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by tjic 17y ago
It's spring. Go hike the Appalachian trail all summer. You living expenses will be food + replacement socks + fuel for your camp stove. Four months from now, you'll be wonderfully destressed, and will have barely touched your savings.
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Demographics are appealing based on two things: the direct revenue that advertising to them / selling to them can bring, and the indirect value of how much they serve to propogate the brand. Older adults are worthwhile because they've got a
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by tjic 17y ago
> If I were to hire someone, I'd base it on their past experience and how well the interview(s) went, not their race or sex. Absolutely. I agree 100%. OTOH, discussing things in aggregates also makes sense. If 4 out of 1,000 women wou
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> It could be that knowing in advance the emotional, legal, political, or otherwise time-wasting repercussions that a certain type of debate causes justifies avoiding the discussion altogether So person A, and B and C are interested in
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> in sociological terms, women are a minority because they aren't the dominant subgroup. This is a useful sentence to read, because it helps remind me that "sociological terms" have little or nothing to do with honest intellectual fram
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> If it's not okay to say that men are better programmers simply because of their gender (it's not), then it's not okay to say it the other way around either. God forbid that someone make an argument and try to support it with data, wh
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The fact that this is considered a "clever hack" as opposed to "duh, totally obvious" befuddles me. Who in hell would actually spend hours stirring milk for hours a day? Saying that this is a clever hack is like saying "I know a guy who hea
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One step I used to help lower my stress level and fight burnout was this: Never check statistics and analytics outside of the office. I used to be a mouse slapping that cocaine-delivery-bar in my cage: I'd get up from my reading chair every
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by tjic 17y ago
Comment I left over at the article: I began using Paypal right when they launched, when it was an application for beaming payments over the IR ports of Palm Pilots (remember that?!). I continued to use Paypal after they migrated to web paym
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The total number of people involved in hacker spaces, world wide, rounds to zero. It's an interesting little meme, but when there are more people following the most obscure rock band you've never heard of, you can't really call it a big dea
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> Predictable, given the author and the venue. No information content. The name of the rhetorical flaw you've engaged in is "ad hominem attack". That is to say, you didn't give a single disagreement with the facts presented, you just sa
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From time to time I stop and think about how blindingly FAST computers are. It's easy enough to click "refresh" on a web server running on your desktop and wait half a second for a refresh...but then when you ponder that not only might you
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by tjic 17y ago
> Are you working for a psychopath? Given that I'm self-employed, I'd have to say "yes". ;-)
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> each beam is unique in the cuts A few years ago I took a class on timberframing ... and part of the class was building a timber frame house. There's a family that - RIGHT NOW - is sitting, eating, and sleeping feet away from beams th
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Speaking as someone who double-majored in computer science and a humanity (history) at a top-tier university, I think that the humanity degree should be firmly classified as entertainment, or enrichment. If you're rich, and have $40 (or $14
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> It comes down to tact, an I don't think there are any "rules" to applying it. Actually, there are rules, and they're called "etiquette". It's a cached lookup table of what millions of other people have already decided is tactful, and
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The middle part. Also, the beginning and end.
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My big task for the last 3 weeks has been to rewrite and merge the credit card charging engine in three separate codebases at work. This is a pretty huge task - multiple migrations, special one-time pushes of data from database 1 to 2, scor
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If my tax dollars are paying their salaries, I don't want US Attorney's office employees logging on to Drudge, or eBay, or ...
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> Well his wife and 3 teenage sons have only $4k a month to live on ... and whatever she earns. Taking care of teenagers after school is not a full time job.
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> What I don't understand is how we almost never hear of such people packing up and moving to some country which is hostile to US interests http://roissy.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/hero/
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40 upvotes in 2 hours - I think HN has spoken.
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> why was his new wife not receiving any alimony? You mean "child support". Alimony is a payment directly to the ex-spouse, for the ex-spouse's enjoyment / benefit.
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> And your model of different reproductive rates for blue-state vs. red-state people assumes that children have the same values as their parents. I know quite a few folks who were raised in red states and fled them. Anecdote != data. Th
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I find all demographic changes fascinating. Percent of hispanics, Mormons, college educated, third-party-voting, etc. Especially given that political and social changes are often influenced by technology (birth control pill -> sexual re
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Why was this down-modded? It's a basic demographic fact that folks have been talking about for 20 years: there is a strong correlation between political values and average family size. Red state folks have slightly more kids, and they have
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Worst data visualization I've seen all day.
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> Guaranteeing profit is not why patents exist in the first place. They exist "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." ...and the way that they promote the progress of science and technology is to put a PROFIT MOTIVE in pla
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Agreed. Great book.
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What lies beneath New York's rivers(nymag.com)
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