skookumchuck

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   by skookumchuck 9y ago

   If you were the ambitious sort wanting a leadership position, would you want to join a company that boasted about being family-run?
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   by skookumchuck 9y ago

   > If you’re refusing to hire men this would be illegal. Technically that's true, but in a practical sense I doubt it would be actionable if you weren't too blatant about it.
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   by skookumchuck 9y ago

   If women are being paid less for the same contribution, then there is an enormous market opportunity for women to start companies, hire away those women by offering better pay, and undercut the male run companies. I.e. if women are paid 80%
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   by skookumchuck 9y ago

   > Companies don’t pay men more, they pay women less Is it partly cloudy or partly sunny?
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   by skookumchuck 9y ago

   I am bemused by companies that allegedly pay men more because they are men. Companies pay as little as they can to everyone.
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   by skookumchuck 9y ago

   > only pigeons could have done before. I find this peculiar. Hydrogen balloons were used for surveillance in the Civil War, 40 years earlier. It would have been easy to attach a camera to a small hydrogen balloon, with a clockwork device
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   by skookumchuck 9y ago

   > without the need to write assembly code You basically are writing assembly with these intrinsics.
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   by skookumchuck 9y ago

   It's the generic trouble with museums - concentrating all the irreplaceable stuff in one location. Like the Library of Alexandria.
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   by skookumchuck 9y ago

   What I like about Casablanca is nobody knew they were making a classic. It was just another movie they churned out like an episode of Friends .
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    It's pricey, but I love this. Now, if only someone would let me build a Merlin V12 :-)
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    I'm amazed that storage is cheap enough that companies can afford to keep all that data.
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    What's physically demanding about a teaching job?
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    The "long knock" problem can be resolved in multiple ways. A dot can be a single knock, and a dash can be two knocks very close together, for example.
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    People prefer to think their ideas are new and haven't failed 100% of the time before. "Hey! I just had a great idea! Rent control!"
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    Every government that ever existed more than transiently did this sort of thing. It's done every time the government wants to put in a road, a palace, a port, a fortification, a school, a prison, a military base, a nationalized industr
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    With regular activity, your strength doesn't really start to decline until you're over 60.
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    I doubt much of cop work is chasing anyone. It's paperwork, sitting in the patrol car, investigating, following up, running license plates, sitting in court, canvassing the neighborhood, collecting evidence, guarding, routine sweeps, e
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    Most government jobs are not blue collar jobs. They're bureaucrats. Half of the jobs in the public school system are administrative, not teaching.
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    The point of the article is there isn't enough surplus in the economy to pay these people for 40 years of retirement doing nothing.
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    I don't get this entitlement to retire at 55 or even 50. The retirement age should be 65.
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    "So, when lawmakers required government retirees to pay Oregon’s 9 percent income tax, as everybody else did, they also increased pensions by 9.89 percent, giving retirees extra money to pay the tax with." Government workers are c
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    Nationalizing the tech sector will have a negative impact on its growth and innovation.
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    They're boring, too. Why not read Tolkien instead? Or Asimov? or Clancy?
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    In high school I read a book or two a week, but I avoided english lit classes like the plague.
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    > essay based solely on online summaries of the book. The solution is to assign books that do not have online summaries, which would be about 99% of books. Plenty to choose from!
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    We consider them costs because they are. If you can execute code on your server farm 1% faster, you can save millions of dollars in server costs. Hence software engineers who work on server farm code tend to get paid very well.
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    There were numerous design errors that enabled the flooding to destroy the plant. For example, venting the hydrogen gas into an enclosed area, which resulted in an inevitable explosion. There's plenty more, if you read a step-by-step a
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    For the record, I don't consider a programmer who connects up various packages designed by others as much of an engineer. A programmer who designs and codes the load managing software for an electric utility is certainly doing engineer
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    > you don't understand traditional engineering The first rate engineers I've known were competent mechanics as well. A traditional engineering course of study involves lots of time in the shop. A mechanic becomes an engineer wh
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    by skookumchuck 9y ago

    > Do you engineer logic? You betcha. Think of how Woz designed a floppy disk controller that used fewer parts than other designs. That's engineering the logic. A big part of software engineering is to engineer the logic to get the c