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by lusr 15y ago
I'm not sure if you are aware of this or not: www.artmarcovici.com/rat-traders Also, I believe it's implicit in parent's post that evolution would produce more rats whose behaviour increases their likelihood of survival. The rats don't ne
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I think people are pretty bad at predicting value in advance. I suspect you'd get plenty of bad data. If you don't understand the market you're building your solution for, in any case, I think you have a bigger problem. I'd also feel uncom
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by lusr 15y ago
While I have nothing against eating with hands (people who eat pizzas with knives and forks are insane IMO), stating that "You have no idea in whose mouths those forks have been, and how well they've been washed and handled afterwards" is a
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by lusr 15y ago
How does this explain them offering the food for free vs. charging for it (possibly subsidizing it)? It is still a perk, in that sense.
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I too find the writing style very distracting, but I can't quite place my finger on what it is exactly. It's very strange, though. That being said, I think the post makes a valuable point that anybody can learn about negotiating: what are
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This sort of thing used to happen to me a lot. I learned to deal with it by being very careful in asking the right sorts of follow up questions (you need to understand what kind of an answer someone is looking for, or whether they are look
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My current favourite is to describe it like this: You have to build a puzzle. Problem is nobody really knows what the puzzle should look like. Instead you get a few hundred pages of documentation written by a bunch of people who don't real
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by lusr 15y ago
I'm not suggesting one needs to understand the intricacies. I understand that aircraft are extraordinarily complex, and that's sufficient. I get the impression from non-computer people that software development is the equivalent of typing
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I like it but it's missing the most important piece of information: the error occurred in file X, which is associated with devices Y and Z. That way I at least know I should unplug/reinstall the devices/drivers.
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I've often wondered how to explain to non-developers the level of complexity in large software projects. I don't think the new generation will understand it any better than the old generation because, as you say, it's an invisible world. I
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Thanks for putting into words what didn't "feel" right to me; my use of "circular reasoning" wasn't quite the appropriate phrase, I guess.
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What exactly is your disagreement with the content of the article?
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What makes you believe that it's not possible to recover from burnout in a few days? I'm reading "The Feeling Good Handbook" (David D. Burns) and p173 talks about a man who suffered from a serious depression that had threatened to ruin his
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by lusr 15y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you come to the conclusion that the treaty was heavily influenced by the USA? "The Berne Convention was revised in Paris in 1896 and in Berlin in 1908, completed in Berne in 1914, revised in Rome in 1928, in Brussel
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by lusr 15y ago
I'm a bit puzzled by the reasoning, though. "The top court, with Justice Elena Kagan recused, said Congress’ move to re-copyright the works to comport with an international treaty was more important." OK so they made their decision on the
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by lusr 15y ago
I watched Gattaca again this weekend. This sure seems like a simpler option (assuming it affects the urine) than everything the main characters had to go through (collecting and storing blood and urine samples, making finger pouches for blo
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by lusr 15y ago
Hmmm that's a good point. I already know what I'm looking at, and the significance, so I'm not really in the target audience. I also don't live in the US, so I had to proxy through one of my servers to see what the effect was like. That bri
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by lusr 15y ago
You are absolutely correct, and it's a comment I anticipated, which is why I qualified my original statement: "meaningful results _in terms of_ how single-celled organisms evolved into multicelluar organisms". (Although in fairness, it pr
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The bottom of the tab list also lines up with the ratio point near "proportion" but I can't see what the remaining 3 ratios line up with, if anything. So that means only 2 out of 6 ratios seem to consistently have anything to do with the
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by lusr 15y ago
Interesting, 3 downvotes. Anybody want to explain why my criticism is so invalid? Google is trying to sell a message and is doing it in a much more understated way than some others sites. Not that I think it would have been a wise idea to c
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I didn't quite know how to interpret "latent ability". Reading the article, apparently yeast used to be multicellular, which is a pretty valid criticism of this experiment having meaningful results in terms of how single-celled organisms
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by lusr 15y ago
Something I learned is that there are many things in life you cannot predict or plan for, and that the more you expose yourself to unfamiliar situations, the more likely you are to encounter interesting situations and outcomes. On your tr
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- you become aware of inner resources you weren't aware existed when you're exposed to situations you're unfamiliar with, developing a greater sense of self-confidence and self-respect
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TBH I never visit the homepage anymore (I never see the cool logos people end up talking about; I start up with about:blank for performance). I just search straight from the address bar, and in that respect the small logo change in the se
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While it's important to point out this inaccuracy, I don't understand the amount of attention in the debate given to whether SOPA affects foreign sites only or not. Would it make the bill any more acceptable if it were only to affect sites
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Hmmm did you try watching one? I tried watching a Simpsons episode on the Fox site. Site took ages to load. Eventually there was a weird selection of random full episodes (6). When I clicked on the latest one, it took a while to load ag
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This is a great example of what deeply bothers me about these sorts of IP rules. The best description I've read of the mindset of those who support these rules, but still not a sufficient argument to convince me: "What Colour are Your Bit
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Tim Sebastian hosting HARDtalk was the only true hard hitting interviewer I've ever seen, although I suppose the BBC doesn't count as a traditional media company. I was disappointed with the quality of his successors; they turned HARDtalk
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Now I'm also curious. At first I thought 1,000,000 is a huge number of views, but at 3,100 photos that's just 322/photo. I can't access Flickr from work but I think I have about 45 photos and 18,500 views, averaging 411/photo, and that's
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I believe there is a fair bit of stress photographing a wedding (it's a once-off event that if you screw up you stand a chance of losing future business), made worse because unlike many other shoots, the photographer doesn't have as much co

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