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901.
by zzalpha 11y ago
Providing basic necessities (food, transportation, non crowded offices, sick days, etc.) to make sure your employees are happy and productive seems to me like step 0 of any successful business venture. Wut? Providing employees with pay co
902.
by zzalpha 11y ago
Umm, there are no "native towns" in Canada. It's absolutely true that many of the indigenous reserves here are a living tragedy... in fact, like Australia, we have a long and shameful history with respect to our indigenous po
903.
by zzalpha 11y ago
Well that's disappointing. I hoped this was about fMRI for folks playing Adventure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_%281979_video_game%2...
904.
by zzalpha 11y ago
Well I see at least someone got it...
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by zzalpha 11y ago
tl;dr as more spectrum was used in the late 1940s a channel had to be freed up to deal with interference issues so they picked channel 1 and simply choose not to renumber. You'd think the article would explore why they didn't re
906.
by zzalpha 11y ago
Will Happer has long made his position on climate change clear, so it's not like he changed his mind when people offered him a big pile of money. You're missing the point. It's not that this guy was paid off and therefore c
907.
by zzalpha 11y ago
Agreed. It's absolutely true that in an object instantiation, declaring the type twice (in the variable declaration and again in the construction) is repetitive. And it's a flaw in all object-based algol-style programming languag
908.
by zzalpha 11y ago
The fundamental issue pointed out in the post is an interesting one. It all begins with the assumption that with a language like C++, you can reason about things like performance without a lot of weird surprises. Much of that reasoning beg
909.
by zzalpha 11y ago
How well does that representation actually fulfill the wishes of their constituency as a whole, let alone any individual voter? Yeah yeah yeah, being cynical about democracy is cool, blah blah blah. I suppose you should, what, just burn t
910.
by zzalpha 11y ago
Wait wait wait... you're saying this guy, who believes religious folks cherry-pick quotes from the bible out of context in order to support their preconceived beliefs, went ahead and cherry-picked quotes from the bible in order to supp
911.
by zzalpha 11y ago
I don't think that's the same idea Hmm, upon a second read I think you're right. One of the key distinguishing factors is the aforementioned Nature article actually cites hints of a real scientific theory based on establish
912.
by zzalpha 11y ago
Err... is Wolfram now taking credit for this idea, which began circulating back in 2009? http://www.nature.com/news/the-quantum-source-of-space-time-... Because I don't see his name in the citations...
913.
by zzalpha 11y ago
Well, random signals can sound nice... I do enjoy the white noise of wind blowing through trees. :) But it's still a random signal, regardless of its apparent aesthetic qualities. Any hint of structure is just the human brain doing wh
914.
by zzalpha 11y ago
This is nothing more than numerology... just parodeilia in another form. Illuminating, in that it shows just how powerful the human brain is at pattern matching and finding false order in even random noise, particularly if we help it out by
915.
by zzalpha 11y ago
Ahh yes, my favourite new trend in online publishing: Opening a link to an article only to find I have to scroll past a full-screen image to get to the content. Preferably an image that has precisely zero to do with the content or even th
916.
by zzalpha 11y ago
"Microdebt" clearly does not solve poverty. This idea has always had its critics. It is distasteful at best to be a money lender to the poorest strata of humanity. Common wisdom tells us as much. I couldn't care less about
917.
by zzalpha 11y ago
Fun fact: I had an airline lose my and my wife's bags. Permanently. On the way to our honeymoon. Ended up getting reimbursed a significant amount for the resulting loss. The only bags we've checked, since, have been souvenirs, a
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by zzalpha 11y ago
My bet: this is primarily targeted at tax delinquent expats, some of whom may not even be aware that the US insists on collecting taxes on their earnings. Of course, many of the affected are dual citizens, which explains why so many are re
919.
by zzalpha 11y ago
This is great advice for anyone working with people, period. Folks are a lot more willing to work with someone who respects them and appears interested in them as a human being. And if you're interested in any kind of leadership posit
920.
by zzalpha 11y ago
Interesting article, though the shot at atheists is yet another example of how they remain one of the few minorities folks can openly malign without fear of consequence...
921.
by zzalpha 11y ago
That assumes large corporations must lead innovation, which hasn't been true in decades. Startups do the bulk of that now Care for a citation, or should we just take that on faith based on the Gospel of the Valley?
922.
by zzalpha 11y ago
Storing, transporting, and selling food to customers is fairly regulated and requires inspection and permits. Does DoorDash have these? The question is, do the folks who actually perform the deliveries? DD is using the same trick Uber use
923.
by zzalpha 11y ago
Sure ... but ... what about the fact that consumers fucking LOVE to use Uber & Lyft? People also LOVE cheap clothes and electronics. And yet, we all seem to generally agree that sweatshops and child labour are maybe not worth it just
924.
by zzalpha 11y ago
No, the $4 Billion in revenue was last quarter. In other words $48/user annually, not to mention the huge growth of even that number. That's why its market cap is ~$300 Billion. Yup, that's my bad, sorry. That said, unless
925.
by zzalpha 11y ago
Everyone worried about whether or not Facebook would ever be able to monetize, but it brought in $4 Billion in revenue last quarter. Last quarter! So let's do a little math. From this: http://www.forbes.com/sites&#x
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by zzalpha 11y ago
There is a huge difference between this time and last time. Is it, though? Instead of overvalued companies based on the theory of "put it on the internet", we have overvalued companies based on the theory of "put it on the
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Funny, folks used the same line of reasoning prior to the real estate bubble popping in 2007-2008. But, that doesn't stop the Pollyanna's...
928.
by zzalpha 11y ago
I wonder if part of the reason for this is that Common Lisp dates back to a time when filesystem path structures were a lot more variable. These days, you either have Unix-style or Windows-style paths and that's basically it But go b
929.
by zzalpha 11y ago
Because one is saying "what you are saying is wrong" and the other is saying "you should stop talking". No, they're saying stop being a jerk. The only way that translates to "you should stop talking" is
930.
by zzalpha 11y ago
Don't forget local industry groups/communities. Consulting is all about networking... odds are very good you'll get far more work via referrals than through bidding or similar processes. The quicker you can build up that netw

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