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by lr1970 5y ago
> That's for lying, and I've never heard of anyone going to court over it. In the US employment is at will and can be terminated for cause or no cause at all, no need to go to court. Omitting important facts about employment hi
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by lr1970 5y ago
Unfortunately, there is no clear cut rules about what constitutes resume fraud. Making up employment records is clearly a resume fraud. Omitting employment could be construed as fraud depending on the context. Omitting ice-cream parlor gig
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by lr1970 5y ago
> Why in God’s name would you list them both? It’s a resume not a deposition. In the US resume fraud is a thing. Some companies like telecoms selectively check resumes for accuracy. Resume fraud can be a fireable offense.
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by lr1970 5y ago
> Think about the caliber of people that man worked with every day. Greatness by association is not a solid concept. It shows how lucky a person is to be surrounded by great people but in itself does not count as an evidence of his great
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by lr1970 5y ago
> somehow it never seems to be the case that the ability outstrips the title. People get promoted until they reach their level of incompetence :-)
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by lr1970 5y ago
> "Some former employees are now asking whether they were cut out of trading owing to incompetence, or deliberately misled." The saying goes - never attribute to malice what can be explained by mere incompetence - but let me tr
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by lr1970 5y ago
> Caltech in the 70's was notable for the average IQ of the football players being higher than their average weight. You forgot to mention that the weight should be expressed in kilograms. Otherwise, if expressed in pounds this woul
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by lr1970 5y ago
> So… go ahead and share your ideas for paying doctors and hospitals less, because otherwise you’re talking about stuff which doesn’t amount to much! Think twice before you ask for it - you might get it. I often hear that doctors in US m
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by lr1970 5y ago
> The Tsar Bomba was the practical limit for what could be dropped by an airplane. The design was for 100MT. Tsar Bomba was a reduced yield variant where some of uranium was replaced by lead to reduce the yield to 50MT. The 100MT variant
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by lr1970 5y ago
The law mandates the functionality. How to enable and test this functionality is the responsibility of the carrier. Whether the compliance is achieved by testing third-party apps or via an in-house bypass implementation is immaterial. On th
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by lr1970 5y ago
> Google may blame Microsoft but there is no way an app should be able to disable 911 calling on a phone. Google runs a battery of automated tests on any app before admitting it to the Play Store. A part of this testing should be simulat
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by lr1970 5y ago
Apple, Qualcomm, Intel, AMD probably lobbying FTC against this deal.
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by lr1970 5y ago
An earlier thread 23 days ago [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29158021
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by lr1970 5y ago
My anti-theft device is my Brompton foldable bike. It folds down to a small package in 10 seconds and I take it with me anywhere I go including buses, trains, etc. It came with a nice black zipper cover. One cannot see that there is a bike
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by lr1970 5y ago
Ya, right. And 99% of everyone in UK who died from COVID (of all genders and age groups) were eating bread while alive. Eating bread is a great predictor of COVID mortality! </end_of_sarcasm>
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by lr1970 5y ago
Does the cognitive energy expended by French to do basic counting conditions their brain from early childhood for mathematical proficiency resulting in so many great mathematicians whose native language was French? </end_of_joke&gt
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by lr1970 5y ago
It is worse than "backwards". It is mostly forwards except for the special case of the second digit that is transposed with the first digit. For example, 123 becomes "one-hundred-three-and-twenty". It was driving me nuts
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by lr1970 5y ago
In Soviet Union algebra and geometry were taught from 5th to 11th grade to every kid in the country. And 10th & 11th grade algebra text-book was edited by Kolmogorov himself [0]. No surprise that _Russian School of Mathematics_ [1] afte
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by lr1970 5y ago
> Don't install updates then! I don't understand this line of logic - you don't want ongoing service but you're using the ongoing service to get updates? For example, one might want to get security updates.
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by lr1970 5y ago
> It does sound wild (to me as well), but then there is evidence of USSR party elites (e.g. Kaganovich) turning from maniacs and terrorists into peaceful bureaucrats overnight upon Stalin's death. They were "murderous bureaucra
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by lr1970 5y ago
A great and quite unconventional book on Algorithms is "INTRODUCTION TO ALGORITHMS - A Creative Approach" by Udi Manber. After leaving academia the author was hired first by Amazon (A9.com) and then by Google. At some point around
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by lr1970 5y ago
> The huge, v-shaped recovery of the housing market and also stock market and GDP caught a lot of experts and pundits by surprise. It is not recovery but a price inflation fueled by relentless government printing and injecting money into
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by lr1970 5y ago
Not 60% for sure. According to the latest Amazon's Q3 2021 report AWS Operating Margin is around 30% (page 15 of the pdf) [0] [0] https://ir.aboutamazon.com/quarterly-results/default.aspx
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by lr1970 5y ago
Sir David Mackay [0] was a great mind who contributed major discoveries in Machine Learning, Information Theory, Coding Theory and Physics. His book "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms" is a great resource for
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by lr1970 5y ago
Yes, they do not have a controlling stake (50%+1) but both Bezos and Musk are the largest shareholders in their respective companies wielding huge influence.
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by lr1970 5y ago
In American system corporations have personhood. In such context, why this new tax law applies only to individuals holding the stock and not to the corporations, banks, hedge-funds, etc. I genuinely do not understand! If it were to apply un
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by lr1970 5y ago
> the theory for that was developed in 1957 by an Italian physicist who defected to the Soviet Union. (No Nobel Prize!) This was Bruno Pontecorvo, Enrico Fermi's student and early collaborator. One defected to USSR, another to the U
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by lr1970 5y ago
> I'm an ex-rower in my 40s and my usual cardio workout these days is 10km at about a 2:05 pace. What? Assuming that you are talking about running, the current world record for 10K is 26:24 for men [0] and 29:38 for women [0]. It ma
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by lr1970 5y ago
> Specifically, if large-scale mandates did work then it would be clearly visible in the case curves of each country that introduced them, by definition, because creating clearly visible drops in those curves was the only reason they wer
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by lr1970 5y ago
Just configured a MBP 16" with M1 Max, 64GB RAM and 2TB SSD. Delivery (USA) December 23-rd. WTF?

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