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by tabeth 9y ago
I've yet to see a diverse company with no inequality, let alone a diverse society. On that note, I wonder how feasible it would be to have a company who uses profit to fund an endowment and then later vows to only pay employees a per
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by tabeth 9y ago
Isn't a shipping container + insulation on both sides + plywood on the outside + siding pretty cheap and easily able to survive a winter as long as its placed on a concrete slab?
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by tabeth 9y ago
If the two parties engaged in a transaction know all of the information about the transaction and the transactions consequences and still agree, then by definition, it must be a "fair" trade, where "fair" means fair to
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by tabeth 9y ago
Hmm, I think there may be a misunderstanding. 1. I don't disagree with you. 2. I'm not trying to take away funding from PhD students, nor am I trying to make them pay more. I simply advocate for undergraduate students to have a si
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by tabeth 9y ago
I don't have any opinion on whether or not PhD students are employees or not, however, what I do want is consistency. So if PhD students are indeed students, yet receive a massive tax break in the form of "free tuition" (cont
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by tabeth 9y ago
Perhaps the task you're trying to complete is just inherently laborious, slow and expensive, then? Given that humans frequently have trouble understanding one another, it's very unlikely you'll ever encounter an API that ca
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by tabeth 9y ago
I completely agree. I'm really not understanding the counter argument here.
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by tabeth 9y ago
If this is what you believe, then I've already covered it in my original post -- PhD students should be treated as employees. PhD "students" can be either employees or students, not both. Currently they're "both&quo
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by tabeth 9y ago
I disagree that a PhD is "so much different from undergrad". In both cases a PhD and an undergraduate is paying for access to a professor. Do you disagree?
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by tabeth 9y ago
I don't disagree with you. However my point, just like how your undergraduate experience varies with others, is that the majority of graduate programs are not funded, therefore said tax break is irrelevant. Even when you count PhD prog
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by tabeth 9y ago
Couples also have a tendency to use something called a contraceptive.
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by tabeth 9y ago
Similarly empty classes can be found in plenty of undergraduate programs, especially those taken primarily by atheletes at D1 schools [1]. Or even by students taking seminars that they create, or doing an undergraduate thesis, or... [1] ht
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by tabeth 9y ago
Indeed. If it looks like an employee they should be paid like an employee.
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I don't see why this would be an issue, as you still have the principal, and such events can be amortized into the adjusted "income" you pay yourself out with.
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by tabeth 9y ago
I've edited my post to better illustrate my opinion. I don't have any opinion on whether or not PhD students are employees or not, however, what I do want is consistency. So if PhD students are indeed students, yet receive a massi
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by tabeth 9y ago
Random sidenote: I feel that a ton of sites have the exact same visual style as kinsta. Is this a template or something? If so, which one is it?
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by tabeth 9y ago
Erlang's syntax is a bit more obscure than other languages that are on BEAM. That being said, there's little reason to learn Erlang directly. It's better to learn OTP and Elixir and Erlang as you need it (e.g. libraries not a
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by tabeth 9y ago
Downvoting in general is a pretty poor tool. What exactly would be lost if you could not downvote? Upvote or flag it if it's blatantly wrong; better yet, respond with the correct info. The main problem with down and up voting is that i
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by tabeth 9y ago
Pretty much. I think people really want a silver bullet. Spend as little money as you're comfortable with. Invest the rest in an index fund. Wait. That's pretty much it. EDIT: I also should add that the "spend as little money
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by tabeth 9y ago
You definitely see this for sure. I advise anyone (minorities in particular) who asks me about college to go to community college. I say this almost irrespective of their high school grades (I actually told someone on college confidential w
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by tabeth 9y ago
Easiest thing is to liquidate and leave those assets in a will. Anything else has a non-trivial chance of loss without recourse (unlike liquidated currency). That being said if you had that much money in crytocurrencies you probably wouldn&
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by tabeth 9y ago
> I take a wide range of privacy precaution > I use Facebook's browser version instead of its mobile app > I use Firefox Multiple Containers on desktop to not surf the web while being logged in to Google, Facebook et al I&#x27
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by tabeth 9y ago
One could argue that without net neutrality, internet providers could provide substantially cheaper internet services -- e.g. just Facebook for $1 a month. However that breaks down once you consider the fact that it's not practical at
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by tabeth 9y ago
Even if this worked, it still wouldn't be good. You've simply replaced Comcast with Netflix.
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by tabeth 9y ago
Hey, just wanted to let you know (not that you care), that you're 100% right. My original post, and subsequent responses were based on a false equivalency. Dunno what I was thinking, I was totally in the wrong. Apologies if any offense
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by tabeth 9y ago
Heh, yeah I'll admit the original post and the subsequent responses were pretty dumb. Can't change the past (no really, I couldn't edit it even if I wanted).
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by tabeth 9y ago
When I tried emacs a few years ago I found the learning curve to be far more steep than vim at the time. After trying out https://vim-adventures.com/ (no affiliation, just thought it was useful) I learned it in about 15 min
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by tabeth 9y ago
Hmmm, lots of good points here. > You're making claims about their underlying motivation, and dismissing their actions as just virtue signaling. This is true. > Showing the presence of B is not sufficient to demonstrate the absen
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by tabeth 9y ago
It really has been amazing to see the momentum building with people speaking out against aggressors. I wonder when critical mass will be reached in terms of when people feel that there's little negative consequence to sharing stories o
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by tabeth 9y ago
Though I appreciate your post, it only further emphasizes my original point. You, apparently a professor at CMU, praise folks for merely uninstalling an app. Something you only knew because they bothered to post it on an internet board. Thi

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