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by pimmen 9y ago
I got into DnD in 3rd edition and played it every weekend throughout high school. However, once I started teaching this game to other people, even with the "fixed 3.5" Pathfinder, I realized it was super complicated. It requires s
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by pimmen 9y ago
The big problem is that manufacturers want to eat their cake and have it too. Imagine if the CPSC would require that they pitch accurately: "And for just $699, you can sign up for an indefinite license to use this magnificent product,
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by pimmen 9y ago
The section you're complaining about is under the chapter basically explaining why you should care about economics. The whole book is packed with stuff far and wide, such as pure microeconomics for those who just need to understand dem
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by pimmen 9y ago
Because the market value of just being average in what you can do could be below what we deem tolerable. It does depend a lot on what's tolerable, admittedly. As long as we reason about it knowing that wether we like it or not, many of
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by pimmen 9y ago
If the CEO does something that drastic, the share holders can ansolutely sue him or her because the CEO doesn't have the authority. You reckon the owner of a bus company won't fire and sue a bus driver who does something stupid th
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by pimmen 9y ago
They are the owners of a company that ignores EU law. Good luck for the board or the major shareholders doing business in the EU again when they allowed stuff like this on their watch. Plus, they need the cooperation of governments. Their p
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by pimmen 9y ago
Or, you can implement STV (Single Transferrable Vote) to fix a lot of these issues. Problem is that the state governments get to choose what constitutes a democratic election. As a EU citizen, I think it's embarrassing that the UK has
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by pimmen 9y ago
They care because if I expand to the foreign market rather than in the US market because I can bribe my way to advantages, that's competing on very unfair terms with competitors that stay in the US. That and the fact that OECD has a co
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by pimmen 9y ago
"Slow iteration, each mistake that you could learn from potentially costs a hundred lives" The potential for disaster is absolutely there, but aircraft crashes rarely do cause that many deaths, they are just the ones media loves t
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by pimmen 9y ago
Now, this could be because I'm Swedish and here it's taken as self evident truth that you should have a smörgåsbord of benefits, but if they're having problems beating the benefits offered in Silicon Valley, their solution is
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by pimmen 9y ago
"But the high-level executives, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, are exempt from this collaborative environment and have offices on the fourth floor of the new building." Because private offices offers control over your working envir
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by pimmen 9y ago
Let's assume this guy knows statistics; by lowering the rate of false-negatives, you raise the rate of false-positives. This means that he's heavily implying Google has employed undeperforming engineers with these practices.
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by pimmen 9y ago
Other work Google has done to attract engineers from underrepresented groups is reaching out to women and minorities with tech skills and make them interested in working there. Since they still need to pass the same hiring practices, and th
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by pimmen 9y ago
The fact that these engineers passed the same hiring process, consisting of problem solving, that other employees also were subjected to, and that these workers deliver enough value to pass the fitness evaluations? If you're suggesting
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by pimmen 9y ago
As the note basically says; starting a debate does not excuse you from suggesting that some of your co-workers are there because of a "lowered bar", your evidence being psuedo-scientific bullshit about the tech-skill distribution
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by pimmen 9y ago
First, the Paris accords does not create a body which enforces it. Second, there is no tax, there's however a fund to help countries affected very severely by climate change, feel free to donate how much you want. And third, we in the
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by pimmen 9y ago
They would be most successful where population and sign density is high, which would be the cities. During such an attack, public transport could move around people while the authorities would take care of the attackers. The problem for the
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by pimmen 9y ago
Since the sign is just metal, it could serve as the antenna. Bury the transmitter beneath the ground, there you could also hook it up to the power grid (unless you use the sign's surface to act as a solar panel). I would like to see va
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by pimmen 9y ago
A more costly, less elegant solution whose problem is already shared by street signs in general (meaning we could plan for it) would be RFID tags or something that tells the computer what sign this is if it can't read the sign. You cou
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by pimmen 9y ago
That was totally uncalled for and immature! It's comments like this that make politicians scoff at criticism because they'll put name calling and legitimate criticism in the same box.
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by pimmen 9y ago
I've seen plenty of debates with nut-jobs like an anti-vaxxer or climate sceptic facing off against an MD or climatologist respectively on television, with a journalist as a moderator to make sure it's on a level that's under
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by pimmen 9y ago
As was circulated recently on HN, this basically stems from the government thinking computers are appliances. "Hey! Your device creates and sends packages, could it just not create and send packages of this type? We'll even help
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by pimmen 9y ago
There's more benefits than those received directly from the EU organization budget. The fact that capital movement is not regulated is one that benefits the banks far more than the UK spends, for example. That's why the banks are
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by pimmen 9y ago
Not to steer this completely off topic, but despite a lot of setbacks in Poland, Hungary and Russia the economic situation post USSR in Eastern Europe has been tremendous (Poland was the only country in the EU not to suffer negative growth
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by pimmen 9y ago
The thing is though that the economic growth came after, and as a result of, the market deregulations and special economic zones instituted by the Deng administration. The founding principles of the CCP has been proven not to work in China,
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by pimmen 9y ago
The whole idea of a credit card is that you buy something by borrowing money, because you don't have the money right now. If you do have the money, use a debit card. However, I'm not completely against debt. I think debt can be ma
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by pimmen 9y ago
If they're not alive today, I believe their families will get the money. The Baby Boomers came to be immediately after WW2, so that will be quite the collection of families waiting for their money.
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by pimmen 9y ago
With the somewhat generous annual interest of 6%, it would be around $1000. Not exactly back breaking for the DoD (or the VA, for that matter, whatever department has this issue on their table).
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by pimmen 9y ago
In Norway and the rest of Scandinavia (Swedish here) you get data on all the income, even capital gains. Even some benefits that you have to pay taxes on is included here.
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by pimmen 9y ago
Ok, so all benefits are equal, and all drawbacks are equal? We as a society can't do anything that's not beneficial to absolutely everyone? I posit that a few things are not that harmful to make public, except in some cases that v

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