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by gmarx 10y ago
I skipped a grade and my mom told me that the school district really didn't like doing it, for many of the reasons you mention. She said they did it with me because I was also large (I think I was even one of the biggest kids one grade
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by gmarx 10y ago
You are the one distorting the meaning. The joke clearly implies an existing culture of cannibals, a society entirely hostile and dangerous to outsiders and yet somehow brought to heel by Sam's super amazing charisma or work ethic or w
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by gmarx 10y ago
Agreed. Depending on what he's allowed to pack I'm betting against him
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by gmarx 10y ago
Do you know of an island of cannibals which are white Europeans?
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by gmarx 10y ago
The Norway thing amused me because I imagine many (most) of the people who were outraged by that would be perfectly happy with censorship of things they do consider offensive. As Facebook stated, there is no way to please everyone on this.
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by gmarx 10y ago
In a way it's better. If they see you might be looking they might give you a raise whereas if you said to him. "hey, I'm looking" it might just get his back up and he might start looking for a replacement
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by gmarx 10y ago
and, let's face it, many of them like having the excuse of long hours to stay away from a family they have grown tired of. My brother told me once he had kids he finally understood the joy of mowing the lawn; you get time away from the
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by gmarx 10y ago
Many other commenters imply that since people would flee the platform if they couldn't discriminate, that AirBnB shouldn't have to deal with the problem. It's the opposite. AirBnB is required to deal with the problem. Their c
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by gmarx 10y ago
How would you know that? Maybe you had a natural aptitude and so enjoyed geometric objects and music more than others?
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by gmarx 10y ago
What those who contradict you above fail to appreciate is just how little IQ difference makes someone seem "dumb". Most people with 140 IQs rarely spend any time having discussion of any depth with anyone who has an IQ below 120.
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by gmarx 10y ago
The Theranos story reminds me of an episode of "The Big Bang Theory". Sheldon gets sent to jail. Why? Why do you think, for doing the same crap he always does but this time to a judge. Theranos followed a standard SV script, sell
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by gmarx 10y ago
Those moves were't illegal (except eye gouge I think) in the early days of UFC and I don't think they decided any fights. Still, I agree with your point that UFC shows us the best mix of skills for that particular set of constrain
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by gmarx 10y ago
Yeah so the solution would be to make it available in all states and get providers to cover the generic...like they prefer to do with all meds
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by gmarx 10y ago
You hardly ever use an epipen. It's not like it's a daily med
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by gmarx 10y ago
What they need is a bad-ass looking ground robot
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by gmarx 10y ago
This assumes it was their plan from the beginning. Is that the case or did they later pivot based on new information. If the latter is the case then any company would arguably have billion dollar potential
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by gmarx 10y ago
If you ignore advice and fail (always the more likely outcome no matter what you do) then you failed because you refused to take advice. If you take the advice and fail, you can't be blamed. This is oddly powerful pyschology
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by gmarx 10y ago
You have to get to the middle of the article before you learn there is a generic available. So now that people are aware of the problem, it seems easy to fix.
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by gmarx 10y ago
The article praises Gawker for often "punching up". For the youngens this "don't punch down" rule that someone recently invented is a load of hooey. People who control the mainstream media define up and down and tel
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by gmarx 10y ago
Who is annotating the records?
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by gmarx 10y ago
I'm working on this problem
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by gmarx 10y ago
since it was using movies maybe the 8 legs is for a human centipede?
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by gmarx 10y ago
Yup, once you take the job you are at a tremendous disadvantage. You can quit but then you need to find a new job. If you quit the CEO just works the remaining people harder until you are replaced
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by gmarx 10y ago
Agreed
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by gmarx 10y ago
cause or effect? Could an otherwise doomed startup succeed by demanding 130 hour weeks? I think not. It's more plausible to me that the better things are working the more obsessive you are about working on them
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by gmarx 10y ago
Probably? As in you know that more than half the people whom would be reasonably considered successful worked 130 weeks for a non trivial portion of their careers? I'm calling bullshit. I'd need to see a study. My belief is that w
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by gmarx 10y ago
organization of the team and process? You mean the scrum process? Indeed, my point. Of course one can argue that no true scrum process would have such problems...
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by gmarx 10y ago
Perhaps but this could be viewed as the "no true scotsman" thing. My main objections to Scrum are a) you need to shoehorn things into user stories that are not naturally expressed that way (as a user I would like all relevant data
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by gmarx 10y ago
I disagree. Even among those who routinely write good code (all of us in our own minds) the schedule tends to pressure you to solve the problem before you, the one in the story, without checking if anyone else has solved similar problems al
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by gmarx 10y ago
I disagree. It varies from situation to situation but I would argue in my domain at least (healthcare) this is how you get bad data models

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