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by richmarr 9y ago
If true, then fine. Otherwise this would be a recommendation to lie to customs/immigration officers... and I strongly recommend not doing that.
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by richmarr 9y ago
> Join the long line of people that have been saying this for almost 5 years and have been so soooooooooo wrong You're overstating your case. They just haven't been proven right. In such a young, poorly understood, and specul
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by richmarr 9y ago
Is anyone working on a blockchain-esque solution to credit reference? This does seem to look a lot like a distributed ledger problem.
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by richmarr 9y ago
> I was talking about the question I asked you Yep, and I've explained at length now that your question needs clarifying before any kind of answer can be meaningful. You asked me to empathise with the views of people helped by the
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by richmarr 9y ago
> It's a empathy exercise, not a question? You implicitly asked, "who would this statement about bank accounts be helpful for?", and I suggest that you try to think of someone. The question I asked you was a literal ques
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by richmarr 9y ago
> Taking this as a 'no' then. Take it as a 'I don't consider your question as stated to be meaningful'.
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by richmarr 9y ago
> Could you imagine the point-of-view of someone who did find this helpful? Who would this "bank details" comment help, and how, and why does someone's point of view affect whether it's helpful? > To me, the com
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by richmarr 9y ago
> Can you imagine handing your bank details to these clowns? On the whole this is an informative and well written explanation of the reaction to Bodega, but I don't think commentary like this is helpful.
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by richmarr 9y ago
> This is anecdotal, but I have also noticed the related inverse problem as well. Carol Dweck argues in her book (and the research behind it) that you're describing different symptoms of the same problem, rather than an inverse. T
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by richmarr 9y ago
> What about the breakup of Ma Bell? "AT&T was, at the time, the sole provider of telephone service throughout most of the United States. Furthermore, most telephonic equipment in the United States was produced by its subsidiar
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by richmarr 9y ago
> I'm saying that some things - for example, slavery - can be proved to be morally wrong without having to perform an examination of the material evidence against it. Taxpayers recieve benefits from paying tax. Slaves (those that
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by richmarr 9y ago
Private property is protected by the threat of force, and if violated actual force. Taxation is protected by the threat of force, and if violated actual force. You're drawing a boundary around money and calling it yours because it happ
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by richmarr 9y ago
> 1) High end developers get paid a lot. Even in India and Russia. > 2) As a rule of thumb consulting companies charge out at 3x wages. This is backwards. 1) Consulting companies charge what they can get, which depends on what mar
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by richmarr 9y ago
> I think there's a fundamental flaw in the idea that you can just pay for cheaper labor- as Steve Jobs has said before the difference in a good programmer and an outstanding programmer can be 50 to 1 or 100 to 1 you can't cap
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by richmarr 9y ago
> I hope the vast majority of people would stump up that kind of cash in the absence of any other taxation. If not, I suspect that society is broken in ways that can't be fixed by compulsory taxation, either. To me this is the mos
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by richmarr 9y ago
> ...or a Statist asking for a defence of voluntary taxation Calling the vast majority of people "statist" seems to imply a (false) equivalence between voluntary and compulsorary taxation as competing theories. Voluntary taxa
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by richmarr 9y ago
Also note that Wardley was pushing past PaaS into serverless and per-function billing back in 2005 with Zimki... lightyears ahead of AWS, until it was designated 'non core' by Canon.
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by richmarr 9y ago
Beck could have saved time by following tech strategy legend Simon Wardley ;) http://blog.gardeviance.org/2012/06/pioneers-settlers-and-to...
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> So it's important to figure out what kind of manager you have, and try not to be the slow guy on a team full of quick-hack people. You won't look good and nobody will be happy. I'd also add that it's important to
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by richmarr 9y ago
> You're mistaken about my claims, but since you're resorting to ad hominems At no point have I "resorted to ad hominems", nor do I see anything that could have been misunderstood that way. Perhaps you're refer
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by richmarr 9y ago
As a non-American it strikes me as somewhat imbalanced that travellers to the US have to deny any affiliation with Nazi Germany (a conflict that ended nearly 80 years ago) every time we sign a US visa waiver form, and yet these people seem
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by richmarr 9y ago
> Scott Alexander has a pretty good one in the link referenced in the post. I must have missed where he proposes a model. By all means point that out. Specifically one that can predict how many women should work at Google in California
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by richmarr 9y ago
> I don't have that model... No. Nobody else does either.
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> So you agree it was the content and not the presentation? No... I don't agree. Both Damore's content and the way it was communicated contain serious flaws. The content contained conclusions unsupported by evidence, and the
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by richmarr 9y ago
> His claim was that women are statistically less likely to be interested in computer science. He said nothing about ability. Sorry, you're mistaken here. (1) Damore said "I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferenc
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> Maybe being a world class communicator could have helped Damore avoid some of the ire... So, women are a portion of society who've spent hundreds of years fighting for equal treatment, a portion of society who weren't allow
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by richmarr 9y ago
You may well have a point that people too readily make scathing assessments of 'men' as a group. Bad Thing A doesn't justify Bad Thing B though, does it. As for the high burden of proof, I invite you to suggest a model that e
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by richmarr 9y ago
> Damore took every precaution to avoid offense without changing his position Perhaps every precaution within his ability. Unfortunately he made plenty of provocative mistakes. I highlighted some in the Medium post I linked to. > F
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by richmarr 9y ago
The results of studies like this depend strongly on the context... both the method used, and the existing hiring environment you're comparing to. We've run a similar study and for the company we were hiring into we found blinding
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by richmarr 9y ago
> 'Fair & transparent' and 'blind' are two different things, and neither are subsets of each other. This is true if you consider a single subject, but no longer true if you consider different stakeholders and th

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