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by unishark 6y ago
Why would contractors care, unless it's a high profile customer-facing thing like Uber? I've done a lot of consulting and small contracts on the side and have never been aware of any background checking. I don't even think mo
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Historically there was a big performance hit for using the fancy added abstractions of C++. Don't know if it's still that bad. But in the past it cost a factor of two or so, whenever I tried to get fancy.
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Well a half-truth is half true, but then of course it's also half false. I've been thinking politics is increasingly just people lying about each other. Someone's behavior can be over-simplified and then pattern-matched to be
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Yes I lived in a Spanish-speaking neighborhood when I was in college, and there was the cheapest supermarket in town there, and great Mexican food joints that were open 24 hours and extremely cheap. I never understood why people line up at
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There's also detention and "in-school suspension" (which is basically a big detention). I think these punishments are commonly decided by administrators, not teachers. The teacher just reports them up the chain for misbehavio
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Do a search for USC communications professor to understand the previous example. It's hard to defend insulting a person's intelligence, regardless of the word used. A better example would be referring to something inanimate like a
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You are free to criticize a neutral person for their inaction. That doesn't make it right to twist meanings and try to hurt them over it with a worse charge they are not guilty of. As for your last sentence, maybe those opposing "
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Neutral is still neutral by the definition of the word. Your logical conflict comes from your metaphorical misuse of the word "support", which literally means to apply force to hold something in place. There an important distincti
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Interestingly, the most expensive boots at places like Walmart are not for rich people but for working class people who need high quality since they wear them all day in their jobs doing construction or whatever.
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Seems pretty damn good severance to me. Four to six months of a SF salary? I wonder if the real goal here is just reduce headcount.
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> These are people who definitely could not get together the $8,000 for a 7 year old car in good condition, or get a loan at all besides a Payday one. They live paycheck to paycheck. I also thought it was a bit funny that the parent post
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That statement, called a "severability clause", is there precisely because otherwise some other unenforceable provision would void the entire contract anyway. Judges can decide to just throw out your contract in a dispute, rather
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Teaching the topic to students is the best way to learn it thoroughly because it closes the loop and you are challenged from many different angles. Something you understand weakly will be something you explain poorly, and be a big sticking
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Thought I read this before. > Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on the blog of the Computer History Museum. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23582070
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My dad always bought used cars. He avoided chrysler. It's not like their used cars are somehow the only cheap ones. These days I'd say the highest quality cars are definitely not the most expensive. At least in the US where it see
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What in tiny experiments like the article's? Inflation and even hyperinflation have occurred many times in many places in the last century. In Venezuela the inflation rate is something like 2000 percent. It's not just theory. Even
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Also Canada, Mexico, and almost all of South America. Only a few other countries elsewhere, none of them developed.
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But then doctors often end up looking at people's rashes all day and handing out hydrocortisone and tylenol. There's a lot more advanced stuff pharmacists are qualified to do. Pills don't require much work, but liquids and po
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Officially, schools need to restrict access to classes for liability and other reasons. As an alum you may be allowed to audit by paying a fee. It should be a lot cheaper than tuition. Or, since you know the place, you can just drop in and
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There is typically more of a counter-cyclic effect expected from recession, however. At the school where I work, enrollment this semester set a new record. Apparently that came at the expense of some other school(s). But I agree with your p
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As I understand it, in Europe they give phd students canned projects to work on, which are designed to only take a couple years. It's just the whole plan of how long they want it to take. In the US doing a project of that size may be e
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Interestingly, junior colleges appear to be suffering the worst of this drop according to the data linked by the article. BS enrollments are barely hit while enrollments for advanced degrees, the biggest risks of all, are seeing increases.
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I believe the US requires internships for professional jobs like nurse and pharmacist. Also professional schools are required by licensing and accreditation boards (which are composed of practitioners in the field, not teachers who never le
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Can't read it either, but my first guess from the parent comment's quotes was that the story was saying competitors can't: 1. buy ads for amazon product-name keywords to compete with amazon by also selling amazon products. 2.
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I was referring to laws literally called "export controls" which regulate goods and technology that originate in China, not stretching the word to make a metaphorical case for ownership.
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I think that was just an unrealistic setup for a little joke
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Yet somehow the Chinese government can control the export of their technology and needs to approve any deal with a US company? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-unlikely-approve-ti...
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There are literally thousands of regulations limiting what we can import into the US, from drugs to protected wildlife to cuban cigars, including total embargos on particular companies and even countries. You're just cherry-picking of
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You're not convinced of what exactly? That alternative methods reduce content? That is precisely what you are instructed to do by pedagogy researchers giving advice to teachers. Asian education systems like India, China, Japan are very
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Not everyone gets bail. Releasing defendants without bail is called release on "own recognizance". It depends on how severe the crime and how likely they think you are to run. Keep in mind criminal law is handled at the state leve

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