mynewwork

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by mynewwork 12y ago
Ha, wow, the first time I've ever been genuinely taken aback by 'victim blaming' and of all possible places it comes from a story about a farmer and his tractor. For starters, even the text of the article shows that he's
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by mynewwork 12y ago
Flagging as a means of shutting down opinions people disagree with or to target groups they don't like is unfortunately very common. Sometimes even in organized fashion, where a group will urge its members to flag content from someone
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by mynewwork 12y ago
It didn't have to go anywhere, and in many cases it didn't. Imagine you have a house (500k) and a car(20k) in 2007. Today you still have the same house (now valued at 400k) the same car (now valued at 10k). Your net worth has drop
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by mynewwork 12y ago
There is just no truth to what you're saying at all, and it's hard for me to even know how to respond. I've written out several responses that I've deleted because your worldview seems so far removed from reality that I&
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by mynewwork 12y ago
Did you read the article? "As part of that, there was a new reservation system on certain nights of the week for a $27 permit...left the park open for drop-in play 96 percent of the time". So 96% of the time, the park is open to e
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by mynewwork 12y ago
"We do the same for Facebook: Slotboom is able to intercept the login name and password I entered with relative ease." Is Facebook not using encryption for login? That would surprise me. Or is the author either blatantly lying or
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by mynewwork 12y ago
The SAT is in no way more "rigorous" than the ACT. The theoretical difference between ACT and SAT is a slight shift between "achievement" (ACT) vs "potential" (SAT) although the reality is that this is pretty m
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by mynewwork 12y ago
Something about that fact has always bothered me. I can hire a team of lawyers and finance people to set up a complex system of subsidiaries so that my company only realizes profit in a specific way in a specific jurisdiction to avoid taxes
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by mynewwork 12y ago
I'm so tired of people who don't know what "free market" means making up their own definition and then saying it's a bad thing. A "free market" is an economics term meaning a marketplace free from anti-com
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by mynewwork 12y ago
Slight correction - it has access to your friends who have also used the facebook login for that site. If you're the first person to login, the site will get an empty list. Only the set of your friends who have previously used the serv
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by mynewwork 12y ago
I recently talked at length with someone who had just finished one of these programs, and learned that they do an incredible amount of "teaching to the test". That is to say, they very specifically and intentionally designed the p
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by mynewwork 12y ago
Funny, "labor law disaster tourism" could also explain how an American feels visiting Spain, France or Italy right now. No system is perfect, but let's not pretend labor laws in the EU don't come with massive downsides (
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by mynewwork 12y ago
Ghostery blocks access to the content due to how they're doing a redirect. I wonder if that's intentional, was one of the seven habits users who block trackers?
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by mynewwork 12y ago
So were ICQ, AIM, MSN, Google Chat, texting, maybe FB messenger, WhatsApp. I myself have migrated my primary messaging platform through half that list. Isn't there a tremendous risk snapchat users leave that platform the way users have
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by mynewwork 12y ago
Adding to JasonCEC's comment, a semi-famous example of this phenomenon appeared in the blind taste-test challenge Pepsi marketed vs Coke. Pepsi, being slightly sweeter, was preferred when participants took a single small sip for a tast
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by mynewwork 12y ago
I recently talked at length with someone who had just finished one of these programs, and learned that they do an incredible amount of "teaching to the test". That is to say, they very specifically and intentionally designed the p
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by mynewwork 12y ago
This is fascinatingly baffling. I'd love to meet the author in person. I don't know how much existing technology was used, but the feature set sounds quite expansive for 6 weeks of development. Seems like the guy must be a pretty
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by mynewwork 12y ago
There are multiple very large public companies in the US which boast that their CEO earns a salary of only $1. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary Is there some difference between the type of corporatio
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by mynewwork 12y ago
Which still sounds wrong to me. I'd expect "You're not allowed to breathe oxygen" or "You're not allowed to have oxygen". So I guess it's "allowed" which is being used in a way I'm unf
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by mynewwork 12y ago
I'm confused by the awkward grammar in the title. Is it intentional for humor (like xkcd's 'going to try science') or is that wording acceptable use in British dialects? I'm parsing it as "You're not allow
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by mynewwork 12y ago
It absolutely can be both. The government-run solution could be poorly managed, unreliable and overly expensive while still scaring away the massive investment needed for someone else to compete. A private for-profit business could be compl
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by mynewwork 12y ago
> "saying that service staff deserve to be replaced by iPads if they demand a fair wage" Terrible editorializing. Nothing in the original billboard suggests anyone "deserves" any particular treatment. But I suppose &q
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by mynewwork 12y ago
Oh come on. Referring to unproductive jobs as dead wood is a perfectly fine idiom. Nobody is implying the people who hold those jobs have any personal failings or aren't capable of doing productive work, but the jobs themselves are not
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by mynewwork 12y ago
Standard advice is that accepting a counter-offer is usually a poor career choice because the employer sees you as a risk to leave and starts planning for your replacement rather than advancement. Does anyone have insight into how Google ha
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by mynewwork 12y ago
Do you have any sort of citation or reference to back up your claim that a newspaper would be liable for a murder due to printing an address in the US? Wouldn't everyone be liable for everything if "someone used a fact you publish
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by mynewwork 12y ago
Why are you being intentionally obtuse on this issue? I can't tell if you're trolling, shilling or just using poor rhetoric to support a genuine opinion. Ending net neutrality is an opportunity for the very few large Telco compani
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by mynewwork 12y ago
Dumb question: what is the status of the un-owned (un-vested) portion of shares in the first years? Suppose two people, A and B, are equal partners each vesting towards 50% ownership in 3 years. After the first year, they both have vested
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by mynewwork 12y ago
I wasn't familiar with MonkeyParking until now and a quick glance at the top results on google doesn't make it exactly clear to me what the problem with their service is. How are people hoarding public parking spaces? Surely it c
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by mynewwork 12y ago
The studies you're referencing are very misleading. Many countries have much lower variation in income than the US. Imagine two normal curves, but one (the US) is very flattened and one (northern Europe) with a sharp peak. In the US
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by mynewwork 12y ago
I'm curious where you're from. In the US, the government being separate from religion is a pretty big deal so having taxes going to churches at all would seem strange. The system in the US, for instance, isn't that non-believ

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