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by rubashov 15y ago
You can usually establish that someone can't code inside one minute, which happens surprisingly often. You ask: Explain virtual methods to me. If they have C or C++ on their resume you write a three line function that returns a pointer to a
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by rubashov 15y ago
This stuff just seems easy to figure out from a resume and asking questions. If they can talk competently in detail about cool stuff on their resume, and you yourself are smart enough to spot BS, then you know they get stuff done. As for cu
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by rubashov 15y ago
This is why the "10,000 hours" thing is stupid. It's unfalsifiable. If this guy fails people will just make various excuses like "his practice wasn't 'deliberate'."
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by rubashov 15y ago
Alternate patriotic strategy: learn to live comfortably on an untaxably low income, or an unreported cash income. Draw the maximum benefits you can. Keep yourself healthy and don't buy health insurance. Help to accelerate the inevitable col
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by rubashov 15y ago
Irrigation always builds up salt in the soil. Areas of California are falling out of production for this reason, after a good 100 year run. Irrigation is what turned much of the middle east into desert. The rest of your points I guess boil
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by rubashov 15y ago
You'd have to work out the maximum theoretical food production without phosphorus fertilizers or petrochemical insecticides, and without using aquifers or artificial irrigation. Basically roll back the green revolution. The world was bumpin
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by rubashov 15y ago
Elephant in the living room unmentioned in 1000 words: immigration.
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by rubashov 15y ago
"Cool" is being calm and collected. Both the nicotine and MAOIs in cigarette smoke help you be calm and collected. That is where the association comes from.
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by rubashov 15y ago
Another problem with taxing capital gains heavily is that it distorts investment by discouraging dividends and buybacks in favor of risky attempts at growth. Companies irrationally choose to grow and make high risk acquisitions rather than
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by rubashov 15y ago
All the hand wringing over American teachers is entirely misplaced. American teachers are very good. Possibly the best in the world. Once you disaggregate national educational outcomes by ethnicity this becomes clear. White Americans outper
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by rubashov 15y ago
How would you know what you are? Race doesn't exist...
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by rubashov 15y ago
> I don't think a change in the genetic makeup would necessarily mean the death of the Western civilization A change in the genetic makeup of Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria from Christian ethnicities to Arab certainly lead to the death of th
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by rubashov 15y ago
> There's no such thing as an "ethnic" European. Race is a very recent sociopolitical construct It's funny how a tiny fraction of college educated white people in the West are the only people in the whole world to believe this. Everybod
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by rubashov 15y ago
If you need someone to explain to you why it would be bad for the West to die and be reformed along the lines of current mid-eastern muslim nations, I really don't know what to say. You don't find it obvious that Western Civilization is goo
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by rubashov 15y ago
> Nobody's stopping you. Immigration discourages westerners from reproducing. Immigrants drive up housing costs, lower wages, and increase competition for school spots and good neighborhoods. All this makes family formation a more daunt
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by rubashov 15y ago
> The Englishman in 1700 saw the Spaniard as being just as foreign as a Swede sees a Muslim today Um, no. The reconquista and various crusades were pan-european wars against muslims way before 1700. Englishmen died driving the Moors fro
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by rubashov 15y ago
The league is still busy trying to tackle the problem of keeping players out of jail. Maybe retirement plans are next on the agenda. I'm by marriage related to a recently retired NBA player employed by the league with the job of giving reta
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by rubashov 15y ago
Fails to mention the distinction between Zulu and Solar time. All the times mentioned are based on cesium atomic clocks. Satellite and military applications are often instead based on when the Sun is exactly opposite the Greenwich Meridian,
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by rubashov 15y ago
Are you really this naive about the landscaping business in much of the country? In a great many cases you can reliably assume people are here illegally.
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by rubashov 15y ago
Are you cool paying healthcare and education costs for the immigrant's four kids? His low hourly wage does not come close to representing his costs given a social welfare state. This is essentially what is happening as criminal employers hi
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by rubashov 15y ago
> It's far too expensive to enforce our current system Huh? Our current system simply isn't enforced. It's not a matter of cost at all. It's just expedient for an alliance of big business and certain political elements to allow a contin
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by rubashov 15y ago
> Ethnic nationalism has a bad track record Pre 1940s Europe is a transnational jumble of overlapping ethnic groups. Result: war after war after war. Post 40s and 50s after millions of people relocate to their linguistic and ethnic home
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by rubashov 15y ago
> horrible results with tribalism, meritocracy is best. May I attempt to translate?: Throw my weaker countrymen under the bus. I have no human loyalties to those born in my nation who share my culture. Their welfare is of no consequence
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by rubashov 15y ago
The USA is overpopulated. Most population centers are facing fresh water and also sewage infrastructure crises within the next 20 years. We are full up. High productivity farm land is being destroyed by development at an alarming rate. The
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by rubashov 15y ago
"look at these poor undocumented immigrants -- we should make life better for them." What I really don't get is how incapable the bleeding hearts are of understanding that immigration hurts the weakest Americans. Wages are driven down. See
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by rubashov 15y ago
Despite reaching replacement level fertility in the 70s, the population has continued to explode, and this is due entirely to immigration. This is historically unprecedented. http://www.numbersusa.com/content/learn/sustainability/bigge...
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by rubashov 15y ago
The linked article has an embedded news report. They name the police report in question. You could hunt it down from there.
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by rubashov 15y ago
That's not really true. Social Security is insolvent, but so what; the sooner that gets shut down the better. There's no evidence that boomer retirement is creating a labor shortage. The boomers are retiring now and wages are not increasing
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by rubashov 15y ago
There were essentially four brief periods of high immigration in American history, usually lasting on the order of 20 years or less. Outside of those periods essentially zero immigration was the norm. From 1924 to 1965 immigration was zero
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by rubashov 15y ago
100% of rapes in Oslo over the last five years committed by Muslims. http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/shocking-all-rapes-in-o...

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