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by jtmcmc 8y ago
from https://sfcontroller.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Docu... Businesses within the Area paid $7.6 million more in payroll tax in 2013 than they did in 2010. While some increase would be expected
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
also sebastian thrun and google[x] / self driving cars
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NYC has been extremely dense before practically anyone on this forum was alive.
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
The character of the city isn't defined by the amount of single family homes it has. Also character of a city changes over time.
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
You are very mistaken regarding "In most cases Trump's style is very different from that of Obama, but the meat of the policy decisions is very much the same." " Congress could easily undo this permission and make it har
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
This seems like a strawman screed. It seems like this guy literally created an argument out of what he thinks the general "big tech" consensus on UBI is and then attacks it. His argument seems to be the amount suggested (which he
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
also cisco - http://www.businessinsider.com/why-cisco-showered-three-men-...
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
because that doesn't sell. I'm not at google but I'm at a bay area tech startup. I'm in slack channels around things ranging from learning to speak japanese and korean, keto diets, coffee discussions, lgbt issues, politi
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a multilateral action like say a non terrible version of the TPP...
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
so I can say that they may submitted it to arxiv using a nips LaTeX styling template - even if it wasn't in NIPS (could have been rejected or something else and they forgot to change the style template)
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
I agree it got quite crazy. I had several years experience as a data scientist and 2 years of PhD work in machine learning and after a few years not in software (running a non profit) it was incredibly hard to get call backs. I ended up get
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
wow you sound terrible to work with based on this post.
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
I think EQ is incredibly important to engineers or to anyone who is working in a team and "EQ" or put more casually, is this person a self aware, nice person that can work well with other people, is absolutely something I care ab
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
I feel like this isn't often the case. In multiple teams I've been on - the team wrote their own job descriptions and even revised them multiple times.
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
at larger companies you often have recruiters focused on specific areas - so they can know more. At places I've worked we've had just an engineering recruiter and just a sales recruiter and etc...
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
The Well was a bbs for tech nerdery, futurism, science fiction, etc... in the 80's. It was massively influential in creating the cyberpunk literary genre and many tech people from the time were on it and influenced by it. There is a di
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
This just seems to be anti-coachella but with a clickbait headline. Sure coachella is super corporate not really surprising. As the article itself mentions there are numerous other festivals happening throughout the country that are communi
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
4% or 20 million whichever is greater
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
I think this is a really great summary of burning man and what it aspires to be.
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hah I love it. A friend once did this at burning man. He was in a tower at an intersection with a light and a megaphone and as cars went by he'd tell them to stop or go or wait. It was overall pretty hilarious (and before people get on
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
"if you are going to be more permissive in what people can legally acquire, I think that we have a moral obligation to provide intervention and support services for individuals affected by substance abuse. I don’t see a lot of people a
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that is not what inflation means in an economic sense.
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
I think this is really what I'm trying to say - that these anecdotes about psychedelics curing / not curing depression to be profoundly useless.
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
So the levels of neurotoxicity for MDMA are not known. It's almost certainly neurotoxic to some degree but not any where near the levels purported by that study that used massive amounts of meth on rats (remember alcohol is also neurot
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by jtmcmc 8y ago
it seems likely to be the ketamine - http://ajp.amjpathol.org/article/S0002-9440(16)00073-0/fullt...
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counter anecdote i know massive amounts of people who have taken psychedelics that are depressed. similarly for ketamine.
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Facebook Apple Amazon Netflix Google
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right but things like privacy and security are aimed at the entirety of companies that have an online presence. For instance like laws around privacy requirements affect all major companies not just tech companies.
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by jtmcmc 9y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266240/global-revenue-of... blackberry has emerged from it's crysalis to become the final form of all failed software companies - patent troll...
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absolutely - but they do not have to ensure that data they process is properly consented - that is the role of the data collector.

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