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by richmarr 9y ago
> A study with Resumes/CVs is a fun thought experiment, but it's not reality. Dismissing a single actual experiment with as "a fun thought experiment" is neither factual nor rational. In reality there are many exper
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Yes, you could in theory be disciminated against for your shortness, or fatness, or mirth, or fashion sense, opinion, or eyebrow girth. However... Have you ever been held captive & forced into labour on the basis of your atheism? Has
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Maybe I'm missing part of the thread, but who is attacking you? This is a discussion forum and people are discussing the opinions you shared... because that's what happens on discussion forums. Do you expect to only receive praise
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> the myth that women get paid less than men This is not true. On the experimental side, studies show candidates with female names are rated lower and recieve lower starting salaries to male candidates with identical CVs (see Moss-Racu
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I haven't downvoted you but... "informed" is a tricky beast. Many people, but especially white men, especially engineers, think that they're qualified to comment on fields where they are a novice. (see Dunning-Kruger and
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> live fast and leave a devourable corpse Ah, you know my family motto!
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That addresses healthcare, but health insurance is just one slice of the insurance market. I'm not aware of a general solution that covers all cases, but in auto insurance we found that the model of replacing underwriters with crowdfun
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To pay in frustration the company would need to have a revenue model that could make money from your frustration. As things stand, they have ads, which require your attention not your frustration. That means time paying attention to the ads
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Sure, it's great to hear that you're doing okay. It's still important not to generalise your own situation to the whole country. As you say, things are different for other people.
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You as a reasonably well paid technology professional (presumably) don't care. Don't make the mistake of assuming that the rest of the world is in a similar situation to you. For example; a starter salary of £28k would be only £7k
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>... however that has nothing to do with access I don't believe. Some people will look at the associated debt issues and decide it's not worth it (open question as to what percentage). Often this will be in comparison to a job
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> In that case, could one not also argue that the pope shitting in the woods is simply the pope repaying the food debt he took on by nature? Well the validity of that comparison would be whether the woods would be annoyed if the pope sha
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Yep. I think the point that Graeber made in his "Debt" book was that non-monetary debt came first, before money or even barter. The Inca system of communal labour could be seen as being based on a debt of work owed to the communit
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Interesting, thanks.
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Huh, I did not know that.
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Well it kinda does, Sutton Trust (an education charity in the UK) did a study that showed three quarters of graduates will still be repaying their student loans when they're in their 50s. From a policy perspective that kind of long ter
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The site lists under its USA entry "Years of tertiary schooling - 1.86 (years)". One would presume that's an average across the country, but that seems really high. Haven't found a deeper data source. For comparison, Den
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Hey, if we're getting picky it's two continents.
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> Corporations don't care about the law any more than individuals do. I'm struggling to find a connection between the points that I made in my comment and the points in your reply. Suspect we have some miscommunication here...
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Strongly recommend "The Trouble With Physics" by Lee Smolin. It highlights how string theory (to use a broad brush) has choked off access to talent, tenure, and funding for competing theories.
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So, first of all I think you're focusing on the wrong thing. The whole point of an unlimited tier is to attract large numbers of outsiders who don't want the cognitive burden of figuring out $/GB/month and estimating how
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I suspect that defining web application using implementation details is painting yourself into a corner.
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I guess the challenge is one of UX; if you're hiding features behind specific sign-in patterns (to avoid security services) then you're also hiding them from a proportion of your users
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> Except for one situation... And the other situations. If the rest of the founding team think you're holding too much; it may well demotivate them or cause them to leave entirely, damaging growth and ultimately your chances of succ
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The markup certainly contains references to Google's AMP project, which makes your guess seem likely. <amp-sidebar... etc.
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That's really really low. Does anyone know anything about whether this connects to the election? Seems like too big a coincidence.
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In case anyone here hasn't heard it, this supposed trait of engineers of overconfidence on other topics is sometimes referred to as Engineer "Woo" http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo
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I know comparatively little about this stuff, so please excuse the question if it's dumb... If being alerted allows organisations to prepare to patch, surely it also allows malicious actors to prepare to exploit? My lay gut feeling is
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I interpreted the OP's comment to refer to the article's theme of consciousness transfer/ascension rather than countering the effects of aging, which as you point out is different. In that context many of these arguments seem
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> ... but ultimately it costs $ to the company. I think "ultimately" is an interesting choice of word here, because spending the money is actually more of a beginning than an end (which is why people do it). You're increas

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