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Facebook admits it poses mental health risk – but says using site more can help(theguardian.com)
8 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|0 comments
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Oh, not every ordinance (or planning department directive) is "natural" or reasonable, of course. But zoning generically is a pretty well established and generally understood practice by this point - on par with the idea of &qu
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
It's a completely artificial construct that drives up the cost of living and robs the poor with rent seeking. It's called "zoning", and it's a perfectly natural construct. And if you're going to be fair, you&
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Oh they quite definitely suck - even when "doing the best they can". The spin I'm trying to put on this is -- they exist solely for one reason: to fill a vacuum. The vacuum created by the fact that both sides (mostly the
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I don't think there's a talent shortage problem, I think there's a recruiter problem. Though they certainly aren't helping much (and in many ways are quite simply harmful), recruiters are more of a "pain signal&qu
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Research suggests a link between homicide and inequality(theguardian.com)
25 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|12 comments
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How white engineers built racist code – and why it's dangerous for black people(theguardian.com)
6 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|1 comments
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Over the past 7 years, Bitcoin has outperformed every security and portfolio that Jack Bogle has recommended. Same deal (give or take a few name and parameter changes) as with the preconditions for every speculative bubble - and crash - s
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
How is bitcoin different than other commodities or property in this regard? The key distinction is that, mercurial though their price fluctuations may be - traditional commodities such as oil or real estate at least have some intrinsic v
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Stella McCartney calls for overhaul of 'incredibly wasteful' fashion industry(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I've used a variant of this when interviewing CS PhD candidates. If in fact it's for an actual PhD qualifying exam (or something similar), then this question might be OK. The problem with the current crisis in interviewing is th
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Oh the donation by itself is perfectly fine. It's just a bit disappointing that media outlets (like TC in this case) consistently allow themselves to get pulled into spinning a lot these as pure cash donations (by emitting headlines th
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Ploy or not, I'm not happy with TC blindly passing along the "$1M donation" meme, clearly meant to suggest a pure cash donation... when, when you read a few lines down, you find out that "a part cash, but part (read: p
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
EDIT: " even when one is ..."
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Like the draining of the Aral sea... but on a planet-wide scale. http://www.ciesin.org/docs/006-238/006-238.html
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
This sort of mythology is NOT helping. Unfortunately it's partially valid. Job ads in particular are (presumably for a want of some other way to whittle down the pile of incoming resumes) considerably biased towards frameworks and g
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
EDIT: "this particular question might be" => "... might be applicable."
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
You don't. You simply allow whatever perfectly natural reaction your spinal cord chooses to trigger - to bubble up through your system. Which you should in no way be ashamed of. You're the one coming to them on good faith, expe
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Life is too short to work with tyrants. It's also -- for the very majority of people -- way too damn short to simply cut one's self off from salary and (don't forget, please), health insurance. Especially when your indus
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Of course the only (dignified) way out is to leave on one's volition. But when one is highly skilled, one does not simply "just quit and get another job".
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
From skimming the documentation it sounds like, rather than being just another library of utility functions, there's a formal language of sorts under the hood that the programming library "compiles to": Think of this as the
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
So - any data available on how well some of these people made out?
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Isn't SQL Turing complete? Even if it is -- "turing complete" != "expressive". They're rather different beasties, in fact.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Working with smart people who were kind enough to point out the deficiencies in my early and crude approaches This point cannot be underemphasized. There's no end of stuff you can read online about better practices, these days. But
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
In the US I can buy the same Coca Cola that Buffet and Gates can. But access to health care, or (in many neighborhoods) even reasonably nutritious food and safe drinking water - that's quite another matter.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Even people closer to the regime believed they had a good life because they received bananas and oranges before every Christmas... People who work in elite tiers in the U.S., e.g. finance, tend to have a similar mentality. Granted they g
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
All generally valid viewpoints, of course. There may be questions of degree, and more fundamentally, of proportion to other issues not mentioned. But taken individually, I can get where they're coming from on nearly all of these bu
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
But the candidate can't communicate for shit. You know, it just might be... the interviewer who's not so hot at communicating. Or is "communicating" okay enough, but following a template that's broken to begin w
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
If you had that attitude during one of my interviews I'd show you the door. And with that attitude on your side -- "if this isn't going well, then by definition, it's the candidate's fault" --- let's j
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
You mean... "Hmm, my assumption, from looking at your resume and portfolio, is that you aren't quite ready to hold your own in a spontaneous, 1-1 discussion about an actual, real business or technical problem. And not only that -

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