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811.
by gohrt 11y ago
When you make statements that you don't know are true, but smart enough know that you profit in some way from people believing them, and you make no effort to find out the truth, you are a bullshitter. Jobs made a career of this sort o
812.
by gohrt 11y ago
It's nothing to do with ableism; it's everything to do with the garbage frequently spewed by certain accounts. Not just offtopic offensive racist stuff, but also long wholly ungrammatical screeds.
813.
by gohrt 11y ago
http://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459 >>> Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials Abstract Objectives
814.
by gohrt 11y ago
The EO question is just highlighting that 1st Amendment only applies to Congress. It isn't quizzing you on the rest of US law.
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by gohrt 11y ago
This is why I became an engineer instead of a lawyer, when I faced the choice. I couldn't handle the illogic of law.
816.
by gohrt 11y ago
If your service is not changing in a way that your clients will notice, why are you bothering to make changes to your service at all?
817.
by gohrt 11y ago
Why would you count a compound expression, with internal spaces, as one word?
818.
by gohrt 11y ago
Is that true? For example, first place I checked: http://yahoo.co.jp doesn't have any subtle brush-strokes. Everthing chracter is constant thickness. The characters are intricate, but I don't know what the information
819.
by gohrt 11y ago
You have options: * Stop being yourself in the interview, and then have a bad experience on the job, battling over your disagrements. * Be yourself, and get a job that fits you. * Change yourself, then be yourself and get a job that fits yo
820.
by gohrt 11y ago
You are giving interviewers a little more credit than they deserve. It's certainly a process for "feeling you out", but not so much "understanding".
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by gohrt 11y ago
Older writeup: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/keeping-your-eye-on... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22564009 "Quiet eye training expedites motor learning and aids perf
822.
by gohrt 11y ago
Chess was invented long before computer. It's not unfairly biased; it happens to be a particular human endeavor that computers can (relatively) easily be made much better at.
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by gohrt 11y ago
I doubt it'd be exactly the same, since the metabolic pathways that feed the cells are different.
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by gohrt 11y ago
ITYM it does a brisket business in NYC.
825.
by gohrt 11y ago
That's a narrow view of cooking and ejoyable.
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by gohrt 11y ago
s/computer/compiler/
827.
by gohrt 11y ago
Elimination, not Optimization. Either you can rely on it as part of the spec (Elimination) or you can't (Optmization)
828.
by gohrt 11y ago
Why is that safer? Cops can seize cars; why can't they seize money orders?
829.
by gohrt 11y ago
fingerprints on DL?
830.
by gohrt 11y ago
That's Coinbase's insurance. That's not coinbase customers' indurance. FDIC is _my_ insurance coverage. > Coinbase is insured against employee theft and hacking in an amount that exceeds the average value of online bi
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by gohrt 11y ago
$5000 seems substantial enough to involve law enforcement. Presumably Coinbase performed a transaction involving them receiving BTC, and then instructing you to deliver your product. Why would they not pay you as soon as you deliver, unless
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by gohrt 11y ago
Awkardly written, either by Kamel Daoud, or the translation by John Cullen from the French. I don't know which parts were literal and which were metaphor.
833.
by gohrt 11y ago
Which "good people" do they trust? They trust the idea of a paternalistic authority. They trust the government they want , not the government they have . It's wishful thinking.
834.
by gohrt 11y ago
Wolfram employeees sign contracts giving Dr Wolfram credit for their work, in exchange for their pay.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Do other Grace Hopper institutions have rights to the name, provided by Grace Hopper's estate? http://ghc.anitaborg.org/about/
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by gohrt 11y ago
> because they've trained the recruits well. filtered, not trained.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Why is "telegram" and "encryption" ever mentioned together, except to say "telegram uses a phony imitation of encryption" ? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6940665
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by gohrt 11y ago
Clannish and wasteful, not stupid.
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by gohrt 11y ago
I thought they were priced at the last round price (which is usually a discount if you interpolate the prce between rounds)
840.
by gohrt 11y ago
> so you have no expectation of privacy. > However that doesn't mean that they should be permitted in court Really? I thought these two items were quite tightly connected.

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