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by kokokokoko 8y ago
The Holocaust and the events that lead up to it were directly related to new studies about DNA and genetics. That exact line of thinking is what caused the Nazi population to pick out specific groups as a whole. And currently, as we speak m
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
For almost 70% of US taxpayers this is the case. Free of charge tax payment. You literally type in your address and other info along with your w2(these days many w2s have codes where you only have to type in a number and it fills the whole
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
Generally employers figure out who left the bad review and threaten legal action to the person who made the review. It isn't Glassdoor that removes the review but the person who wrote it.
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
If anything your comment speaks to the weird paradox of who is responsible for a corporation's actions. Is it the shareholders? Is it the CEO? Is it the employees? Is it the board? Is it the customers? It almost ends up that there are
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
For what its worth, Volkswagon did have at least one engineer(software) convicted for the emissions issue[1]. With that said, I don't know if that is applicable here as I'm not even aware of what the potential charges might be. [1
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
The joke is that this is a browser setting. Its just set to "Always accept without asking" by default.
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
It's all subjective in that most people who want to draw or paint, likely have completely different ideas of what being good at that is. "Drawing from the right side of the brain" is basically just a brain hack to allow a per
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
I wonder if you can help me understand this better. Why does a specific private university need let in the smartest or most capable students? What does that have to be their goal or they are unjust? Why can't they have different reason
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
No, it's just typical Twitter/Facebook era reactionary writing. The author is likely in some type of bubble, probably behavioral science, possibily behavior nutrition, and feels an artificial need to right the wrongs of an algorit
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
My rule has always been: "write down the entire manual process". Follow the steps and do a deployment and time it. Do you have that much time? Are you likely to make an error? If not, just do it manually. If so, break out the easi
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
I find it interesting that in other building projects, like in construction, almost all of the pressure and responsibility for meeting deadlines is placed upon the project management. Not the ones doing the direct labor. The reason for dead
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
I'd also be curious about the criteria for "abuse" and "bullying". I imagine there are technical definitions but I did not see any in the abstract. I've found there is massive deviation between what co-workers
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
> in rare circumstances where they tried correlating them That is definitely not a rare circumstance. I would be shocked if any data company at reasonable scale was not actively doing that.
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
I'm getting up there in age and have always resigned to the fact that I'll probably be making significantly less money in 10 years or less in a low skilled job unless I get lucky. I don't want to go into a full management rol
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
I'm pretty sure AirBnB acquired HotelTonight so they can legally speculate about owning a much larger share of overall travel booking, including traditional hotels, on their S-1.
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
The issue is that once a job can be done remotely or moved to a cheaper city, it can usually just be moved to a different country where the labor is much cheaper. We will likely not see jobs move to less expensive areas in the US(or any oth
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
It is common for first time home buyers to get a significant portion(if not all) of their first deposit for their mortgage(often 20%) from either family assistance or inheritance. This is especially common in the more expensive housing mark
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
Because it's an easy line to draw. Don't take the money. Problem solved. The other things you listed do not have such a simple solution.
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
Because in the US we have a market economy. Taking family assistance when others do not have it, distorts the market and also distorts the very concept of merit based rewards. Which is the fundamental device of the economic system in the US
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
Yes. In a market economy it is wildly unfair to take family assistance because many people do not have access to it.
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
Yes, absolutely. It is wildly unfair to those who do not have access in a market economy.
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
I can't believe this would be a shock to anyone. How else does a first time home buyer come up with a 20% deposit on a $500,000 house? There are obviously exceptions, but generally speaking that's where the money comes from. Money
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
I can't even count of both hands the number of people I grew up with that cannabis has completely wasted away their life. Remember, in the era of dabs and edibles, recreational dosage is massively higher than it was in the past. It doe
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
Nope. You are exactly correct. The way to approach removing bias in all personal financial decision making, algorithmic or otherwise, is to only allow it to be based on previous individual financial behavior. The solution is pretty much tha
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
As someone who has been in this industry for a long time and seen a lot, this still baffles me. Who agrees to being on call 24/7 for a week? Especially when you are getting paid a typical professional salary? It seems absurd. I've
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
What I have found with any relational database that has this kind of JSON storage option(MySQL, PostgresSQL) is that you can take some kind of data that arrives via 3rd party as JSON and just dump it straight into the db as JSON as opposed
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
If you work in web technologies, you can absolutely damage your career prospects by spending 3+ years in legacy technology. I've seen many many of my peers fall behind thinking that way and are now working in roles related to, but not
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
This, if anything, is a good lesson on why politicians and PR firms tend to speak the way they do. Unfortunately, the baseline for your understanding requires a reasonable amount of intelligence, a reasonable amount of empathy, and a reason
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
> people absolutely should be paid for their labors and if other people are making money off of that We're talking about twitter posts. This stuff has incredibly low value on its own. Viral content really only exists because it is
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by kokokokoko 8y ago
We should all spend a moment to really take in the fact that Yelp is a website that has reviews of restaraunts and other services. That this person needed to be on call 24/7 for a review website. Not a hospital. Nothing was burning dow

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