michaeldhopkins

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by michaeldhopkins 12y ago
DE Shaw is a quant firm and tends to hire out of STEM fields, not arts like business.
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
That's not true. I have the experiences of having prepared taxes professionally and counting and reporting donations at a church. By combining those I can observe that the majority of donations are proportional to income, not whether t
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
I think the author of the article used it intentionally. The premise of the article is that sometimes developers find themselves having to or choosing to do a death march despite knowing it's unsustainable long-term, and there are ways
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
I know a couple of Delphi developers; good developers. I don't think that they would recommend learning the language today because the number of legacy systems still in Delphi are declining, few new projects use Delphi, and while there
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
Germany has not had nearly the problems with homeschooling that you imagine. Its prosecution of homeschooling families has been appalling, though. Seizing children (at gunpoint) and forcing them to go to a public school against their parent
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
I think it actually has a good reputation here. The people who seriously oppose it today either are committed to mandatory state education for political reasons or have not met many homeschoolers. Most of the hard political battles about th
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
I think that you misunderstood me. The majority of child abuse happens at home (~72,000 parents vs. ~58,000 known non-family [0]), but it happens in broken homes, second marriages, etc. Most homeschooling parents are together and in their f
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
That is not true. Parents use quality textbooks and lesson plans. They also get together to pay specialists to teach difficult subjects one or more times per week. Also, by the time a homeschooled child is of the age that their subjects can
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
No comment on Monsanto in particular, but it's frequently, but not exclusively, lobbying and regulatory capture that libertarians dislike about large corporations. This tends to especially be true when about a company that sells someth
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a story about this.
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Project Christine(razerzone.com)
14 points by michaeldhopkins 13y ago|6 comments
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
This is a good idea. I would just like to be able to ask questions without using the camera, and to have a favorites list that would make it easier to email or text the URL to the question.
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
You said that $3,600 was nothing. I explained its relation to $15,000 and $100,000, two numbers you apparently thought were significant, and how an extra $3,600 per year can turn into those numbers. You also quoted savings amounts in respon
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
$3,600 is a little less than 25% of $15,000, and it's about 3.5% of $100,000. If a person spent as much as they earned in a year and had no savings, $3,600 a year would accumulate $15,000 in savings after five years. A couple, spending
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
He quoted part of your post directly and responded to it. It was this part: "Talking of bankruptcy in that context is a nonsense introduced by politicians intent on doing away with it for ideological reasons." I'm just explai
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
For footnotes, to make space for the hands, because we slightly perceive vertically centered text as below center, because culturally we expect documents to start at the top of a page, and to reduce the degree the head or eyes must turn to
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
The combined 30 day volume of the five exchanges on the homepage of http://bitcoincharts.com/ is about 140 bitcoins per minute. Adding 100 per minute all on the sell side would be a 70% increase in volume, and there would n
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
It's not easy to say she is evil; it requires consideration of what is evil, what is an evil person, her particular situation and how it might apply to the definitions. Concluding a person is evil does not preclude looking at any other
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
In order for a basic income program to save costs on bureaucracy and replace existing programs, those existing programs must be closed by legislation or executive order, and the people employed by them must lose their jobs, and the number o
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
Two possibilities: 1. You didn't say your third paragraph or didn't say it loudly/clearly/often enough. If this is the case, be more clear about it next time. 2. You said it but they disagree with you. If this is the cas
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
That is encouraging. However, you are not entirely free from your past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UtsSPOdQzw
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
As you know, any field is constantly advancing and sometimes it returns to an older idea and uses it in a new way. This is happening in obstetrics right now. It isn't that the downsides of sedated, prone births were "missed"
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
The USPS pension obligations are around 100% funded (has been overfunded at 105% in the past; may still be the case.) The average private company funds its pensions at about 80%. It's supposed to be a complete funding when interest rat
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
Correct. I wasn't saying that they have to be unprofitable going forward, just that the pre-funding doesn't entirely explain the losses. I think it's a sensible document and it shows the USPS understands their situation and i
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
This is not true. The USPS loses billions every year before pre-funding. However, pre-funding pushes them against their statutory debt limit. You can see in their annual report that they expect losses of up to $20 billion annually even afte
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
It's supposed to show that the Tesla car is structurally sound and prevented the object on the road from ripping further into the car than it otherwise would have. It's also supposed to show that the car got the driver out of a da
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
Does this book say anything new? Is this book well-written? What is the writing style? In general, what's going to be covered in the book? Do the methods in the book actually work for real people? What are the qualifications of the aut
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
Ah, yes, you are right that they still have it around. The first time they did it, they were hoping that it would work year-round and they had to get rid of that idea. I'm glad they are able to make it work periodically, though.
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
37signals doesn't have a four day workweek. They tried it and found it wasn't quite enough time to do everything they wanted to do in a week.
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by michaeldhopkins 13y ago
I am a happy member and longtime reader of MetaFilter but I wouldn't look to it as a positive example. MetaFilter has several full-time moderators who, because they feel they need to be doing something, are stifling discussion and dele

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