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by praxulus 14y ago
I think you missed his/her point. Costco gets to have more motivated and more loyal employees because their pay is significantly higher than minimum wage. If minimum wage goes up, they lose some/all of the benefit unless they further increa
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by praxulus 14y ago
So it's the first legitimately uninteresting number, that's pretty interesting if you ask me.
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by praxulus 14y ago
While it's not as extreme as the the situation described in the article, it's still racism. A restaurant isn't allowed to discriminate based on race, why is a university?
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by praxulus 14y ago
The physics, while not dating back as far, were also present in flash games pre-Angry Birds, the most popular being Crush the Castle. Angry birds brought a slightly simpler aiming mechanism and (probably most importantly) a much more polish
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by praxulus 14y ago
Because not everybody has enough self control. I'm sure most people who waste too much time on reddit/tumblr/etc. realize they could be spending their time more productively, and many of them have made an effort to do so and failed. At that
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by praxulus 14y ago
Modern farming is also a high tech field, most people will die anyway when you revert to agrarian societies. Once you've spread across multiple planets you're no longer at (significant) risk of extinction, so the effect is pretty much the s
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by praxulus 14y ago
Why would you try to visit the entire world if you only have 2 weeks of vacation available? At best you would have time to visit a handful of landmarks per city before getting right back on a plane. That's a complete waste of money.
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by praxulus 14y ago
The resolution might not be beneficial for electronic displays, but the this technology can achieve a wider range of colors than any RGB display could possibly achieve. It's probably far less precise with current technology, but directly co
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by praxulus 14y ago
Private financial institutions would no longer loan nearly as much money to students to pay for college, so less money would go through the chain of (student after graduation)->lender->(student when they were in school)->school.
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by praxulus 14y ago
It's not that they're pumping money in that's the problem, it's the place they decided to pump that causes the issue. Financial aid and guaranteed loans are on the side that increases many student's ability to pay. The alternative is to giv
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by praxulus 14y ago
The middle ground is supporting copyright law, but not expecting to have 100% enforcement of it. This is exactly what we have right now.
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by praxulus 14y ago
If Eclipse can handle your language, then the eclim plugin will provide renaming, real autocomplete, etc. within vim. It just runs eclipse in the background and exposes functionality to vim.
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by praxulus 14y ago
Google doesn't want to kill iOS, they just want people using the web, and smartphones are a great way to get more people there. Android's purpose to get lots of people using smartphones, whether it's by using an android device, or by puttin
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by praxulus 14y ago
Nobody said it was impressive, and they care only because it came up in the conversation. If you bothered to read the comment thread, you would see that Macha said: >I understand Zynga even less now." So saraid216 explained their motiv
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by praxulus 14y ago
You completely missed the point. He's not saying that Zynga's actions are moral or should be socially acceptable, just that it's easy to see their motivation. It's not hard to understand why they do what they do, no matter how reprehensible
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by praxulus 14y ago
I'm definitely not saying they shouldn't be saving. The (now deleted) comment I replied to was awed by the high savings rate the kids were getting, 5%. I was just putting it in perspective.
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by praxulus 14y ago
If you're a a bad parent, particularly in a poor inner city family, that's the western solution. If you're a good parent the solution is to teach your kids moral lessons without using violence.
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by praxulus 14y ago
Inflation in India is north of 7% so that kind of savings rate isn't great. It's worse than the 0% savings/1.7% inflation we have in the U.S.
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by praxulus 14y ago
There may very well be one interface to rule them all, but it's not going to be the windows desktop that we all know and love. Removing that completely is going to be difficult to matter how great the alternative is, so if they want to have
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by praxulus 14y ago
I believe you can buy a phone elsewhere and maintain your plan too. It's the contract renewal that happens when you get a subsidized phone that will remove your unlimited data.
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by praxulus 14y ago
Half of them were just curious, according to the survey the ad linked to.
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by praxulus 14y ago
He's not arguing with you, he can't be using a strawman. He's just pointing out that other people will be distracted by your tone, making them ignore your (mostly correct) message.
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by praxulus 14y ago
But for most websites, it is something you have to do. Ruining the layout of your page is about as bad as any other DoS attack for most of the afflicted users.
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by praxulus 14y ago
>(thus making the page load slower) The difference is tiny. If your images are on the same domain as the html, you'll have no extra overhead from the ssl handshake (thanks to http keepalive), and the symmetric encryption used in an exis
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by praxulus 14y ago
The average programmer is a bad programmer, so that doesn't really say much.
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by praxulus 14y ago
No, but you shouldn't tell anybody who wants to go camping sometimes (i.e. avoid modern technology for a bit) that they should just avoid civilization forever. We can have both anonymous and non-anonymous communities on the web. It's a pret
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by praxulus 14y ago
To be clear, I don't think everybody on the internet should be using their real name all the time. Anonymity is great, and (in all seriousness) I hope 4chan is around for years to come. The problem is that if even a few users are anonymous,
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by praxulus 14y ago
Some people want to be able to have the same kinds of social interactions they have in the real world, but with the convenience of the internet. We've gone thousands of years with certain social norms (e.g. not being anonymous most of the t
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by praxulus 14y ago
That's ridiculous. reCAPTCHA isn't making you do more work, it's just making work you have to do anyway useful. The benefit Google gets from the OCR work is microscopic, and the world gets old books and New York Times articles.
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by praxulus 14y ago
Lectures aren't great, which is why he wants kids to do that at home on their own time (and at their own pace), and use the school day to work on problems and get more individualized help.

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