jorgis

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by jorgis 12y ago
Your personality can change based on your experiences. Nothing about you is set in stone. Most of the time, change is effected through long effort and reflection, and by the end you don't see you've changed at all.
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by jorgis 12y ago
Well, in the district where my mom is a school psychologist, she is essentially responsible for about 4-5000 students spread across 4 schools. Part of her job is to screen kids for special education. Most of her day is spent convincing teac
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by jorgis 12y ago
The problem I see with using EITC in this way is that it masks the cost of labor for any company paying minimum wage. A huge hole in arguments against raising the minimum wage is that few seem to address the fact that many workers are alrea
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by jorgis 12y ago
Ask if you're under arrest. If not, you must be free you go.
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by jorgis 12y ago
But do they take into account obscure maintenance manuals for foreign cars?
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by jorgis 12y ago
Practically every bank I do business with has these limitations. By contrast, my gmail password is 24 characters long, and contains capital and lowercase letters and punctuation. It makes me wonder what their back-end systems look like that
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by jorgis 12y ago
Wait a minute... > In a 2010 survey of 142 legal secretaries, not one preferred to work for a woman partner (about 47 percent had no preference). Interesting that they decided to throw women under the bus even though the minority simply
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by jorgis 12y ago
By that argument, why don't we just pave everything and let people drive wherever they want?
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by jorgis 12y ago
You could also read that as "just ignore this document. We didn't want it to stand up in court anyway."
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by jorgis 12y ago
I'm curious -- is FastCGI vulnerable as well? My understanding was that although regular CGI respawns the command interpreter every time the web server is queried, FastCGI reuses the same command interpreter and just updates the enviro
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by jorgis 12y ago
Einstein guy his for his work with Brownian Motion. Nobel prizes aren't typically given for science that lacks a body of supporting evidence, which was the case at the time for Relativity.
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by jorgis 12y ago
I hate marketers because they flood my mailbox with so much useless shit and paper that I miss mail from people I want to hear from. They've succeeded at making every form of communication that they touch useless, and I'm glad tha
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by jorgis 12y ago
This only works if your testimony is the only evidence of the crime.
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by jorgis 12y ago
All science can tell you is that if x people with your condition do y, n of them will likely die. Neither you not the statisticians can say with certainty whether you're in group n or x minus n.
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by jorgis 12y ago
The only claim pertaining to bikes that still stands is that the changes have improved bike safety markedly.
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by jorgis 12y ago
Isn't departure the term for leaving the controller's airspace?
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by jorgis 12y ago
Baseball is one of the few sports you can watch with other people and talk over. The pace of the action can be a draw if you're going to pass time with other people rather than obsess over plays. I guess it's like the difference b
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by jorgis 12y ago
Here are some sources of potential clusterfucks I've seen firsthand: * Paying a contact manufacturer to design and build electronic hardware, then not getting any sources for the software. * Selling R&D prototypes. * Mistaking bein
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by jorgis 12y ago
Because the people who "get something for nothing" already do so today, and you already pay those costs. People check themselves into the ER with injuries and infections that have progressed to the point where they are life-threat
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by jorgis 12y ago
All the satellites in the world, and we still can't read the human heart.
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by jorgis 12y ago
Yeah, if I ever get a call from a collector I'm just going to ask them if they have my signature on a contract. If they don't they don't actually own anything and I'm free to ignore them.
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by jorgis 12y ago
They're still working on the Z80-based load balancer so they can bring up another server.
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by jorgis 12y ago
I can accept the article's premise that income inequality is falling when you look at incomes globally. However the fact that there are still stratified, separated markets makes his analysis a moot point. Things may be getting better i
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by jorgis 12y ago
People in the US all believe that if they just work hard enough for somebody else, they can become millionaires. There's also this fun narrative about the mysterious "job creators," which are angelic creatures from beyond the
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by jorgis 12y ago
Passing out mirrors and nail files at a social event for women interested in programming is like passing out hammers and dimensional lumber at a social event for men interested in fashion design.
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by jorgis 12y ago
You might also refer to this as "recursion" when talking about computer programming.
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by jorgis 12y ago
A lot of the cheaper subdivisions already use prefabricated wall panels. Framing in those jobs is more about following the paint-by-numbers plans and cutting MDF.