alcima

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by alcima 2y ago
Actually the source article is quite clear about the implementation of cronyism - friends were emailed the answers to the bizarre hiring test and others were not. It is typical behavior of machine politics - give good jobs to those who supp
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by alcima 2y ago
Was deeply aware of it at the time - was not really a DEI issue even then - it was pure cronyism.
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by alcima 8y ago
More than the longer hours it is the willingness to try things that failed before or are likely impossible.
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by alcima 11y ago
I think his point is that if ALL of your services have to use Guava (perhaps because you included some functionality that only Guava provides) then you have coupled your service to Guava. You can't use nodejs to build a service.
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by alcima 11y ago
Poorly phrased by pmarca, but seems certain he did not mean that India would be better off becoming a colony again. More likely he meant that some things associated with their successful anti-colonial efforts, such as "economic nation
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by alcima 11y ago
Beyond just the amount, I hope your project delves into the issue of effective administration and levels of personal choice. For the first you can look at the recent bio identity cards and direct receipt of a basic income in rice in India.
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by alcima 11y ago
It isn't about the total intelligence - it is about the excess intelligence. If someone has to have a programming intelligence of 100 to do some job, you might only need a pi of 110 to be 10x them, not 1000. Very similiar concept t
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by alcima 11y ago
Sorry I should have included the link in my post since I searched and found it. https://github.com/brendenlake/BPL.git
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by alcima 11y ago
Seems like a good direction, seems more intuitive to me. Very classy that it is all in a github!
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by alcima 11y ago
The most disconcerting thing about this nonsense is that it is on a government funded website.
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by alcima 11y ago
Most of us went to college and saw that Climate courses were where athletes were routed for an easy A.
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by alcima 11y ago
Free flying ballons are not drones. I expected a link to real ww2 drones - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite
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by alcima 11y ago
From 2012: http://blog.statwing.com/a-statistical-portrait-of-a-y-combi... Not many older than Jack Benny, but you wouldn't have been the only one.
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by alcima 11y ago
It does essentially have that question.
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by alcima 11y ago
False statements on a visa application is a federal offense and grounds for inadmissability. Presumably they clicked "no" to "have you ever been denied a visa" when in fact they had.
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by alcima 11y ago
There is no "TASB" for appraising Technical Debt like there is an "FASB" for Financial. So most measures resemble the parable of the Six Blind Men and the Elephant. Trade off an extra day to do each release versus 30 da
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by alcima 11y ago
can't resist http://www.bhorowitz.com/the_new_foursquare
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by alcima 12y ago
People forget that Kennedy's actual request was: First - "before this decade is out, is landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth" Second - "acceleate development of the Rover nuclear rocket" Thir