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by reagency 11y ago
Because men haven't found gender related hostility or exclusion from high paying jobs in those majors.
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by reagency 11y ago
How far?
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by reagency 11y ago
Tweets are not Fair Use just because they are short. Happy Birthday was not Fair Use for decades , despite being tweet sized.
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by reagency 11y ago
Before you say No to I.org, propose something better to say Yes to.
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by reagency 11y ago
But it wasn't a private criminal theft. The only person who stole the money was hr police. No police, no problem.
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by reagency 11y ago
Please don't blame the victim. Would you like me to steal your car just because I can force it away from you?
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by reagency 11y ago
That's great if you are privileged enough to pass as normal. Not acting Jewish was fine in 1937 Germany too, until that wasn't good enough and they started checking who your grandparents were.
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by reagency 11y ago
That sounds like classic Jobsian tactic of saying everything Apple doesn't do is bad. Similar to how Jobs said smartphones were a bad idea until he got into the market.
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by reagency 11y ago
Apple could pay a lot more to Chinese workers and still pay less than Norway wages. Tim Cook collects $hundreds of millions by exploiting a power imbalance in the labor market.
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by reagency 11y ago
This is a myth. Mathematicians are excellent at calculations, relative to the general population. They know many algorithms and notice patterns (like "Common core"). They just aren't usually the savants that multiply many dio
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by reagency 11y ago
Marriages, cars, houses, computer programs and businesses all take work, are subject to rot, and can be rebuilt. If every bump in marriage doomed it, nearly no marriage would survive. The viability is a combination of all the negative and p
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by reagency 11y ago
Maybe the names are poor. Strong/Weak typing refers to Conversion Typing. Or Type Malleability. It is about the implicit conversions or transitions between types. Static/Dynamic refers to Variable Typing (or Identifier Typing). It
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by reagency 11y ago
Hmm, those CT boundaries aren't just high variance, they have extremely high error, which seems a more significant problem. They are linear!
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by reagency 11y ago
That sort of missed the point, though. The songwriting is a tiny part of a song. Most of the popularity value is in the audio and video production and in the persona of the person who mouths the words and stars in the video, and those aren&
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by reagency 11y ago
HN is horroble on Android too, because the HN powers refuse to create a mobile layout.
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by reagency 11y ago
With that technical and journalistic pedigree, I expect him to be able to explain the issue and investigative details
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by reagency 11y ago
Social sharing widgets are ads.
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by reagency 11y ago
You miss the part where mobsters don't only make their money from illegal but moral activities. There is plenty of theft and creating the problems they charge money for protection from. Reliable, maybe, but still oppressive.
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by reagency 11y ago
The Mafia is much closer to one-party governments like China, than all government.
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by reagency 11y ago
Seattle has a more extreme flavor of the voting problem. We can't build urban mass transit because suburban/rural voters prevent Seattle from raising local taxes to support transit.
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by reagency 11y ago
The article is saying that when an object is sucked into a black hole, all state information is squeezed back out in the form of vibrations. The brick wall analogy is very bad. It is more like flushing an object down a toilet: information a
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by reagency 11y ago
Tenured academics also have long term job security and increasing amounts of paid free time as they get older, past the age that they would have a hard time holding a senior job in industry.
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by reagency 11y ago
Like BlackBerry tried?
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by reagency 11y ago
That's a also metric I use when I choose service providers. If every employee is allowed to abuse any other employee's credentials to access my private data, move on.
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by reagency 11y ago
Why is physics is not an artifact of the calculation method used?
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by reagency 11y ago
There ar e ways to audit... Timestamps of account creations, IP block where signups and messages come from....
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by reagency 11y ago
That is true, but the world is big and there are people who (1) wouldn't be ashamed, (2) could do it as an intentional investigation. And the crooks can't detect those people in advance.
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by reagency 11y ago
My gut sense is that 10100 degreed wouldn't even be enough to render a pixel accurate mandlebrot set on your phone's screen. So many twisty edges.
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by reagency 11y ago
Plenty of winners have lost their winner status via destructive drug abuse. It is practically a cliche in hr entertainment industry.
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by reagency 11y ago
Not "forgetting" math, but working in a more-social lower-math job. Aka management and sales, not engineering. But anyway a huge amount of variation us being compressed into over/under 50th %ile. You can't read anything

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