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by rfrey 3y ago
Because it's just generalizing based on "not Europe or North America == Third World == families with 10 babies". When in reality the world is a complicated and diverse place. Africa has a population density of 49/km2, In
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by rfrey 3y ago
From Merriam-Webster: 1: the quality or state of being fertile 2: the birth rate of a population
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by rfrey 3y ago
That might be unfair, but what about it makes it fraud?
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by rfrey 3y ago
Even if Farange was targeted for his political beliefs, that is independent of whether Chase monitors customers political activites. Farange's politics were a matter of celebrity.
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by rfrey 3y ago
"Compelling" evidence would be great, but SOME evidence would be nice too. The media not reporting it is certainly not evidence, down that path lies true crazy.
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by rfrey 3y ago
Lots of comments below criticising this post for "regretting not being a fraud" or some such. Be charitable... the sentence parses just fine as "I regret having worked in crypto".
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by rfrey 3y ago
I believe you, but how do the sums work? In my jurisdiction - a notoriously right-wing part of Canada - the staff:kid ratio is 1:4 for little guys, 6 for toddlers, and 8 for 4 years +. Call it 6 average. A group of 6 kids will bring in $96
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by rfrey 3y ago
To be fair, his first (and best) book was about dynamic pricing of options, and wasn't simply (ahem) derivative like his philosophy stuff.
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by rfrey 3y ago
This one isn't exactly the opposite though, in the same way that "could care less" is literally the opposite of what is meant. Bring the only one who would give a shot implies nobody else there meets even that incredibly low
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by rfrey 3y ago
Also notable that the hospitalized person initially only requested that McDonald's pay for the medical care, a request which was refused. That this case has become the poster child for "crazy lawsuits" is really a triumph of
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by rfrey 3y ago
This is a deeply weird take IMO. Nobody "embraces risk" because they have a risk fetish. You take on risk because you believe you can be paid for it, and perhaps you are better equipped to mitigate the risk than the people paying
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by rfrey 3y ago
I suspect that if you had access to a $30k laser cutter you'd be saying you could be awesome too, if you only had a $250k metal printer.
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by rfrey 3y ago
There is no bright line on the DIY spectrum between that injection molder and making your own charcoal to refine iron. I love building machines - enough so that I never build anything with them. Maybe someday I will, but by then 15155 wil
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by rfrey 3y ago
It's unclear to me precisely what your definition of creator is, but it seems like one nobody else shares. It has to be something made without constraints? Or something that can be effortlessly reproduced later? Or something that is 10
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by rfrey 3y ago
Not being a sycophant is not the same as being dismissive and disrespectful.
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by rfrey 3y ago
This is very reductive. For anyone not familiar with the story, Howell's experience at Google was the original source of the "Invert a binary tree on the whiteboard" meme. Opinions on his experience were all over the map, wit
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by rfrey 3y ago
Ah yes, the infamous "they", who are plotting to take away your cars, your guns, and your hamburgers.
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by rfrey 3y ago
Isn't that a lease?
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by rfrey 3y ago
It's pretty easy to ridicule (and therefore feel superior to, nice bonus!) an intellectual opponent if you get to invent their views out of thin air.
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by rfrey 3y ago
The agile manifesto was excellent. The authors could not foretell that the MBAs would co-opt and neuter the ideas.
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by rfrey 3y ago
You're begging the question by assuming we can tell what sales are positive and which are negative value. In other words you're asserting we have perfect knowledge and can't be gamed, to argue the measurement can't be ga
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by rfrey 3y ago
The point is that not all cash is the same, and some immediate cash causes medium or long term harm. But if cash is your metric, it will be gamed by not distinguishing between healthy and unhealthy cash. So you modify your metric to try to
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by rfrey 3y ago
I'm not sure that "is this in Unity's interest" is still a reasonable way to judge whether Unity will do something.
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by rfrey 3y ago
Sales are absolutely gameable and regularly are. Sales on false promises to customers, overpromising feature delivery, overstating financial benefits to the customer, are so common as to be cliche. The customers end up being short term rela
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by rfrey 3y ago
That's exactly the "verify" your parent was talking about. Unless you happen to have a situation where your project includes regular submission of work artifacts -- which describes a lot of modern software, sure, but is far f
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by rfrey 3y ago
When exactly was this "day" when industrial espionage was legal?
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by rfrey 3y ago
The name is literally a modification of "encyclopedia". It's an encyclopedia in wiki form.
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by rfrey 3y ago
>I eventually had to involve my senator You say that the way a teacher might say "I'm going to have to involve your parents". How does one get a senator involved in a payment dispute?
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by rfrey 3y ago
In the same way that infidelity is just part of marriage. It exists, but it's certainly not inevitable.

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