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by glenra 16y ago
The author's main gripe seems to be that contractors don't get treated like employees. Does he realize that it's illegal to treat contractors exactly like employees? Does he realize that if Google started giving contractors exactly the sa
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> What does it cost to let everyone ride the same bus and have them eat in the same place? It's not clear why this contract agency runs on a different schedule than the rest of the company - 4am to 2:30 or whatever - maybe it's just
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by glenra 16y ago
> If it is true that they have a separate building where the 'people of color' work segregated from the others, that is pretty outrageous. But it's not true and the allegation is so obviously ridiculous that it marks OP as a moron. When
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by glenra 16y ago
OP sounded like a muckraking moron, a wanna-be Michael Moore. If you go around interviewing people with an agenda and you get to re-cut the footage however you like, it's possible to get it to seem to support whatever conclusion you want it
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by glenra 16y ago
If the goal is to only keep the data around for, say, 7 days, you need timestamps to determine when each piece was last downloaded, no?
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by glenra 16y ago
The charitable reading is that regardless of who "discovered" or "reported" the symptoms of the bug, Apple's engineers "uncovered" it in terms of isolating and diagnosing the precise issue at the source level. (It's also possible - even lik
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by glenra 16y ago
I loved this: "If there were ten people like me in the world, we wouldn't have time to read each other's books." - Donald Knuth
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by glenra 16y ago
Khan's current lectures are best thought of as placeholder material. A rough draft. Having a free, competent, standardized tutoring job available on every little subject is SO MUCH better than nothing at all that clearly the low-hanging fru
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by glenra 16y ago
That article is a real mess, full of bits that are "not even wrong". How can you simultaneously claim that some alternate way of looking at the data (a) won't reach any different conclusions, AND (b) must have had its science corrupted (t
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by glenra 16y ago
"absurdly cynical" is his stock in trade. Have you never read Dilbert? It seems to me the response said exactly what he wanted and needed it to. What more does he have to apologize for, exactly? Committing a thoughtcrime?
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by glenra 16y ago
In 2000 I was unemployed for a bit in the Bay Area and wanted to take a short break from techie stuff. Looking for interesting work I browsed the craigslist job boards, specifically the "ETC" and "part time" sections. You never know what yo
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Apple does have a similar policy.
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> Wikipedia says absolutely nothing about how much money Apple has donated and I know for a fact that it has aided progressive causes For instance, Apple does tie-in promotions such as the Product(RED) iPods that support the Global Fund
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by glenra 16y ago
> The one question I've been asking everyone in my district is to point out the bad teachers. No one will tell me who they are, or how it is decided. Have you asked the kids? They probably know. There were bad teachers in my high school
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by glenra 16y ago
> They're not libertarian, they're movement conservatives. They've donated at least $20 million to the ACLU to fight the Patriot Act. They support the Cato institute. One of them ran for president on the Libertarian ticket. The Koch fam
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by glenra 16y ago
If it's in the government's interest to sell these properties, the important thing politically might be to sell it as quickly as possible rather than wait to get the best possible deal. Trying to "get the best price it can" might be a false
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by glenra 16y ago
You still haven't said what the project DOES! Okay, fine, it picks a movie from somebody's netflix list. But HOW does it pick it? At random? Top of the list? Bottom of the list? Highest star rating? Can you at least give people a HINT as to
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by glenra 16y ago
I'm perfectly capable of choosing an item from a list. What value, exactly, does Qpicker add?
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by glenra 16y ago
> Sounds like an awesome place to work.... In terms of physical facilities, it is an awesome place to work. Especially by local standards. The only thing that really sucks about it by western standards is the pay and the hours. And th
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by glenra 16y ago
Electronics assembly in china is also done in an "air conditioned" environment, FWIW. Has to be, or the products wouldn't work well. The iPhone is undoubtedly assembled in a room which is controlled for temperature, humidity, and dust at le
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by glenra 16y ago
The conditions on an electronics assembly line tend to be amazingly better than elsewhere in China for a very simple reason: the product demands it. When you are assembling electronics, the space in which you do it needs to be temperatu
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by glenra 16y ago
Factory work serves as an entry-level transitional job there, much like working for McDonald's here. The workers tend to be in the 16-20 age range; they do assembly line work for a few years, sending a little money home to help the family a
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by glenra 16y ago
Why assume universal healthcare is a clearly better way of governance? Leaving aside the question of whether it's "better", I'm also not sure it qualifies as a "way of governance". It's a feature some countries choose to implement in part
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Maybe he's more worried about freedoms missing from your life.
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by glenra 16y ago
"Preventative medicine is much, much cheaper" I question that assertion. Source? Note that it is not sufficient to merely say "if you have condition X, it's better to have caught it early", because that ignores (a) the cost of testing all
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by glenra 16y ago
> If students had to pay the actual cost of their education, it'd be much higher, even in Ivy League schools. That seems really unlikely. The fact that it's expensive to provide this exact bundle of services doesn't mean that's what wou
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by glenra 16y ago
...but they only get to buy Groupon if 500 companies commit to submitting a bid. And the offer's only good on alternate Fridays. :-)
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by glenra 16y ago
I'd toss in another piece of media, Elizabeth Gilbert's short (20-minute) TED talk on creativity and "genius": http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html (I tend to re-watch that one whenever I feel like I'm stuck in a crea
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by glenra 16y ago
Yup. The algorithm was first used in planning paths for Shakey The Robot back in the late 1960s, which seems like ancient history in computer terms. (I only know of it because my dad "invented" A-star. :-) )
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by glenra 16y ago
Sure, and a shag rug has a much higher Kolmogorov complexity than the instructions for how to weave it. If measured carefully enough you'd find every individual strand of yarn in it has a unique length, orientation, curvature, amount of twi

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