grlthgn

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by grlthgn 14y ago
mmm.. I don't get your point. Even in an open auction, bidders in an auction could still collude to submit lower bids and divide their winnings. Problem is that there are only a couple of large banks who control a large portion of money. If
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by grlthgn 14y ago
Cities/Town/States gets money from bond sales and need a place to store the money because it doesn't get used at once. They held auctions and banks would submit bids to hold the money at a certain interest rate. Banks colluded to lower thei
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by grlthgn 14y ago
umm.. no evolution does not encourage diversity. "encourage" implies that there is some sort of hierarchy or level in terms of evolution, and there isn't.
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by grlthgn 14y ago
Is it the most profitable company ever after accounting for inflation? Probably not, but would love to see some data on that.
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by grlthgn 14y ago
Working non stop for 36 hours while being called a 'resource' and some shmuck with an idea gets 50%? That sounds great! Sign me up. I have a name for this, and its called exploitation.
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by grlthgn 14y ago
The NBA manually records where the shots are taken, and if it is made or not by the stat person.
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by grlthgn 14y ago
I always hated that advice "Do what you Love". It's a fucking terrible advice. I know people mean well when they give that advice, but its a downright terrible advice for the vast majority of people. Let me point out that this is an article
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by grlthgn 14y ago
god.. you just described one of my coworker to the dot.
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by grlthgn 14y ago
The problem is when your cowboy coder leaves your company, you are fucked. The code is undocumented, and incomprehensible. It works but you have no idea how it works and neither does anybody else.
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by grlthgn 14y ago
True but you can't just apply 1 and 2 to every problem and expect to meet deadlines. Part of the skill is to know instinctively how much polishing is enough.