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Well, be Bayesian about it. The incidents described in the full article include huge violent fistfights that led to curfews. Low income people are unlikely to spend lots of money. Lots of theft and violence is accompanied by lots of broken
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What do you think about this article? http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2008-08-20/news/out-of-contro... Ask virtually any store manager at the Saint Louis Galleria about shoplifting, and you'll invariably get two responses: One, i
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Heh. You don't know the grandparent poster, but I'm the callow jacknape. He's slagging off everyone in the world, I'm only pointing out that it might not be the world that's the problem. And he's the upvoted one, on this thread at least. Wh
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Just from the interwebs looks like you've had problems at two employers now including Google: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3783114 Maybe the problem is you, not the employer?
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In modern American society there are no intermediates for male and female roles. Either women are told to act like a man (become programmers, fight like Uma Thurman and Keira Knightley!) or they are told to become a caricature of a female (
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No, you are disagreeing solely because you have been trained to do so in college. Unlike batista you are not reasoning from first principles (which start with the brute fact of XX and XY), you are instead simply siding with those who have t
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The products of the RIAA and MPAA generally undermine property rights (viz. "F the Police"). Now that they are the ones being f'd, they turn to the people who respect property rights to protect them. No sale, they deserve to pass into the a
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Let's start with some facts. FACT: Men and women have significant, measurable neurological differences[1]. FACT: These differences are measurable before birth[2]. FACT: Men and women show large, reproducible differences on average in test
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Many of the people angry about this incident believe that sexism is wrong, but advocating atheism in Dawkins' manner is not wrong. Right. However, the group of people who are against sexism are objectively much more culturally
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Mr. Byrnes, it is a little more complicated than that. Many of the people angry about this incident will, in another context, back up someone like Richard Dawkins when he offends. Dawkins happens to be one of my favorite authors, but he is
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Great rhetoric by Tyson, but completely misses the point that innovation in space travel is now completely the domain of NewSpace companies like Armadillo Airspace, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic rather than governments. NASA no longer innovat
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Nope. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unique 5. not typical; unusual: She has a very unique smile.
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A lot of developers work really, really hard on their startups for years bootstrapping, just scraping by, and being ignored by investors because they're not famous. Their startups have no users and they are just scraping by b
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Kevin Rose worked his way up from being a behind the scenes IT guy to doing cameos to running the Screen Savers to founding Digg[1]. Is he a coder? No, but he's at least technical enough to find and recruit pretty good engineering talent. M
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But he got to plug it on ScreenSavers because he worked his way up from being the IT guy on the show to cameo appearances onscreen to actually having his own show. Major props on the hustle there.
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SELECT * FROM companies WHERE field='tech' ORDER BY growth_rate, market_cap; That will roughly correspond to a rank ordering of companies that are both growing and big. Apple and Facebook will be near the top of that list. Yahoo and
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Of course you can make statements about groups. In a different context, most of the people here agreed with this: http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html I feel safe suggesting this, because they'd never do it. Microsoft's bigges
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Exactly. It's amazing how many people are saying "well, there are lots of programmers who don't pay attention to the latest technology, you can't just refuse to hire them". But you can and you should. Anyone at Yahoo/MS today is (on average
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> you should be extra careful to provide proper support...they could have done it better. But the thing is that the people criticizing are (a) providing zero direct support to the homeless and (b) not actually going to "do it better". F
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I know you intend this to somehow be a cutting remark, but you've just described the business model of every hipster feel good activity, from "fair trade" coffee to Project Red. The bottom line is that the hipster (aka Person C) is not goin
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1000 upvotes for this man. All these idiots at SXSW and the New York Times would quite literally rather have these people be homeless and invisible than have someone dream up a job where they could get paid for providing value. This blows m
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Will this work with Github Enterprise?
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How things change. Less than six years ago, Yahoo was in talks to buy Facebook for $1B. http://mashable.com/2006/09/21/facebook-to-sell-to-yahoo-for...
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Reminiscent of Eliyahu Goldratt's excellent book, The Goal. Bottom line is that unless you incentivize on profit, you are incentivizing loss.
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Skeptical at first, but then saw this: Each blockage HowAboutWe found among the committed couples they studied has a corresponding feature on the new site. To overcome the inertia it detected, the site will offer fully packaged
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But wait a second, weren't you stating a few days ago that lifestyle companies make people more rich than moonshots: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3647026 Please note: I say this as someone who has great respect for the look, feel,
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Sales is part of doing a startup. Selling the company is the biggest sale. You have to give them props for finding the people willing to buy. Additionally, Loopt (being founded in 2005) did a ton of work that was obsolesced by the iPhone an
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No. Speaking intuitively, if you can't judge someone's intelligence by their writing ability, what possible measure could you use? Grammatical deficiencies are symptoms of conceptual deficiencies. Speaking technically, vocabulary tests are
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The spelling and grammatical errors tell you within 5 seconds that this person is not very intelligent. For obvious security reasons, we can’t discuss our technology's detection capability in detail, however TSA conducts extensive
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From the full article, "Python 3.2 [beta] looks promising coming out just a little faster than Python 2.7.". This same article has PyPy coming in at 3 times as fast as Python 3.2 and Python 2.7 on the pystone benchmark, but if you have used

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