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by madair 16y ago
Aristocracy is completely out of touch. Good news in a way.
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by madair 16y ago
(Since we're playing the dumb correlation equals causation game I'm going to play too:) This is a graph of the inequality with which college graduates treat non-graduates.
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by madair 16y ago
It doesn't matter how many studies show the same set of facts, correlation still doesn't mean causation
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by madair 16y ago
This is quite a strong personal attack to make on someone, even a public figure. Creepy is not an objective word, making this article by definition Ad Hominem.
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by madair 16y ago
Depression isn't attitude
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by madair 16y ago
>>> In that case, the only way OO can be defended is in the same manner as any other game or discipline Brilliant meta-analysis of abstract patterns and narratives.
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by madair 16y ago
- most likely in a cubicle - reporting to middle managers - on a hardware and software stack selected for them - frequently in the kinds of unsustainable scorched earth industries and overly large multinationals - frequently in industries
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by madair 16y ago
>>> I believe what I'm saying here is what most are thinking, but won't say I'm not thinking that, and if I was I would slit my risks for being a douche. If you think Halliburton, Goldman Sachs, or Google|Apple|Microsoft|Oracl
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by madair 16y ago
I don't really care for threaded Javascript in the browser, but damn can that dude illustrate a point! Cool! [Edit] Ooooh, it's Mark Pilgrim, of course! Great stuff!
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by madair 16y ago
What's funniest about your comment is you're arguing with hyperbole on twitter. >>> Amusing, but only until you really think about it. When I really think about it I think, What great use of the twitter character limit for up
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by madair 16y ago
Optional Parameters In C#
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by madair 16y ago
I was in Japan when I got my first drivers license. It took two weeks of expensive instruction, four separate official tests (two written, two behind the wheel), and I was told I was lucky I wasn't automatically failed on at least one of th
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by madair 16y ago
Haha, it's true, the Conservapedia really is quite a slanted read, e.g. Despite censorship of dissent about relativity, evidence contrary to the theory is discussed outside of liberal universities. Talk about skewed. Of course there's m
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by madair 16y ago
The cake is a lie ;)
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Price is Not Value, and Other Reasons Metrics Mislead(nakedcapitalism.com)
3 points by madair 16y ago|0 comments
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by madair 16y ago
Awesome. Personally I think it's the little boycotts that matter most, they are about who the boycotter is more than the boycottee. Intrinsically less hypocritical... less . But that's okay, it's like bias, we can't be rid of it. You should
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by madair 16y ago
Is this a cargo cult? Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck.
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by madair 16y ago
It is the number one issue affecting business in America today, and this is a particularly interesting economist weighing in with very strong language.
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by madair 16y ago
Actually this is Laurence Kotlikoff, he's pretty interesting : ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Kotlikoff Wikipedia: In Kotlikoff's words, using the deficit as a guide to fiscal policy is like driving in LA with a map of NY. For u
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by madair 16y ago
The trolling on that page is disturbing, some of those peeps may be math experts but also lacking self-awareness of their inner caveman. Makes me glad for the type of infighting we have in the software development community. Seems relativel
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by madair 16y ago
Nice characterization! That said, leadership for major change does have to come from somewhere and impetus for change is difficult to achieve. The thing about cults is that everything social is a social construct requiring shared belief t
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by madair 16y ago
Ahaha so it's about semantics. lol, take your time, then go read some Fukuyama and a few state department statements.
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by madair 16y ago
You didn't know that America is an empire? The most powerful country that has ever existed? The one by which every other major power measures themselves? Time to do some reading I think, TV rots ur brain ;) What you need to realize is that
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by madair 16y ago
A lot of that floundering is all about their big losses...Wall St, over-resourcing for the housing bubble, budgeting based on bubble math, widespread corruption and backroom dealing, oh, and there's that huge army fighting a couple big wars
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by madair 16y ago
Only if it's sustainable. Corruption on the scale here is a known destabilizer of empires.
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by madair 16y ago
You should analyze your statements against what the article said. Oh, and also reality. Edit: But it is brilliant that this comment would be by someone named CapitalistCartr , what with the class war looming and right v left being an anxio
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by madair 16y ago
It's a problem, but more subtle than that, more systemic, because as others have said there is much value in recruiters too. But systemically it's become an international trade in a commodity (programmers). Obviously this is not confined to
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by madair 16y ago
Yeah I was just playing
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by madair 16y ago
People working on the web for 10 years don't know what HREF stands for? I take back all the good things I've said about 'em youngsters ;D
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by madair 16y ago
Regarding the social security benefits...in actuality married people in the U.S. pay what's euphemistically called the Marriage Tax , because the rules as codified actually require married people to pay more than if they filed separately.

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