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by skrap 9y ago
This one is from 2005. But IIRC it launched Gawande's career, and I think it's a great read. I saw him talk a few years after this. Very inspirational!
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by skrap 9y ago
I believe in this case that "continued employment" is considered to be the benefit derived by the employee. Meaning "sign this or we will terminate you" is basically an ok thing to say, at least in some states.
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by skrap 9y ago
I can think of a bunch of reasons why one might end up in such a situation, all of which point to systemic failures to protect the free movement of people: 1) Unfamiliarity with the law. People moving from states which protect the marketpl
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by skrap 9y ago
I've been following and advocating for the Green Line Extension, a major transit expansion in the Boston area. I've been working on this for about 7 years now, through three different project teams, and I can say for certain that
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by skrap 10y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a music producer, and my ear isn't that great, but I did write software for one of the major pitch-correction vendors for many years, and I think I have a better-than-average ear for it after listening to it fo
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by skrap 10y ago
It's been good for me! I don't miss Chrome at all. Plus the "send tab to device" is pretty sweet (if not exactly new or original).
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by skrap 10y ago
> Consumers are being informed right now. A scandal can kill a company or a private inspector in a way that it can't kill a corporate oligarchy or bad regulation. I'm not convinced. Scandals don't scale. How many scandal
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by skrap 10y ago
There already is a "Ministry of Truth", as you put it. The point of the article is that Facebook _already_ picks and chooses which shared items it promotes into your feed, so the news you get exposed to is already the product of
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by skrap 10y ago
In this case, the city is only 4.3 square miles, and there's enough homes within walking distance to saturate the new transit stop. The garage isn't a commuter rail parking lot. Rather, it's a parking lot for people working
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by skrap 10y ago
I'm of the uninformed opinion that any national election will probably have a Condorcet winner. IF that's true, then we could literally pick any Condorcet method, and just go with that. Condorcet IRV seems a reasonable choice, in
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by skrap 10y ago
It's a bit complicated by the location where they must be built - essentially into the side of a 1-to-1 slope rocky hillside. At least that's what the government claims is the reason for the expense. It still seems a pretty toug
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by skrap 10y ago
My city just passed a bond measure which includes $36MM for a 300 space parking garage for the high school and city hall, literally meters from where a new light rail stop will be built. 25% of the city's families don't own a car
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by skrap 10y ago
Wow, thanks for the very detailed and interesting reply! You say: > "With the usual r=0.5 of 5yo/adult scores, their adult mean IQ will be more like 117" As a total layperson, this is surprising! I would have thought that
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by skrap 10y ago
"N = 23; Full Scale IQ" Enough for me to pretty much stop reading right there. Isn't 23 far too small? If there is signal there, you probably need more samples to draw it out.
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by skrap 10y ago
Just about! For lots of fun info, check out the interplanetary Expensive Hardware Lob League: https://www.strudel.org.uk/lob/
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by skrap 10y ago
I'm not sure it's pedantry. We're so used to the pretty Hollywood storyline that I think people assume that any climate issue will just turn out okay in the end. But of course, Nature doesn't have the capacity for happ
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by skrap 10y ago
To properly translate ASL, you need to pick up a significant amount of grammar from the face (called non-manual markers) as well as body position, 3d capture of spatial relationships between signs as they are made, and other features which
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by skrap 10y ago
One hell of a great communicator. Large swaths of my life are still affected by his Sustainable Energy book. I never had a chance to meet him, but I'll carry his words with me forever.
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by skrap 11y ago
Totally! I was going to post the same thing. Double-checked locking is either impossible or really hard to get right, depending on the language and architecture's guarantees! If you must use a singleton, I'd really recommend doi
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by skrap 12y ago
This is a pretty general purpose article, but I've found it really useful deciding things at work, too. In particular, it is really useful getting a good answer for the question "Hey, team, we've got 30 things we could work
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14 points by skrap 12y ago|2 comments