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by patmcc 13y ago
I have tons of respect and sympathy for teachers, but the argument I often hear for raising their pay ("they work really hard, they're super important, it's a difficult job") misses the central point. It seems like we ha
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by patmcc 13y ago
If all that is true, it sounds perfectly secure against anyone other than Apple and whatever law enforcement agencies they comply with requests from. So, you know, really not secure at all.
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by patmcc 13y ago
Banks that hold large amounts of cash either insure it against fire/flood/theft or self-insure with other assets - what is Coinbase's plan if these cold-storage coins are destroyed, either by malicious attempt or disaster? Th
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by patmcc 13y ago
Will you provide real-time stats? Could I see that user A523498BD5352F is currently in my store, and what other stores they frequent? If it's only aggregated data after the fact, that alleviates some of the concerns.
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by patmcc 13y ago
Anyone able to view an image can share it with other people if they really want to - maybe they need to save it and host it themselves, or take a screenshot, or even use their phone to take a picture of the screen. Facebook has simply opted
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by patmcc 13y ago
Why would a high-tech system not be able to make biased calls (if that is desired by whoever is running it)? Machines may not be susceptible to bribes, but the people running/programming/calibrating them certainly are.
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by patmcc 13y ago
A whole lot can happen between 'unrealized' and 'realized'
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by patmcc 13y ago
Really? How many websites are signed up / do you expect to sign up? Can you not spare 5 minutes per site per month to make sure there's a notification and/or opt-in? Or come up with an automated way to check it. Or use mechan
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>We actually ask websites to tell they're a part of this, but we cannot control what they do because they can simply display:none. You could certainly just check to see they're using it properly. Do a screen scrape or even
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by patmcc 13y ago
To your second point, I wouldn't test only reading levels - I'd test whatever we want/expect students to improve in. Reading, writing, math, social skills, happiness, physical fitness, whatever. And sure, we need good solid m
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>>You can't compare a teacher that has a class of 15 native english speaking, upper middle class, 2 parent house holds kids to a teacher with a class of 32 english as a second langurage, poor, hungry, cold, kids that are chil
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by patmcc 13y ago
If you buy bitcoins at $10 and sell them at $100, you should be recording a capital gain. If you buy at $100 and sell at $10, record a capital loss. The losses can absolutely offset those gains. Generally speaking your tax agency cares much
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by patmcc 13y ago
I don't people are scared to buy online, for the most part. They'll give their cc to amazon.com, or target.com, or walmart.com, or whoever. They're scared to give their cc to a new and untrusted merchant online, and with good
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by patmcc 13y ago
Hey, thanks for Beeminder. It's cost me a bunch of money (~75 bucks), but it's also helped me make some really positive changes. One small note - I'd really like it if I could pledge in CAD, so I don't see the annoying c
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by patmcc 13y ago
Since your site is now down, I'll offer some advice on how to hire (anyone) the legal way: Pay them.
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>>Honestly though, if I was ever in a fire/hire position bringing SQL-injectable-code to a code review would be grounds for being fired on the spot. Code reviews should be about ensuring the integrity of the code base AND hel
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>Why would you sell something you could make profit on if you kept it for yourself? Anyone building a bunch of good mining rigs could certainly have a decent amount of bitcoins - but lots of people don't want to hold a large amo
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by patmcc 13y ago
Desalinated water is cheap enough to drink if you're anywhere above abject poverty, really: much less than $1 per cubic meter in Israel and Singapore, for example. Literally fractions of a cent for a litre. It's everything else we
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by patmcc 13y ago
This is Determinism, which is a very old idea (not to say it's wrong - just that this is a philosophical debate that rages on). There are lots of interesting works written on it versus Free Will. My main issue with it is it seems to
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>"but are the ships hard for the player themself to fly?" Not really - flying ships in eve is less flight simulator, more spreadsheet. You usually choose another ship/structure from a drop-down menu and choose approach
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by patmcc 13y ago
The problem with this is no one earning < $22hr can afford to strike for any serious length of time. I like the idea of a high minimum wage or a minimum income (not both at the same time, though), but the right way to attack it is to get
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by patmcc 13y ago
I believe the implied advice behind that was "and if need be, have a judge and a bunch of lawyers present when you talk to them".
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by patmcc 13y ago
Most people bank from computers they own/control, so it makes login easier for them. Most computers in public places are starting to be start about clearing cache/cookies between uses, so there's no harm done there.
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>Everyone believes in their company, even the people who work at companies that turn out to be duds. Why would this be true? If desperate, I'm willing to work for any (non-evil) company I believe can pay me what they owe. The pr
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by patmcc 13y ago
Use the university provided method - students have to deal with it anyway, most likely, so you're not saving them any hassle. And however slow and ugly it is, it's already built and (presumably) works.
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by patmcc 13y ago
When things begin at 0, it's often because they're abstracting an offset baked into the data structure - array[0] is 0 steps from the start of the array, array[4] is 4, etc. Databases aren't storing things based on offsets, t
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by patmcc 13y ago
Why not? It looks good and is comfortable (if it's not, get a nicer suit). Yeah, it's archaic, but so is shaking hands and bringing in paper resumes, and you'll probably still be doing that. What'll probably happen is an
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by patmcc 13y ago
Maybe they're scared of police brutality, being sent to prison for resisting arrest, having a felony conviction, being unable to get an honest job and feed their kids, etc. The status quo allows even the poor in the first world to surv
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by patmcc 13y ago
>>>Immediately becoming physical is a valid showing of sexual interest. If she wasn't interested, she should have stopped it immediately. This may be a cultural thing, but I wouldn't touch (in an intimate way, like a hug
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by patmcc 13y ago
You're layering a lot of your believe about Facebook onto that assumption - maybe people saw that news and concluded Facebook would fail in external ads and lose a bunch of money, which decreased the stock price. It's hardly unamb

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