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BenOfTomorrow

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    Comment #5267017

    When I was trained as an interviewer at Microsoft (circa 2006), they explicitly warned people against asking questions like that (and had been doing so for some time). There may be…

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    Comment #4446172

    > From a human-memorable standpoint Not to derail your point, but who needs their WiFi password to human-memorable? Tape it to the bottom of the router like the rest of us.

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    Comment #4445722

    Yup; recently had my REAR wheel stolen (a large pain to replace tire, tube, wheel, AND cassette). Now I lock both of them.

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    Comment #4351048

    I bet a lot of people would use the same key to open all those places if it were actually a plausible option. That said, physical keys are different enough that an analogy breaks d…

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    Comment #4286971

    Ambiguous. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4286857 .

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    Comment #3974228

    To be boringly practical: The contract would almost certainly be determined when you first signed up for the service (i.e., when you were still alive).

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    Comment #3768012

    Suspension of belief I something I expect to need for stunts, not social commentary.

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    Comment #3767718

    "Surely failing to graduate in an environment that places everything on having a paper diploma, including one's own image/self-worth, is more to the point of the suicide." I can't …

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    Comment #3737758

    I read that as potentially firing someone as an expected outcome, not a desired/optimal one. HR is short for CYA. Clearly the author is hesitant to report it because of that outcom…

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    Comment #3737658

    While you are correct in this instance, the original article is complaining about subtle inequalities that go unnoticed or tolerated by a much larger portion of the industry than j…

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    Comment #3737613

    If it's in an wildly inappropriate context, her perception of you can switch from "like" to "dislike" quickly. It's a factor, but lots of women have stories about attractive creeps…

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    Comment #3445580

    Actually, the top comment in your link points out that Buffett has been LOSING the bet since its inception. http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/26/the-warren-buffett...

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    Comment #2979352

    Gravity's Rainbow: recognized, but not recalled, as science fiction. I don't necessarily object to the classification, but it might not come to mind if I were making a list. Also, …

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    Comment #2823412

    > Every single department was more likely to admit a woman than a man Not quite; you can see several exceptions to this in the table in the article. The key points of the partition…

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    Comment #2744423

    They need education most of all; there's a number of articles out there detailing the predatory businesses and people milking money off professional athletes. It's not just that th…

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    Comment #2736447

    The problem with the filtering is that it isn't transparent. Updates from people I'm actually interested in don't show because Facebook's feed algorithm thinks we don't interact on…

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    Comment #2689962

    You can look at history as well. Australian aboriginal homo sapiens were isolated for 40,000-50,000 years or so without any speciation. You'd need an isolation event and a VERY lon…

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    Comment #2631067

    While this is true in theory, I don't maintain a copy of the database on my phone - when I converted to using a pw database I looked into it and didn't feel comfortable with the le…

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    Comment #2630996

    I put a copy of the database in cloud storage. There might be a little set-up to open it, but it's very rare that I need to get the contents on a new machine. The nitpick with pw d…

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    Comment #2475009

    FYI - GoToMeeting was acquired by Citrix, not Cisco.