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by hudibras 14y ago
Oh boy, here we go... Norm Matloff's H1B web page should be required reading for anyone who wants to discuss this: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html He definitely falls on one side of the issue, but he's the leading academic research
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by hudibras 14y ago
Good article, but it's a bit of a straw man argument. Supreme Court opinions have a distinctive style that tends towards plain English. You can pick almost any opinion (majority or dissenting) at random and a layman will be able to follow a
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by hudibras 14y ago
Wikipedia is a great first stop for almost every subject under the sun--except for medical issues and mathematics. In both those cases, it seems like procrastinating medical students or math grad students try to out-do each other with more
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by hudibras 14y ago
Vimcasts has an episode on netrw. http://vimcasts.org/episodes/the-file-explorer/
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by hudibras 14y ago
Felix Salmon has now apologized. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/02/19/an-apology/
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Every cruiser between Ketchikan and Bellingham has a copy of the Hamiltons' book on board: http://www.amazon.com/Waggoner-Cruising-Guides-Secret-Coast/... I didn't know he had a day job. A true renaissance man. Edit: I don't want to geek
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by hudibras 14y ago
>Granted, it's the government, not the private sector but few people realize that most computers owned by the federal government still run Windows XP. Additionally, the approval process for getting new software usually takes 1-6 months.
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by hudibras 14y ago
I think Salon's editor messed up the title of the article (and, by extension, the HN title). The article describes recent trials for psilocybin and MDMA, not LSD. There were certainly LSD trials in the '60s but if there have been some recen
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And Now Let Us Praise, and Consider the Absurd Luck of, Famous Men(theatlantic.com)
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The University of Leicester website on the dig ( http://www.le.ac.uk/richardiii/archaeology/wherewedug.html ) shows that they were able to determine exactly where the remains should have been buried. Pretty amazing.
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The archaeology portion of this website makes for some exciting reading. Well done! http://www.le.ac.uk/richardiii/archaeology.html
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Oh, that makes sense. Thanks.
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Thanks, I didn't think of that.
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I'm always wary of claims of "reverse discrimination" but I honestly can't think of a reason that, all else being equal (important caveat), that a PhD program would pick an American over a foreign student. Seems like the foreigner would be
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Pentagon to boost cybersecurity force(washingtonpost.com)
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I think this story is incorrect. 1. This is the only article I could find that says she's formed an exploratory committee. 2. This is clearly a prohibited activity for any Federal employee under the Hatch Act. http://www.osc.gov/hatchact.h
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But the thing that bugs me about this case is that the local police didn't do anything at all to warn Caswell or work with him to reduce crime at his business. The city police officers are, after all, his peers and neighbors and you would t
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Triumphant motel owner slams Carmen Ortiz(bostonherald.com)
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by hudibras 14y ago
The biggest problem R faces is the corrosive attitude the language developers and maintainers have towards the R community. The R core team sometimes seems openly hostile to users; instead of Benevolent-Dictator-for-Life, it's more of a mil
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by hudibras 14y ago
I see now that my remark about the coffee and my tv could be misinterpreted as sarcasm, but I was 100% sincere. I no longer get cable tv and I don't go to Starbucks anymore now that I have an Aeropress. (The couponing mention was a joke,
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by hudibras 14y ago
Somebody's been reading David Copperfield. "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
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by hudibras 14y ago
I love the juxtaposition of using a computer to declare that you don't have a TV.
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No problem, I mostly agree with you. The only assumption I didn't like was living with a roommate who pays half the rent (not a spouse) for the next 50 years. That's a little extreme even for me.
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As you probably know, discussions about Social Security in the U.S. quickly become holy wars so I'll just answer your question without explanation: I trust the Democrats will protect and defend Social Security from the Republicans who want
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And never have to work another day in your life, don't forget.
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Don't want to make too much of your story but the father had a third option: use the money for the trade school and then say to his son, "Money's tight because I'm going back to school, so this weekend we're going camping (or taking a bus t
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by hudibras 14y ago
This is exactly the right thing to do. It takes a leap of faith, but you really do get used to the lower level of take-home pay quickly. An added bonus is getting the Vanguard statement each month and seeing it grow.
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by hudibras 14y ago
Five grand a year is probably too extreme, that's less than $15/day. But $15k/year is definitely doable with a $400K nest egg. 16 million households in the U.S. survive on less than that and most of them have to work to do so.
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And I get 21 HD TV channels over-the-air for free! Now let me tell you about my couponing...
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It's a little long but MMM has an article that addresses this exact thing (down to the expensive latte example): http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/06/21/frugality-as-a-mus... The short version is that it's a "misconception that buying t

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