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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
These sorts of "highest salary wins" rules should typically be crafted in an industry/sector-specific way. So schools have to compete with each other on salary but not with tech/finance/med. And then there are caps
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
No, it's not. People cite "informal" sources all the time. This only really matters on the receiving end of the citation. I.e., if lots of people are citing your blog or forum post, then it can be a good idea to take your c
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
The difference in emphasis you noticed (grace, love, and acceptance vs. joy, freedom, and deliverance) has deep historical roots that go back much further than colonial history. As an exercise, even the apostles -- and the prophets before t
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Where does my comment mention anything about worship style? I find debates about worship style mostly uninteresting and irrelevant. My comment focuses on a general disinterest in caring for the congregation and its surrounding community. In
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This is a good point when comparing USA churches with their European counter-parts. However, the comparison I was making was specifically about the USA. Even without tax/public funds (or preferential tax treatment), American christian
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> just because they've been "making things happen". Actually, my biggest fear about Christianity in the USA today is that it's NOT "making things happen" Or, perhaps more accurately, the things that it&#
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The commerce cause is mostly orthogonal (not irrelevant, but orthogonal) to no-strings-attached social services funding, even under very literal/originalist interpretations.
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
In a country with open borders between states and extremely cheap transportation, homelessness really should be thought of as, at least partially, a federal problem. And funded accordingly. > [1] https://www.sfchronicle.com&#x
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> But "we", who? Patrick Collison, Sam Altman, Marc Benioff, etc, The recommended statement by Wiener addresses this: "A broad-based stakeholder group — including Mayor Ed Lee, then-Supervisor David Chiu, the Controller
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There's a map in the article. some of the zones are legitimate opportunities. A lot of them -- and the ones most likely to attract investment -- make it patently clear that this is a low-risk give-away.
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
If you look at the map, you'll notice areas with white hot housing and rental markets (2k+ rents, 600k+ floors of houses). See my other comment for a concrete example. Even worse, the zones are chosen by governors and the rules for sel
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
"Opportunity zone" doesn't mean what you think it means. E.g., there are census tracts in Cambridge/Somerville with six figure median incomes that are categorized as "opportunity zones". There are also a lot
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
https://arxiv.org/pdf/0912.5391.pdf
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
You continue to dodge literally the only salient question in this thread: which county do you live in? The rest of the conversation in this thread is built upon the IMO extremely implausible claims in your first comment. There's good r
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Before moving to very-much-big-city, my very-much-not-big-city library had: * nice meeting rooms we used for interest group meetups and community organizing (of the "pick up litter" variety) * copies of TAOCP and of Bourbaki (pro
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
To be frank, I simply don't believe you. What county do you live in?
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
1. The sort of beans used in the $3 cup of coffee are probably quite expensive. E.g., the espresso beans that my local coffee shop uses retail at about $1 per espresso drink ($20/lb of beans with 20 or so double shots in a pound). Plus
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> Statistically, that just isn't possible for all holders, meaning any time I hear someone has a degree, it's a coin flip Those are nowhere near equivalent conditions. > Anecdotally, all of the degree holders within my wi
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Because rft is esoteric. A lot of more applied CS departments don't require a CS theory course, and many programmers didn't major in CS or never attended university. So there are far more computer programmers than there are people
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Yes, but he said this is a "response" to that, which doesn't really make any sense because CMU's ML dept has been around for a while.
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> 1) CMU establishing a 'department' of AI (where MIT had merely an AI track within the CS program) CMU's Machine Learning Department was founded in 2006, before the current AI hype cycle started. If this is MIT's r
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> The people who implemented these systems have all received their phds from academic CS institutions and they used bits and pieces of existing distributed systems research, but they did their innovative work in the context of commercia
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
The EFF is run by/employs/takes advice from a lot of people, who probably don't all agree with one another: https://www.eff.org/about/board https://www.eff.org/about/special-counsel
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Was this computer-generated?
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
This strikes me as fairly unreasonable. The full range of human thought is probably possible to express in the language my sibling and I made up as children, but I'm not arrogant enough to assert that my teachers are all incompetent li
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> If you have information to the contrary, i'm curious to hear it, though. Providing such evidence was literally the main claim made in the top-level comment on this now very long thread... Also, the fact that spending correlates
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Apparently exactly this happened: https://pikabu.ru/story/vzlom_routeros_5924128 assuming, at least, that the Google translation is decent: "It seems to be even good, but the admin’s account has severely cut the r
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
I have never found this analogy compelling for two reasons. First, your sink is not part of a botnet (assuming it's not a smartsink, I guess). By leaving your machine unpatched, you are causing harm to others . This makes the ethics o
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I guess I'm imagining a couple of trucks parked along the edge of a fairly stand-alone neighborhood park that has plenty of parking. I can think of multiple concrete locations where this would work great without causing a nuisance. Of
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> If public money is invested, it should be done based on ROI. If there is no ROI, that’s welfare, and welfare should go to those with the greatest need. The problem we're currently facing -- on full display in this article -- is

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