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901.
by rhelz 3y ago
I know Teeline shorthand, which is easier to learn than Gregg shorthand. It is fine for taking note from books or articles, but not quite fast enough to take notes from spoken language.
902.
by rhelz 3y ago
I don't wish they'd bring back cursive; I wish they would teach shorthand. If I would have learned shorthand in the 2nd grade, it would have made every single class I took after that better, because I could have taken much better
903.
by rhelz 3y ago
Can you point at a house and say “I designed this house?” If the house didn’t have some kind of existence while you were even designing it, how could it be that you designed that, particular house?
904.
by rhelz 3y ago
But you do say, “I am building a house.”
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by rhelz 3y ago
Say you are in the middle of building a house. The foundation has been built and they are framing it up. Is it a house?
906.
by rhelz 3y ago
Not all who wander are lost.
907.
by rhelz 3y ago
It’s one of those things you really have no control over. You just argue as persuasively as you can, but end of the day, your boss gets the final decision, and gets to judge your performance. When their brilliant plan fails, they are goin
908.
by rhelz 3y ago
Never been a woman, but I've been an older programmer for about 20 years now, so I can only speak to the kinds of things I've faced. Yeah, anecdotes are not evidence, yada-yada, take my words for what they are worth. Programmers
909.
by rhelz 3y ago
Or infinitly exploitative, depending on how comfortable you are doing all the work while someone else take the lion's share of what you've produced.
910.
by rhelz 3y ago
Formulating developer metrics is kind of like writing HR regulations defining sexual harassment; it certainly can be done, but you can’t phrase them in entirely in reductive terms. E.G. compare: “Employees should not stare at their colleagu
911.
by rhelz 3y ago
From the OP: “every potential metric..is woefully inadequate”. How many years do we keep trying before realize there is no such thing as individual productivity. My point is more radical than “we all have the same productivity.” The very c
912.
by rhelz 3y ago
It’s easy to measure productivity. Take all the profits and divide by all the hours worked. What is HARD is to come up with endless rationals for why some people get way more that others.
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by rhelz 3y ago
I really wish I could just take these sort of results at face value the way I used to. But the replication crisis was real. It happened. No doubt its still happening. How could we ever read something like this and not just dismiss it ou
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by rhelz 3y ago
There are no shortages in a free market.
915.
by rhelz 3y ago
Great question, which made me think about how they are more similar than I had originally thought. In both cases we're talking about carriers, quasi-utilities, network effects and (alas) real potential for abuse. But wouldn't th
916.
by rhelz 3y ago
You've just been marked safe from age-based cognitive decline.
917.
by rhelz 3y ago
Fortunately, all questions of how legit Avi Loeb is, does he have a good reputation, how many mistakes has he made in the past, etc etc and all such ad-hom considerations can be safely tabled. The paper has been written, let it go through p
918.
by rhelz 3y ago
Sounds good to me, but (as another perceptive commentator wrote) we do already have common carrier laws on the books; don't they pretty much cover what is intended here?
919.
by rhelz 3y ago
// Just name the numerator and denominator // OK, I name the numerator as 1 and the denominator as 3. Viz, I want to be able to cut a piece of wood which is 1/3rd of a meter long. Still no line on the meter stick
920.
by rhelz 3y ago
// This sort of questioning // chuckle Surely you are not trying to suppress my right to ask questions? :-) We are all frustrated here and know things have got to change somehow . It's just not exactly obvious
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by rhelz 3y ago
Your point about common-carrier regulations already existing is very well taken. What's not so clear to me is whether (A) the allegations against the ISP have any merit (the article itself states it has no confirmation), or (B) even if
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by rhelz 3y ago
// progressives have been acting like ancaps // chuckle I certainly have been lost in wonder that now I'm the one defending corporate power :-) But, what would a solution to the problem look like, on your view?
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by rhelz 3y ago
Private property rights are not absolute, sure. But is regulating media companies going to solve anything? Are there any regulations which both sides could be happy with, or would it just open up a whole new front in the culture wars, of
924.
by rhelz 3y ago
What, exactly, do you think these regulations should be? What kind of regulation would solve this problem? E.g. contrast with, say, regulation of pharmaceuticals by the FDA. Certainly a curb on private property rights, but, its also pret
925.
by rhelz 3y ago
There is a very bright-line difference in the case of the civil rights-related curbs on private property privilege: Those actually were effective in solving the problem! Because the solution to the problem was very clear: everybody shou
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by rhelz 3y ago
Freedom is certainly a tricky thing to balance, and private property rights are not absolute. But neither are freedom of speech rights. Here's a way to cut the Gordian knot: publicly-owned services and utilities. E.g. NPR as a way to
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by rhelz 3y ago
// private companies a re de facto writing the laws // We can certainly discuss whether these services should be publicly or privately owned. I'm a pretty liberal guy, and wouldn't mind seeing publically-owned
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by rhelz 3y ago
// beauty in the ratios // I've watched some youtube tutorials on how to use a speed-square for framing out a roof, and marveled at how perfectly that tool is fitted to the job. I know they make metric speed squar
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by rhelz 3y ago
Improvise!! Adapt!! Overcome!!!!
930.
by rhelz 3y ago
No matter what your unit of length is--meter, foot, whatever--is it really so off the wall to want to be able to measure 1/3rd of that unit?

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