct Sad that Cheney was the most famous and morbid believes in the 1-percent fallacy.
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by fyi80 13y ago
You might be interested to learn that radio waves can travel well in excess in of 90mph. as can helicopters. In fact, many jurisdictions ban high-speed chases, specifically because they are more dangerous than they help.
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by fyi80 13y ago
Number of times I have stopped for gas on a 30-mile stretch of local toll road: 0. Why would someone stop, just to get an excuse to speed later, at the same average? The few people drag-racing, maybe. Not the vast majority who want to to ar
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by fyi80 13y ago
> And, machines tend to have no discretion. This a feature, that protects and racism and classism.
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by fyi80 13y ago
> we should be more worried about car accidents than terrorism. And we should be more worried about the "watchers" than the "watched".
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by fyi80 13y ago
He is running on a much stronger system (with respect to syscalls and hardware support), but it's basically the same language .
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by fyi80 14y ago
> Compensation is a big deal, and should have been mentioned in the slide deck IMO. I don't care how perfect my job is, if I feel like there's a 30-40% gap between my comp and market comp, I'm going to up and leave. So, replace the whol
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by fyi80 14y ago
That's a great diagnostic. Paint ASPERGER on everyone's back. The ones who don't care to remove the mark are likely to have Asperger's (or be John Asperger).
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by fyi80 14y ago
'for these people,' is just as offensive. What do you mean, "THESE people"? The meaning and intent matters, not the phrase.
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by fyi80 14y ago
If you are self-aware of these things and able to make an effort to change or work-around them when they give you trouble, you are extremely high-functioning. I can rattle off a list of problems that short people have (trouble reaching thin
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by fyi80 14y ago
> "gratitude, on any medium, is still gratitude, this is a difference of culture, but to disregard my sentiment is to deny my humanity, not just my culture." And some people prefer to be compensated in dollars, not bitcoins. Giving is
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by fyi80 14y ago
"the rules define them as an adult. " Define them, or guide them?
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by fyi80 14y ago
If your pension fund doesn't day-trade, you never pay those fees for liquidity. Liquidity isn't free, and no one is forced to buy liquidity (unless your money is managed by an incompetent/corrupt manager due layers and layers of your employ
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by fyi80 14y ago
When do we blame the pension fund managers for taking on risks they don't understand?
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by fyi80 14y ago
Figure 3-12 on http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind08/figures.htm#ch3 says that only 10% are involuntarily not employed in their field.
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by fyi80 14y ago
And everyone who could be a good software engineer is succeeding? None of that talent is wasted on excessive obligations, or crime, or malnourishment?
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by fyi80 14y ago
Or they are reading the same marketing textbooks he is reading.
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by fyi80 14y ago
People don't spend real money?
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by fyi80 14y ago
Parent wrote: "Any two identical literals" The second 'a' is not a literal.
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by fyi80 14y ago
The "Rap" in the name might have clued you to the game
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by fyi80 14y ago
> but why would anyone want to admit a student who comes off as entitled, smarmy, ignorant, and racist? The author might find the reason for her non-admission to Brown there. The piece has some good ideas, but the racism is dialed up a
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by fyi80 14y ago
> How can this immensely vital symbol be communicated in a timeless form so we never have to go through this again? How about by picking a form that will always be in the past, and already well-documented and broadly understood, instea
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by fyi80 14y ago
but wtf is a "folder", now?
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by fyi80 14y ago
But Google's domain name isn't misleading. github.io still gives the impression of github-backed content.
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by fyi80 14y ago
What happens if someone tries to prosecute you for "intentionally" causing millions of dollars of damage?
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by fyi80 14y ago
> The business impact is that companies are evaluated and funded on the basis of metrics like Daily Active Use, Monthly Active Use, Impressions, Visits. Notifications happen prior to all of these metrics. These are all vanity metrics, n
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by fyi80 14y ago
Spamming ads to the notification bar is a popular technique on Android. Zynga loves to do it, as do others.
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by fyi80 14y ago
Chrome has a hideously awful alternative though: The tab icon throbs when AJAX updates a page (Gmail, etc), regardless of the web developer or user's preferences.

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