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by tabeth 10y ago
This raises an interesting question: is there a way to perfectly insure yourself? Or rather, a company that you pay to insure you for everything? My understanding of insurance is that if there's say 1/100 chance of some event cost
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by tabeth 10y ago
I really hate that it's called "cold calling" or "cold emailing." Can't we agree to call it what it is -- spam? As for the question, spam definitely works.
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All social problems stem from the fact that people believe it possible to be superior to one another. Once you get rid of this possibility, social problems, stemming from the "superiority problem" disappear. Utopia ensues.
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by tabeth 10y ago
I agree with you, but (most) people don't start off homeless in life, so what factor(s) make people homeless? I bet one of the top ones are health reasons.
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by tabeth 10y ago
I wonder if better/more accessible health care would eliminate homeless as a side effect. It seems much of the homeless in Boston, anyway is mental health/health related. I doubt anyone will say that what Utah did here is bad , b
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by tabeth 10y ago
Visual Studio Team Services is a pretty all-in-one solution. The only thing I'd like it to have a vastly simpler non-technical view. Something like Trello, as a front-end. They try to do this but imo it's not very effective. VSTS
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by tabeth 10y ago
Sure, but it's a chicken and egg problem, unfortunately. Besides, there are other cheap cities that are way cheaper that have software jobs -- Salt Lake City, Dallas, Nashville, etc. It's not adtech, but hey...
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by tabeth 10y ago
I completely agree with the sentiment, but isn't your own comment being dishonest? There's plenty of land in the United States, and plenty of cities that have hardly been met with the "hoarding" you mention. That being s
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Ask HN: How to get the ease of SPA on the back-end?
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by tabeth 10y ago
Curious: if anyone thinks it is bad for Google to give the police information, do you think it's bad for Google to have the information in the first place? Another way to think about this is: when (not if, but when ) Google gives a
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by tabeth 10y ago
I don't think this conversation will be productive. Slavery is a completely different phenomenon than all of what you mentioned. I encourage you to go read up on this. You can start with the The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander.
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by tabeth 10y ago
The goal is not to change the outcome, the goal is to remove bias. If the outcome is the same under perfect anonymity, then so be it.
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Citations needed.
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by tabeth 10y ago
So you're basically victim blaming?
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How is any of this even relevant?
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The answer is obvious: it's bias. I'll never forget the day I removed my picture from my LinkedIn profile and the amount of random spam I received increase substantially. People don't like the answer, but there's only on
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by tabeth 10y ago
I hate to go on my regular rant on this, but anonymous interviewing is the only answer. I could post literally thousands of studies, but everyone is already familiar with one of the more infamous. Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lak
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by tabeth 10y ago
I find this kind of learned helplessness to be fascinating. Do you think big companies need apologists? Do you think there would be more or less innovation with more smaller firms?
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by tabeth 10y ago
> It's not political for statisticians to want to normalize a raw stat like this in order to show what seems like the "true" number that matters. How many constituents out there want a job and can't find one? That&#x2
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by tabeth 10y ago
What are these options that are liquid and pay above inflation?
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by tabeth 10y ago
I'd love to know the history of the (misleading) unemployment indicator. I feel that the true indicator of employment should be very simple: the amount of people who have full time jobs divided by the amount of people, period. The amou
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by tabeth 10y ago
As usual with business people, the author seems to believe their [simplified strategy] (no excuses) is what caused the outcome they describe. I think it's more likely from the article that the organization simply became more efficient
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by tabeth 10y ago
I wonder how much coffee plays into this. I've yet to meet someone who sleeps consistently more than 8 hours per night who feels the need to drink coffee. edit: 8 quality hours of sleep, e.g. you wake up and you're not tired.
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by tabeth 10y ago
This looks great! However, I find the pricing odd. Is this really the kind of thing someone is going to pay monthly for, as in see consistent usage? I think a more appropriate pricing structure would be either pay per user or pay for credit
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by tabeth 10y ago
How do you "signal competence?"
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by tabeth 10y ago
A somewhat related, but distinct question is: how do you get the skills to make those high salaries? I don't care about salaries persay, but I do care about being valuable. Of course, the two things are very related. Here are some thin
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by tabeth 10y ago
Am I missing something or are of these "I'm too rich to be bothered with this task" services just creating a new servant class in the United States? This "servant class" has already existed, but now I feel as if it&
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by tabeth 10y ago
I don't see the point of these orders. Muslim immigrants commit fewer crimes than natives. [1] http://www.nber.org/papers/w13229.pdf [2] https://www.cato.org/blog/immigration-crime-what-resear
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by tabeth 10y ago
I didn't miss that argument. I just believe it is irrelevant. Status is still zero sum. Creating arbitrary criteria for status does not mean said criteria are not zero sum. As for the hypothetical situation you mentioned -- no, everyon
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by tabeth 10y ago
Yup. I disagree with it, obviously. I don't think the author gives sufficient evidence to prove that it's not zero sum. Can everyone be of high status? The answer is obviously no. Like I mentioned before, the very idea of status t

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