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by gbacon 7y ago
A friend detests the idea of warehouse clubs (Sam’s or Costco in the U.S., for example) checking receipts as he, the customer, walks out the door because he takes it as being under the assumption that he is a common criminal.
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by gbacon 7y ago
In the rational sense, you have a point. I’m sympathetic to your position. I wish people were better at calmly and dispassionately weighing facts and reason, but we are largely not. Your male OB example is really close to hitting a subject
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I used to think I knew a lot about what parents ought to do. Then I became a father.
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It's an amazing place. At least when I visited, you walk through the door to see some bland looking furniture (some maybe even the cheap MDF self-assembled type that you buy in a cardboard box), but then you walk through a doorway that
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If you’re that far along in your career and are still in direct competition with very junior people, then yes, you had better differentiate yourself! An employee is a seller of labor, and an employer is a buyer. To make the sale, the job se
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by gbacon 7y ago
Will that expose the company to accusations of age discrimination? They aren’t even interested in applications from developers with more than ten years of experience!
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Why is this comment being downvoted? Is it factually incorrect?
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Merely placing resumes onto lots of piles of other resumes is a losing strategy for job seekers because the cost of doing the same thing for competitors is so low, and as you noted, it’s easy to get lost in the crowd. As a hiring manager,
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by gbacon 7y ago
I’m having difficulty finding a full-time role because I fear that, in my 50s, I’ve been thrown out with the trash in favor of “new blood.” How is this claim falsifiable? London admits having won no major awards recently in a competitive
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by gbacon 7y ago
Argue all you want, but it’s still passive voice. The sentence does not tell the reader who or what is the source of entitlement. Even if it did, it may still be passive voice (You are entitled … by AR XX-X …). The same sentence in active v
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So tax-control bad, rent-control good? Owners’ properties benefiting from services that they aren’t paying for also bad? Renters benefiting from services they aren’t paying for doubleplus good?
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One could argue that drones should be allowed to get right up next to helipads, lat/lon-wise, as long as they stay a safe distance away from the helipad altitude-wise. Pilots and ATC refer to these dimensions as laterally and vertica
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by gbacon 7y ago
Regex matching with backreferences is NP-hard. https://perl.plover.com/NPC/
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Practice, practice, practice. The ORA book will help. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529833.do I have not watched it, but knowing what a brilliant speaker Damian Conway is, you’ll probably learn a ton and have
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Information Systems programs are commonly business degrees. At CMU, it is offered by the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences[0]. In aerospace and defense, some employers and even the government do not value IS, MIS, or CIS de
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by gbacon 7y ago
See also “Solution of Tyler's Cryptograms Published in Poe's Article” http://cryptiana.web.fc2.com/code/poe2.htm and “Cipher Solved, But Mystery Remains.” https://web.archive.org/web/2012
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Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kronecker
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Also the Sun SPARCstation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation
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See also Structured programming with go to statements[0] by Donald E. Knuth. [0]: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.103...
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Related: To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm. In the phys
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by gbacon 7y ago
Reasons why said technological advancement occurs in some times and places but not others is most definitely a question of economics.
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Likewise there is the problem of central banks capturing the academy by lavishly funding their sycophants and cutting off researchers critical of their methods or policies. The conflict of interest is obvious, but nearly the entire field pr
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In his Nobel lecture[0], Hayek condemned these rationalizations cloaked in superficial appearance of rigor as scientism. It seems to me that this failure of the economists to guide policy more successfully is closely connected with their p
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Peter Boettke responds[0] by quoting Hayek’s Nobel banquet speech in which he warned about economists making pronouncements outside their respective areas of expertise [Hayek’s worry about establishing the Prize in economics] is that the N
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by gbacon 7y ago
Even though Ali had the courage to go to jail, by your reasoning in the previous paragraph, someone else “had to” be drafted in his place. Perhaps you won’t go so far as to call conscription kidnapping, but you seem to sympathize at least a
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by gbacon 7y ago
Economics is scientific — and much more complicated than physical sciences because people are involved. If I drop a rock with a certain mass from a tower of a certain height, I can safely assume that my measurements of that one event are re
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Friedman’s worst idea that remains in vigorous implementation was automatic income tax withholding. He poured jet fuel into an engine of runaway state growth but is somehow remembered as a libertarian.
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Which individual or group calls themselves neoliberal?
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> Markets are constructed by people, for purposes chosen by people — and people can change the rules. Economic law is immutable. There is no changing the law of demand. Price caps will always create shortages and price floors gluts. Even
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Fry: Everything was going great! Then all out of a sudden, she’s talking about hanging out. Hanging out?! She's getting way too serious. I’m not a one-woman man, Leela. Leela: You’ll be back to zero soon enough.

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