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by mfringel 6y ago
There are more than a few times that I have had to comment to someone "I have not followed your evolution as a programmer over the past 15 years, therefore I can not read your Perl code."
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by mfringel 7y ago
Being needlessly blunt is like throwing a grenade with a message attached. You can tell it's delivered when you hear the KABOOM, but you can't guarantee anything else. In my experience, being kind has the advantage of reducing the
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by mfringel 8y ago
There might be a net increase in available resources for each student, but there's no evidence to support that there would be net increase in available spots. e.g. Donating $25MM for a gym clearly gives students a nicer gym. It does no
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by mfringel 8y ago
I don't think I've flown with a homemade dropper-converted pen. However, I've flown with (and used on the plane) a fully-filled Moonman M2 (~$25 on Amazon), which is built as an eyedropper pen, and I enjoy writing with it.
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by mfringel 8y ago
Agreed. To be clear, I'll travel with them... I just won't use them on the plane.
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by mfringel 8y ago
I started using fountain pens a couple of years ago, and still do for my daily writing. I write rather a lot; I don't bring my laptop into meetings unless I need to. Combine that with my handwriting being relatively neat, small, and s
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by mfringel 8y ago
I feel like banks and students should get a choice. A couple of assertions: A) Interest represents risk as well as the time-value of money B) A non-dischargeable loan is risk free to the lender. Given those, there should be two products:
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by mfringel 8y ago
You used a universal quantifier in your initial statement. That is, all of human history, implying all governments at all times. This is trivially falsifiable. With your current statement, you're attempting to modify that to all gov
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by mfringel 8y ago
Can you restate your assertion in a way that can not be trivially torpedoed by a single existence proof?
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by mfringel 8y ago
By posting this comment, you're saying "I'm a genius, and you're all idiots, because I've figured out this obvious thing that has gone over all of your heads." Now, you might actually mean that, but it might be
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by mfringel 8y ago
It also has no wireless and has less disk space than your Archos.
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by mfringel 8y ago
But that's not what happens. I recommend reading "A Framework for Understanding Poverty" by Ruby Payne. It's a really insightful book on the cycle of poverty and the incentives at work... anti-social punishment really is
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by mfringel 8y ago
It appears you're saying that only "100%" and "0%" states are distinguishable from each other, and that the universe of the superposition of states boils down to "some do and some do not", which are all in
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by mfringel 8y ago
The OP's strategy to fight, while clearly a valid approach, has the twin problems of survivor bias, and absolving corporations of their actions. [IANAL] "Emergent behavior" is a pretty weak defense, because now you have to pr
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by mfringel 8y ago
Now I'm wondering if they would have to make all of the salaries part of the court record if they tried using that defense.
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Diverted-Profits Tax (aka The "Google Tax")(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mfringel 8y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 8y ago
I'm disappointed. I was hoping that the author would go into the structural issues with transport in the SF Bay Area. One of the primary issues with the SF Bay Area is that it's 60 miles north-south, and getting across the SF Bay
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by mfringel 8y ago
It appears that you have conflated "hating America" with "hating the current President and his policies". Can you say more about that?
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by mfringel 8y ago
It is my duty to inform you that the musicians in Band Of Horses are not actually horses.
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by mfringel 8y ago
"Sorry, sir. Your spouse's living will restricted emergency care provider vendors such that she was unable to receive care in time. With our CareWatch(tm) package, we can give you geo-fence alerts with response times that would
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by mfringel 8y ago
And yet, a for-profit company getting free consulting time under the aegis of an interview strikes me as unethical.
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by mfringel 8y ago
One of the big protections in there is that a noncompete can not be enforced against someone who is terminated without cause or laid off.* There are certain kinds of maneuvers that Just Shouldn't Work. Laying off someone and then invo
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by mfringel 8y ago
What does "dick move" mean to you, in this context?
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by mfringel 8y ago
It appears you're conflating two things. 1. "Pension funds", which include stuff like TIAA-CREF, who administer 401(k)-like plans for tax-exempt organizations. Those are definitionally fully funded because the annuities that
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by mfringel 8y ago
I know people who were exactly not like that. Anecdotes cancel out. Do you have a point, or a strawman?
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by mfringel 8y ago
I'm glad that worked for you.
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by mfringel 8y ago
Survivor bias is not your friend, there.
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by mfringel 8y ago
So, can you give a definition of a non-typical and obtrusive hobby where MA would exercise prior restraint? Given that MA is made up of 352 municipalities (all of whom hate each other), and no significant county government, I'm findin
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by mfringel 8y ago
It appears that you had an utterly miserable experience living in Boston, and that's unfortunate.
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by mfringel 8y ago
In my experience, the only people in New England who call it "Taxachusetts" are the same people who would use the phrase "On the free side of the NH line." MA doesn't even make the top 15 in terms of total state tax

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