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by shard972 9y ago
> the fact that many sexist anti-STEM cues are given to children at a much earlier stage, way before careers are even on the horizon. Would you say that is a problem that can or should be fixed after the fact? For instance, if we assume
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by shard972 9y ago
> This can hardly be surprising to the authors. People in lower-level technical jobs don’t have as much power over society at large as those in high-level positions. Thus gender inbalances there don’t have the same supposed impact and pe
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by shard972 9y ago
> Then why didn't the multinationals come to share technology and set up manufacturing in India? Because the indian government didn't demand it as a condition of entry like the chinese government did. Have you never wondered wh
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by shard972 9y ago
Related? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16280713
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by shard972 9y ago
I'm personally more scared about CI/Deployment SaaS companies.
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by shard972 9y ago
I wish people could start with that premise in healthcare, that there isn't 1-2 big things causing the US healthcare system to be so expensive. So many people seem to always have a point about "Oh if we just moved everything to me
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by shard972 9y ago
What about if it's just government waste/corruption mostly? Who is going to be able to hire someone to say that with such authority that things change? EG: We find out that 30% of road costs are being wasted by nepotism/contr
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by shard972 9y ago
> 2009 (he ran on the Republican line, but wasn't a party member). You aren't talking about "let's ban smoking and soft drinks" bloomberg are you?
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by shard972 9y ago
At least for now his side is winning the arms race so he can benefit from it until that day potentially comes. Although I still think it's going to be a very long way off if western government's can't work out how to make una
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by shard972 9y ago
If they had a top notch engineering team somebody should have tested their product on a non stable internet connection. Living out the country now and I now dream of going back to IRC just for the ability to read messages while offline.
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by shard972 9y ago
Problem is as developers, sometimes we only have hammers for these screws.
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by shard972 9y ago
> It's completely reasonable to state that the government has lost $1.5 trillion in revenue Unless you don't really believe the state owns that money.
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by shard972 9y ago
> First, you have to deal with the security boondoggle. Add 30 minutes for that, because you never know what you are going to get. You seem to be talking like the security theatre in airports is never going to come to rail? Have you ever
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by shard972 9y ago
Then you really don't want to ignore any maximum height signs.
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by shard972 9y ago
I agree with you but then I believe that with the recent developments in video streaming (becoming mainstream) it would then be totally reasonable for ISP's to start charging a lot more for packages that give you the data to stream tha
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by shard972 9y ago
So the only way the US comes out ahead in that situation is through playing games with inflating the currency while lying about it to recoup the costs of servicing the debt. In the end, once the US is caught with it's pants down it wil
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by shard972 9y ago
> Again, that's not really how the internet has traditionally worked, and I'm not sure we really want content-based prioritization, outside of existing QoS standards that aren't guaranteed across public internet connection
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by shard972 9y ago
I have already moved to using React for my larger projects and Mithril for my smaller ones instead of Vue because of the lack of typescript support. That and when you add JSX to mithril, the api just feels so simple and i rarely find myself
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by shard972 9y ago
Money to pay their own salaries so they can do it full time? Not trying to be a complete asshole but seems like the most logical conclusion for someone with a SS degree which can't help you get a job outside of things like this.
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by shard972 9y ago
Yea im going to need that paper.
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by shard972 9y ago
That was during windows XP wasn't it? I'm sure things have changed since those times.
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by shard972 9y ago
Nuclear is obsolete to what? As far as I understand, nuclear is the replacement for coal, nothing else comes close to being able to provide a stable constant supply in large quantities. What else can take the role of supplying the bulk of e
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by shard972 9y ago
You might be right, but who should I believe? Bloomberg™ or commentators on HN?
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by shard972 9y ago
I think this recent point made by Nigel Farage in the EU parliament sums it all up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZLr0TtPjUc
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by shard972 9y ago
These are horrible counter arguments. The only two that even remotely relevant are seatbelt laws and gun laws, the other two are not even laws. For seat belt laws, there was evidence that such laws increased pedestrian injury rates and seve
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by shard972 9y ago
I thought so too because I remember hearing rumors about such things years ago and wondered if maybe the focus was moving towards woman now with this whole thing.
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by shard972 9y ago
I thought they did it as a temporary thing, didn't realize it was going to production.
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by shard972 9y ago
> Institutions are mostly policies, procedures and process. Which are influenced by culture > What's the difference between a well-run company and poorly-run one? Mostly culture in my opinion
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by shard972 9y ago
Do trains have the same mechanisms cars use to generate electricity?
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by shard972 9y ago
Only took like 4 years for someone to catch on. I remember seeing right away when they put Watson on jeopardy it was going to be a giant pr stunt.

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