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by obstinate 12y ago
Can someone explain the advantage of doing this as opposed to rehabilitating the vast swathes of empty houses in Detroit? Less expensive? Or are the containers more durable than the houses they are replacing?
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by obstinate 12y ago
From the linked page: "Hey, I’m Jason Shen. I’m a writer, athlete, and lifelong tech geek. I do marketing and product management at Percolate, an enterprise software company based in NYC. Previously, I co-founded Ridejoy, a YC-backed t
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by obstinate 12y ago
I didn't mean it as an attack, nor was I suggesting you should be worried about the number. But its presence on the marketing page as a selling point confused me. The fact it's there reads to me as if you're saying, "t
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by obstinate 12y ago
10000 words in 36 chapters? 300 words per chapter seems a bit short, doesn't it? This comment is already more than twenty words long, so each chapter would be just one or two paragraphs.
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by obstinate 12y ago
I would love to see them try to turn down people who have devices capable of being a WiFi hotspot. That would be, at least, all AT&T customers not on the unlimited plan? Hotels, don't be silly. You would never do that.
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by obstinate 12y ago
It's targeted to iOS devices, so that is not very surprising.
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by obstinate 12y ago
Same thing you should make of the extremely high ratings that Cassandra Clare novels get ( https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/150038.Cassandra_Clare ). For those who aren't aware, this author is a serial pla
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by obstinate 12y ago
So would you say that comparatively low attrition combined with high self-reported satisfaction indicates that a company is a good place to work?
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by obstinate 12y ago
OK. But employee surveys consistently show that people working at these companies are highly satisfied. That doesn't mean you'd be satisfied there, but I don't see how you can say that they are not good companies to work for.
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by obstinate 12y ago
That's an option, but you're going to end up filtering out a lot of the best companies to work for if you go that route. I have personal knowledge that it's a factor at least at Google and Microsoft. As I understand it, Faceb
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by obstinate 12y ago
Many companies, including the one I work for, use college GPA as a filter. The theory is: you miss some good folks by filtering out people below 3.5, but you save a lot of effort on a group that has a much higher proportion of bad candidate
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by obstinate 12y ago
Some other factors: 1. Wealth: despite long term economic malaise, Japan is still one of the richest countries. Rich people tend to have fewer children. Japan's GINI coefficient is also a lot lower compared to, say, the US, which means
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by obstinate 12y ago
What aspect of identifying them would make it worth it? I can see some potential fringe benefits -- don't take future classes from that prof, etc. But it's hard to imagine that those fringe benefits would actually be worth the dro
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by obstinate 12y ago
Yep. At that time, P(good scientist|christian) and P(good scientist) would be roughly equal, since P(christian) was ~100%. So it is hard to learn anything about the influence of Christianity on being a good scientist during this time period