scottshepard

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by scottshepard 7y ago
Cheaper than building your own datacenter, or buying your own server space and paying a dedicated engineering team to monitor a cluster for you. I can do things on my own or with a small team that would be well out of my reach without AWS o
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by scottshepard 8y ago
Probably not. A crematorium gets up to 1400 degrees F. I doubt a thick body bag could do that.
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by scottshepard 9y ago
This article is critiquing the unstructured get-to-know you interview. It is not critiquing highly structured interviews with clear goals, nor technical challenges, nor references checks or past performance. In your example, how would you s
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by scottshepard 10y ago
My favorite stat about micromorts is that motorcycle travel and canoe travel pose the same risk when measured by distance. That is, one mile of motorcycling has the same risk of death as one mile of canoeing.
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by scottshepard 10y ago
I don't know how the author can draw this conclusion. He seems to say that employees engaging in shady practices is the inevitable conclusion of requiring a certain amount of accounts to be opened, and then blames the employees for doi
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by scottshepard 10y ago
The author highlights why Airbnb is the right company to use to talk about it. > Often arbitration clauses are invoked in cases where consumers feel they have been financially slighted—seeing charges on their phone bills for services t
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by scottshepard 11y ago
Actually it doesn't. WSJ seems to have closed the google loophole.
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by scottshepard 11y ago
Make it illegal to ask what level of education you have received or just where you went to school?
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by scottshepard 11y ago
Being held accountable to metrics will incentivize some behaviors over others. It's not surprising that when Arts and Phys Ed are not on the test, they are dropped from the curriculum. I think student, teacher, doctor and patient happi
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by scottshepard 11y ago
Not if the 20% was the single largest individual process sucking up power.
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by scottshepard 11y ago
Good.
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by scottshepard 11y ago
I think trust is a bigger deal in the R community than say Ruby. With a gem you can tell pretty quickly if it works or not, and the community has a higher standard of testing. With R, many of the packages are for complicated math and stats.
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by scottshepard 11y ago
Except that prisoners are a captive audience, being held by the Government, and the phone companies get a monopoly on an essential good. So a federal regulatory body absolutely makes sense.
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by scottshepard 11y ago
I believe that erosion is a bigger issue than loss of nutrients. For example, Iowa has lost an estimated 10 inches of topsoil in the last 150 years. There are only six inches left. Dust-covered bedrock does not make good farmland.