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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Whether or not it is a good idea to do so is not the point. The point is that it is against the law for the company to prohibit those discussion (as the company in the OP did). Companies that have policies in violation of labor laws are p
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
I think you are misunderstanding the point. The NLRA grants you the right to discuss your wages with your co-workers. Companies are not allowed to prohibit this, and more people should be made aware of their rights under the NLRA.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Wouldn't it be more noteworthy if we weren't able to find one analyst who predicted Lin? With the number of amateur analysts, and the number of players, you'd think that its likely there's a web page somewhere plugging every prospect.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
What would happen if you actually did try to textmine it. surely this is a game of chicken because no company wants to lose tens of thousands of dollars a year for no reason. Elsevier is willing to play this game of chicken; they are conv
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Is there any reason to believe that this is the case? I'm a member of the ACM and the IEEE, and a lot of other people are; it doesn't seem to me that the modest dues are significantly hindering progress in the field. If, due to some unexpl
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
I left in 1997, and haven't visited since. You get used to it.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Sure, but F and E and completely different letters, even if they are almost identical (except for the little bar at the base of the E that is missing on the F). A and Å are different letters, and can't be substituted for each other.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Let's remember that there is a lot more to universities than undergraduate education.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Recording companies have a monopoly on the artists they cover. And that's the artist's choice. The artist could choose to distribute their work in some other fashion. So, if you want the artist's product, you have to buy it via the mean
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
This is not really circular at all, merely self-referential; the Constitution also provides a process for it to be amended, so any and all of it's provisions could be repealed or rewritten without having to get a foreign government involved
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
The rights of US citizens should be the foremost concern of a US legislator and when it comes to satisfying a treaty compromising those rights the treaty or international precedence should be thrown out the window. Article VI of the Const
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Does this mean that any time you want to sidestep an actual examination of the merits of an argument in the Supreme Court you just need to ensure there's an international treaty in your favour? That ought to do the job; Article VI of the
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Your next idea should be to get some external validation of your idea. A co-founder is a good way to do this. You seem to think that "changing the way advertising works" is something that can be done by 3 devs is 12 months, and success (la
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Most Buddhist monks could easily get under the "15 things" limit-- the standard list of possessions is: three robes, an alms bowl, a cloth belt, a needle and thread, a razor for shaving the head, and a water filter.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Actually, I think it indicates a pretty good understanding of their target audience. Although DRM can be circumvented by cutting and pasting, the hassle of doing so on an academic article would soon reach the point where the average academ
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Vi Hart: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Plants (Part 2)(youtube.com)
7 points by michael_dorfman 15y ago|0 comments
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
The quickest way to get from point A to point B, in this case, is the SICP video lectures: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma... If you can spare two hours a day for two weeks (or the equivalent) you're golden.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
It's also now the dominant spelling, and can't really be considered "incorrect".
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Well, in many regions, trash collection is a municipal monopoly, so your customers are going to be city councils, not people. Also, in many places, "curbside sorting" of the type you describe already takes place. Here in Norway, I get thre
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
I can't speak for others, but this atheist doesn't want one.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
The major reason for end users to still have IE6 around is that they use proprietary applications which were written with IE6 in mind, and they see no good reason to spend money to upgrade these applications (if the vendor is even still in
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
And that might be a compelling argument if there was a competitor to Amazon who offered the same value proposition plus better service as a differentiator. In this case, I don't think there's really anywhere obvious for the traffic to go, s
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
It's worth noting that a lot of the dates mentioned in this article are far from the scholarly consensus on the matter; to take one example, the attribution of the Puranas to Vyasa is roughly similar to the attribution of the Pentateuch to
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
How do you reconcile that position with the original article?
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Arlo Guthrie tells a famous story about being accosted after a concert in 1972 by a skinny short guy who wanted to play him a song. Arlo said "How about you buy me a beer, and as long as I sit here drinking my beer, you can do anything you
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
If you've been in a sector for 10 years, I imagine you know who within that sector has money to spend. There's no point in going after a segment without money, right? Once the segment has been identified, I'd then think about the sales pro
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Both good decisions-- getting the transcription done cheaply, so it actually got done, and adding the "editor's notes" to add further context. I'd definitely recommend this approach to all podcasts.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
Thank you, thank you for the transcript. It makes podcasts so much nicer...
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
This is not true for Smiths in any part of the world. Sure it is. See, for example, Eleanor Roosevelt.
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by michael_dorfman 15y ago
You've got a visible comment from 3 minutes before this post. Had you made more today that are not visible? The karma on comments is hidden, so there's no way for you to see that your comment upvotes aren't having an effect. I don't know i

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