jacalata

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by jacalata 9y ago
Wow, really? That seems unusual - how are you defining "team"? I use it to describe a group of about 7-10 people and I have definitely seen many of them with no women.
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by jacalata 9y ago
Do explain.
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by jacalata 9y ago
Sorry, I tend not to read hn in places I can watch a video. Maybe I'll remember to check it later.
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by jacalata 9y ago
False. If you believe that the best candidates are spread across genders/races and your current hiring practices are overlooking those not in a specific set, affirmative action policies would be raising the bar. You call it lowering th
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by jacalata 9y ago
That's not even survivorship bias, that's a single anecdote. By that logic, you can't even argue that being blind is a disadvantage because you are blind and you were successful.
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by jacalata 9y ago
They do? Can you name some examples?
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by jacalata 9y ago
That's not an explanation, and that's clearly someone trying to show off their work that happens to be on your kid (aka use them as an ad), not a friend trying to post a picture of the two of you at a party.
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by jacalata 9y ago
The phrase "doesn't blindly accept x" usually has an implication that the subject is aware of x, so you seem to be totally avoiding the argument being made that Taleb seems unaware of work done on the topics he writes about
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by jacalata 9y ago
How long does a battery last without a way to recharge it?
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by jacalata 9y ago
Banks saying your mortgage or credit cards or student loan is in default before the city is recovered enough for you to earn if a paycheck again.
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by jacalata 9y ago
It would be lying to say the police "will" tell the judge anything the kid says. That's why they use "can".
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by jacalata 9y ago
It's the same argument. Someone created a system and I'm just doing my assigned part to keep it going without having to decide if it's a good system or not == just following orders.
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by jacalata 9y ago
And then we'll be CA for Cascadia, the newest Canadian province!
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by jacalata 9y ago
My theory is that you are never even going to ask an interesting question if you are going to remain determinedly ignorant of all the questions that have previously been asked and studied.
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by jacalata 9y ago
I don't think this is intrinsically true - a lot of people just don't personally know anyone who desperately needs help. Is it really overall better to be 100% efficient at getting a rich private school a new telescope instead of
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by jacalata 9y ago
Already said in this thread, but to make sure you see it: > The American Red Cross and the International Committee of the Red Cross are independent organizations, with very different reputations.
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by jacalata 9y ago
What about them? Does org mode handle them better/worse than other formats?
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by jacalata 9y ago
"It looks fine when you use the right viewing tools" is not a plus for a plaintext system
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by jacalata 9y ago
No, they need to please everyone who chooses to see it which means they need to be categorisable before viewing so people can knowledgeably choose not to see it.
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by jacalata 9y ago
Edit: my first response is all too detailed. The broad effect will be that employers aren't encouraged to provide health insurance, and people trying to buy coverage individually may be completely unable to do so because the combinatio
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by jacalata 9y ago
What functionality are you looking for exactly?
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by jacalata 9y ago
Because all they care about is that people are given the opportunity? Your question is a complete non sequiter.
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by jacalata 9y ago
It's a little difficult to explain without actually knowing about you. And it's true that if you're not American/don't now or ever intend to live in the US, it probably doesn't affect you.
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by jacalata 9y ago
> What a person did or did not benefit for is up for debate -- even North Korea provides basics -- What
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by jacalata 9y ago
This doesn't assume they'll take a 5 year vacation at all. It's the difference between deciding to become an artist because you know you'll never worry about money, and deciding to study accounting so you can eventually
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by jacalata 9y ago
Kayak, Expedia, booking directly with a hotel...
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by jacalata 9y ago
That's developers boycotting the language, not users boycotting developers of the language.
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by jacalata 9y ago
> Users should simply boycott such user hostile developers and languages I await with interest your newsletter to "the internet" on how to boycott JavaScript.
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by jacalata 9y ago
I agree that Debian is so different to npm as to make any comparison irrelevant, but you should direct that at the comment which introduced the comparisons, not one that pointed out ways it doesn't work to compare them.
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by jacalata 9y ago
I don't think I have a copy since userscripts died, but on cursory inspection this Reddit script looks like it does similar things - http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/review/170091

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