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by padobson 8y ago
Pretty hard to call Nixon a small-government conservative. He was the last of the Rockefeller Republicans (counting Ford as part of his administration). Some Nixon Admin policies: -Nominating Warren Burger and Harry Blackmun to the Supreme
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by padobson 8y ago
It's pretty close to an 18/6 IF, depending on whether or not he does the tea in the evening.
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by padobson 8y ago
Trying to replicate may be the biggest problem with education. LeBron grew up in Akron. He knows the problems these kids are facing, and he's going out of his way to solve it specifically for them. That kind of local leadership combine
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by padobson 8y ago
Even as the gap between the rich and everyone else widens, the quality of life for the bottom 99 percent has vastly changed since 1928. This makes me wonder how much people care. In a global economy where the 1% are investing in markets t
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by padobson 8y ago
I know there's other places I can do a sanity check when a website crashes, but HN is usually at the top of my list.
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by padobson 8y ago
I feel like unions really missed the boat on this one. Maybe I don't know union history well enough, but it seems like the UAW should have made large equity stakes in Ford, GM and Chrysler (or the equivalent historical companies) impor
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by padobson 8y ago
I agree with this. Every offer I've gotten from an early-stage startup was market salary and <1% equity, often when I was engineering hire 1-5. I had conversations with founders and told them that if they couldn't meet my marke
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by padobson 8y ago
I'm not sure how many degrees of separation this knowledge is from programming, but it's got to be one of the highest values I've ever seen on HN. Bravo.
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by padobson 8y ago
I think OP is trying to say something like, "The variance between groups is less than the variance among them"
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by padobson 8y ago
It seems like the conclusion to draw from your perspective is that companies should have processes in place to offer regular promotions and raises.
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by padobson 8y ago
Maybe, but how much overvaluation is there? $100 billion? $500 billion? There needs to be trillions of dollars of overvaluation and a huge amount of leverage to constitute a financial crisis. I'm open to being wrong, but I don't s
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by padobson 8y ago
I'm not sure how you interpreted my comment, but I'm partially agreeing with you. "Tax the rich" never works out that way, since it's mostly people at the very bottom of the upper class paying most of the taxes. The
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by padobson 8y ago
Love this. I can't see a specific bubble yet. As someone in the tech industry, I'm tempted to say startups, but while the latest batch of IPOs seem underwhelming, none of them seem like out-and-out dotcom-style failures. SnapChat,
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by padobson 8y ago
I agree with this. Folks earning $200k-$500k are paying most of the taxes because they have little-to-no political influence, and they're easy scapegoats because most people make less than them. This is the glass ceiling of the US tax
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by padobson 8y ago
Think about how checking e-mails can take you completely out of context and badly dilute the quality of your work. I agree with this completely, but the converse is also true. Sometimes you need to switch context during the day, and scann
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by padobson 8y ago
I couldn't agree more with your approach. If you maintain highly cohesive/loosely coupled django apps in your greenfield monolith, it's relatively trivial to switch to SOA/microservices as you scale the software with you
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by padobson 8y ago
> Productivity and wages broke lockstep in the 70s, wage growth has lagged employment growth to an unprecedented degree since 2009 I certainly believe this on a national scale, but I've never seen these stats properly adjusted for g
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by padobson 8y ago
Yeah. It's still early for him, but describing Gorsuch as a socially conservative, civil libertarian might be accurate.
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by padobson 8y ago
This is a fair criticism and may be correct, but I have to continue doing what works. I haven't found a better way to suppress procrastination yet.
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by padobson 8y ago
I spend $1000/yr in effort and fees on my federal income tax return. There's nothing especially practical about letting the feds take care of things.
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by padobson 8y ago
Yo Yo Ma, George Gershwin, Chuck Mangione, Weather Report
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by padobson 8y ago
I would chalk the market cap differences up to the differences in the industries. Internet search is more than 5 times the size of console gaming, and vastly more profitable. I think a true quantitative comparison would have to account for
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by padobson 8y ago
Self discipline definitely has a momentum effect. My most productive days are the ones that start at 5am with a run, followed by a shower, meditation, and writing up a list of things I want to accomplish that day. Then I start working with
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by padobson 8y ago
I don't think it's out of line to say Sony understands the platform business better than anyone. And I'm not just talking about console makers, I'm talking about all platforms: iOS, Android, Steam, Facebook, Twitter, etc
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by padobson 8y ago
So if you look at a distribution of folks possessing the attributes required of a footballer, you can be fairly competitive amongst the general population with one or two, but the long tail of elite players requires all seven of the attribu
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by padobson 8y ago
For those interested, there seems to be some discussion of Cihuacalli in Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture : https://books.google.com/books?id=NdB-XuZ4VPEC&lpg=PA139&ots...
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by padobson 8y ago
You make a good point. OP's point more serves as a scalable approach to reproduction and child rearing rather than sexuality. With widespread birth control available, sexuality doesn't have to overlap as much.
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by padobson 8y ago
federalism will always result in top heavy administrations, where fewer and fewer people have more and more power over the whole country You could say that about any form of government. I think it's human nature to want a single dict
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Methods of divination(en.wikipedia.org)
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by padobson 8y ago
Do you have any links to the places already doing it? I'd like to know more about them.

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