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by jordanb 10y ago
Think the solution is to outlaw IDB for overbooking. This is similar to letting airlines sit a plane on the tarmac for hours with all the passengers stewing inside. Once they had to start paying penalties they quit doing that. In this case,
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They're not better off now. Besides a small class of professional women. For minorities, the post-2008 economy has been absolutely savage. What's happened is that things have gotten very very good for people at the very top. For e
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He speaks very differently during Q/A sessions than during speeches. During Q/A he's never not making a sound.
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The big question was the rocket that had to fire to return the LEM to the orbiter. It was packed in next to the retrorocket that was used to descend. It was vibrated and jolted by the landing, then sat for three days, and then it had work p
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by jordanb 10y ago
Yeah and some people use them to their advantage. For instance, notice that President Obama uses "umms" to ensure that he's never not making a sound. Makes it harder for an interlocutor to interrupt.
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The Fed also had crazy gold requirements. They were required by law to hold a substantial reserve. But since this reserve was statutory it couldn't be used as a "real reserve," there had to be a reserve atop it. As a conseque
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by jordanb 10y ago
Well like 1929 the United States is immensely unequal and getting worse. I believe that what's happening now has to end somehow. And if it doesn't end with a financial crash it may just end with guillotines. We're already wat
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by jordanb 10y ago
This is still predicated on the assumption that there's a STEM shortage right? Almost everyone I know who has a graduate degree in CS came here on a visa. The reason is because employers don't reward graduate degrees in CS with co
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I don't think that's the premise at all. I think that if you read the voice of the Economist, it puts on an air of long experience and an expert level understanding of whatever topic is being covered. The magazine plays up its ver
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Flip side with the mentorship thing is not blocking out the senior dev's time to do the mentoring. If the senior dev is supposed to mentor his junior teammates with no impact on the number of story points he grinds through then it&#x2
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by jordanb 10y ago
Notice the article was discussing biology degrees. Classic STEM. Chemistry is awful too. In reality STEM is now just TE. And The E may be collapsing soon too (and the T can't stay where it is forever, we don't need 150 million pro
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I don't think this is an MBA vs STEMLord thing. Rather an MBA versus "everything else" thing. Especially studies and experiences that really are mind-broadening: """The strange thing about my utter lack of educ
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I read a book[0] a few years ago that spends some time on the rise and fall of analog computing. Of course in the early electrical computer era it was not obvious that digital computing would be the best way forward. Digital modeling is a p
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by jordanb 10y ago
I think it goes even deeper than that. I think for many people poor white men are one the category of people who it's still acceptable to hate. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin
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by jordanb 10y ago
> Suppose I were to write "slavery is economically beneficial, ...a bunch of evidence goes here...". Do you believe an intellectual discussion would result? The problem is that the distortion of your ethics and values would ha
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Turbine blades are made from inconel. And all solid metal is crystalline.
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I'm kinda amazed at what's happened in Canada. They largely missed the 2008 meltdown because their banking industry was still well-regulated and didn't participate in shenanigans. So apparently they decided to deregulate thei
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by jordanb 10y ago
The best thing you can do is avoid sugar. I started doing it about a year ago for similar reasons. I lost 30 pounds and feel great. I also cut way back on caffeine and alcohol. That probably played a part in my feeling better but perhaps no
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The only opportunity for people must not be to move to some overpriced city and leave their community to rot. Our economy is becoming increasingly centralized and increasingly winner-take-all. There are ever fewer highly overheated markets
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by jordanb 10y ago
What you're describing is Power Distance. On the whole the West tends to have lower power distance than the East. And Anglo and Germanic countries tend to have lower power distance than Romantic countries, while Scandinavia has the low
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That's true of so many things getting funded in SV today. And a bigger problem than SV wasting money is that these SV backed companies can cut off the air supply for more sustainable bootstrapped businesses in the same space. I could a
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Republicans are so out to lunch. I guess it's an example of the Overton Window in action. Obamacare is essentially what the Republicans were advocating in the 90s. So now they feel like they have to stake out a position in opposition t
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For reference: http://www.caruscorporation.com/resources/content/7/5/images...
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That transactional view of love is exactly the sort of technomyopia I would expect from the HN crowd.
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The F-22 avionics are mostly Ada. F-35 is mostly C++ though. If you want a good face-palm go read up on the "decision-makers" advocating making the switch. I saw a quote by a general blaming the F-22's cost overruns on the &q
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If you look at the history of most small aircaft you can find military involvement at the beginning, usually wanting an aircraft for training or spotting. Militaries with big budgets don't have much reason to buy small fixed-wing pisto
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I think the OP's point is that credit scores may be conditioned to assume regular income if a person has a good payment history. In doing so they are failing to capture a new and growing dimension of risk: peoples incomes are more prec
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What kind of jail were they in? That is going to affect the population. If they were in minimum security or small town jails, then it seems perfectly natural that most would be DUI and Child Support because others would go to different inst
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When Clinton advocated PNTR with China he promised us that a close trading relationship would cause them to adopt our values. How'd that work out for ya?
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I'm not talking about culture, I'm talking about wage rate. Outsourcing from AU to US is not a threat to AU wages because US wages are higher. The US can not compete with the AU on the price of labor, it can only compete on qualit

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