jacalata

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by jacalata 10y ago
What do you want to achieve?
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by jacalata 10y ago
Some teams in Microsoft still had private offices at least in 2015, although many teams had moved to an open office.
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by jacalata 10y ago
> discounting that, in the real world, if you're in a team but don't actually do the work, you're going to get screwed. Ha. I used to think that, then had two separate experiences with completely different management chain
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by jacalata 10y ago
> I'm concerned from a statistical perspective that trees vs. no trees could be strongly correlated with other variables that might be more causative, like building type and density. Wasn't that why he mentioned using the tree
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by jacalata 10y ago
I thought Google voice required you to receive an automated phone call with a code to sign up.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Interesting question! This article says how many medals were won in Rio by people born in each state - http://www.wxyz.com/news/national/rio-olympics-medal-count-b... . It doesn't make a lot of sense to count
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by jacalata 10y ago
Do most colleges really not do this? The University of Melbourne had a split like this back in 2003.
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by jacalata 10y ago
http://www.census.gov/topics/population/race/about.html
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by jacalata 10y ago
I would have guessed not but Theil is certainly classed as libertarian whenever I've heard it discussed, and he is Palantirs major shareholder, and Palantir is a CIA shop. Connection seems pretty clear in this context.
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by jacalata 10y ago
> Is everyone going to buy a personal trainer robot? Why would you need a robot? Millions of people today already use video-guided workouts off YouTube or follow semi-customised apps that tell them what workout to do, etc.
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by jacalata 10y ago
> I can put a simple "no advertisements" sign on my real mailbox and cut down junk to almost zero. Fun fact: this isn't possible in the US. I'd never considered how that might influence how Americans think about spam
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by jacalata 10y ago
Perhaps they actually mean that patients must be capable of breathing independently to enroll in the study, and that voiced consent is the metric used?
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by jacalata 10y ago
4. Yes, but it varies by domain. I think the military definition is the more useful one here: https://definedterm.com/open_ocean There are rivers over 100m wide so I don't think that would fit most people's defini
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by jacalata 10y ago
It sounds like they are suggesting something more like 'cuts the stereo and begins announcing on internal and external speakers that the driver is not paying attention and the car will slow to a stop in 5,4,3,2,...'.
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by jacalata 10y ago
I don't think it fits under that at all, and I find that when people do see it that way it gets an entirely different treatment. "Manual testing" is an activity you do when you are thinking about how the product works. "
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by jacalata 10y ago
I don't think conflating dogfooding with manual testing really works - they are different actions and you can have a dogfood culture without manual testing, or vice versa.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Agreed! There are people who think before typing, for instance.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Of course not. I understood your comment to be questioning whether there exist any individual Americans who condemn Snowden and proposing as evidence for their non-existence "Everyone American I know". If you were just saying that
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by jacalata 10y ago
This reminds me of my friend who was convinced John Kerry would win the election because "I don't know anybody who will vote for Bush!" In other words, I suspect you have a strong selection bias informing your view of Ameri
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by jacalata 10y ago
Well, you didn't bother to give any reasoning....
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by jacalata 10y ago
The comment about taking siestas was saying the US is the largest economy because people in other countries were lazy. Did you really think that it was the other half of that sentence being objected to?
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by jacalata 10y ago
Nope! For an interesting look at "what is a Christian", you might like reading about the question "are Mormons Christian?" Mormons say they are, but other Christian churches say they are not - here's an example argu
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by jacalata 10y ago
That was totally outweighed by the bullshit absolutist statement that everyone can cure depression with running.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Most of your comments in this thread are just whiny trolling, but I don't like to leave harmful misinformation like this comment unaddressed. Running can have a positive effect in reducing or avoiding depression, but it is absolutely n
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by jacalata 10y ago
Some of the most arrogant people I know reject the notion that they are gifted (as in, born lucky) in favor of the idea that they just work hard and anybody else could do the same but everyone else is too lazy. I think there are some defini
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by jacalata 10y ago
The Air Force
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by jacalata 10y ago
If you were satisfied with only enforcing it against people renting solely on airbnb, then sure. Seems like it would be easy to work around though.
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by jacalata 10y ago
For that to be a complete explanation, you need to ignore or flat out disbelieve everyone who talks about having a harder time getting a job once they seem old.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Clumsy laws require less intrusion to enforce. A flat ban on short term rentals means they can run through airbnb listings and see who is breaking the law. A rolling 12 month period requires that they track each night you rented your place
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by jacalata 10y ago
It depends heavily on your location. Some jurisdictions levy taxes that you are supposed to pay when you rent out your house for a short time ('hotel taxes'). Some areas have private groups which control a block of houses ("H

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