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by reagency 11y ago
Not all technology is mobile phone apps. Some of it is geological engineering, or heavy machinery, or genetics, or...
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by reagency 11y ago
"Carbonated water" is an acid-base mixture, with more than one part of the mixture had "carbon" in it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonated_water Just adding acid won't give you the plea
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by reagency 11y ago
Is anyone old enough to remember the original "Sharing Economy" -- ZipCar and FlexCar and the newish bike shares. When did the term get misapplied to "contractor economy"?
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by reagency 11y ago
GP doesn't believe that "[website-specific] Zero Rating" is compatible with "Net Neutrality".
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by reagency 11y ago
You are saying that he world's poor should become rich enough to pay for Internet, before they can get access to Internet? Or that some arbitrary third party should be forced to subsidize their Internet access? Why is the Indian govern
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by reagency 11y ago
The shell version completely fails on Unicode or even Latin ASCII.
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by reagency 11y ago
OK, now tell whose technique is more likely to lead to TeX or Google Brain: Knuth's Literate Programming, or McIlroy's "everything worth doing is already a Unix built-in"?
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by reagency 11y ago
"zero knowledge proofs" is a textbook solved problem. Your local college library has books that explain how to do secure voting. It is how AWS and HTTPS works.
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by reagency 11y ago
Modern paper voting involves a thick black markers, OCR computers, and election monitors from both parties. The 1880s are long ago history.
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by reagency 11y ago
And indeed, even when Macs had faster hardware (early PowerPC), the Objective-C crippled performance. Windows crashed a lot (like Mac did before OS X), but it was fast because it had no isolation between components.
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by reagency 11y ago
That is classic Jobs -- sort of techie but not understanding what any of the words mean, very demanding, and sensitive to the customers' biases.
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by reagency 11y ago
Paying taxes is by far the greatest submission you could do to support the regime. Taking the govertment's money to help social services is far more noble than sending the govt a check that is used to buy spies and bombs.
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by reagency 11y ago
He revolving door absolutely refers to working for contractors, like is common in the militsry industrial complex.
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by reagency 11y ago
That problem was solved decades ago by government contracting. See above, the healthcare.gov folks formed contracting companies so they could go back to work for the govt at double the salary.
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by reagency 11y ago
java.until.ArrayList says that question makes no sense, unless the question was really about the extra overhead and API of the list wrapper object.
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by reagency 11y ago
java.util.ArrayList
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by reagency 11y ago
But we have a shortage of doctors in this country (USA) at least, due to cartel controls on med school. More doctors, modestly paid, could serve more people currently underserved.
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by reagency 11y ago
The whole philosophy is silly. They advocate high paying careers (which tend to be exploitative ways to get money) and ignore the moral hazard of well intentioned people turning out to consume that income later. They inore that a smart pers
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by reagency 11y ago
That's only when you count every unsuccessful intervention as a "cause". The research paper that created this factoid counted every possible way medicine could have prevented the death, and did not weighting of other factors
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by reagency 11y ago
Recycling is free, garbage and compost is feed (hah, pun!)
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by reagency 11y ago
And his legal defense case is "the wage fixing was discovered 5 year ago, this case is essentially the same as a different case we lost against other plaintiffs, so we shouldn't be liable to the other victims also"
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by reagency 11y ago
No need to call every social misbehavior "SJW".
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by reagency 11y ago
But people in athletic sports who don't get to the top, still have a useful physical strength to serve them in life, not just RSI and a non transferable twitch reflex.
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by reagency 11y ago
A feedback sandwich is: 1. Congratulate for successes. 2. Point out weaknesses to improve. 3. Give encouragememt to keep working at it in future. Plenty of people do it wrong and give BS feedback, but those people can put BS in any form.
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by reagency 11y ago
A litigous candidate would litigate based on the interview experience, not the rejection letter, and then access to internal notes (where the illegal discrimination happens) during legal discovery. The rejection letter is irrelevant. I case
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by reagency 11y ago
The discrimination fear is a boogeyman. The example you gave isn't risky at all. The risk is that one time someone will actually leak a illegal behavior.
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by reagency 11y ago
Was the interview about stuff they need to get done, or doofy puzzlers?
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by reagency 11y ago
There are 27 similar videos. Play again.
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by reagency 11y ago
You are correct. A kid drowning in a wave pool looks different from a mostly-able swimmer drowning from fatigue. The chosen video sample doesn't match the catchy text.
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by reagency 11y ago
If the site is working on your browser, you can click on an invisible div over the video, and get text feedback about the location of the drowned.

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