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by sethg 16y ago
You could have a PhD grad from Caltech A and a community college grad B such that B is more skilled for the job than A. That’s where the cover letter comes in, right? If B’s cover letter says “I see from your Web site that your business
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by sethg 16y ago
Yeah—as grellas says above, a ruling on summary judgement basically says “the law is so totally on this guy’s side that there’s no point to having a trial to decide what the facts are”, and all an appeals court has to do is say “umm, actual
483.
by sethg 16y ago
Once upon a time, in Europe, all the important books (scientific and literary) were written in Latin, all educated and upper-class people knew Latin, learning grammar meant learning Latin grammar, and coversations on serious topics were hel
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by sethg 16y ago
It seems to me that formal Arabic (in its classical and modern varieties) plays the same role in the Arab world that Latin used to play in Europe.
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by sethg 16y ago
Cf. the Fredkin gate, which has three inputs and three outputs, and in which the number of bits going out equals the number coming in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredkin_gate
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by sethg 16y ago
Given the “five ingredients/ten minutes” constraint, you can’t do much with dried beans, can you?
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by sethg 16y ago
...and according to coinmill.com, 1 crore Indian rupees is roughly US$220K, or €175K, or £150K. I never realized that my in-laws were so cheap. :-)
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by sethg 16y ago
They retired, and their successors do nothing but PowerPoint.
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by sethg 16y ago
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the man who more or less single-handedly revived the modern Hebrew language, spent a great deal of effort coming up with Hebrew words for modern things. “Telephone” was “sakh-rakhok”, from the classical Hebrew words for
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by sethg 16y ago
English is especially problematic in this regard, because modern English is a trainwreck between Anglo-Saxon, a Germanic language, and Norman French, a Romance language.
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by sethg 16y ago
AIUI, Federal authority over relations with the Indian tribes comes from Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, which gives Congress the authority “To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Ind
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by sethg 16y ago
The last record-breaking accidental oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the Ixtoc I, in 1979. I should also note that the Atlantic Empress spill, also in 1979, and the Amoco Cadiz , the previous year, had a combined spillage equal to th
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by sethg 16y ago
I think every decision the parents made, considered in isolation, could be justified. But the impression they make, as a whole, is one of parents who failed to set limits for their child, either because the weirdness of his syndrome (and p
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by sethg 16y ago
True, you can’t completely prevent your kid from looking at pornography. You can, however, prevent your kid from having a computer in his room where he can use it unmonitored for all hours of the night.
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by sethg 16y ago
The nasty side effects of the drug have to be weighed against the nasty side effects of the condition that the drug is meant to treat, and from the article, the parents didn’t do that. The kid hated needles and didn’t want his balls to shr
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by sethg 16y ago
...and it seems like they didn’t do much to educate him about females in general , or, for that matter, about not believing everything you see on the frigging Internet, in general. The kid was home-schooled, so he doesn’t have regular expo
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by sethg 16y ago
Something like this already exists: it’s called MGRS, the Military Grid Reference System. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_grid_reference_system
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by sethg 16y ago
As long as there is a massive income differential between the average American/Canadian/European and the average Nigerian, skimming through the hundreds of millions of rich Westerners with Internet access in order to find a few (hundred? th
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by sethg 16y ago
Ayup. When I was an undergrad about twenty years ago (brlewis, you were an undergrad then, too, right?), the Dean for Undergraduate Education was on record as saying “too many MIT graduates work for too many Harvard and Princeton graduates”
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by sethg 16y ago
But most AT&T customers are locked into long-term contracts, so they can’t just up and decide “I’ll cut the data plan”. My startup was recently bought by Nokia, and unsurprisingly, one of the fringe benefits of working for Nokia is gett
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by sethg 16y ago
What I found interesting about the article was that the government intervention it’s describing is fairly lightweight: e.g., instead of nationalizing farms, the government is making it easier for farmers to sell directly to urban resident
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The city that ended hunger(yesmagazine.org)
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by sethg 16y ago
But if competition among search engines led another search engine to displace Google, then your users would end up using that other search engine to find your site, right?
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by sethg 16y ago
Even though the Talmud is a religious document, the discussions in it cover a wide range of topics, including theology, ritual law, civil law (which, for observant Jews, is religious), medicine, demonology, funny stories about what happen
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by sethg 16y ago
For every unwise borrower there is an unwise lender. My sympathies are more with the borrower, since the lender, as the side that supposedly hired people with financial acumen, bears a majority of the responsibility for assessing risk.
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by sethg 16y ago
...and each bank, ideally, guards against insolvency by distributing your deposits among a Redundant Array of Independent Debtors.
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by sethg 16y ago
If my wife got rich and, God forbid, we got a divorce, and I offered to let her keep a lot more than half of the marital assets, and she demanded an even larger share, I might lose my motivation to “keep it friendly”.
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by sethg 16y ago
I am not a lawyer and, not having read the Musks’ post-nup, I have no opinion about whether or not it is valid. However, every real-world legal system since the beginning of time has put limits on what kinds of signed agreements between two
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by sethg 16y ago
The program also seems to work if, in the loop header, you replace “i <= strlen(z_terminated)” with “z_terminated[j] != 0”. I don’t understand why I have to put j in the index there, rather than j-1: after the string-ending null is copi
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by sethg 16y ago
Short-term T-bills, then? http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tbills_gla...

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