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by vibrato 9y ago
sure, of course I agree that if cultural impacts or discrimination are the cause of these discrepancies, then perpetuating that is disrespectful. However, if biological differences cause them then affirmative action is disrespectful of thos
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by vibrato 9y ago
Who is arguing against treating people respectfully? For the sake of argument, if a group is less inclined towards a given profession, isn't it disrespectful to push them into it?
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by vibrato 9y ago
There's no way to avoid children being punished or rewarded for the quality of their parents. At a minimum, they are the DNA of their parents. Practically, parental quality in development is hugely important and how could it not be? Wi
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by vibrato 10y ago
There's this guy named Jim Chanos...
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by vibrato 10y ago
Perhaps there is a biological difference in the sexes when it comes to interest in technology versus interest in community. The societies which have a stronger social safety net and closer to equality of opportunity for both sexes see a WID
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by vibrato 10y ago
I saw a study that indicates roughly 10000 years ago 17 females reproduced for every male. Don't have the link handy
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by vibrato 10y ago
The last recession ended in 2009.
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by vibrato 10y ago
the purpose of self assessment is so that your manager doesn't need to provide useful feedback, or take any sort of stand whatsoever. You sell yourself and as long as things are ok they stamp it "OK sounds good"
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by vibrato 10y ago
The Dalai Lama said the purpose of life is to be happy. It's not straightforward to figure out what that is, but it's worth trying.
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by vibrato 10y ago
how could a company feel bad?
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by vibrato 10y ago
Anything that gets you into flow at a high heart rate. Basketball, lifting, and intense yoga fit this for me. I've read that Tai Chi can fill this as well but I've never tried. Though basketball has given me more serious injuries
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by vibrato 10y ago
One downside of Xamarin apps is memory usage. Just launching our app uses >200mb of memory. After doing all we can to avoid memory leaks and excessive usage, we still crash regularly due to running out of memory. (part of this is due to
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by vibrato 10y ago
An attack on character isn't necessarily an ad hominem fallacy. The poster engaged directly with the argument, and didn't rely on the character attack to make his argument.
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by vibrato 10y ago
Total votes for the republican candidate were basically unchanged from the previous few elections. The big difference was that total votes for the democratic candidate dropped off significantly from Obama's spike. Hillarys problem was
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by vibrato 10y ago
There's another way. One can find peace in a more minimal existence, and retire with less than a million dollars (and some youth!). For software engineers, this is a realistic goal.
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by vibrato 10y ago
Digging further into his background lies Microsoft Excel.
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by vibrato 10y ago
You don't know a single person who uses stack overflow?
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by vibrato 10y ago
Form breaks down, injuries more likely
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by vibrato 10y ago
I'm not 30 yet and my headphone use in open plan offices has contributed to tinnitus. To be effective, the music has to completely drown out conversations. It's unhealthy.
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by vibrato 10y ago
It may not be science but it's not worthless. Where do we get our testable hypotheses from?
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by vibrato 10y ago
The removal of driving jobs from the economy could be the catalyst for adopting basic income.
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by vibrato 10y ago
If you have this awareness and a hefty surplus of resources, you're likely to use it to improve society in some way. Likely driven by your own desire to feel good about yourself, yet still effective.
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by vibrato 10y ago
I agree it's absolutely the smart way to go about testing this out. I only doubt that there's a real motive to change.
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by vibrato 10y ago
They are piloting it on internal HR software which I think says a lot. To me this seems like a purely PR driven move after the lambasting their culture has taken lately.
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by vibrato 10y ago
Scrum, particularly the daily standup, burn down charts, and retros
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by vibrato 10y ago
"It's ironic they know so much about denial, but they appear to really repress?" "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
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by vibrato 10y ago
The big body shops find it profitable to have lots of employees dealing with the bureaucratic overhead. Startups don't find it worthwhile to deal with all of that.
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by vibrato 10y ago
Regulated online poker is mostly being fought by the brick and mortar casino industry to protect their revenue.
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by vibrato 10y ago
Bluetooth does compress the signal as far as I can tell. "designed to obtain a reasonably good audio quality at medium bit rates while keeping low computational complexity, having Bluetooth bandwidth limitations and processing power in
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by vibrato 10y ago
It's not enough to share the same wifi network either, at least in the recent past the devices had to be on the same access point for aiplay to work.

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