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by john_b 13y ago
The irony is that school is essentially an institution which allows you to outsource your child's education, and--to a lesser extent--their discipline. Yet because parents have complained so much about the disciplinary actions of schools in
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by john_b 13y ago
Is anyone aware of how the courts have interpreted things like this (if at all)? > "Under the new policy, mothers can take 16 weeks of paid leave with benefits, and fathers can take up to eight weeks" Would that not be considered disc
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by john_b 13y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to exploit human vanity to reduce piracy amongst those who can afford a game. People do things like buy fancy cars and large houses to signal wealth; perhaps similar forms of social signaling can be incorpor
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by john_b 13y ago
I'm not sure if you meant this is sarcasm, but I read this quote as being more appropriate for an Onion-type article than for a serious discussion about security.
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by john_b 13y ago
> "The American people have traditionally viewed the classroom as a revered sanctuary that should not be sullied by any form of negative influences either of an external or internal nature," it says. "Regrettably the safeguards which w
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by john_b 13y ago
You might be right, but he did post it to a community that leans toward the hyper-male-minded-problem-solving side of the spectrum, so it shouldn't be surprising.
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by john_b 13y ago
I was surprised to not find "unlimited Kool Aid" among the benefits.
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by john_b 13y ago
Agreed. However, I think a lot of the PM hating arises due to PMs who think that just because work flows through them to the customer, it's ok for them to take credit for it. I've dealt with inefficient PMs, and I can live with such people,
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by john_b 13y ago
I think the analogy is perfectly valid. Regardless of the goals of a policy, its implementation via bureaucracy can still be so hopelessly complicated that it's a net drain on society. It reminds me of a quote I once heard, possibly by
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by john_b 13y ago
That is my hunch as well. HFT algorithms do exist which trade primarily on news feeds, and given the relative ease of harvesting Twitter data, there has to be more than just a few HFT bots that reacted to this.
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by john_b 13y ago
This man is a case study in Statist ideology.
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Top prosecutor for Boston bomber: Carmen Ortiz(reuters.com)
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by john_b 14y ago
> The posed question is kind of offensive and arrogant if you think of it. It is kind of along the lines of 'Will/do you hire someone who is a woman/foreign/handicapped/ugly?' ... > How about asking "Will/do you hire someone who is
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by john_b 14y ago
Why not have the best of both worlds? If you really have something to say that's important, lengthy, and worthy of the reflection of your readers, put it in an "essays" section of your site where comments are disabled and link to it in a b
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by john_b 14y ago
Among many other good reasons, it's an app whose nature is determined by the same kind of dynamics that govern many restaurant and product reviews. Most of the time, satisfied customers don't bother to review the product or service because
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by john_b 14y ago
> Men have been getting the good end of sexual discrimination for centuries. Owning property. Voting. Higher education. Being allowed to practice a profession. Being favored by marriage laws. Being favored by social biases. Are you sayi
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by john_b 14y ago
His point was that it's indicative of a childish and immature mentality, which is a judgment of a person, not a judgement of their phone.
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by john_b 14y ago
And when it's your fault for being a "creeper" when you just try to talk to a woman, you learn not to bother. Blaming women for their rapes is of course absurd and unjust, but indiscriminately second guessing all men everywhere is not the s
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by john_b 14y ago
Understandable. Without knowing the details of your issue, all I can say is that even light lifting with free weights will help develop your secondary/stabilizer muscles. You may or may not be able to make it a mainstay of your exercise pro
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by john_b 14y ago
Like software development, fitness has many methods and plenty of adherents that will swear by each one. Unlike software, however, human physiology doesn't change very quickly. Generally, simpler is better. In general, you should mix cardio
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by john_b 14y ago
I second this. While I'm not a powerlifter, I do lift regularly. Two years ago I stretched before doing anything, including a warm up. Sometimes I would be in a rush and skip the stretching. After I noticed that it made no noticeable differ
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by john_b 14y ago
It's a Ponzi scheme, but what makes it unjust? It's the circle of life, man. Your parents took care of you, and at the other end of the cycle you take care of them. This describes retirement in general, which I have no issue with, not soc
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by john_b 14y ago
I should have been more specific. I didn't mean that the probability of a marriage surviving some fixed time interval decreases linearly with the duration of the marriage. Everyone knows that marriages that have lasted longer are less likel
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by john_b 14y ago
Every scheme of retirement depends on the existence of successive generations. That is true whether you're talking about traditional societies where children take care of their parents, or modern societies where the childrens' generation m
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by john_b 14y ago
Look at table 6. You'll see a 44% base rate of divorce over 20 years. Note that couples with children (specifically have children after marriage) have a way lower divorce rate (from 48% to 22% after 15 years). While a 44% divorce rate is
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by john_b 14y ago
Only if you define a "good friendship" as a friendship in which neither party needs the other one at any time. This, however, runs counter to human tendencies: most deep friendships have a history of shared suffering, and helping one anothe
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by john_b 14y ago
Given 1-4, and the fact that the investment in raising a child is almost entirely borne by the parents while the returns (financial, emotional, social, etc) are distributed more widely, sperm or egg donation programs seem like a logical
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by john_b 14y ago
Bad analogy. Government employees actually do something (at least nominally) in exchange for the money they get.
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by john_b 14y ago
Regarding your last point, it basically ignores everything about the "mythical man month" concept. Work and productivity are usually not evenly divisible into discrete chunks. When we had an economy dominated by factory work, where workers
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by john_b 14y ago
And if the people who worked with the two guys who had the 800k hidden had found out he'd snitched, then what? The bottom line is that you shouldn't have to "choose sides" every time you see something suspicious. Most seemingly suspicious o

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