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by riggins 13y ago
"Most code out there is shit code." semantic point. if you're saying 'most code' is shit, aren't you saying average code is shit? Kind of like saying a 6 min mile is shit because it's not a 4 min mile.
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by riggins 13y ago
can you clarify something. when you say 'typos matter', what you mean is that there was a correlation between 'typos' and whether Trialpay hired the candidate? The resumes with the least typos turned out to be the ones T
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by riggins 13y ago
this is an extraordinary claim. stop and think about it for a second. if it's true, then whatever trait leads one to being punctilious about spelling also makes one a great engineer. forget the guy who's really good at linear alge
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by riggins 13y ago
but if quality education will be commodity probably the following things will determine success I'm gonna side with the author on this one. If a quality education is a commodity, the hardworking will inherit the earth.
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by riggins 13y ago
WWII
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by riggins 13y ago
The right thing would be to convince Assad to offer a truce According to Juan Cole (who IMO has a pretty good feel for the Middle East), Assad has the backing of ~50% of the population. http://www.juancole.com/2013/08
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by riggins 13y ago
Um, the Windows division of MSFT brought in $19.2B of their $78B in total revenue. Even more important, Windows brings in almost half of their operating profit. I'm going off the 2010 10-K, Windows was ~$12B of operating profit, MSFT
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by riggins 13y ago
if it was just replaced regular votes, not much. However, if you perfected the system, presumably people could vote on more issues. Declaring war for example.
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by riggins 13y ago
more interestingly, would you vote on more issues if you could do it online?
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by riggins 13y ago
yep. It's also worth making one of the key assumptions of the post explicit. the author says If the funding platforms cannot attract the best deals, then investors will not make any money. the key assumption that's baked into th
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by riggins 13y ago
I find it surreal the way Greenwald is portrayed sometimes. If you actually read what he writes, its logical, sober commentary. Now it happens that following logic leads you to some pretty wild sounding conclusions because it turns out real
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by riggins 13y ago
you're adding a second variable that would be very hard to measure. No I didn't. I had group 1, 2.a, and 2.b all along. I think that group 1 may suffer discrimination. To elaborate the 'may', I'd stipulate that gr
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by riggins 13y ago
Do you have a source for that? A study that has somehow controlled for continued learning? I'm interested because I'd be genuinely surprised if that's the case.
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by riggins 13y ago
I suspect there are 2 1/2 types of older workers. 1. workers who stop learning 2.a. workers who continue learning, and 2.b. workers who continue learning and also keep ratcheting up the difficulty ... learning harder and harder materia
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by riggins 13y ago
goodbye truck driving jobs.
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by riggins 13y ago
that's a strong rebuttal
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by riggins 13y ago
Companies don't pay taxes it's the shareholders and the employees who pay taxes. You're dead wrong. The corporate tax is 35% at the federal level and anywhere from 1-12% at the state level. Reductions in corporate taxes inc
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by riggins 13y ago
The nuclear deterrent is the only valid point, and that's a shaky one. I agree with this. WRT global trade, I couldn't find the source, but I vaguely remember an article that pointed out that global trade made up a similar perce
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by riggins 13y ago
Does anyone realistically believe you will go to war with China or Russia anymore? Historically there have been military conflicts between superpowers. So I'd say its incumbent on those claiming we won't have wars to explain wha
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by riggins 13y ago
the investors in the business world. few investors would touch this. It doesn't fit into any investment category that's approved. There are infrastructure funds but they're looking for sleepy assets. Stuff like toll roads a
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by riggins 13y ago
this article is a straw man. the author of the 'I quit' article had no problem with hard work. The 'I quit' author no longer felt their work was meaningful.
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by riggins 13y ago
Am I the only one who struggles to see anything terribly wrong with what the Johns Hopkins doctors did? How much would you want to consent to a tissue sample? Me ... I'd do it for free to help science. I think most people would consent
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by riggins 13y ago
was this just for yourself Might be NYC. I can tell you individual plans in NY run $1,500/month.
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by riggins 13y ago
if you think its all about fulfillment centers, Walmart has a pretty incredible logistics operation. The big brick and mortar companies have warehouse operations as well. Plus, with Sears and Walmart already using their stores as fulfillmen
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by riggins 13y ago
Amazon is nowhere near the size of Walmart. Walmart does ~500B in rev. Amazon did 61B in rev in '12 and is on pace for 72B-ish in '13.
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by riggins 13y ago
I'm not sure Amazon will ever make profits. The general thesis is 'they're the low cost provider, they're going to make a ton a profit'. This thesis is one that often leads Wall Street and investors to tears. Becaus
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by riggins 13y ago
*6. No other Skill is as Important as Sales & Marketing" these kind of blanket statements always bother me. Is it true for selling meditation apps for the iPhone? Yes. Is it true if you're building say a self-driving car? Prob
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by riggins 13y ago
what's the site?
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by riggins 13y ago
I wouldn't agree that a negative cash cycle is outdated. However I would disagree with the author's inference that a low profit business with negative working capital is as good a high profit business. As evidence, I'd point
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by riggins 13y ago
coursera is killing me with courses I want to take.

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