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by wmil 9y ago
> lets be realistic .. unless google breaks the law somehow in its handling of diversity .. anything they do is subjective ad of little impact on its future Ad-words provides most of Google's revenue. As long at ad-words stays on to
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by wmil 9y ago
That's understandable. The admins don't want the story to dominate the front page so they limit the number of threads.
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by wmil 9y ago
At the same time, Google should also pull in and disciple their employees that were rabble-rousing about the memo on social media. They aren't doing that and it's creating a perception of unfairness.
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by wmil 9y ago
Do you know if any of their patents are valuable? I don't know enough about the field to tell. But they've been at this since 2003 and have pages of patents, http://patents.justia.com/assignee/theranos-inc It
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by wmil 9y ago
AR-15 base weapons (M16, M4) are much more accurate. So there's an advantage at distance. Also it uses smaller, faster rounds that have less stopping power, but are easier to carry. So there's a greater chance of running out of am
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by wmil 9y ago
What you're missing is that your rage is very selective. Michael Mann has used unknown backers to sue National Review and Mark Steyn, and has managed to draw the lawsuit out for over 6 years with no end in sight. He gets almost no bad
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by wmil 9y ago
It's a high reliability, low maintenance weapon. As a result the AK-47 is the weapon of choice for poorly trained armies. That gives it a worse reputation than most other rifles.
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by wmil 9y ago
The article lists a bunch of non-issues. Yes, you can create confusion by abusing unicode. But that's not new. C++ allows zero width spaces in identifiers. There's a guy on reddit who uses characters from Canadian Aboriginal Sylla
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by wmil 9y ago
> Farmers in Alabama are fretting that crops may rot in the ground for a lack of workers to bring in the harvest. This is a constant claim, but it's not really true. Some of the crop will always rot in the field since all plants don
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by wmil 9y ago
Google's domed / canopied campus ideas actually make sense in Edmonton. In Mountain View they're only protecting people from lovely weather.
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by wmil 9y ago
Ruby is a very dynamic language where other parts of code can change fundamental operators. Code wars was loading up the solutions as modules, running them with data, then checking the returned result using the == operator. Paul-Armand Assu
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by wmil 9y ago
I think psychology has a lot of models of cognition without a clear winner, so there's probably no conclusive answer at the moment. But talking through a problem forces you to use verbal reasoning. A lot of programming can be done well
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by wmil 9y ago
But Modafinil as a brain supplement isn't an FDA approved use and doctors generally won't prescribe it. Creatine is available at any health food or supplement store, it's legal and widely available.
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by wmil 9y ago
That can get you in trouble. Under US labour law, any test where minority candidates don't pass at four-fifths the rate of others is presumed to be racially biased unless proven otherwise in court. Judges don't have to study stats
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by wmil 9y ago
Someone's husband / father passed away and the family got rid of his "junk". The Navy veteran recognised old government docs poking out of a recycling bin and started flipping through. Nothing particularly surprising.
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by wmil 9y ago
Buy a copy of the book "Starting Strength" and hit the gym each morning. The early results will boost your self esteem and getting to the gym is an easy 'win' on days when you're struggling with your career. Right n
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by wmil 9y ago
There actually were a lot of inconsequential failures with date display. A fair number of websites went from showing "Dec. 31, 1999" to showing "Jan. 1, 19100".
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by wmil 9y ago
Not really. This is actually a side effect of GHG policies. Traditional British industries like steel production can't possibly compete with China when they have to pay carbon offsets and their competitors don't. So British factor
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by wmil 9y ago
But you can also vote in primaries where there's a wider array of candidates. Plus many elections have ballot measures enabling you to vote for or against specific items. You're just unwilling to admit that your views aren't
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by wmil 9y ago
As a follow up, "Immigrants are taking all the jobs" is untrue. However people in MBA programs are quite open about their intention to make it true.
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by wmil 9y ago
I should warn you that employers tend to look at front end skills as an excuse to pay you less. The upside is that they're much more transferable between companies. Everyone wants to hire experts in their current back end stack, but ev
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by wmil 9y ago
The standards are very tight. If they aren't well defined and tested in a controlled environment it'd be basically impossible for manufacturers to know if their cars will pass or fail.
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by wmil 9y ago
It's a little tricky to answer without knowing what your specific problem is. It's a politically sensitive topic, so articles play up problems with IQ while playing down it's predictive success. But even one of the articles y
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by wmil 9y ago
IQ tests have improved since the 1930s when Feynman took one. They aren't everything, but they aren't nonsense.
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by wmil 9y ago
In Canada it's basically ubiquitous at small to medium companies. SR&ED and IRAP are the big programs. The standards are pretty loose.
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by wmil 9y ago
I think it's more that there's plenty of interesting source code available to read through already and I personally have trouble thinking of a piece of software that I could go through in a reasonable time frame.
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by wmil 9y ago
The standard deviation must be pretty high. There are lot people who drink almost no soda.
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by wmil 9y ago
If 1L of diet soda per day in your diet is making you worry then your diet is probably pretty healthy overall. That's less than 3 cans. Have a look at what 7/11 sells as a single serving.
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by wmil 9y ago
Can't use laptops, can't eat on the tray because there isn't enough space left, and can't watch the monitor on the back of the seat because it's facing down. So it's pretty inconvenient.
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by wmil 9y ago
It's basically a matter of who got there first. NIMBYism blocks new construction. But rent control keeps things cheap for long term residents. And if you bought a house 20 years ago you're in a good spot.

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