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> I'm sorry, but "why?", by itself, is never a serious question. I asked my question crisply and respectfully, taking the pro-diversity folks as serious and being people of goodwill. I think it's disrespectful of you, not to mention log
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> One of our goals at Dev Bootcamp Chicago is to change the ratio of women in software development: we want a 1:1 ratio in our cohorts. Why? That's a serious question. My hobbies include writing, blacksmithing, cooking, and ceramics. In
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People don't (and shouldn't) charge based on what it costs them to provide a service - they can (and should) charge based on what value they deliver to a customer. That said, I believe in building long-term value for a customer and I do tha
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Then you took an arrow to the knee?
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Racism is behind many bans. I think that the goal is not so much to harm the minority group as it is a form a status signalling: showing that "we" disapprove of what "they" do. Cocaine was banned in the US because of its use by blacks. Mar
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"THIS!", as the kids say.
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> I don't believe frost forms until 32 degrees. Perhaps it was under 10 atmospheres of pressure? ;-)
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> They said "This is the worst type-setting I’ve ever seen"...This got me thinking, if the first reactions are not even constructive Uh, actually, I think that that's wonderfully constructive advice: if someone says that, then you immed
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You don't understand why taxpayers are upset that government officials theoretically working FOR them can make idiotic decisions, and then get off consequence-free, and all the damages that they created are paid for by everyone but themselv
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http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5758861728040203...
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A simple algorithm to determine if you're good at multitasking: 1) you aren't
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I should add: I've become so interested in the world and characters and situations I've created (and so have a half dozen or so alpha readers) that I'm planning on writing another two novels as follow-ups.
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Great project; I've long thought about this.
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Around 1980 I read Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". In 1993 I started sketching some ideas for a novel loosely - very loosely! - inspired by it. I kept poking at the ideas, and tried to write the book several times. I never got m
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Related: I'm a right libertarian who didn't really understand what "left libertarian" even meant. This essay seems to explain it well: http://www.popehat.com/2012/12/28/wherein-a-right-libertaria...
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Why? A trillion times more solar energy lands on the planet every day and is wasted.
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From the article: > to a disturbing degree I dislike it when government-run media tries to tell me what to think about something.
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> I used to think books were special, too. Having thousands of books is expensive: I almost added books as a third category above. A year ago I had 10,000 books. Now I have 5,000. It'd be nice to cut that in half every year for a few y
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Depending on how you look at it, I either own 20,000 plus five things, or just two plus five things. I'm exaggerating, but I've got a core point: There are two things that I spend a LOT of time on and get a lot of enjoyment from: * cooking
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They've got tons of options. They could, for example, cut back the bloated private sector. ...but the governments are on the side of the government workers (most government workers are unionized and these funds lobby the politicians). The
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I've got a copy of Myhrvold's "Modernist Cuisine" http://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-Art-Science-Cooking/... ...which helped me learn about the MAXIMUM viable kitchen. It has a $10,000 lab-grade centrifuge, among other things.
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Why should the principal be involved in an action that didn't take place on school grounds?
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I find it amusing that a woman who chose not to go into technology says the the root cause of women not being well represented in technology is something other than "women choose not to go into technology".
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> i get particularly excited by projects that could provide grid-free lighting and clean water to rural areas. The best way to provide lighting and clean water is via the grid: power lines and water pipes.
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> People couldn't lift the weight without consuming energy from food. Doesn't mean that it's powered by food. Actually, it does, and that's the perfect way to analyze this. Food is good for keeping humans alive, but it's a pretty fooli
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H-1B visas.
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> The nature of successful Kickstarter projects is that they are are solving hard problems. Not sure I agree with that.
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I think you've put your finger on it EXACTLY.
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> If someone were to say “Ruby is defined by its' > implementation”, we could not argue... [ elided ] > This is why we need a language reference. Huh? I'm entirely open to the ideas proposed here, but I fail to see any ACTUAL b
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This is so true. After 20 years, I've recently switched from csh to bash (so I can use rvm), and I've been applying this neuro-hack to less-used command. When you copy-and-paste, there's a kind of finger-learning that you miss out on.

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