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by pliftkl 9y ago
Not the person you are responding to, but as someone who probably feels the same way, I'm ok with someone disrupting my local taxi monopoly by having someone who is not certified driving the car that is taking me to the airport, becaus
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by pliftkl 9y ago
First thoughts: don't link to a bunch of lorem ipsum based documentation from your home page.
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by pliftkl 9y ago
No. Estimates have a very real purpose, even beyond communicating to managers and customers (whom you should be honest with anyway). Our estimates are used as a team to figure out how much work we can commit to in a sprint. They are also
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by pliftkl 9y ago
This has always been important to me, and it's one of the ways that I mentally distinguish my "I'm going to go out and be professional" me from my "I'd rather not be working" me. When I tie my tie, I&#x27
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by pliftkl 9y ago
Smalltalk as a language is small ("fits on a postcard"), and anyone can implement this. However, to be usable, smalltalk really needs to live in a full featured IDE. Full featured IDE in the 90's meant expensive software fro
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by pliftkl 9y ago
I don't feel like being an engineer obliges me any more or any less than any other employee regarding the ethical consequences of my work, nor do I have any stronger obligation than any other employee to not do unethical work.
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by pliftkl 9y ago
I have fond memories of PLATO, Tutor, and AIDS. There's gotta be an avatar port somewhere...
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by pliftkl 9y ago
AirBnB didn't rape anyone, they just set up the platform that enabled the rape, and took a cut of the money the woman paid to rent a place in which she was raped. Imagine a taxi company that hired a driver, did background checks, who t
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by pliftkl 9y ago
I think that's a slight oversimplification. Uber wasn't fighting doing background checks in Austin, they were fighting doing background checks the way the city of Austin wanted them to. But at a more meta-level, what they were r
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by pliftkl 9y ago
This is the long standing definition, which has been used in the athletic community for much longer than it has in the "wealthy yoga mom" community described in the article.
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by pliftkl 10y ago
Well, it generates referral revenue for the developer of the website...
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by pliftkl 10y ago
This. Many people (usually on the right) argue that increased minimum wages cost people jobs because companies that rely on low-wage, low-skilled will simply automate, because the companies are going to follow basic economic principles. A
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by pliftkl 10y ago
Glad I'm not the only one. It's not often that I run into fonts that slow me down, but that hurt to read.
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by pliftkl 10y ago
That rather depends on the papers you are looking for. If someone else has searched for the same paper before, you get the cached results back.
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by pliftkl 10y ago
Easy things: 1. Ideas 2. Name 3. Website with registration and payment Hard things: 1. Acquiring paying customers 2. Keeping paying customers 2. Product Management once you have customers People will pay you more for hard things than
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by pliftkl 10y ago
This is one of the more fascinating books that I've read recently. The commentary makes the paper itself very accessible. I rather enjoyed the direct reproduction of the paper itself (with typos!) in the book, and the near line by li
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by pliftkl 10y ago
Interestingly, Japan actually has a homicide rate on par with the US if you include suicides (with the delta between the Japanese and US rates being filled by our murder rate).
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by pliftkl 10y ago
But for most people, there is no "work permit" to be had. If you're an El Salvadoran national who wants to come to work in the US - good luck. Unless you are married to a US national, there isn't really a path to "
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by pliftkl 10y ago
I don't think it's the home brewing equivalent that is the risk. It's more about the relative profits of corn vs marijuana in the midwest. If we were to fully legalize, I would expect that marijuana would have to get at lea
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by pliftkl 10y ago
I don't find your advice to be "crap", but I do think it could be a lot simpler. Run stronglifts, 5x5, or starting strength. All of these involve 3 trips to the gym per week, are very easy to follow, and have well defined p
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by pliftkl 10y ago
Your risk is right on. The problem with throwing out dictators (laudable) is what they get replaced with (not necessarily an improvement). If Saudi Arabia were to fall and be replaced by an ISIS style state, we'd be very limited in o
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by pliftkl 10y ago
I have to confess I'm a lot surprised that Luanda and Kinshasa are on the list. If you'd asked me to pick what I thought were the top 10, I wouldn't have thought to put any African cities on the list. I'd have expected
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by pliftkl 10y ago
"The home hoarding rentier class"? What about someone who's primary assets are a couple of houses that (s)he rents out? Should (s)he be restricted from getting a market rate income on those houses? I disagree pretty strongly
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by pliftkl 10y ago
Hanging on the militia argument is actually a little bit dangerous. What happens if a state, say Texas, were to pass a law inducting every able bodied adult into "the militia" (for some definition of militia, and some definition
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by pliftkl 10y ago
From the conclusion: "I Know First has created an algorithm that is able to make accurate predictions of the stock market and has been able to use it to greatly increase the return on investments for their clients." Which sort of
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by pliftkl 10y ago
I'm not sure of the spelling, and I'm sure I'd butcher it, but Thai has a word for "the overwhelming urge to pinch a baby because it's so damn cute". My wife uses it on a regular basis when we're out and
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by pliftkl 11y ago
A friend of mine is a nutrition researcher, and one of the things that he said that resonated with me was "The best diets tell you that you don't need to cut calories, but make you less hungry so you do it anyway".
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by pliftkl 11y ago
Decriminalization of consumption seems to be the worst of all worlds for countries that are struggling with violence associated with the drug trade. Decriminalization generally removes (limited) controls on market demand, while continuing
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by pliftkl 11y ago
That payscale isn't for "posted" jobs. That payscale is for "poached" jobs (no negativity implied by "poached", I just don't have a better phrase). When companies need someone who is going to cost t
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by pliftkl 11y ago
If the Colombian government knew in 1982 the location of $10B in gold, it seems odd that they would not have simply seized it. I know underwater archeology is hard, but if you're simply interested in grabbing gold, is it really beyond

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