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> I see so many job applications that are exactly a laundry list of achievements, and nothing about what the applicant could do for me. There is another side to this, which is that many job ads don't provide anything like enough inf
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They may not be, as others have pointed out, but on the other hand, humans have disrupted their environment and put them under extreme selective pressure of various kinds. We have also reduced their population, creating a greater likelihood
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If you ever want to have real fun, point this out to a doctrinaire feminist who is heavily invested in the idea that men are more violent than women because in the primordial landscape men did most of the hunting. I did this to a freind onc
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Iatgrogenic (treatment-caused) disease is a leading cause of death, although estimates vary quite a bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenesis#Epidemiology Doctors are rightfully conservative. There have been eras
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There have been periodic bursts of FPGA hype over the past several decades, and they have all fizzled out for precisely the reasons you cite. "FPGAs: they're the technology of the future, and always will be!"
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As has been pointed out almost endlessly over the past day, almost all the mass in the rocket is in the lower end by the time it hits the pad, so despite what anyone can imagine it isn't that hard to keep it vertical. The hard part is
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This. This video is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. This is not a failure. This is an incredibly rich mine of data on how to do better next time. This is how we improve the world, and it's beautiful.
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It's an excellent book, and I highly recommend it, but it's also very personal and idiosyncratic in much of its advice. King is a writer of a particular type, and he's talking about the way he writes, which may or may not be
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Given that the term "flying saucer" seems to be a misnomer from Kenneth Arnold's report that described the motion of the observed object as being "like a saucer skipping on a pond" and his sketch of the object sho
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The world has always been about to end, and there have always been people ready to make money scaring people over it. This time is no different. In fact, we are better equipped to deal with our current problems than any generation of humani
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Given it's an analysis of the S&P500 you just buy/sell SPY and follow the index. Not that I recommend that, for reasons other people here have pointed out.
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Not at all. It's "Some (maybe many) people will require an implausibly large amount of will for learning to code to be a worthwhile use of their time." Like anyone who has pursued a diversity of interests fairly seriously ove
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The one thing I don't see in stuff written by people who are committed to the idea that everyone can be taught to program is before-and-after mark distributions, demonstrating how we can get rid of the apparently robust bimodal distr
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There is a considerable literature on 'the CS1 problem' in education. It is a long-term, robust observation that the marks in first-year computing courses in university are strongly bimodal in a way that is not seen in other, comp
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Fiction: Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens). Dickens' prose is like a sugared donut. Rich and enjoyable in small bites, cloying as a steady diet, so this is heavily interspersed with other reading. Non-Fiction: Global Crisis ( http:/&#x2
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> As for an overpopulated animal, I imagine there must be a better way to deal with that than allowing people to shoot them. A) Why do you imagine that? B) Why do you think what you imagine is a fact that's relevant to this discussi
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Yet in other countries similar processes are no where near as painful, so the claim that "having human beings involved necessarily makes things painfully in efficient" is not very plausible. For reasons I don't understand A
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They can't. As the comment before yours pointed out: after about three weeks, those six overworked people are so inefficient that they are getting less done than six people would working regular hours. Long crunch times (more than two
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The very notion of "cost centres" vs "profit centres" is incoherent. If a function is necessary for the longevity of the business, it is a profit centre. If it is not, it shouldn't be part of the business. Treating
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> There is only one calendar system in use at one time. This is useful, but technically false. Go tour graveyards around Boston. You'll find stones with two death dates on them from the mid-1700's (most of the US changed in 175
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"What the world needs is a massive consortium from science, math, social sciences, history, philosophy, religion, economics, business, politics -- to devise downsizing schemes, justified by world systems simulations, leading to safegua
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Found it! "Cyanide and Happiness". http://explosm.net/comics/3557/
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This is not a shortage of people, it's an unwillingness or inability to raise salaries to the point where your group is attracting the people it wants. I appreciate that the ability to pay people enough to attract them is a problem tha
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As complete nonsense from people who believe the labour market should be replaced by socialist managers able to dictate the price independently of actual supply and demand. These people are often described in the press as "business lea
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None of these are both a) special to Haskell and b) necessary to solving this problem in a clean way. So no, he did not. It's also worth pointing out that the last point contradicts the first.
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Since outside of math the goal of science is not proof but plausibility, this would not be an effective approach. Science is the discipline of publicly testing ideas by systematic observation, controlled experiment and Bayesian inference, a
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This has always been a problem, and "trusting papers written by people I know, or who have worked with people I know" has always been an adequate solution for people in the field, whatever the field is. But with the democratizatio
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It isn't described as "difficult to understand" but "labyrinthine and recursive: full of noise", and that's an accurate description: "One summer afternoon, Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware part
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There have been many different opinions expressed here with regard to how quickly a politically innocuous statue would have been taken down, with different people claiming "it just makes sense" that such a statue would/wouldn
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Unfortunately "easy to imagine" doesn't imply "particularly plausible", although it's an association we all (including me) tend to make. It's easy to imagine that bloodletting is a useful treatment, or tha

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