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by quandrum 13y ago
I don't have a source, but I remember reading that a child observing a parent reading (As opposed to a parent reading to a child) was a better indicator of whether the child would be a reader. But this is heresy without a source.
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by quandrum 13y ago
> There's no discrimination. Or rather that the discrimination is cultural and leads to life choices that make the wage gap structural. For example: We live in a culture that devalues young girls who excel in math, leading to lower
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by quandrum 13y ago
Or perhaps due to differences in the way you deliberately practice?
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by quandrum 13y ago
> This person does NOT change their diet. They exercise instead. Since exercise means weight loss, and diet is unimportant... Or so you claim. Where did he claim that? He does not mention diet. I took his claim to be: For the purpose of
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by quandrum 13y ago
I'm not sure he's arguing the individuals are making better decisions, but rather the sum of thousand developers making decisions is better than the shareholders the C levels at Microsoft. I think a good analogy is centralized government ec
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by quandrum 13y ago
Well, maybe to put it more generously: 1. Build a site in ruby (insert langauge/framework the creators are most comfortable/familiar with and can iterate quickly). 2. Build a community of a certain size that causes it scaling problems. 3. I
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by quandrum 14y ago
> The Wikipedia article contradicts you in the second paragraph Only if you don't follow it far enough to find out it's 2010 numbers.
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by quandrum 14y ago
You mean like the "stimulus" spend that shot wind power from ~1% of the power grid to ~6%, approximately 8 years ahead of when most forecasters head predicated this would occur?[1] You mean the "stimulus" that caused renewables to be 55% o
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by quandrum 14y ago
Did you read the article? The title may be a bit misleading, but having read the article, it's obvious this is about how easy the tools they suggest make building (scaffolding?) an AirBnB app, not how easy it is to build an AirBnB business.
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by quandrum 14y ago
Water proof cow? No need for barns, they can't get wet
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by quandrum 14y ago
> OkCupid probably has a very good idea of how attractive a person They do. They will tell you when they think you attractive. You get a message like "Congrats, you're in the top X% of attractiveness on OKC, we'll start showing you more
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by quandrum 14y ago
All HBO has to do is open "HBO Go" to non-cable subscribers, and they'd get a flood of takers. But they still make too much money of cable subscriptions to do that, so we have to wait for the tipping point when cable becomes a drag on HBO v
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by quandrum 14y ago
I think it's time articles like these start suggesting an infrastructure as code product, like chef or puppet, to do the heavy lifting. I feel like doing this stuff by hand should be considered insecure and outdated..
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by quandrum 14y ago
The site breadcrumbs using ">" always give away Google unfortunately.
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by quandrum 14y ago
> Where police used to sit in daily meetings to plan where to patrol, they can now spend more time actually out on patrol, since the computer's doing the planning. While this is a nice application of machine learning, I can't help but w
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by quandrum 14y ago
Yes, I started the challenge. My problems were encountered during the game itself. It stopped working correctly.
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by quandrum 14y ago
Was able to sign up, but the challenge totally failed on me. First it seemed to not be taking any input, and let me enter about 10 different numbers without response. Then, it showed me the back and forth between me and the computer for abo
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by quandrum 14y ago
Almost anything that involves subjective judgement can cause this sort of thing, I think. Because at that point it is about you. At a certain point, iOS vs Android or Ford vs Chevy comes down to something personal. Something about you made
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by quandrum 14y ago
I came to the same conclusions from a different angle. I realized I had so many recurring weekly commitments to activities I loved that I wasn't hanging out with people that didn't participate in those activities. So I started scheduling so
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by quandrum 14y ago
The uniformity of buying recommendations makes this seemingly useless. I looked up 4 very different make and model combinations and every recommendation was "Buy a 2009-2011 for the best value" But it's neat that greens are cheap.
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by quandrum 14y ago
Your link doesn't support your claim. Worse, your link doesn't even consider the idea. All it says: > Obviously the number of students didn't grow by 511%. Why is it obvious? Show my a source.
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by quandrum 14y ago
Just bad reading. Despite what you think this article says, it clearly acknowledges smart phones existed before 2007. The source article is claiming 2002 as first availability, when Palm's and their ilk gained the ability to make phone call
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by quandrum 14y ago
One argument I like is that alien civilizations are going to be either extremely more advanced than us, or extremely less advanced. Human intelligence is only 5k years old, on a 4.5BB year old planet in a 14BB year old universe. Yet, our le
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by quandrum 14y ago
I disagree. Pricing decisions should rest with the party doing the selling. They have both the most market information and most expertise. They can find equilibrium prices the fastest and most efficiently. Author's and publisher's are free
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by quandrum 15y ago
And play around with it a bit. It takes 30+ seconds to see everything.
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by quandrum 15y ago
The hallmark of "regulatory capture" is that the regulated party is driving the relationship, and not the regulators. So while we see occasional push back when public outcry gets too loud, most law and regulation is written by telco's, and
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by quandrum 15y ago
One thing to remember in the US is that health insurance companies drive a lot of the drug testing. They offer it for free to employers, and in return get the benefit of never having (suspected) addicts try to obtain employer based coverage
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by quandrum 15y ago
> small credit unions can't offer all the fancy featurs of a multinational (like automatic online bill pay or whatever). I've only banked with 2 credit unions, but both offered this feature. Maybe I was just lucky, but online bill pay s
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by quandrum 15y ago
Assuming you have a home and don't have to contribute. I don't have much sympathy for the mindset displayed in this article (I've moved 5 times, ~4k miles total, on near minimum wage salaries), but you are making the same kind of assumption
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by quandrum 15y ago
> We have seen some software problems with various cars already Have we? The highest profile one I know of turned out to not be be software at all (Referring to Toyota accelerator[1]), but rather a combination of floor mats and human er

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