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by susan_hall 11y ago
It's always been controversial whether a company should be allowed to invest in new fields. Over the last 100 years a few people have even made the argument that it is illegal for a company to invest in a new fields. There were some la
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This part reminds of some of the job interviews I've gone to, as a software developer: "Detail-oriented: New researchers are often immersed in the minutiae of research, such as building software, collecting data, and running exper
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This sentence deserves to be examined for alternatives: "To make all this work, you have to insert runtime checks between the typed and untyped portions of the program." That makes it sounds as if there are 2 choices: 1.) insert r
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Regarding diversity issues, it is interesting to go back and look at this interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, from 1972. What I find worrisome is that the conversation is still being discussed in 2016. For all the progress in technolog
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Way back in 2005, Shelley Powers made the argument that a diverse workforce helped a company deal with crisis. The inverse was also implied, that a rejection of diversity was an indicator of some kind of resistance, which would make it diff
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For me, this is the most surprising missed opportunity: "posting original stuff to groups with thousands of members and not receiving a single comment or click to some link" LinkedIn had the chance to build some amazing forums. Li
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After Ashley Madison Hack, Police in Toronto Detail a Global Fallout(nytimes.com)
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That is a good point. History is going to remember Ballmer as one of the worst CEOs in history, though, unlike Jeffrey Skilling or Bernard Ebbers, Ballmer will be remembered for mistakes of omission rather than commission. And the revival o
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Regarding the price that people are willing to pay for Bitcoin, what has become relevant is how people judge, not merely other people's willingness to pay, but other people's estimate of how others might be willing to pay. Relevan
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I love Clojure. Why? Partly because I am lazy. Larry Wall said a good programmer is lazy, but in my case I am lazy in the wrong ways. If you have enough self-discipline, then you probably don't need immutability. But immutability is a
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>browser fragmentation The possibility of browser fragmentation ceases to exist in a world of polyglot browsers. You would instead have fragmentation in the sense of many languages running on the runtime, and there the individual languag
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The reality is, Javascript has problems, and smart people disagree about how to solve those problems. The proliferation of frameworks is a symptom, but the frameworks are not themselves the problem. Javascript has some quirks, that is for s
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Do you realize that there have been hundreds of studies suggesting that fasting has health benefits? There are too many listed on Google for me to link to them all but here is a random sample of a few. Start with this one, which was on Hack
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No, the blood would be on the hands of the medical professionals in the clinic, or the owners of the meditation retreat, if for some reason they didn't keep watch on those who might need help.
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Not eating any food for several days also greatly reduces diabetes symptoms in mammals. I am not clear why this is not the default treatment. If people have trouble with will power then they can always check into a clinic that specializes i
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The stories about the backlash against the diversity efforts at Stanford, circa 1994, are what Susan Faludi was talking about in her book "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women" which was published in 1991. That era
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Marriage in the USA peaked in 1958. Please see the chart here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/opinion/sunday/the-real-re... Marriage peaked the same year that male participation in the wage econo