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by timsally 15y ago
"Checks and balances" isn't synonymous with "one branch of government isn't doing what I want, so a different branch of government should do it." It isn't SCOTUS's job to legislate from the bench, even if the outcome would be a net win for
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What you describe is a school in a low cost area with a 42% graduation rate that compensates its teachers just as well as the best high schools in America. Even with an average teacher salary of 85K, a cost of $23,000 per student seems high
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It's not up to Justice Scalia to do the right thing. It's up to Congress. As Scalia is so fond of saying, garbage law in, garbage decision out. Just because Congress is incompetent doesn't mean we should put it on SCOTUS to fix our problems
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> Your argument is essentially "marketing is bad". Which is a shadow argument for "capitalism is bad". That's an outrageous claim. Take marketing of pharmaceuticals directly to patients. Unconscionable in my opinion (and many other firs
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$100K+ and $150K+ /w pension are the salaries it takes to attract and retain excellent teachers and school administrators respectively (adjust for locality). These are the going rates at all the top public schools in the nation. With a full
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by timsally 15y ago
After someone has copies of your passport, birth certificate, social security card, etc, what do you even do? Isn't your identity compromised forever?
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by timsally 15y ago
I'm pretty sure it's 12 years of schooling after college. 4 years of medical school plus 6-8 years of fellowship. Thus 12 after college + 3 years to pay back debt + 7.5 years to get even is age 22 + 22.5 years = 45. Of course the reality is
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Comparing the average software engineer to a cardiologist is just silly. If you're going to select a small, highly skilled portion of the medical field to analyze, you should compare it to a skilled portion of the software engineering field
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The downside of course is that by the time your able to throw the dart at the map you're going on 40. Still, it sounds quite appealing.
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I actually read the online edition of the Times and I find it highly readable. A very enjoyable experience. I suspect this designer isn't a regular reader. News organizations are viewed as easy targets for designers trying to increase their
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by timsally 15y ago
Re: left vs. right and deliberation: that seems reasonable. Also sorry about the mugging. :( Still though, that doesn't address the advantage Aaron has in MA in terms of friends and enemies. And as far as public support is concerned, you c
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by timsally 15y ago
There is a difference with charging him locally though (in my mind). The attorneys that would prosecute Aaron in MA were hired by a left government accountable to a fairly liberal population. Those prosecuting Schwartz federally were hired
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I'd be thrilled if what you describe is what happened here. All it would take I think would be the actual developer speaking up and clarifying. However, the situation does have the potential to be a bit more complex. If Warp Prism was a com
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Nothing is confirmed yet, so I'd be careful about jumping the gun. What is true is that the first version of Warp Prism was released by a guy named Jake Frink. He claimed it was his solo project and it was his way of giving back to the comm
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by timsally 15y ago
I've been using Teevox (Warp Prism) since the first version was released on Reddit. For those unfamiliar, it is a web application that provides a convenient interface to watch the video streams of professional Starcraft players. It was mar
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by timsally 15y ago
It's not a "trend". We came out of the cave and realized that gender is not a simple binary. Or are you under the impression that it is?
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> One would think that YC would pick a company that didn't need to be in YC to succeed. I don't think that holds up here. Like it or not, reputation is the name of the game when it comes to media. It doesn't matter if you are as good of
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by timsally 15y ago
> The ones where it's a person, /iama/ already verifies those. Trolls have successfully gotten fake IAMAs from celebrities like Emilia Clarke verified by the moderation team. The fake Emilia Clarke IAMA got close to 1,000 comments befor
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by timsally 15y ago
> Also, how does anyasq beat reddit ama? * Better moderation. Seems like there are no unverified AMAs on anyasq. Trolling is a major problem on /r/iama. * By leveraging the YC network to get AMAs with people who would never do a Reddit
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It's an interesting contrast how cheap the technical tools are compared to the financial and legal skills retained. I'm not sure if Ropes & Gray does something special for early stage companies, but they are a top and expensive firm.
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I hope you appreciate the irony in wanting to censor an entire country from the Internet for considering a bill that censors the Internet.
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by timsally 15y ago
120,000 spectators came to an outdoor stadium in Busan, South Korea, to watch StarCraft at the 2005 SKY Pro League final -- roughly 50,000 more than attended the Super Bowl in 2009. In Korea, Starcraft is the second most watched sport after
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by timsally 15y ago
Ditto for me as well if necessary.
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That's Jason's business and not yours. I can't even believe such a thing needs to be verbalized. You're coming across like a tabloid journalist. Essentially you're trying to manufacture a controversy here out of an OpEd that: (1) Jason's
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I agree with your distinction and it is an important one. It is also important to define the function by which one becomes either a part of the working poor or impoverished. I argue it is a function of personal motivation, race, sexuality,
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At UIUC, graduate courses often start as special topics courses taught by an individual professor. That's the website linked in this submission. This particular special topics course was taught in '06 by Indranil Gupta (Indy), a very talent
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Quitting smoking may seem obvious, but it's important to consider the context. Middle class people grow up in homes that are very anti-smoking. In the rare case that a middle class family isn't anti-smoking, middle class schools certainly a
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by timsally 15y ago
I fear that you will find Madison is already infested with hipsters. :P At least, that was the case last time I checked (Mar. protests).
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To store a password securely, you use a hashing algorithm that isn't designed to be fast, i.e. bcrypt. Please read: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ . Giving advice and in general debating about a specialized topic like
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Because as much as we'd like to pretend otherwise, there are significant ideological differences between the US and China. China just enacted a 3 month ban on all spy dramas on TV [1] and I'm about go home and watch Casino Royal with a bott

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