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by gohrt 10y ago
Coal power can be done safe, but we also have many examples of it not being done safe. Saying, "well it will be different this time. We will build systems to make corruption, laziness, and dangerous actions impossible!" is believi
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by gohrt 10y ago
Transfer payments to old people aren't mentally exhausting. What's interesting is what those old people spend the money on. macroscopically, what matters is what money motivates people to do , who handles the money is just a mean
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by gohrt 10y ago
I never studied programming and so never became desensitized to its particular brand of ridiculousness. "virtual machine" "programming language" "UI framework"
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by gohrt 10y ago
2007 http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html
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by gohrt 10y ago
You seem arbitrarily biased against something you think is too "hipster".
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by gohrt 10y ago
> They meet with the outcomes staff after and discuss the interview. We now have a general idea of what to expect in a google interview. This data is stored and updated for every single graduate, forever. This was a major value-add for f
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by gohrt 10y ago
There's no particular guarantee that a bootcamp grad will find their job via a bootcamp referral.
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by gohrt 10y ago
How does the company/school defend its brand against the C students sending out resumes that say "I am a student at RoR' with a certificate" and leaving out the grade part?
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by gohrt 10y ago
You can't only consider the ads, you have to consider what makes the ads valuable, which includes whatever brings the eyeballs and walking fingers in. For example: * Magazines provide content in their subject area. * Yahoo: provides co
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by gohrt 10y ago
> They were told by whom? That's an easy claim to make if you don't have to test it.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Don't confuse midwifery with home-birth. They are overlapping but different. There are midwife delivery centers that are attached to hospitals.
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by gohrt 10y ago
piercing the veil usually applies to manager-owners, like S-corps. If I invest in a corporation and the managers do something horrible, the managers could potentially be reached through the veil, but not the stockholders -- their only invol
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by gohrt 10y ago
Walgreens has long been a creepy organization. Their checkout clerks were paid on commission to hawk upsells like vitamins.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Jaynes's argument applies equally well to Newtonian mechanics, even if SR/GR/QM didn't exist in the universe. There is always a yearning for "what is really happening when", and a desire for results that feel r
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by gohrt 10y ago
Surely there are people who see the equivalence of the interpretations, and don't paint themselves for color war?
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by gohrt 10y ago
In any interpretation, it seems the same question remains: Copenhagen: Why did the wave collapse into state A and not B,C,... MSI: Why am "I" in multiverse branch A, and not B,C,...? (and who am "I" anyway?) Pilot wave:
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by gohrt 10y ago
Without even looking I guarantee that the Periodic Table of Finite Simple Groups is garbage --- there's no way that the space of finite simple groups have the same structure as the space of atoms.
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by gohrt 10y ago
> causes restaurants to not list their calories as the calories of a meal do not equal the sum of it's parts. In my area, restaurants list the calories for each menu item, exactly to the extent required by law (chain restaurants ar
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by gohrt 10y ago
Cooking changes the caloric content of food. Not all of every ingredient gets all the way to the diner plate. Biology is not thermodynamics. Humans are not perfect combustion engines.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Unless you can easily estimate your BAC yourself, it's not useful.
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by gohrt 10y ago
"legitimate"? Is UGC copyrighted by the platform host?
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by gohrt 10y ago
Article doesn't mention OKC ToS one way or the other. What are the ToS? Most sites ban content scraping by users (And good sites have technical countermeasures)
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by gohrt 10y ago
> fuckwit neckbeard nice job completely discrediting yourself as someone with the same (dis)respect for common decency as the person you disagree with.
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by gohrt 10y ago
This is an area of current debate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten#Current_...
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by gohrt 10y ago
Don't worry, we'll default to Prime when you check out, as long as you don't hunt for the obscure opt-out link.
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by gohrt 10y ago
It's not "fraud" if they haven't taken money from you. deception and false advertising, but not fraud.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Going out to a call dealership is a little different from spending 2 minutes checking prices on stubhub though. In stubhub's case, they are being super-sketchy, and they offer a fig leaf of opting in to showing fees: http:/&#x2F
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by gohrt 10y ago
> I assume it's meant to be slick and non-distracting well, yes, non-distracting from completing checkout using the most-expensive options.
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by gohrt 10y ago
If you report the spam to MailChimp, they will take action against the offender to defend themselves and their non-spam customers.
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by gohrt 10y ago
People who close $100m deals are smart enough to not worry about "look the other person in the eye and shake their hand".

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