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by njs12345 14y ago
The UK has restrictions on why you can fire people (unlike CA which is at will), but they're largely quite fair (IMO). See https://www.gov.uk/dismissal/overview
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by njs12345 14y ago
IANAL, but I'm fairly sure a tribunal would look quite favourably on a company which fired someone for adultery when it had destroyed working relationships. I think it would come under the 'gross misconduct' provision.
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A fibonacci heap (in almost any language) is also one I would recommend. Definitely the hardest single thing I remember doing in college.
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I've been on roads where this happens in Britain, when a police car is driving at the speed limit (generally quite loosely enforced on motorways) with people behind forming a cluster which won't overtake out of fear. Quite frightening, and
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by njs12345 14y ago
Do you think copyright terms are too long? I don't think there are too many even here (although they are often vocal) who would advocate completely getting rid of copyright, but the content of that memo did seem sensible to me..
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by njs12345 14y ago
I think this version is basically SPDY 3. SPDY 4 (draft spec: https://github.com/grmocg/SPDY-Specification/blob/gh-pages/d... ) uses a completely new header compression algorithm which is not susceptible to the attack used in CRIME.
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by njs12345 14y ago
I believe some of the FlightFox users are travel agents, so they probably can take advantage of special deals.
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That's not true for proofs in assistants like Coq, which work by generating a program whose type can be checked to verify the statement in question.
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by njs12345 14y ago
Presumably your web server doesn't serve quite as much traffic as fbcdn.net. The odds of such a bitflip happening are vanishingly low, so you need an incredibly large amount of traffic before you'll see such errors occurring.
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by njs12345 14y ago
I think this depends on airport. Going from Seatac to SFO recently they only put about half of the people through the scanners.
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by njs12345 14y ago
How would you suggest achieving your 'overwhelming military victory' in Afghanistan, or Iraq?
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punchscan for an example of one such system which preserves the secret ballot property.
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One thing I do is get deliveries sent to my office instead of my house. That definitely makes receiving stuff a whole lot easier, if your employer will let you do it.
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Really? Even my friends (from Cambridge) who went into finance aren't earning nearly that much in base salary. Is that including bonuses and other benefits?
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by njs12345 14y ago
Please keep us posted with whether you're successful, superuser2! The essay is fairly transparent but points to an interesting tradeoff between counselor and professor when it comes to the question of whether it is accepted.
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by njs12345 14y ago
It depends. Some people enjoy teaching, and for beer money, if you're just getting started, what's not to like?
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by njs12345 14y ago
Or even just Silicon Valley really. Is the number of successful startups coming from the rest of the US really that high internationally?
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by njs12345 14y ago
What do you mean by "shortage"? I am from the UK and I have observed no shortage. If you really don't want to wait for treatment you're welcome to buy private health insurance, and even if you do this (and still pay for the NHS through some
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by njs12345 14y ago
Here's a study from the New England Health Institute: http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/pdf/healthrepo...
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If anything, the government "help" we've gotten so far makes it harder to take risks. Just ask the people with student loans or those in an upside down mortgage if that helps them take risks. This is more due to the poor design of these p
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by njs12345 14y ago
For a start, it uses a special group to denote 'this process can access the internet', requiring a kernel patch: http://elinux.org/Android_Security#Paranoid_network-ing
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There's some effort underway to develop a vaccine against dental caries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caries_vaccine
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by njs12345 14y ago
Your argument is that you wouldn't want to live in a building where the tenants hadn't undergone background checks and credit checks, and that this increases risk. My argument is that they obviously don't do much to protect the host anyway,
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by njs12345 14y ago
Well, it's pretty much a textbook case for insurance: a very small risk spread across a large number of rentals where the worst case is bad. AirBnB has the advantage that they could tailor the premium based on the exact parameters of the re
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by njs12345 14y ago
Presumably your wife's uncle did everything right (credit and background checks) and still got burned. Without being snarky, he might well have had more luck with AirBnB.
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by njs12345 14y ago
It looks like AirBnB will already cover some kinds of theft or vandalism. It presumably wouldn't be too hard for them to extend that to personal injury in shared spaces, which would partly address your concern. Also, the building management
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by njs12345 14y ago
I sympathize, I've lived in a fairly similar area recently (the University District in Seattle - lots of student renters who obviously don't care). However, at the moment, the landlord's not doing anything illegal at all. How can we deal wi
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by njs12345 14y ago
Do you think the grad students in your apartment ever have family to stay? What about friends? What about couchsurfers (if there are any meaningful number of students in your apartment, it's very likely at least one an active couchsurfer)?
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by njs12345 14y ago
Presumably the landlord would be liable for any harm incurred by other tenants under this scenario (especially as they've broken their lease agreement), which provides them with a fairly strong incentive to check up properly. The reputation
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It depends what you mean by 'worked'. It's certainly worked for me and the vast majority of AirBnB guests and hosts, I imagine. If you value obeying the law above all else then probably not, but most people don't. For instance, with unlawfu

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