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by roc 13y ago
That explanation doesn't pass the sniff test, as what budget lumps groceries , fuel , clothing and entertainment into 'spending money'? Those are the sorts of things that get an explicit line-item, and don't get bl
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by roc 13y ago
But how exactly can you "earn some money" if such a job can barely cover half the costs of living, in a trivially-false contrived example? McDonalds only even functions under your assumption if we assume that the employee has an
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by roc 13y ago
Except the part where their product (notwithstanding a little PR now and again) is fed pretty much exclusively to another group with largely the same financial backers and that product is shaped for and supported only insofar as it usefully
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by roc 13y ago
> "You can't have your cake and eat it too." Sure you can. You can grant ownership of the underlying cables to the company willing to build out the network, essentially granting them guaranteed utility profits even if a
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by roc 13y ago
Say I've got a retail arm that sells consumer products and does consumer research on possible improvements, new products, etc. If I send all that data out to an R&D arm to develop and improve my products, an arm run by the same par
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by roc 13y ago
The worst case of a tick bite is far more serious than itching.
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by roc 13y ago
But JS isn't just a tool. No programming language is. JS is more a workshop that happens to contain, amongst its stations, a less-than-safe circular saw. And you can absolutely, productively use the shop without using the saw, or b
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by roc 13y ago
> "drug A show 50% vs. 20% efficacy vs. placebo and drug B showed 70% vs. 40% efficacy vs. placebo" Which raises a further (or more basic) confounding factor: the placebo effect isn't fixed. It does vary between tria
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by roc 13y ago
Blaming unions would probably have worked better, back before the banking crisis forced many communities to do exactly what you suggest can't be done. That said, you do raise a good point that it's career-suicide to advocate reduc
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by roc 13y ago
The US bandwidth situation is the elephant in the room. There really is no good solution to automated offsite backup when it takes several days of uploading to handle a single day's worth of data capture. To make any internet-backup s
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by roc 13y ago
> "Seems to me like the rise of inner city violence is a far bigger mover." What rise? Crime, inner city included, has been plunging, nationwide, for decades now. Major city crime rates are approaching fifty year lows.
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by roc 13y ago
Then why did the practice only catch on and spread like wild-fire after crime had already begun its plunge? And why, after crime has continued to drop dramatically, has SWAT-ification continued to increase (if not accelerated) rather than p
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by roc 13y ago
> "The cop has no idea who may be behind a door when they knock" The cop also has no idea what's waiting for them in a vehicle they've just pulled over on the highway. Some of them have been murdered in exactly tha
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by roc 13y ago
I have only a sort of anthropological interest in how social networks go down. I never 'got' them, personally. But it's what the people whom I know to use Google+ do. The "Aunt Sally chore" is almost a literal anec
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by roc 13y ago
So the argument is that users don't hate carousels, because they've learned that they're useless and to be ignored? I'm not sure that's a strong argument in their favor.
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by roc 13y ago
And present the A/B results to the client. Though some have a habit of stubbornly ignoring any professional advice against a feature they have an emotional attachment to, raw data can sometimes snap them out of it.
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by roc 13y ago
The carousel isn't 'loud', but it's still being ignored. And as someone actually uses the page, it's quickly scrolled off the page. I think he might have been better served by putting those portfolio items in the si
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by roc 13y ago
I'm increasingly convinced that the mystery amounts to "Circles working as designed." Let's say you've got a classic oversharer in your Aunt Sally. It's uncouth to ignore her entirely, as sometimes she does po
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by roc 13y ago
> "As I prepare to move out of my apartment, I received an itemized list (hidden among a contract and various other documentation) " You yourself have trouble with our fine-print-society and yet you still write off the misste
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by roc 13y ago
As it turns out, the protocol for actually transferring the files is utterly irrelevant compared to the protocol for getting updates, keeping various local stores synchronized, retaining versions, managing conflicts, handling client-side bu
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by roc 13y ago
There's a very large amount of medicaid/medicare practice (and 'obamacare' practice) that was written by insurance and hospital lobbyists with a financial incentive to perpetuate the status quo, if not outright extend re
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by roc 13y ago
The morph happened, but it's got nothing to do with media format . It has to do with source and accuracy. The big change is that we don't get our science from OMNI, our glimpses of new cars from popular mechanics or our poll fore
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by roc 13y ago
> "code is not" ... what exactly have we uncovered with PRISM and the NSA bulk wiretapping, if not code having been corrupted from its original purposes in ways and extents unforeseen at the outset? One has to write anonymizi
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by roc 13y ago
Even still, at some point the pocket computer people have will be "good enough" that they no longer see the value in an expensive upgrade every couple years. If people are trying to replace their desktop, perhaps it will take a co
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by roc 13y ago
I should have been more clear: per-game friend codes were the most egregious problem. Per-account friend codes are a reasonable-enough precaution, given their target market. Even still: allowing some mute matchmaking and play, with friend
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by roc 13y ago
"anonymous leaks" are not transparency.
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by roc 13y ago
Automation didn't hurt Detroit jobs. There were fewer wrench-turners, but there was an explosion of specialization. As it turns out, when everyone can stamp out a bog-standard ICE, you diversify and compete by creating ever-more-fine
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by roc 13y ago
I think the assumption is that the cars won't literally circle the streets forever and that some parking will remain, just that it can be more efficiently allocated when the proximity from parking-space to destination isn't as-cri
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by roc 13y ago
There's a difference between chasing trends and actually doing research into a problem-area before releasing your service. And the bit where you claim they release something that gets it right on the first try? That's the exact o
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by roc 13y ago
The question isn't whether happy touch-gamers would buy these controller cases in bulk. The question is: should these cases exist and get developer support, how many 3DS and Vita gamers would continue paying a premium for their dedica

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