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by ticmasta 7y ago
Well, check out the annual reports from your favourite charitable organizations; the most successful ones have a high correlation with those where fund raising costs is the biggest line-item expense. It seems to be this "grow or die&qu
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by ticmasta 7y ago
As an adult learning about his personal history/development and late conversion to Catholicism explained a lot of what confused the kid version of me who read the books decades earlier
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Reading is a great skill and encouraging kids to read has real value. I have an avid reader who is ten however who struggles with many aspects of writing and communication (organization, idea structure, penmanship, thinking before you speak
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by ticmasta 7y ago
If you're exercising so you can make big concessions in your daily diet, you're delusional. Take a look at the calories you burn doing high intensity exercise vs. those in your preferred dessert.
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by ticmasta 7y ago
>> I have not heard of anyone having a problem with rats and mice hunting other animals In Canada rats are a bigger threat to bird species than cats, topped only by humans. Or visit an island environment Galapagos where they've b
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by ticmasta 7y ago
I took it simply as a comment on how the same scale of impact has very different emotional responses if the cause is a big, notable event vs. a long-running regular one. Isn't this the entire problem with climate change in general? It&
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Also of note - this appears to be the UK-style of master's vs. the typical path a lot of us may be more familiar with, in the sense of very strong undergrads complete a 4th year and earn a Master's vs. finish an undergrad and then
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by ticmasta 7y ago
>> Would you rather a lie from an "authoritative" source or a truth from a "wacko" Well, an authoritative source can still be wrong but by definition does not lie, while a wacko can get it right occasionally withou
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by ticmasta 7y ago
>> Why should they get 40% margins? Form a union, demand more money. Why should they pay you more? Form the next FB and pay your employees 3x what they currently pay. Pretty ridiculous response, right?
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by ticmasta 7y ago
but everybody at a startup gets offered equity and almost all of it ends up being garbage, so maybe you made a poor assessment of the startup & founder but it seems a silly thing to thinking about and a dangerous one from which to draw
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Interesting experience. I also wonder if the comparison is made from the perspective of someone working in non-academia who might get a few days at Christmas, or undergrad students who get plenty of time off?
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Indeed did this to me after I completed and presented a 2-day paid project. Ironically for a role with their new assessment acqui-hire company...
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by ticmasta 7y ago
likely far more than 6 hours, probably more like 50+ with all the people and tasks involved. But they also cost this as part of their model - I don't think it's fair for individuals to eat the cost of the hiring process dictated b
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by ticmasta 7y ago
How about the fact that there's absolutely no upside for a hiring company/manager to give feedback? It's all potential downside...
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Well, I'll say more... They are a summary of what will happen if the commit (which is a bunch of commands) is applied. They also can elaborate on the context around the commit. It's thoughtful of the commiter if your coworkers don
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Step 1: pick a commit message format. Step 2: be a dick about it.
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by ticmasta 7y ago
You can agree or disagree with how effective this would be, but it's essentially the same argument for carbon taxes on consumers and the indirect tax applied via producers: you participate in production of the negative components, you
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by ticmasta 7y ago
And to drive home the challenge of how hard it is to trace the providence of a manufactured device, make the end consumer pay restitution directly to the affected parties.
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by ticmasta 7y ago
I appreciate your measured and informative responses that are not pure opinion but everyone else in the thread is adding nothing but gut-impulse emotional opinions. Cut your losses.
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Over a decade-plus consulting career I always tried to either discourage spurious new projects or work myself out of current engagements. While this was locally sub-optimal it led to long-term relationships that meant meaningful work, strat
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Only because you brought it up, someone in the typing pool likely has more education and experience: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-spiers-1b3048a1/ By any measure she's not an engineer.
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Two things prevent me from using best buy (in Canada) 1. they too have a giant marketplace of who knows who 2. they require you to stay logged in to paypal if you want to use it for "convenience". The entire reason I use PP is to
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Walmart is the same marketplace and it's not like I shop there for "premium quality" but I still can't trust the stuff they send is legit. Never thought I'd miss the old monopolistic, competition killing WalMart tha
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by ticmasta 7y ago
I thought you had created a single massive join to find the answer and was pre-impressed. This is fine in the strict "correct solution" answer but totally against the spirit, so boo!
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by ticmasta 7y ago
probably means looked at SELECT * from each table and interpreted the FK relationships vs. querying the schema table or looking at the ERD...
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by ticmasta 7y ago
well the nice thing is that you can break down each step if you're not confident with joining virtual tables and aggregated results but also after finishing I think you can right a single query to insert the answer, so it's quite
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by ticmasta 7y ago
>> To be fair, if I had 75% of my net worth in a single asset, to be more fair, balanced portfolio theory generally doesn't account for creating 2+ billion dollars out of thin air which you then need to diversify. I think it&#x
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by ticmasta 7y ago
I think this speaks of huge potential, not actual success. I'm really, really hopeful that blazor becomes something real with long-term committment but not fully convinced yet it's not the new silverlight. I hope these fears are u
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by ticmasta 7y ago
1. How many work trucks have you seen with a toolbox in the bed - almost all of them? How would you access one in this thing without literally climbing into the box? 2. How do you carry a ladder, roof rack, or box on this thing? 3. Where do
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by ticmasta 7y ago
but they don't even have BAs and PMs...

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