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by tropo 7y ago
About this: "CEO to average employee income was around 80:1, now it's closer to 250:1." I think that is nearly equivalent to saying that the average company is now 4x larger. CEO pay is strongly related to the size of the com
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by tropo 7y ago
You can go more mainstream with the TI-84 Plus CE. It has a C compiler.
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by tropo 7y ago
College Board also wants to make it difficult to copy down exam questions that could get reused. For this reason, calculators with QWERTY keyboards are banned. Evidently there is no problem with DVORAK, and nobody would ever learn to type q
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by tropo 7y ago
Real Men program web sites in assembly, and they like it.
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by tropo 7y ago
Single income: Move to a new job. There is 1 short commute per day. It can be in a small city with little traffic, so the commute time is short and low-stress and there is little fuel burned. Childcare is sort of free, and the house is big,
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by tropo 7y ago
This is also clogging the roads with traffic, wasting our time in traffic, and polluting the air. If you can't afford to move closer to a new job, you'll have to commute.
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by tropo 7y ago
The calculator market is controlled by TI. They push textbook makers to be TI-specific. TI is constrained largely by test security requirements, which vary a bit. For example in France TI had to add a blinking LED to indicate test mode, whi
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by tropo 7y ago
They made their own states too expensive, by choice, and then couldn't live with the result. They are moving to affordable places that vote against taxes, regulations, and government services. Oddly they continue to vote for the policy
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by tropo 7y ago
Well, let's look at the most obvious right-wing publication. Here you go, original news reporting: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/05/17/exclusive-facebook... https://www.breitbart.co
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by tropo 7y ago
I can see this hitting legal businesses, like gun stores and abortion providers. Advertisements for those are equally political, but I really doubt that Google would judge it that way.
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by tropo 7y ago
We shouldn't mix up "chance of going to jail" with "severity of punishment". Potential criminals easily dismiss severe punishment, but they don't dismiss near-certain punishment. Quick and reliable punishment i
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by tropo 7y ago
One of the local businesses, right there in coastal California, is Koch Carbon. I like how the name is so honest and descriptive, despite not mentioning coal. You get carbon from the Koch brothers.
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by tropo 7y ago
All colors are wrong. So that you can properly see a clog, the toilet must be clear glass.
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by tropo 7y ago
For new construction in Berkeley, you can't use natural gas. It was banned. Oh well, coal works. Unintended consequence?
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by tropo 7y ago
He might have wanted a transparent mute button until told that it would be $5 per unit and would delay the start of production by 4 months.
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by tropo 7y ago
This is due to the law. Flow rate through a shower is limited. There is no point having an adjustable rate if everybody wants more than a legal showerhead can provide.
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by tropo 7y ago
After hanging the laundry outside, won't you need to wash it again? Most countries have things birds, rodents, and pollen. Do you always have dry non-freezing weather? If the humidity stays high, the clothes will get moldy before they
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by tropo 7y ago
On short routes, passenger loading time dominates. Electric could work for going between islands for Hawaii, Isle of Mann, New Zealand, and Japan. It could connect Martha's Vineyard or Long Island with various nearby places. It's
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by tropo 7y ago
It's not just that they need oxygen. Cold air is good for thermal efficiency. Even if the heat source were nuclear (as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto engines) there would be a problem with the ther
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by tropo 7y ago
It is misleading to say that "illegal immigrants aren't typically eligible for benefits". Eligibility for benefits happens via children and partners. The group of people thus receives benefits that are then shared. Via this m
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by tropo 7y ago
You could safely relax the regulations that set the bar for becoming a licensed MD. Knocking 2 or 3 years off would be easy. Right now, the first step to becoming a licensed MD is to get a BS or BA degree. Any degree will do the job, though
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by tropo 7y ago
That graph shows productivity and compensation growing together, then diverging right in the 1970s. This would be expected if we suddenly got a large supply of labor. You can see exactly that on this other graph: https://en.wikip
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by tropo 7y ago
Supersonic parachutes are terrible. Notice that supersonic aircraft air intakes involve ramps (F-15, Concorde, XB-70, F-14), shock cones (SR-71, MiG-21), or diverterless supersonic inlet (F-35, FC-1 Xiaolong). Simple round openings, without
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by tropo 7y ago
The train is also slower than a simple speed and distance calculation would suggest. The route won't be as straight as the route for an aircraft. Problems along the route (tight curve, noise limit, etc.) will create low-speed zones. Ev
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by tropo 7y ago
Even when you exclude religious organizations, the right donates more. It's an odd fact, isn't it? It doesn't mesh well with the portrayal of them as stingy people who don't care about others.
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by tropo 7y ago
The 68000 has some serious design flaws in the architecture. A notable one is the autoincrement and autodecrement of indirect memory references. This makes it difficult to get the architecture running instructions in parallel. Memory can be
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by tropo 7y ago
It's not race. It's how the addiction started. There is sympathy for people who started because a highly-educated and trusted professional made a prescription of an FDA-approved medicine to treat a severe injury. There is much les
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by tropo 7y ago
We already have a problem with counties reporting more registered voters than should be possible, and a problem with poll workers who vote on behalf of missing voters after the polls officially close. Currently the damage is limited to flip
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by tropo 7y ago
It shouldn't be a problem. All the things that matter come with switching power supplies. Switching power supplies can adjust. They normally handle everything from Japan at 90v to Nigeria commonly exceeding 250v. They also internally h
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by tropo 7y ago
They were reliable prior to 1994, reliable for good brands in 1994, and unreliable after 1994. A few years later, the floppy drives became terrible too. Every computer was expected to have a floppy drive, but the drives were seldom used, so

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