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by sethg 16y ago
My understanding is that a lot of good teachers would rather have more autonomy in their jobs than more money. My son’s first preschool teacher was superb, because she paid enough attention to the kids to know when not to follow the Ph.
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by sethg 16y ago
The majority of start-ups that the author remembers hearing of may be social web oriented, because we are all social animals. If you come up with a clever new Web site that people can use to schmooze with their friends, then lots of peop
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by sethg 16y ago
Yes, in 2010 , a lot of these companies have been able to pay back the government. But in 2008 the whole system of credit was seizing up because lenders and investors, not knowing when the next pile of shit would hit the fan, were panic
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by sethg 16y ago
Do we even need to hypothesize this as a specialized evolutionary response? “My life sucks; studying hard and looking for a job will not make it suck less, because even if I get good grades, nobody will hire me; however, if I have a baby, t
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by sethg 16y ago
One can make a case that when a team of developers uses JSP in the context of the entire Java EE stack, it gets certain advantages that outweigh the overhead of developing and maintaining all of JEE’s moving parts. My last experience with
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by sethg 16y ago
I think this is basically what people mean by “miserable state”. It’s not just more lines, but more very-very-high-voltage lines. Also, these lines are generally regulated at the state level: the government of Nebraska may not be exactly
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by sethg 16y ago
The best places for generating (conventional) wind power in the US are the prairie states, and the best places for generating solar power are in the Southwest. But since both of these regions are sparsely populated, there isn’t very much g
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by sethg 16y ago
There is more genetic diversity among the different African native groups than there is among the rest of the world. The majority of “black” Americans have the genetic equivalent of at least one white great-grandparent. So what were you
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by sethg 16y ago
With respect to the US, the “(~ 10x)” estimate is wrong; please stop throwing it around as a given. I refer you to this table from the Uniform Crime Reports: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/data/table_43.html African-Americans make up abo
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by sethg 16y ago
Isn’t it illegal for civilians to photograph Imperial Stormtroopers on duty?
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by sethg 16y ago
If human beings can’t understand the rationale that an AI-driven hedge fund is using to make its trades, then how can humans tell the difference between an AI that has actually figured out a strategy to beat the market and an AI that is jus
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by sethg 16y ago
...so if I ever set up a profile on OKCupid, I should list myself as four inches taller than my actual height, since everyone who reads my profile will assume I have overestimated my height by two inches.
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by sethg 16y ago
...unless, of course, the Conde Nast “mother ship” sees the income figures from the reddit subscribers and says “Nice revenue stream. We’ll take it!”
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How the hospital purchasing system raises costs, stifles innovation(washingtonmonthly.com)
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by sethg 16y ago
What epochwolf said: turn the TV off and, if necessary, pick up the child and take him out of the room. A child with the TV in front of him, being asked to do his homework, is not interested in a reasonable discussion of the house rules; he
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by sethg 16y ago
The article has these little asides describing a videotaped interaction between a mother and her son... “I have to get it to the part and then pause it,” says the boy. “No,” says his mother. “You do that after you do your homework.” Not t
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by sethg 16y ago
You have definitely built something that I would want, if only my favorite restaurants would be willing to sign on. Also, as a Nokia employee, I hope that your pages are compatible with our phones....
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by sethg 16y ago
Not 90 million years . 90 million people .
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by sethg 16y ago
I find it very encouraging that Pivotal is encouraging the Diaspora folks to focus on the user experience.
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by sethg 16y ago
If he’s not interested in patenting the box and enforcing the patent worldwide, then Chinese manufacturers are free to make the box and sell it (or the Chinese government can give the boxes away as part of its own foreign-aid programs), whe
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by sethg 16y ago
I have a biased sample, but almost all of the Russian expats I know are Jewish. Their connections probably involve being interrogated by the KGB.
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by sethg 16y ago
Just for the hell of it, I searched for both Heathfield and Foley on LinkedIn, and I’m a third-degree connection to both of them. (I wonder if this is a sign of how incestuous the Boston high-tech community is.)
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by sethg 16y ago
It's easy to think of China as a multi-core Hilter country but it's not. It's true that the 9-people Politburo has the power to set the rules but they're only the top of the iceberg. There are HUGE amount of low level officials, about 5% -
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by sethg 16y ago
You'd be better off noticing the patterns in his misestimation and adjusting his estimates accordingly in your own head. Better yet, encourage him to become a better estimator. The book Software Estimation: Demystifying a Black Art pre
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by sethg 16y ago
The governments of the world have had plenty of time since Keynes to spend themselves into insolvency, and they haven’t done so yet. The US debt-to-GDP ratio dropped steadily between the end of WW2 and the Reagan administration, and dipped
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by sethg 16y ago
Inflation doesn’t have to reach triple or even double digits to have an effect on a country’s debt burden. If a country owes a big pile of money at 4%, and inflation goes up to 2%, and the nominal GDP grows at 5%, then the overall debt-to-
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by sethg 16y ago
Also, one of the significant measurements of a country’s debt is the debt-to-GDP ratio; you can alleviate this measure of pain by reducing debt or increasing GDP.
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by sethg 16y ago
Right now, the going rate on 30-year T-bills is a little over four percent ( http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/domestic-finance/debt-managem... ), so it seems like the people and institutions that loan “us” (i.e., the United States government)
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by sethg 16y ago
His advice was not followed in the past. The Keynesian prescription, basically, is for the government to run deficits during recessions and to pay back those loans when the economy recovered. During the 2000 Presidential campaign and the
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by sethg 16y ago
Someone could avoid such a law simply by hosing their .xxx site in another country. And even if every national government agrees that segregating porn on the Net would be a good thing, you’ll never get them all to agree on a standard. In

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