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by nineplay 6y ago
There's a lot of reason to doubt the exit poll data for this election. It's easy to waste ( virtual ) ink and grab headlines, but it'd be more honest to admit that we don't really know and jumping to conclusions probab
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by nineplay 6y ago
Sheesh I'd forgotten - he's right, everyone does use that tool. He backed off on a bit but the point still remains, I'm sure he's a better engineer than half of google. I wonder if they asked Pike and Thompson to invert
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by nineplay 6y ago
I have seen hiring manager on this site say they wouldn't hire anyone without opensource experience. Sometimes they say something wishy-washy about how contributing to open source is such a specialized skill that they don't have
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by nineplay 6y ago
There's an article that makes the rounds now and again on HN about a engineer who wrote a widely used opensource tool and then didn't get past the Google interview process. FAANGs are still more interested in seeing if you can sol
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by nineplay 6y ago
> What I mean by this is that when you try to join a company where the culture is geared towards white men in their twenties, you have to fit that culture. That's the core of the problem isn't it? The source of gender discrimi
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I'm sorry. I'm facing the same thing and it's tearing me up.
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Until there's a vaccine with some level of population coverage? I don't have a date, I don't feel it's a heavy burden to bear. If there's a significant downside to wearing a mask it's not obvious to me.
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by nineplay 6y ago
> Do we ignore traffic fatalities by ripping seat belts and air bags out of vehicles? Some preventive measures are clearly justified. Wearing a mask requires little more effort than wearing a seat belt and refusing to wear one is pretty
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> I wonder if this is simply because there is a mismatch between what people are being told and what people are observing with their own eyes. This has been my experience with people who want to open things back up. They're getting
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From the title > What Everyone Knows I don't believe everyone knows of the formal meaning in logic, even among candidates for a Master's program. He doesn't seem to want to consider that there's a flaw in his questio
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by nineplay 6y ago
I don't think I've ever used the word 'implies' in that context, which may be the problem with the question. It still doesn't quite make sense in my thought process. Does a dog 'imply' a mammal? I would
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by nineplay 6y ago
I am not trying to be pedantic. There are many contexts in which 'prove' might be a reasonable term colloquially. However you are referring to a social science when you talk about differences between kids of different generations
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When he was 3, were you protecting him from the reality of the real world?
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( Edited after being fairly criticized for not contributing to the conversation ) It's problematic to say that scientists have 'proved' anything. Scientist's conclusions are always based on the available data, and at an
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by nineplay 6y ago
I will happily concede that your three year old is a more advanced thinker than mine is. As for violent content, with YouTube specifically it is easy to watch it without being forewarned. I don't know if you are aware of Elsagate but
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by nineplay 6y ago
I'll point up to the original topic. Do you think it's a good idea to let a young child watch anti-vaccine videos? What about political videos which claim that 'the other' side supports killing babies? Young kids don&
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I'm overall sympathetic to the schools and how much work they've had to do to get everyone set up for virtual learning. That said, if I'd been in charge these laptops would be locked down. I'd whitelist only trusted edu
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by nineplay 6y ago
You don't even have to watch a political video. I have crap popping up all the time, "Watch this professor get destroyed by <screamer>!" I know youtube is a shithole and yet it still surprises me. My son's favori
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by nineplay 6y ago
I think the biggest problem with 'git' is how hard it is to undo any mistakes. I'm freshly astonished every I mistakenly commit something and then have to carefully run 'git reset ~HEAD' some exact number of times
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by nineplay 6y ago
From an excellent list, I'm going to hightlight a couple of lesser known works > Sheckley, Robert "Specialist" in Keyes, N., ed. Contact. 1963, Paperback Library. Proposes the idea that life in the universe is all speciali
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by nineplay 6y ago
I really appreciate the time and thought you've put into this. There's so many consideration. If I want my kids to get STEM degrees and go to one of the FAANGs, they may eventually need to learn how to deal with > the homework
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by nineplay 6y ago
Why is that? Do you mind sharing the country?
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I strongly believe that a lot of our brightest kids are languishing in bad schools due to poor family circumstances and I think it should be a source of national shame.
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That's what I'd thought, and our public high school does have an excellent reputation. That said, the pricey private school sends kids on a 'cultural expedition' to Malaysia.
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The size of public school districts tends to be an advantage when it comes to special ed, IME. A private school isn't going to hire 3 therapists for the one child with autism. Maybe they find someone to come in for a few hours a week
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by nineplay 6y ago
<X> unions represent the best interests of <X> A common teacher complaint, IME, is an expectation that they should be ready and willing to sacrifice anything because of their love of the students. Teachers have every right to h
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> Private schools can only charge as much as the demonstrated quality of their product Part of my aversion to private schools has been about what constitutes 'quality'. For a lot of wealthy parents, 'quality' seems
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District lines are funny things. Our neighborhood could certainly be called 'affluent' and our schools are probably the best in the district. What I'm realizing is how little that counts for. We could have chosen a cheaper
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> Our public school system spends a ton and seems to not get a good value for that spending. Our public school systems spends a ton to support low income students and special ed. I don't blame them for being broke but I suppose at

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