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by wgerard 8y ago
Hah, this is amazing! This reminds me of how I used to (and still do, sometimes) read third-party code. For an OS class in college, we had to modify fork (and re-build the kernel) to track how many times a particular process had been forked
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by wgerard 8y ago
I'm really struggling to think of creative and abstract jobs that meet all of the following criteria: 1) Take place in a typical corporate setting--which is the context here, nobody's asking studio musicians to do stand-ups. 2) Ha
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by wgerard 8y ago
You should really know what you're doing all day. If you can't even summarize what you were doing all day, that sounds like a bad thing. The evidence is your story about what you actually did. Here's a perfectly great update
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by wgerard 8y ago
I don't work there, but it seems pretty clear to me. Morning slack message (which isn't the same thing as a standup): "Hey, I'm going to do X,Y,Z today but I'm also going to run a few errands after lunch so I'l
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by wgerard 8y ago
> You began by suggesting that the cities I mentioned weren't in the Midwest Because I agree the midwest has a low CoL. But people are moving to cities like LA, which don't. Even cities like Denver are starting to experience la
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by wgerard 8y ago
> If the influx in Nashville is from Louisiana, that's still important, because it represents an influx that previously would have gone to some other city where there are attractive jobs. Your original comment: > Everyone's
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by wgerard 8y ago
> Gee, I don't remember mentioning "LA/Seattle/etc." by name. Unlike some other cities that I mentioned by name. Did you see the part where I mentioned cities by name? You mentioned some cities by name that have
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by wgerard 8y ago
> I mean, you could focus on whether the word "midwest" is accurate It's actually pretty important, because the crux of your argument is that they're moving to places with much a lower CoL. If people are moving from N
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by wgerard 8y ago
Ohio is definitely considered the midwest.
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by wgerard 8y ago
> At some point, New Yorkers ought to ask themselves why everyone wants to move to these nice midwestern cities. Not sure why you chose the midwest as a qualifier here - out of all the cities you listed, only Omaha would be considered a
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by wgerard 8y ago
One term encourages the idea that they're people first-and-foremost, with the adjective used to describe a particular subset of people. The other removes the emphasis on them being people and is pretty depersonalizing. As you can imagi
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by wgerard 8y ago
Eh, I don't think it's stupid it's just not going to solve homelessness. I'll preface this by admitting that I'm not well-versed with the problem (other than what I see), so this could be off-base and I'll
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by wgerard 8y ago
> i dont understand, no one is forcing you as an individual to use any of these services or buy any of these devices Not to be too contrarian or tin-foil-y, but this is a bit simplistic view of modern advertising platforms. These compani
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by wgerard 8y ago
> This may be true socially, at least in some situations, but not legally or morally Is that true? I just did some very cursory research, but: https://blog.lawinfo.com/2017/09/06/human-error-causes-94-pe..
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by wgerard 8y ago
> I find it curious that we are going to hold autonomous vehicles to a perhaps impossibly high standard while we also hold people to barely any standards at all. This is all US-centric obviously, but my 2c: We can blame individuals for b
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by wgerard 8y ago
Just a clarifying point: Optometrists are different from Ophthalmologists. Ophthalmologists are medical doctors (i.e. they have an MD), optometrists are not. Optometry also involves post-graduate training, and results in an OD (Doctorate of
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by wgerard 8y ago
Interesting choice of examples IMO. The US version of The Office is apparently by far the most watched show on Netflix (US). Even if you acknowledge it went on probably one or two seasons too long (which isn't an uncommon opinion, to b
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by wgerard 8y ago
If the performance art: 1) Qualifies as research, and 2) Is directly or indirectly funded by a federal research grant then yes, it would. I doubt much performance art qualifies, though.
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by wgerard 8y ago
From my other comment: As the author stated, the goal was to: > "to study, understand, and expose the reality of grievance studies, which is corrupting academic research" "study" being the operative word, there.
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by wgerard 8y ago
Indirectly? Yes. Boghossian is an employee of Portland State, an institution which almost certainly receives grant funding from the federal government for research. Some minute portion of his salary/office/supplies/etc. are p
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by wgerard 8y ago
> If not, what made this part of their university life? The fact that he likely included his academic affiliation on any papers he wrote, likely used university resources to conduct or discuss some part of the research (e.g. meeting room
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by wgerard 8y ago
Are they performing research that receives support, directly or indirectly, from the United States federal government? If not, the answer is no, though you can read the federal regulations yourself to prove me wrong: https://www.
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by wgerard 8y ago
> For medical research, sure. Behavioral research too (which this certainly is). Anything involving humans, pretty much.
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by wgerard 8y ago
> I think the IRB process is backwards: researchers should determine whether their methodology is ethical (or within whatever other institutional regulations), and be tried only after a report is received, or an investigation is started
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by wgerard 8y ago
This took me a minute and a second read, for anyone else who was similarly confused: > The review board also determined that the hoax project met the definition for human-subjects research because it involved interacting with journal edi
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by wgerard 8y ago
This is going to sound condescending but I really don't mean it to be, I just couldn't think of a better way to phrase this: Did you read the bottom half of the entry's summary or the entry itself? Specifically: > In the 1
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by wgerard 8y ago
Missing a final could easily be a life-altering event, so I don't think it really makes sense in this case. As long as it's a rare occurrence, I don't really see the problem here.
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by wgerard 8y ago
> All other things being equal, isn't it good for shareholders if the stock stays on the NYSE? Shareholders would MUCH rather you have a plan to get back above $1/share. If this is your basement flooding, a reverse split is try
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by wgerard 8y ago
Paraphrasing from another answer: You can do that, but shareholders can also do the following in response: 1) Demand a change in leadership, a sale, or any number of significant changes. 2) Bail out en masse and sell, lowering the price eve
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by wgerard 8y ago
It's a bit more difficult to trade shares, and brokerages will often have restrictions on trading OTC stocks for retail investors. It's also just generally a milestone that the company is really not doing well, so investors tend t

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