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by wan23 7y ago
It just so happens that I just started the Georgia Tech course this week. What topics would you say are the most difficult? Any tips?
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by wan23 7y ago
A VAT used solely to pay for UBI is actually progressive, as the UBI can be considered for the purposes of this calculation as a refundable tax credit. Low income household: Income: $30K Spending on taxable goods: $10K VAT Paid: $1K UBI Rec
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by wan23 7y ago
This is just another warning to avoid being dependent on Apple and the App Store. Imagine being a hardware startup that invested in a mobile app to control your device and then mass produced and marketed that device only to have Apple pull
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by wan23 7y ago
> Parsing the 2nd Amendment, the US Supreme Court wrote that "the adjective “well-regulated” implies nothing more than the imposition of proper discipline and training": The military calls rules that impose proper discipline an
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by wan23 7y ago
> When you say unconscious bias, you are kind of implying that the model learns something that is false. It's more that the model learns something that is undesirable. It could be the case, for example, that the true thing that the
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by wan23 7y ago
Regulations are the means by which you make something be regulated. The relationship between these words hasn't changed. https://www.etymonline.com/word/regulate
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by wan23 7y ago
So what you're proposing is that we should take the set of countries that have had an airplane terrorist and check 100% of people from those countries, and none of the others? So because once a British man tried to light his shoes on f
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by wan23 7y ago
In New York City though, we are used to and depend on trains, and we still can't get more built at a reasonable cost or speed.
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by wan23 7y ago
While I am in fact adorable, you've misunderstood my comment. It's difficult to talk about Zuckerberg's defense of Facebook's policy without having an accurate definition of the principle of free speech. That isn't
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by wan23 7y ago
Free speech isn't free in the same way that free beer is. The idea is to avoid restricting what messages are allowed as much as possible. It's not about giving any particular individual a platform so much as making sure that the p
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by wan23 7y ago
They only started charging people with a crime for crossing the border in 2005 under the Bush administration. I don't think you would say that we had open borders before then, and a return to that previous policy is what people mean by
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by wan23 7y ago
Bike lanes are not equivalent to parking spaces - they're equivalent to roads. The government certainly subsidizes the streets and avenues in the city. They would be much cheaper to maintain if more of them were restricted to being ped
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by wan23 7y ago
How worthy is it for anyone at all to study quasars if the knowledge they gain is not disseminated?
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by wan23 7y ago
But on the other hand, if there were a cheapish, fast way to get from say Philadelphia to NYC, I might trade my $3500/mo Manhattan apartment for a $2000 new construction rental in Philly and take the train to work every day. 45 minutes
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by wan23 7y ago
You might find that it's better to seek out writing from a variety of sources if what you want is to see a wide spectrum of opinions. There is a type of news that tries to fit in everyone's opinion, but it is dying because very fe
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by wan23 7y ago
Same! Whenever I have to explain what agile is I start with retrospectives. It's the one rule that is mandatory. Standups, sprints, JIRA boards, grooming/refinement sessions and everything else in a heavyweight framework like scru
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by wan23 7y ago
I wouldn't say it's taught in almost all high school history classes. In my experience the history curriculum doesn't cover very many things past world war 2. For example the New York State social studies curriculum has every
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by wan23 7y ago
The way most fields that require some level of knowledge or ability handle this is by having industry-standard assessments that everyone takes. When doctors interview they get almost entirely behavioral questions because the hiring hospital
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by wan23 7y ago
Though they do sell some packaged food at Williams Sonoma. Last time I was in there I picked up some items as Christmas presents, and it wasn't until I got home that I realized that I had purchased a box of marshmallows for $20.
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by wan23 7y ago
> Banks don't make their money or derive their power through the 'creation of money'. A bank just opened and has $0 in the vault You give the bank $1000 The bank lends me $800 Your current bank balance = $1000 My current b
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by wan23 7y ago
This is kind of circular reasoning though. The nice thing about this story is that the CEO of the company decided to look past how that janitor did not know corporate etiquette or have the right clothes or the fancy education. The only reas
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by wan23 7y ago
This is all wrong. When you have enough people working on a codebase such that not everyone knows everything about it, tests are a great way to document the behavior. They're much better than something like a wiki, in fact, because nob
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by wan23 7y ago
Yeah, unlike most other stations, this one is a bona fide tourist attraction that generates income from the businesses contained within. If we had more like that the MTA's budget might be in a bit better shape even if they cost a littl
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by wan23 7y ago
If you can't touch the stories, you can ask whoever does to break it down. If they don't then you shouldn't ever pick it up into your sprint. If they insist and it doesn't work out then you should call out the incident i
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by wan23 7y ago
If you can find one who isn't busy.
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That's interesting. I have been under the impression for years that no one has ever learned a language successfully this way.
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by wan23 7y ago
You can't be positive and on PrEP. The protocol requires testing every three months, and in the very rare (so far cases number in the single digits) situation where it fails, the patient is moved to a more appropriate regimen.
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by wan23 7y ago
Verizon and Tumblr are so poorly matched. Pornhub would be a much better home for it.
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by wan23 7y ago
Yeah, even if the ACM or IEEE are not the organizations we need (and I'm not sure if they are or are not), we would be better off if we had a professional organization dedicated to promoting responsible practices.
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by wan23 8y ago
To be fair, it's not 1 million of anyone entering the country illegally every year.

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