hopler

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by hopler 8y ago
All of this nonsense comes one root evil: giving publicly viewable grades for fundamentally in original work. Grades and homework should be for the student's private benefit. The only public marks should be proctored exams for demonstr
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In SV, engineer pay raises are what cause rent inflation, ironically.
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> He was scheduled to earn $14 million in base salary with a $1 million roster bonus in both 2018 and 2019 Works for me. Anyway, the rules you are talking about are NFL rules, and NFL is a legal trust. The NFL draft is equivalent to a hi
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by hopler 8y ago
Nonsense. Those people were elected by the majority of voters, as weighted by our system (for better or for worse), not because of voter apathy.
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Sixties is retirement age.
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The likelihood is modulated by the level of dust and Cheetos in the operating environment.
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by hopler 8y ago
W3W doesn't solve that problem in a way that makes any sense. Things like Plus Codes do
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by hopler 8y ago
I don't see the relevance of that complaint. People don't memorize their current lat long to 16 sig figs either. You'd still need a gps device or a paper map without w3w.
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by hopler 8y ago
What's the point of using an encrypted chat at all if you don't care if it's hacked?
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by hopler 8y ago
Keybase's UI is still bad. It prominently highlights the "Let them (the eavesdropper) in" button, and the warning has so much red that it's hard to read the text.
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by hopler 8y ago
That sounds like not your problem. If A deflects blame to B, to escape C's judgement, then B can make their case to C separately. There's no reason to prevent A from having a conversation from B at all.
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by hopler 8y ago
If it's someone who can cut your pay, then deal with it, for money, until you find a better option. Otherwise, tell them that you find that the meetings aren't adding value since you've already exchanged all the info that can
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by hopler 8y ago
Which of them became good therapists? I know programmers how hated parts of school and are bad programmers. And some who are great programmers...
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by hopler 8y ago
I suspect sampling bias. When you're upset, direct confrontation can be upsetting too! NVC isn't a perfect magic trick that always works, but that's not enough reason to dismiss it.
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Facts are outside the realm of humans, unreachable. Humans can only have observations, hearsay, and opinions about what the facts are. That's why we have scientific opinions and judicial opinions. A statistical analysis with a confiden
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by hopler 8y ago
Moving from help desk to programmer is a career change not a promotion. It's a higher paying career which is why the flow is mostly unidirectional. Programmer to manager is similar, except at good companies that need good senior devs a
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by hopler 8y ago
Delegating yourself out of a job means growing your report's skills so you can do higher level things, not so you can get back to doing your old job.
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by hopler 8y ago
Acitvists have always been attacked as "terrorists". Look at the brutal repression of the Civil Rights movement, where imprison was one of msnycworries when faced with a murderous police force and general public.
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by hopler 8y ago
A youth killed by a gang isn't any less dead. Gangs don't check your membership card before killing you. Even we grant your bizarre dismissal of black lives that don't matter, you've still got 50% left.
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by hopler 8y ago
I lost faith in Amazon when I heard a presentation about building an automated price matching (increasing) system to "prevent leaving money on the table" by charging lower prices than competitors when Amazon already had the top
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by hopler 8y ago
Lying to people for money via mail is wire fraud, a state and federal crime.
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Also spouses and grandchildren, in many many cases.
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It raises the question, if Snow Crash and Diamond Age hadn't been written, what would have techies invented?
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by hopler 8y ago
This is much of the plot of the movie Her .
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Another alarming recent trend is people filling their homes with dogs, cats, or hamsters, replacing human contact.
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by hopler 8y ago
Marvin Minsky suggested that LEGO corresponded to the decline of America inventiveness, because LEGO structures are mechanically fake. Seems analogous to the argument against video games replacing blocks. https://youtu.be/g5
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by hopler 8y ago
If the story just false, than the moral may well be the opposite of good advice. Just in this thread, we have competing advice of "being a hero matters more than being right" vs "trying to be a hero creates another victim to
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by hopler 8y ago
Considering the major themes that the majority of humanity believes in are the various flavors of Biblical ones, I don't have a lot of hope for Truth. Ultimately, if you can't verify a fact yourself, it's either irrelevant (s
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by hopler 8y ago
Reapply thermal paste. The heat problem is a major issue across the laptop industry (and all in one desktops with a small tightly-packed case and a PSU inside the case -- Mac mini is another big offender). You aren't getting the CPU&#x
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by hopler 8y ago
That's what commodity means in economics, up to the level of precision implied by your statement. www.investopedia.com/terms/c/commodity.asp

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