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by phd514 8y ago
That's a highly misleading statement. Homeless busing programs are common across the country and while not without their problems, they don't just send all homeless to a single location such as Texas to SF. Also, SF buses consider
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by phd514 9y ago
Canada -- a Quebec ban on private health insurance was overturned in 2005, but there are still open court cases on whether that applies nationally and whether healthcare providers may charge privately for services.
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by phd514 9y ago
Where to start? They don't allow anyone to attend medical school in Cuba. They accept a certain number of foreign students based on some standard of financial need. As for Cuban medical students, they're stuck as practitioners in
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by phd514 9y ago
I agree with much of what you say, but I do take issue with the idea that "what makes you good at being an elite soldier makes you really bad at being a companion to other humans that aren't also an elite special forces soldier.&q
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by phd514 9y ago
She committed a crime, did her time, and is allowed to not be incarcerated by the state anymore. That doesn't mean she's entitled to any number of additional things such as admission to Harvard doctoral programs, employment at any
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by phd514 9y ago
The recent NYT article "The Urban Revival Is Over" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15168420 ) seems to contradict at least some of the ideas in this article.
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by phd514 9y ago
That's kind of a distinction without a difference since the foundation is just the mechanism through which Dell makes philanthropic contributions.
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by phd514 9y ago
The price of a car is not inversely related to the likelihood that its owner does maintenance and repairs himself or herself. Sports car enthusiasts do more of their own maintenance than the average car owner. As an example, check out rennl
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by phd514 9y ago
I also have a degree from a prestigious university where the teaching ranged from mediocre to good. IMO, the quality of the teaching (or lack thereof) was secondary to the fact that the academic bar was set significantly higher than at most
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by phd514 9y ago
The Getty Images link below has a pretty broad range of American eagle emblems with similarities to eagle emblems used by other countries. It seems this is case of seeing Nazis where one wishes to see Nazis. http://www.gettyimage
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by phd514 9y ago
In my experience, switching among smaller companies at ~2-year intervals does better up until you hit that area-specific level of diminishing returns. When I was a team lead, I wasn't involved in salary negotiations, but I had access t
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by phd514 9y ago
Apart from working at one of the big tech companies (Google, Amazon, MS, Facebook, etc), I can't see staying in one place for ten years as a good way to move from 150k to 500k. In most of the companies I've worked (outside of the
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by phd514 9y ago
IMO, you see diminishing returns once you reach somewhere between ~125k (if you're in a low-demand area) and ~250k (if you're in a high-demand area such as the Bay Area). To get above that, you generally need to both switch jobs a
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by phd514 9y ago
Precisely. They're just saying that the current situation doesn't warrant regulatory intervention. In most metro areas, 100Mbps is pretty readily available due to market forces rather than regulation and competition among fiber pr
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by phd514 9y ago
For better or worse, I think the idea of the surgical team runs counter to the prevailing egalitarian spirit in software development. Personally, I think there are some projects that are better suited to it than others. For example, I'
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by phd514 9y ago
The title is a bit click-baity. The tl;dr is that rest and breaks from work are essential to sustaining effort, especially for intrinsically motivated people who have tendencies to over-work themselves.
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by phd514 9y ago
As for dress shoes being hideously uncomfortable, that's really a matter of fit and quality. For years, I walked several miles per day in NYC in leather-soled dress shoes and they were perfectly comfortable. Now I kinda' regret th
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by phd514 9y ago
That seems to be an example of "parent is important factor in child's development though not in the way the parent intended" rather than "parent is not important factor in child's development".
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by phd514 9y ago
As for religion, it depends entirely on how you view it. Most parents have at least a small set of values (whether they be open-mindedness, tolerance, hard work, generosity, etc.) they wish to impress upon their children and they frame thos
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by phd514 9y ago
The "guide not control" recommendation needs to account for both the severity of the potential consequences of an action (e.g., playing in traffic on a busy street) and the maturity of the child (e.g., a two-year-old will not be g
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by phd514 9y ago
If this turns out to be true, I hope it would be only because other JVM-based languages such as Kotlin and Clojure were taking market share from Java, not because Node.js were continuing to increase in popularity.
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by phd514 9y ago
That sounds like it might be a derivative of the oft-quoted statistic that gun owners in the US are more likely to be harmed by their own gun than to use it successfully in self-defense. The problem with that statistic is that it includes s
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by phd514 9y ago
I've worked in a similar situation -- a transaction processing system with ~1M tx/day and ~2TB total data. They used 15 Cassandra nodes and a monster Redshift cluster (>64 CPU cores, ~512GB RAM, 30+TB disk) for the OLTP and OLA
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by phd514 9y ago
I'm similarly one month into a new senior development role. Although I am familiar with the tech stack, the system's functionality, deployment environment, and points of interface with other systems are fairly complex. The other d
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by phd514 9y ago
Hmm, fair point. It just doesn't make any sense then that more children correlate to higher income because the housekeeping responsibilities fall to the wife.
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by phd514 9y ago
>> Coltrane has found that after controlling for variables like age and education, married American men earn significantly more than their unmarried or divorced male peers, and their earnings go up with every child they have. Marriage
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by phd514 9y ago
Given that Calvin's stated and recorded views run precisely counter to those ideas, it would require some pretty significant mental contortions to characterize anyone with those views as "Calvinist". That reminds me of the re
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by phd514 9y ago
That's hard to say since that general idea is probably among the most common elements of religions going back as far as we have records of religion, e.g., Mesopotamia, etc. -- curry favor with the gods through some act of devotion or v
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by phd514 9y ago
That kind of religious thought is not Calvinist in the least. Here's an actual quote from one of Calvin's sermons on the topic: "The good things given by God are but a path to lead us to him, a ladder to ascend on high, not a
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by phd514 9y ago
It's unclear to me that all the variables have been accounted for in a way that justifies the conclusion that younger workers handle high context switching better than older workers. It's entirely possible that younger workers are

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