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by tjalfi 6y ago
Unemployment is (hopefully) temporary - marriage, children, and divorce can permanently change your life. Between 40-50% of US couples divorce[0]. Prior marriages substantially increase the chances of divorce[1]. 41% of first marriages end
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You probably aren't finding cars this old on the market because their owners drive them into the ground. We were raised to follow this practice and it's hard to imagine doing anything else. My current car is 20 years old and I hav
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> My question is this: What would you do to find clients that have "dusty decks," where a dusty deck is a program that someone wrote years ago, probably in some language that is out of favor, and that yet still serves an import
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Innocence Is Irrelevant (2017)(theatlantic.com)
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One problem with this is that most cases don't go to trial and miscarriages of justice are a regular occurrence. Many cases 90+% ([0], [1]) are plea-bargained out, e.g. the accused couldn't afford representation, the public defend
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Proposition 47[0] in 2014 substantially reduced the penalties for shoplifting, grand theft, forgery, fraud, and other crimes. Stealing <$950 is a misdemeanor regardless of how often someone does it. It would be surprising if this didn&#x
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Requiring a credential could be discriminatory if it has a disparate impact on protected classes. Griggs v. Duke Power Co.[0] is the Supreme Court case on this topic. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Pow
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Against Tulip Subsidies[0] is a much better argument against credentialism. https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/06/against-tulip-subsidie...
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I would argue that being limited to two levels is a feature. Here's a related quote[0] from Edward Tufte. "Dr Spock's Baby Care is a best-selling owner's manual for the most complicated 'product' imaginable --
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Building successful platforms isn't about engineering - many well-engineered platforms were market failures. You have to enable third parties to be successful. Steve Yegge's Google platform rant[0] discusses this topic in detail.
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You could register a prediction on Long Bets[0]. If someone disagrees with your prediction you can turn it into a bet. [0] https://longbets.org/
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Older protocols such as HTTP are grandfathered in; if the web was invented last week, browsers probably would be blocked periodically.
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> What is the upside of a highly diversified workforce? It's harder to fail to cover use cases that the development team isn't aware of. One example of this is name changes. Many products neglect this use case even though it&#x
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The primary source is [0]. [0] https://psyche.co/ideas/the-mathematical-case-against-blamin...
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What's the name of the book? It sounds like an interesting read.
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Bram's Law (2003)(web.archive.org)
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John Varley's Eight Worlds series has an alien species called the Invaders. They invaded Earth to protect cetaceans from the effects of human civilization. The Invaders divide sentient life into three tiers - species like themselves th
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Were you thinking of The Paranoid Style in American Politics[0]? [0] https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-am...
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Here are a few examples. Hoover Dam Panama Canal Tennessee Valley Authority NASA's Apollo Program The Manhattan Project Energy Star National Malaria Eradication Program Boll Weevil Eradication Program Smallpox eradication Safe Drinking
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Thanks for mentioning this story; I just finished it and it's a great read.
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This reminds me of a quote from Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynmann!. "When you're young, you have all these things to worry about - should you go there, what about your mother. And you worry, and try to decide, but then somet
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Raymond Chen, a Microsoft blogger, has posted[0] about why Windows doesn't use an expert mode. [0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030728-00/?p=43...
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Beating Up on Qsort (2019)(travisdowns.github.io)
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> I think the owner would get sued, but I'm not sure if it would hold up in US court. We have laws preventing businesses from discriminating based on race, sex, ethnicity, and national origin, but I don't know if there are any
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Good catch! I'm not sure what I was thinking. I did some further searches; Madison, Wisconsin[0] and DC[1] forbid discrimination on political affiliation in public accommodations. [0] https://library.municode.com/wi&#x2
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Political affiliation is a protected class in some states[0] including California[1]. [0] https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/discrimin... [1] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia
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Can you provide any examples of this approach working in the last 40 years?
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Political affiliation is a protected class in California[0] but this may be legal in some states. [0] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-employmen...
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The answer depends on what state and city the business is located in. Political affiliation is a protected class in some states[0]. California[1], for example, also prohibits discrimination on gender identity, ancestry, sexual orientation
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12,000+ people were arrested at the 1971 May Day protests[0]. Mass arrests are less likely than they were in the past but they aren't impossible by any means. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_May_Day_protests

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