jacalata

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by jacalata 11y ago
This one? http://www.outsideonline.com/1926316/freezing-persons-recoll...
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by jacalata 11y ago
So do you think mobbing is something that you would do instead of pair programming, or do you see them as complementary?
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by jacalata 11y ago
Skill shortages 'despite' low wages doesn't make sense. "Even though we don't pay them much, people aren't flocking to do it!"
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by jacalata 11y ago
Because the cap is a response to the US desire to not allow in an unlimited number of foreigners.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Study behavioural questions. Have an answer ready for things like "what do you hope to get out of this internship", "what do you do when you're stuck", "what would your first step be if I asked you to make me a
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by jacalata 11y ago
What? There's a bunch of rich professional athletes too but you'd be laughed off the internet if you published an article saying that the answer to poor career prospects for millenials was to start playing football. If 'it mi
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by jacalata 11y ago
If you want to track what you read, goodreads is a pretty decent site. It even has a Reading Challenge where you commit to reading X books for the year and it will tell you if you are on track to hit that target (with a simplistic % of book
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by jacalata 11y ago
I find an issue here >attention leads to money. I think it's blatantly wrong and not even worth engaging with someone who presents that as an axiom, if you or she wants to actually argue for why that is true (and in the process expl
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by jacalata 11y ago
> there’s certainly a shortage of long term think and creativity You don't say. And the solution is to start a youtube channel for exposure? Ok then.
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by jacalata 11y ago
This is from several months ago, since then Facebook has announced changes to the name policy - might be more valuable to get a more recent discussion?
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by jacalata 11y ago
That's irrelevant to most of my points, but if for some reason the UBI or remaining welfare system does depend on income in any way, that also deals very badly with changes during the year. "I'm sorry, our records show that 1
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by jacalata 11y ago
Because not everyone has to file taxes. Because maybe you want to change banks some time between tax returns. Primarily because some people are talking about a system that could plausibly be implemented given the state of the US today and n
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by jacalata 11y ago
In London specifically, a significant percentage of foreign investors are absolutely leaving the houses empty. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/25/its-like-a-gh...
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by jacalata 11y ago
Who said you had a yard?
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by jacalata 11y ago
>For me, that makes it clear that, at current price level, daycare workers cannot have a middle class income. Also, if they had, lots of people couldn't afford child care. You're assuming here that the payment all has to come f
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by jacalata 11y ago
Weird, that's what my friend said about Minecraft.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Their VP seriously wanted to analyse ethnicity by last name? Among other things, way to completely ignore the existence of people with parents of different backgrounds, or women who took their husbands name, or anyone adopted. And then ther
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by jacalata 11y ago
Maybe I'll try Outlook, if they implement the Trello 2-way integration.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Yes it does. The article has some poor wording but the report itself is clear and plenty of people in the thread clarified that: >The original report states: Once debts have been subtracted, a person needs only USD 3,210 to be among th
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by jacalata 11y ago
What gives you that impression? The second family now has a $250k asset and a $200k debt, so they're worth the same. If you wait ten years and one of them collects 1% interest and the other gets their house value doubled then there&#x2
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by jacalata 11y ago
The concept of dropping out will remain an issue until they stop talking about how many students are enrolled.
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by jacalata 11y ago
People buy cars to drive for them, because nicer cars get better reviews, and there is a minimum age for acceptable cars to drive (different in each market) - https://get.uber.com/cl/financing/
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by jacalata 11y ago
That's the HN convoluted 'no' he was referring to.
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by jacalata 11y ago
No one that ever went into marketing, maybe.
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by jacalata 11y ago
I knew a guy who did a year in a lab in Germany and didn't speak a word of German, he said the whole lab spoke English.
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by jacalata 11y ago
> the question is how many meetups are there that are for boys, e.g. "Boys Learning Code" (creating these would be classified under men 's rights activism and therefore dismissed) Do you know this because somebody tried to
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by jacalata 11y ago
People aim for a diverse group that roughly reflects society instead of partitioning industries/jobs by randomly chosen personal characteristics?
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by jacalata 11y ago
If you are deliberately choosing to sacrifice your classes for side projects, then your side projects better be great. Make sure you're not one of those people who kid themselves that they are too busy 'working on side projects&#x
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by jacalata 11y ago
Most of the Coursera courses I take are actual college courses, like this algorithms one - https://class.coursera.org/algs4partI-009 They are a lot of work to keep up with, but the good ones have deadlines about a month pas
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by jacalata 11y ago
No reason they wouldn't be? EdX already has a setup for doing proctored exams all over the world.

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