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by woodchuck64 14y ago
Love this quote: "We do not generally ask the State to intervene to ensure that artists will paint, musicians play, chefs prepare meals, fashion designers create the new seasons. The vast bulk of our economy innovates well without 20-year m
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http://google.brand.edgar-online.com/EFX_dll/EDGARpro.dll?Fe... "Avon Products Foundation, Inc. (the “Foundation”) has been a defendant in an arbitration proceeding brought by Pallotta TeamWorks (“Pallotta”) in September 2002, before Judi
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by woodchuck64 14y ago
http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/AIDS-Ride-firm-closes-i... hints a bit more controversy than apparent in the OP.
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by woodchuck64 14y ago
I like Groklaw's comment ( http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2012082510525390 ) " If it would take a lawyer three days to make sure he understood the terms in the form, how did the jury not need the time to do the same? There were 70
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For median, I would recommend this article: http://www.american.com/archive/2011/september/middle-class
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by woodchuck64 14y ago
Taking the median has problems just as serious. A better analysis is: http://www.american.com/archive/2011/september/middle-class , demonstrating that the real story may not be so bad for the middle class. As for hours worked, this graph
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by woodchuck64 14y ago
The argument that "wages aren't growing therefore workers are being taken advantage of" does not reconcile with this chart: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/COMPRNFB Benefits are also a large part of compensation.
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Despite decades of vi use, I'm ashamed to say I didn't know what cf" was. cf" : change(c) forward(f) to double-quote(")
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Thank you for that. This is the real story here, IMO.
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You seem knowledgeable. What is the main purpose of bots on facebook? The article implies they could be used by facebook or competitors to burn up ad revenue, but this approach would just kill the golden pay-per-click goose.
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by woodchuck64 14y ago
May I suggest first figuring out if the CEO is suffering from NPD (narcissistic personality disorder); if so, you need out of there. An NPD CEO is not concerned about what is right or good for business, he's concerned about establishing hi
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by woodchuck64 14y ago
So you would be long Microsoft? If no then one wonders if you really effectively disagree with Hempton.
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> Bottom line: treat secret answers as secret! Bottom line: never give real answers to secret questions! I can change my password, I can change my credit card if it's compromised, I can even change my social security number if need be,
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by woodchuck64 14y ago
Totally unfair of PZ since Hallquist did say "surprised ... if it took only a couple of decades". 20 years of computational/biological advances should give us quite a lot.
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> Sometimes you have good people who just don't work well together, I get the strong impression from Valve's handbook that being a good person is defined as working well together. The idea that social incompetence is okay as long as a
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> People management is still necessary, and good people management is extremely valuable People management is necessary to mitigate the corrosive affects of the one or two bad people in the group. Valve's idea is to recruit only good p
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by woodchuck64 14y ago
Standing or sitting, I reduced upper and lower back pain with one of these: http://epicself.com/move/roll-it-out-upper-back/
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:s/it appears/it should be obvious to anyone/ :s/You could argue that// :s/Carreon/Carrion/g http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk_letter
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by woodchuck64 14y ago
The Oatmeal's donation campaign to the Wildlife fund and Cancer Society (and 2 other charities) is up to $168,000! http://www.indiegogo.com/bearlovegood?a=700062 The only winners in this legal brouhaha are the charities, how's that for
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by woodchuck64 14y ago
The Oatmeal's donation campaign to the Wildlife fund and Cancer Society (and 2 other charities) is up $168,000! http://www.indiegogo.com/bearlovegood?a=700062 The only winners in a legal brouhaha are the charities, how's that for turni
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by woodchuck64 14y ago
Since only half the links work, here is Deep Note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYMpMcmpfkI and here is work on recreating it with SuperCollider: http://www.earslap.com/instruction/recreating-the-thx-deep-n...
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Reality has a liberal bias.
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Why use anything but its-all-text and vim?
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The article is referring only to employees that were hired and were also given the GMA, so qualification was not an issue. However, using a coin flip rather than a GMA score on a prospective employee would imply a score of either 0 (missed
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> What I think the programming environment world needs (not just vim) is a standard way for user interfaces to talk to tools. Brilliant, that way the ultimate IDE is simply your desktop. Coming from linux, given the choice between an ID
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> Neither is perfect (both operate at about 0.5 level in validation studies), So not much better than a coin flip?