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by mathattack 13y ago
My 2 cents... Being able to question your education system is a sign that you're doing something right. I hated my (good public) high school. I could write pages and pages of things they did wrong. Then I went to college. Most of t
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by mathattack 13y ago
Good points. As I was reading it, I wondered if there was some satire in the complaints. I didn't know the author's context, so I thought, "Maybe these are minor complaints from someone who famously loves the language.&quot
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by mathattack 13y ago
By longer I mean having a later retirement age.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I love Japan as a country so I hope you are wrong. The demographics suggest you are right. The powerful interest groups that Friedman mentioned also exist there too. Two differences with Japan: First, their debt is domestically held so th
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by mathattack 13y ago
Except the costume won't get you arrested. I've seen 3 card Monty hustler get arrested and even beaten by cops.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I still think we will muddle through it. Things that aren't sustainable don't continue. People will start charging more to lend to the US. Systems will feel stress. Health care will be rationed because there is no other way.
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by mathattack 13y ago
There's a principal/agent problem with documentation too. The writer of it rarely gets the benefit. Many times they will never see or meet anyone who does. But they have a lot of other competing priorities from highly visible r
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by mathattack 13y ago
Indeed - thank you for clarifying. This does sound expensive, though all the more necessary.
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by mathattack 13y ago
If $1.3M can cover 50, they should fund reproducing 500, or even 5000. I suspect that many pure science studies are relatively easier to reproduce since it's more about basic properties. If you're getting into medicine, it's
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by mathattack 13y ago
From the wiki, perhaps it wasn't as much of a general food shortage as popularly claimed. The usage of the word famine is a misnomer. Although the potato crop failed, the country was still producing and exporting more than enough grai
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by mathattack 13y ago
I hear you - gym memberships are a great benefit because they save the employee money, and pay for themselves in better health. Any perk that gives me time back is a good one, whether or not I invest the time in the office or elsewhere. I&
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by mathattack 13y ago
The latter. We actively discourage interns from doing overtime.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Everyone is different here. I used to work in Paris periodically, and it did work well there. People never got drunk, but frequently had wine for lunch. Then I worked in Australia. You knew better than to try and get a serious question
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by mathattack 13y ago
Finally, the one thing that does bother me - beer in tech companies usually means they want you to be there 24/7. Fine, ok - but you can do business elsewhere. For all you know interacting with some bartender may help you - and it isn
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'm struggling enough with my weight. Give me a free ice cream culture and I'll be 150 kilos in no time! But seriously, I think this is a good idea as long as there are healthy alternatives.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I can see there being a liability to the firm if someone leaves the office drunk and wraps their car around a tree. Maybe that's why "Beer at the office" seems to have less resistance in NYC? Maybe it's also the high p
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by mathattack 13y ago
This seems to be the best argument for it. Or rather - would you leave a place that had beer for one that didn't?
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by mathattack 13y ago
Perhaps there's a difference in culture between bottles versus kegs? The former suggests restraint, the latter doesn't?
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by mathattack 13y ago
At my current employer, there's rarely a lot of beer in the fridge, and people won't grab one before 4:30 or 5:00 or early in the week. Outside of interns, the people most likely to grab 1 or 2 are the hardest workers in the offi
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by mathattack 13y ago
At my prior employer, there was a legend of two guys who wrote the companies email system (before commercial packages were available) in 6 weeks. There method was to hit a pub for 4 hour design sessions every few days, followed by a few da
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The White Elephant in Marissa Mayer Yahoo Turnaround(business.time.com)
2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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Beer(annelibby.wordpress.com)
92 points by mathattack 13y ago|138 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
He expressed disapproval that visiting journalists refused to sample the roaches. On saying goodbye at the end of the day, he added a final rejoinder. "You will regret your whole life not trying them." Whenever I travel, I do my
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by mathattack 13y ago
Just looking at some of those photos gives me a fear of heights!
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by mathattack 13y ago
Layoffs in and of themselves rarely 'support continued innovation'. Sometimes they are necessary, but in isolation they don't make the remaining folks more creative. It can be tougher to pull people out of a project than to
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by mathattack 13y ago
Do they listen to anything other than accidental F bombs?
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by mathattack 13y ago
It's tough when they're 4. They can read a little, but too young for Google. And I'm afraid of some of the unfiltered answers. :-)
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by mathattack 13y ago
We pitched the TV figuring it would remove our temptation to be lazy and disengaged. We generally reserve computer time for supporting foreign language acquisition. (I feel like I'm rapidly turning into one of THOSE parents)
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'd say it's poor form to feed the trolls, but nothing is wrong with eating them for motivation.
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by mathattack 13y ago
My first reaction was, "Did I solve this in Project Euler once?"

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