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by jacalata 10y ago
Fascinating, thanks!
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by jacalata 10y ago
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/06/12/study-us-high...
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by jacalata 10y ago
Hmm, cite? People I know at universities aren't on H1B visas.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Actually I wonder if entry level employees would be crowded out completely in an auction system - wouldn't it end up being all senior engineers?
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by jacalata 10y ago
Correlation
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by jacalata 10y ago
No, you weren't "merely" saying that - you added on a general criticism of everyone else. Don't be disingenuous.
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by jacalata 10y ago
My team uses it at work and love it. Both of them were new to me when I started (was using angular in vanilla JS) and it's been a really nice experience, the type definitions definitely help with learning a new codebase. I'm think
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by jacalata 10y ago
Mosques were already prohibited from making an audible call to prayer. The new law was explicitly and only banning them from being visible. It's more like if your city was introducing a new law today that banned the existence of church
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by jacalata 10y ago
Try the New York Times "rent vs buy calculator" if you really can't understand that it might be financially better to rent. Also try setting up a budget and some savings - losing your job for less than a month should never be
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by jacalata 10y ago
Wikipedia has a large audience in areas where bandwidth is very much an issue.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Interesting data - what do the colors mean on the chart?
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by jacalata 10y ago
We don't know for sure about this instance, but evidence suggests that it's more likely to happen to a woman than a man - https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/cfawis/bowles.pdf
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by jacalata 10y ago
Your willingness to quit.
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by jacalata 10y ago
In what circumstances does an aerospace engineer really substitute for a mechanic?
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by jacalata 10y ago
It is changing the context. I don't know if you know this, but there are a lot of existing gender-based influences in the world already, they aren't inventing the concept.
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by jacalata 10y ago
You may have literally never looked because it's really easy to find those studies on google.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Do you have any evidence that's a relevant favor in the practice? Eg: how many times does a doctor see the same patient again in a shift? Is that really relevant across all medical positions/specialties?
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by jacalata 10y ago
Why do you need a second job on $35k per year, are you supporting a family or something?
529.
by jacalata 10y ago
Did you know you can die from cold turkey withdrawal on some drugs, including alcohol? Do you consider that irrelevant to "need"?
530.
by jacalata 10y ago
It's called "civilisation"
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by jacalata 10y ago
Pivotal Labs definitely doesn't require a 3 week contract before hiring, and it never even came up as a theoretical option when I interviewed with them and got an offer last year.
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by jacalata 10y ago
And?
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by jacalata 10y ago
This post is about how to learn, and touches on concepts that I felt were very well explained in the coursera course "Learning how to learn" ( https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn )
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by jacalata 10y ago
s/python dev/person HN might care about
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by jacalata 10y ago
Presumably that gain after first rising is experimental error? What could cause it to gain weight there?
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by jacalata 10y ago
I don't know if the factories are manufacturing enough, or capable of ramping up to do so. It's a huge increase in demand. I heard of similar problems in Australia.
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by jacalata 10y ago
"African-Americans" as a group doesn't actually include those Africans who never ended up in the US, so your response seems kind of irrelevant.
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by jacalata 10y ago
The US has American Sign Language and Signed English, that breakdown is quite common. There are a lot of criticisms of the "signed x" systems: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manually_coded_language
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by jacalata 10y ago
What exactly was supposed to be funny?
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by jacalata 10y ago
Probably means from India or nearby.

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