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by gertef 12y ago
> For them, keeping a great talent from joining a different company is potentially worth the increased compensation. This is logically true, but it's hard to imagine how the human interviewers/hiring-committees would consciousl
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Veblen good. glasses are cheap at the drugstore.
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by gertef 12y ago
and what would you put in those frames?
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by gertef 12y ago
I tried zenni and I didn't like the way the glasses affected my vision. Since it's mail order, I felt stuck. As a new glasses-wearer, I don't know if zenni gave me bad glasses, I told them the wrong interpupillary distance, o
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by gertef 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_Autonomous_Organi...
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by gertef 12y ago
Apple sells your data to themselves, to show ads for music and apps. It's not so different from showing ads for other vendors, except in that the ads only appear in Spotlight
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"Academics" are a small biased sample of "K-12" or event college-level students.
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by gertef 12y ago
It's not clear you understand why people go to church and what it's benefits are.
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by gertef 12y ago
Curb (TaxiMagic) is just a (bad) dispatch-management service; it's not really built into any taxi system, and doesn't provide any sort of feedback or quality control on the ride experience.
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by gertef 12y ago
> I wrote the Lanczos3 scaler that Picasa uses (about 14 years ago!), What are you doing now? Picasa hasn't changed much since Google bought it and ignored it (except for adding G+ integration)
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by gertef 12y ago
If your point was to say that biological fertilization+pregnancy+motherhood is not the only opportunity for a woman to have a family, you made your point too obliquely for this audience.
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by gertef 12y ago
If you smash my car and I sue you for $10,000 damages, and then I drop the case when I discover that you have no assets, is that vexatious litigation?
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by gertef 12y ago
Adam's lawyers who are fighting a patent troll.
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by gertef 12y ago
> If you take a long enough walk in a (strongly connected) graph, the probability of ending up in a particular place becomes independent of your starting point. And this was the foundation of Google's PageRank. http://en.
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by gertef 12y ago
Or Python. What are you going to do with [1.0, "abc", True], besides throw a TypeError?
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by gertef 12y ago
That's a strange story. According to the blogger's version og the incident, he was struck an injured by someone clearly breaking the law. Why wasn't the other driver detained by police and arrested?
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by gertef 12y ago
It's insane how massive the financial aid discrepency is between a family with kids aged 18+20 (expected contribution = 50% each) vs a family with kids aged 18+22 (expected contribution = 100% each)
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by gertef 12y ago
Many dialects of English (in both UK and USA) merge these sounds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th-fronting
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by gertef 12y ago
CAH is vulgar, crass, and offensive, but it is insulting ? There is a difference.
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by gertef 12y ago
Sadly that removes most of the user-helping functionality of the :visited class.
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by gertef 12y ago
That's ridiculous. They sell drugs because it is the Easiest way they know . Without drugs, they'd need to find some other, less easy way. Supply+Demand teaches that those other opportunities would be less available
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by gertef 12y ago
Surely such a flush would leave residue on the bowl that would be easily detectable by a forensics kit.
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by gertef 12y ago
Title is junk, article is overwritten, some claims are wholly unsuported by evidence, but there are some uncommonly heard ideas that make it worth a skim toward the bottom.
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by gertef 12y ago
What? "kickstart a business" is the entire point of kickstarter.
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by gertef 12y ago
Anecdote is not data. Here's data: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/about/research/rea... Key Findings * Reading to children at age 4-5 every day has a significant positive effect on their readi
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by gertef 12y ago
Maybe, but your conclusion doesn't follow from evidence. For one, you might have been too old for the show. For too, how is that the Reading Rainbow stories were engaging to you, but the content of those same books was not? Perhaps Rea
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by gertef 12y ago
That doesn't sort the output neatly. You need a merge http://hackage.haskell.org/package/MissingH-0.18.6/docs/Data...
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by gertef 12y ago
Amusingly, Comrade Brin's job in Soviet Russia was... as a central planner (economist) http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-04-26-sergeys-...
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by gertef 12y ago
> If the banks are correct that Ivy-league grads are the best and the brightest, They aren't. Ivy League grads have "high-status branding" that the banks use to get faux credibility when signing big deals.
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by gertef 12y ago
And thus the classic joke (told poorly by the first source I could copy): """ Satan offers incredible wealth to a man in exchange for his soul. The man replies, “B-b-b-but, won’t I have to go to Hell?” Satan says, “Oh, don’t

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