rverghes

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by rverghes 10y ago
Pre-regulation gambling was often for much higher stakes. Gambling in modern times is for fairly low stakes in comparison. Legalized casinos are supposed to control the amount that people lose and keep it to reasonable values. Second, that
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by rverghes 11y ago
Yes, but right-to-work is generally a reaction to involuntary unionization, as in it came after the involuntary unionization phase.
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by rverghes 11y ago
It's generally to prevent free-riding. Let's say the union negotiates benefit X, and the company then provides benefit X to all employees including non-union employees. An example could be safety features that the union is pushing
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by rverghes 11y ago
What would you want your boss to do? Let's say this is a perfect, magical world where your boss will do everything possible to help you. What actions would she take? Would she switch you to another team? Reduce your workload? Allow you
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by rverghes 11y ago
I bet a modern common space would be filled by people looking at their cellphones. Perhaps it would have worked before smartphones, but I don't think it will any longer.
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by rverghes 11y ago
Failure to understand Non-Profit 101. If you rely on unpaid volunteers, you can't afford to enrage them. It doesn't really matter if those volunteers are right or wrong.
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by rverghes 11y ago
Consider that each line in a conversation is a separate text. So if you have a 5 min conversation with a friend, each of you spends 15s on a reply, then you have 10 texts in that conversation. And that was just a short conversation. If you
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by rverghes 11y ago
I wonder if Amazon actually A/B tested this, or just dropped it because of pressure from activists. If they did A/B test it, and found it increased sales or search efficiency, they should tout the finding. But part of me wonders i
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by rverghes 11y ago
> So where does the obvious gender bias in the industry come from? It's actually gotten worse since the 1980s, not better. There are only two explanations for the obvious reality. One is that women simply aren't as good at prog
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by rverghes 12y ago
I wonder if this is a way to get around backwards compatibility issues. If it's a new brand with a new name, maybe there won't be expectations that it will work like previous versions of IE.
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by rverghes 12y ago
Is that true though? Take a look at this: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/ The number of tickets sold seems to be on a steady decline since the early 2000s. It's only because the average ticket price is increa
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by rverghes 12y ago
Not really, because db is not static. In my example, that Database.write() method would itself be static, and thus you can't pass it in as an argument. Basically, this concept means that it's static all the way down, from the top
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by rverghes 12y ago
He's assuming that the static method has a dependency on something. That it's not purely functional. For example, public static doSomething() { Database.write("Did something") } Makes testing hard because Da
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by rverghes 12y ago
You're right, my mistake. That "five higher" should have been "four higher". The thing is that your solution is the algebraic solution. You're simplifying an equation by balancing both sides, when you subtrac
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by rverghes 12y ago
You'd probably see something similar when looking at a C/C++ project. I would expect significant coupling between header and source files. The solution there was for future languages to combine the two. Maybe we'll see a futu
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by rverghes 12y ago
Are you saying that if the word problem was "2 consecutive numbers and a third number that was five higher than the second number" you'd be unable to solve it? "Tricks" work for simple cases. Algebra works for all c
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by rverghes 12y ago
So Ubisoft is also paying off the French politicians complaining about this? There are numerous links in the article. (If they are, that's pretty impressive work by the Ubisoft PR department.) The simpler explanation that someone at th
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by rverghes 12y ago
Let's say we have a small town of 1000 people. How exactly will "the technology behind Bitcoin" run this town? Deal with garbage, water, police?
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by rverghes 12y ago
I would guess that it's to keep underage girls out of the stripping business. Probably previously the onus was on the owner to avoid hiring underage girls. But a couple scandals later, the government responded by requiring licensing.
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by rverghes 12y ago
I saw this title and immediately thought of the Alpha Centauri wonder, The Self-Aware Colony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwqN3Ur-wP0 Probably not the connotations the author wanted.
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by rverghes 12y ago
Looking at the raw data, there's a boom in computer science degrees in the mid-80s, for both men and women. Then there's a significant drop-off, again for both men and women. However, in percentage terms the drop-off for women is
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by rverghes 12y ago
Mathematically, isn't this a guaranteed result? The article said that the share of women in other programs kept rising. So doesn't the share of women in different programs need fall to balance? If more women become lawyers, aren&#
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by rverghes 12y ago
I think they should put a 10-20 year waiting limit on the Peace price. Give history some time to see what actually happened. Not to denigrate Malala, she sounds like an amazing young women. But I don't see that she has actually accompl
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by rverghes 12y ago
The problem here is that the first 40 hours of work--which the author believes has low utility--are the hours which generate the money to pay for the author's job. The author places higher utility on the next 20 hours, but those hours
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by rverghes 12y ago
5 days ago Paul Krugman said the problem was that our rich were flaunting their wealth.[1] Barely a week later, the problem is that the rich are invisible. [1] http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/havin
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Airbnb guest won’t leave, forcing condo owner to begin eviction proceedings(abajournal.com)
11 points by rverghes 12y ago|4 comments
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by rverghes 12y ago
I disagree. If the death is in any way related to work, they will get sued or fined and lose a lot more money that way. The company is just playing the odds. If they have thousands of employees, some of them will die naturally every year. T
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by rverghes 12y ago
The price of this might be the destruction of comic book stores. It's often hard for companies to bypass retailers, because the retailers will get mad at them, and the retailers are the majority of their (direct) customers. This way, A
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by rverghes 13y ago
I bet half the audience sees this as an indictment of tuition increases, and the the other half sees this as an indictment of the lack of minimum wage increases. I know what the author is trying to convey, but I'm not sure he has the b
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by rverghes 13y ago
I worked for a small real estate company for a couple years, developing a software solution for them. The biggest problem is that real estate is very "exception-based". I.e. There are no "absolute" rules. Every rule you

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