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by sgustard 10y ago
Here you go, a markdown-formatted version of the article. https://markdownshare.com/view/bc431de6-16e7-44db-ad52-705a2...
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Um, the raising of children is literally the thing that allows a civilization to continue.
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Teaching kids to sit for a 90-minute fancy meal sounds like the height of aristocratic folly. Didn't the French Revolution stamp this out? I'd be in favor of my kids learning to cook such a meal, though.
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Wells Fargo Claws Back $75M More from 2 Executives Over Fake Accounts(npr.org)
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by sgustard 10y ago
Just to further clarify, by work sample you do NOT mean an example of previously produced work? This still seems fickle: my dozen years of work output (for example, building and running a site with perfect uptime for millions of users) is
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by sgustard 10y ago
This is intriguing. Any further sources for this claim? >The technology that I’ve been looking at lately (and much of it is not public) convinces me that younger generations are going to live a great deal longer than they now dream possi
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How is the proposal different than California's current online filing? https://www.ftb.ca.gov/online/calfile/index.asp
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by sgustard 10y ago
I think there are valid examples, e.g.: 90% of my coworkers are male. Men: don't notice. Women: might notice.
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Boom Supersonic raises $33M to build the fastest airplane for passenger flight(techcrunch.com)
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I think most grammar nerds who know what an "Oxford comma" is would know that it's optional, and the kind of thing that can inadvertently change the meaning of a sentence. That's how I interpreted the headline, not that
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Every once in a while I have to re-realize how amazing this phenomenon is. The only thing in nature that flies are birds which weigh a few ounces. Nothing human-scale flies. Cars don't fly. Yet, the flying machines we decide to build w
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by sgustard 10y ago
Sure, but imagine all you knew was C++, which is true for many people. Several hundred lines of code right there. I'm a hiring manager, given questions like this and seen that exact result. Remember that many people cannot solve fizzbu
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"Before joining the company, Ed Baker -- VP of growth -- founded two dating sites, one of which was acquired by Facebook in 2011" http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/14/technology/uber-corporate-cu...
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Welcome to Series, a new type of story on Medium(blog.medium.com)
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Also in my neighborhood: Google Express offers home delivery of lots of stuff. Amazon Prime Now offers home delivery of lots of stuff. But your local stores-that-deliver doesn't argue against Instacart. Isn't it in their interest
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by sgustard 10y ago
It's trivial to find stories of people being detained trying to enter from any of those countries. Bangladesh: http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/02/02/bangladesh... Egypt: https:/&#x
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by sgustard 10y ago
> bartenders will occasionally give me free drinks Isn't this just the bartender stealing from his employer? Did he use your tip to buy the alcohol?
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by sgustard 10y ago
>If there's any unusual pain in your chest cavity at all, just drop whatever it is you're doing and get it checked out. My wife did this last year. Out of an abundance of caution they checked in her into the hospital for 8 hour
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The links below are all clearly marked "opinion." You are going to distrust the paper's news-gathering process because of who they invite to write op-ed pieces?
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This view is too simplistic. Many people believe that truths are being hidden from them or intentionally distorted. Distrust of the media and belief in conspiracy theories are rampant. So it's not rejection of facts, it's rejectio
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I wouldn't call it "unnecessary." Eventually Mike will quit or get fired, then repeat this behavior at another company.
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Uber Executive, Linked to an Old Harassment Claim, Resigns(nytimes.com)
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>If you get a recruiter email for a company that is not that company, it's _always_ junk Not true. Companies hire recruiters to find employees. Not all companies (especially startups) have their own internal recruiting department. T
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That comes across as a variant of "blaming the victim." Telling an internet stranger to sacrifice himself to some higher cause is not really a noble act. Maybe he can do more good by trying to change the company from the inside. O
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There's significant evidence that a lot of people believed Obama was born outside the US, which was the prototypical fake-news claim.
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Just picked a movie at random (Rogue One) and the top featured message board posts are: Krennic or Hux? I want a Chirrut Imwe & Baze Prequel What other genres could be transplanted to the Star Wars Universe? Just saw the
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His comment made me slightly sadder than I was before I read it, so from that viewpoint it is accurate.
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Currently, if you're in the US, you're mostly missing out on people re-posting articles about politics, rants about politics, expressions of solidarity with protestors and so on.
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Fake news is generally identified by the reputation of its author (New York Times vs Alt-Right Patriot Freedom Observer). Nothing published by the Times or Wall Street Journal (despite any editorial bias) is fake, simply because we know (ex
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I could imagine the robot car having an easier time in a place with minimal expectation to obey traffic rules. It simply becomes an entirely self-serving entity solving a constraint maximization problem. Namely, get from A to B, don't

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