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by hudibras 13y ago
For everybody wondering about the lack of criminal charges, I'll bet a Coke that Nicholas Kristof writes a follow-up column within a month about that topic. He's got himself a hot-button subject and he knows it.
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by hudibras 13y ago
The story from Command and Control that sticks in my head is how, a few months after WW2 ended, the Truman Administration wanted to get an exact count of how many A-bombs the U.S. had available in their inventory. The answer came back fr
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by hudibras 13y ago
You go to this page[0], where they give you three options ranging from $3.75 to $8.75 each week. But they're running a sale right now, you can get the first 4 weeks for 99 cents. [0] http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions&
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by hudibras 13y ago
Round 2 is up now. http://www.theswarmlab.com/r-vs-python-round-2/
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Two guilty over abusive tweets to Caroline Criado-Perez(bbc.co.uk)
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by hudibras 13y ago
And if we're really going to bring reality into this, then we'll need to consider the ages of the children, because of the at-birth sex ratio (105 newborn boys for every 100 newborn girls[0]) and differing mortality rates for ea
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by hudibras 13y ago
> At my last job, I was guaranteed 1 year of severance in the event of losing my job...At my current job I will get a relatively modest 24 weeks severance if I lose my job. In what country are you working?
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by hudibras 13y ago
> BTW, when did millionaire start to mean someone that makes over a million dollars a year rather than has that in assets? Around 2010. I remember this coming up when a new tax bracket was briefly proposed in the U.S. http://t
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by hudibras 13y ago
The "tell" for this article is that there's no comparison with the current tax policy in France. The top tax bracket in France is 41% right now. Hollande's proposal raises this to 50%--an extra 9 euros out of every 100 e
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by hudibras 13y ago
It was one of Hollande's campaign promises, so of course he's going to try to get it passed into law. That's what politicians do.
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by hudibras 13y ago
Because it's the decent thing to do, and your other employees will appreciate it.
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by hudibras 13y ago
To all supervisors: If one of your employees dies while you're on vacation, cancel the rest of your vacation. No exceptions.
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This 100-year-old deal birthed the modern phone system(washingtonpost.com)
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by hudibras 13y ago
Or to put it another way: a nautical mile is equal to one minute of latitude and 60 nautical miles equals one degree of latitude. I've seen many people become amazed when it's explained to them that a nautical mile is not just an
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by hudibras 13y ago
You try to do everything right (helmet, bike lane, daylight riding), and then a police car runs you over and kills you. Sometimes I don't know why I bother doing anything except spending time with my family. I tell myself that I'v
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Stealing Time(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by hudibras 13y ago
And Stalin won it twice.
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by hudibras 13y ago
Here's one website that specializes in these: http://www.tradecarview.com/ Don't get too excited at some of the crazy prices. They don't include shipping costs and none of the cheap cars will be street-legal
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by hudibras 13y ago
My experience as a Westerner living in Japan for many years is so obviously different than yours (I never had sound issues when I lived in apartments, my new house is shockingly well-built and designed when compared to the American houses I
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by hudibras 13y ago
And the official languages of Pakistan are Urdu and English. ...And, yes, I just Googled this question and got the answer from Wikipedia.
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by hudibras 13y ago
This negotiating maneuver is known as a "bluff."
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by hudibras 13y ago
"NFL and MLB have enormous public good will" is drastically overstating the case. Americans love professional football and baseball but the NFL and MLB are far from beloved institutions. I think the average fan is more likely to s
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Under My Thumb(nytimes.com)
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by hudibras 13y ago
There was a blog post from James Fallows last year[1] which contained a English translation of a single Chinese tweet. 140 Chinese characters transformed into 115 English words with 676 characters. [1] http://www.theatlantic.com&#
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by hudibras 13y ago
Well if he didn't want any drama, I'm glad he took the time to write a blog post about it then.
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by hudibras 13y ago
Yes, this accounts for the disparity. The BLS report has miscellaneous agricultural workers at 92% white, with 48.9% of all workers having Hispanic or Latino ethnicity. Most Hispanics identify themselves as white, but 2-3% of Hispanic Ameri
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by hudibras 13y ago
Digging into the tables, the 96% figure is for management only. 48.9% of "Miscellaneous agricultural workers" are Hispanic or Latino, however.
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by hudibras 13y ago
Scanning the BLS report, I think it's barbers. 38.2% of barbers are black.
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by hudibras 13y ago
FYI, the BLS report referenced in the article[1] says that 64% of software developers are white, 74% of computer programmers are white, and 85% of web developers are white. [1] http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsrace2012.pdf
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by hudibras 13y ago
At what point does it become more cost-effective to hire your own counsel?

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