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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Do you understand how hard it is for an 'idea guy' to recruit a technical team? It's really easy. You pay them. Which is the crux of the issue here; Startup Weekends aren't meant as places to get/recruit ch
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> And yet these are rare They are too rare, which is why it's important for (even/especially childless) engineers to be actively involved in the after-school activities offered by surrounding schools. > and never given th
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> sports bring in revenue and academics do not. ?!?! In high schools in the US, academics are intimately linked to funding. Sports are not. I guarantee you no teacher or administrator gives a shit about how much money the Friday night
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Why not let parents choose the school? As long as private schools are required to take any comer can cannot charge tuition beyond the per pupil amount. Somehow I doubt any private school advocate wants actual school choice.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Sure, obvious. Until you're negotiating price points and you can save X% aggregate by purchasing Y boards at a time, and then figure you're only losing <<< X%*total_cost in depreciation... then it's just as obvious,
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> nothing of value has been created That's debatable, because no one tears down a house and rebuilds an identical one. * Was the old house livable? If not, then you haven't really wasted anything. * Is the new house up to mor
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> So I think the first site is just wrong in how they're estimating, at least for CMU. Those numbers are FOR CMU, and they are the only numbers we have for CMU. So I'm not really sure how this gets resolved. > They give
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Are you sure that figure is accurate? 1. I don't have first-hand information about CMU, I got the data from here: http://www.american-school-search.com/faculty/carnegie-mello... Other data indicate that the
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if SCS students were paid that much 24 sounds like you're excluding the summer months? I know in Math and other fields it's pretty common for "no guaranteed summer funding" to be actua
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> There are only about three to five others in the USA with the unique separation of city and county government that St. Louis has. But a lot of other cities with a comparable population split, so St. Louis's situation isn't
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Not by Silicon Valley standards Ph.D. students don't get "poached", they "graduate or drop out" and then "get jobs". The people being poahced are professors and scientists in permanent positions. I
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Which doesn't make St. Louis unique -- that's also true of many other cities. Anyways, that's all moot when the social and economic problems the region faces are clearly present in the county as well as the city.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
If this is the concern, then it's a misplaced one, especially for streetcars. It's totally common in European cities for the busiest streets (with shops etc) to be exclusively lanes of recessed rail. Trucks have no problem deliver
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by nmrm2 11y ago
People from St. Louis tend to over-play this -- it's pretty normal for cities to be separated from their surrounding suburbs in these sorts of statistics. Almost all of the mid-sized Midwest cities have populations in the 300k range
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> The con is it's very difficult to get a government to lower taxes This isn't true at all. It's very difficult to get a government to decrease the services it provides. If you decrease taxes without decreasing provided
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Singapore's rise over the last 50 years You mean conducting eugenics experiments on low-income women? Or did you mean encouraging only educated people to have children? If you really think sterilizing and performing experiments
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by nmrm2 11y ago
jmorphy88 - You pretend like there's no danger here, but we're short on examples of "scientific" evidence being used as a justification for killing off or harming huge portions of populations, even here in the US. The a
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> No. Perhaps it's even the other way around What? I don't know what rock you've been living under since the 1960s, but overt and blatant racial discrimination in policing or sentencing is a) a blatant violation of the f
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by nmrm2 11y ago
To be clear, I think my other reply to this comment should be read at a meta-level. I'm frankly astounded that HN is a moderated community and yet comments containing an overtly racialized (S America / African) causal theory of in
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by nmrm2 11y ago
First, moral frameworks exist for a reason and aren't the realm of "church-lady hyperventilation". For example, most plausible instantiations of the crime policies suggested above are blatantly unconstitutional . Second, the
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Stop affirmative action? Affirmative action is motivated by either an absolute belief in diversity being good (e.g., there are benefits for economic minorities that apply ragardless of race), and/or as an intervention meant to c
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> I feel that he chills intellectual inquiry in this area by calling anyone interested in these questions racists and so forth. Well, duh? Chomsky's explicitly trying to chill discussion/research into hypothesis. First beca
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> suppress lines of thought that have political outcomes that I don't like? Do not fund lines of thought where the harms outweigh the potential benefits, and/or where ethical commitments are violated. That policy is neither p
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> For example, research might affect one's opinion about race-based affirmative action programs mandating that the admitted student body mirror the overall population No, because affirmative action programs operate from an absolut
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by nmrm2 11y ago
This advice operates from a mindset that both privacy and security risks are binary. They are not+. A third-party app that gives access to X,Y, and Z permissions is a larger security risk than an equivalent app that only has permissions for
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Is it possible to just take Daniel Ek's word on this one? Maybe, but the question is irrelevant. I do business with people every day who I fundamentally trust. But we sign contracts anyways. If what Ek is saying is true, then th
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by nmrm2 11y ago
There's a nice Scientific American blog post about this hypothesis by John Horgan; the essential argument is that this research question is a pointless area of inquiry because the answer should make no difference in a non-evil society
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> but I think it beats trying to reinvent the entire world of tooling that programmers use all day: grep, text editors, IDEs, etc. Exactly, but only because we don't have a any really good solutions to building tooling that suppor
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Have you ever been to an event in a city park or similar where breakfast/brunch is provided/for sale and the price point is $3-10? It's hour old greasy food, hard bagels, and stale donuts. A way to churn out fresh sandwiches
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I certainly don't doubt it is possible, but I think it'd be pretty easy to under-estimate the difficulty of building a sandwich making machine that keeps up with rush-hour demand and costs less than 7-8/hr to run.

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