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by jazzyk 11y ago
Thank you for providing this link. Even though the rug story happened last year (somehow I missed it), it is relevant to this thread (and a scary read). Taken together (the attempt at censorship and the rug story) indicates to me that Githu
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by jazzyk 11y ago
No, it is not fine to use what you described. The difference is that you are picking on a particular nationality, while "retarded" is a generic term meaning "mentally under-developed" which, while certainly not a term of
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Agreed, it is just that my example covered one particular race being discriminated, so I wanted to make it clear. For some reason, people think only non-white people can be discriminated against.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
You guys may be thinking about two different contexts: 1. calling someone with a disability a retard (which I would never, ever do) 2. using the word "retarded" in a generic sense. For example: I may have called my kids retarded,
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by jazzyk 11y ago
>a functioning economy needs people to spend Agreed, as long as people don't spend money they don't have :-) You could be saving too much (example: China with 30-50% income saved) or not saving enough (example: the US, with sav
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by jazzyk 11y ago
If the market were really tight as trumpeted by the media, there would have been wage pressures already. Perhaps the tight market is limited to SV - I certainly see no signs of hot labor market in Boston. Smaller software companies do have
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by jazzyk 11y ago
One factor is the amount consumed, and yes people sometimes drink more than they should (everywhere in the world) The other is HOW it is consumed - and here there are significant differences around the world (not surprisingly). It is not un
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by jazzyk 11y ago
>RESTful also never meant HTTP NOt in its original spirit, but it was developed in parallel with HTTP 1.1 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfe... ) and uses the same verbs (GET, POST, ..)
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Please do not downvote just because you disagree - it is against the rules. I was questioning the statement "many examples of girls being actively refused...", because the poster provided an example of ONE incident. I provided val
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I would say this a sample of 1 - and from a biased source, too. My daughter graduated form high-school last year. Not only had I not heard a single case of girls being refused entry to anything - most of the times it seemed like my daughter
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by jazzyk 11y ago
1. The US had 3 females as Secretary of State almost in a row (M. Albright, C. Rice, H. Clinton). In the US, Secretary of State has a much higher significance/gravitas than Foreign Affairs. 2. The US is worker-hostile (no law-mandated
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by jazzyk 11y ago
For me, when I am the interviewer = and for many people, I think- "I am looking for a new challenge" is just too generic/phoney. The OP should briefly mention the frat culture/all-night drinking, without elaborating too
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Your scenario is too simplistic to use. The premise that "if you print additional $10 and hand it to a different guy, the price is still $10" is false. A better example of your idea is - college education. By giving out free money
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by jazzyk 11y ago
>I'm skeptical that printing money and handing it to >consumers would cause any amount of inflation. Printing money and giving it to consumers IS inflation (it is the very definition of inflation). Example: if you have two orange
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by jazzyk 11y ago
One more thing: asset ownership is heavily concentrated in the hands of the 1%.So out of 100 students, 1 can pay many times over, the next 9 too, with more pain. At least 50 students are penniless and with the job market paying what it is p
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Not sure which assets you are talking about: 1. Half of US households have no retirement savings: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-12/the-retire... 2. One third of households making > $75K li
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by jazzyk 11y ago
>Instead of expanding the amount of credit, why shouldn't we just expand the amount of actual money? So just print more money? I just tried to explain to you that printing money without producing more goods/services just dilute
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by jazzyk 11y ago
>Why do we need a balanced budget? Because if you spend more than you make, you are essentially borrowing from the future (with compound interest). Eventually the quickly-compounding interest and principal overwhelm you and you have to s
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by jazzyk 11y ago
While the household debt is lower now (still high, though), you conveniently omitted: 1. the student loan debt, which, in $ terms, recently exceeded the "regular" household debt. 2. the gross federal debt (April 2015) is $18.15 tr
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Respectfully disagree. He ridicules the simplistic solutions proposed to certain issues (lack of women in a math competition in this case). In my opinion, it adds a valid (and funny) point - you may agree or disagree with him, but it is not
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by jazzyk 11y ago
1. A well-liked/respected employee is abruptly fired. 2. In most businesses, the CEO does all the firings (or is responsible). 3. I liked the fired employee, I thought she did a great job, therefore I am angry at the CEO. Are you sayin
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by jazzyk 11y ago
>Greece functioned "OK" if a low standard of living, rampant inflation and pervasive lack of access to credit for businesses or individuals is "OK". They still have all of these things. Plus 25% unemployment (50% for
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by jazzyk 11y ago
When Victoria was fired, the _perception_ was (possibly incorrect, as we know now) that it was Pao's decision. Not unreasonably, since most personnel decisions below the CEO are made by the CEO. So the original premise still stands.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I think of myself as a moderate libertarian, so I may not agree with Mr Varoufakis. But I sure can appreciate him speaking English rather than some bureaucratic newspeak that is the norm among elected (and non-elected) officials. And I can
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Greece functioned OK before the euro. They devalued the drachma every now and then to keep themselves competitive. While never the model of operational efficiency, they chugged along before they were saddled with debt in the mid 2000s - deb
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by jazzyk 11y ago
On paper, yes. In reality, English is being used, as it is everywhere else in the world whenever you need to talk to people from other countries. Evidence: http://www.theguardian.com/education/datablog/2014/ma
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by jazzyk 11y ago
True, we are talking about economics, not languages, so the OP projected PM's incompetence in one area without providing additional facts. However, I see nothing arrogant for his country citizens (who pay his salary) to expect of the
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Is it speculating or finding out the truth that would do harm in your opinion? Her firing is at the very center of a very public controversy - why should it be a secret? Victoria is most likely legally barred from speaking out, so the fact
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by jazzyk 11y ago
It has more to do with the pay disparity between nurses and doctors, rather than gender, these days. While only 30% of active physicians in the US are female, the gender split among residents (entering the profession) is close to 50%/5
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by jazzyk 11y ago
It is a bit rich to imply that J.K. Galbraith is a competent economist and Donald Trump is not, when Trump is the one who has money and J.K. isn't. Right? :-)

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