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Comment #10646104
Why don't we want that? We will never escape a little unfairness, and we don't need to. Telling a kid that their only path out of poverty is to be an engineer or schoolteacher, but…
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Comment #10646085
Whatever the merits of the idea, a tv celebrity yelling is not releveant evidence. We can't all follow her path of selling self help books to riches
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Comment #10646068
Emacs out of the box requires you to learn new key chords.
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Comment #10646059
Educate yourself about the origin of the word "meritocracy". It is enlightening.
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Comment #10646056
If you make some better decisions, you can make some extra money to pay for an article.
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Comment #10643332
Mostly because they found rewarding opportunity as leaders of teams.
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Comment #10640111
Is udemy just a scam site that trades ofd consumer confusion in with Udacity?
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Comment #10560411
And a large part of this is Mountain View's refusal to allow housing and deploy public transit, pushing people into becoming traffic.
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Comment #10560403
How very undemocratic of you. Sometimes the law from top down is incorrect. The experiences of stakeholders matters.
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Comment #10560379
Sad and interesting. I rear ended a vehicle who turned into my lane, and the officer cited the other driver for an unsafe turn. I guess it depends on officer mood and how long the …
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Comment #10560356
It is a stupid road. Built for speed, legistlated for slow. The road should be modified to make traffic calmer.
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Comment #10560351
If tailgating is dangerous, in the sense that it is involved in a collision, the law finds the tailgater responsible 99% of cases. It just isn't applied predictively.
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Comment #10557289
So, instead of 5 extra minutes of ads, you get 5 extra minutes of bad content. Is that a win?
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Comment #10557273
I love that Netflix by mail logistics pushed you away from popular content , but online caching servers push you toward poplar content!
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Comment #10557254
1. People like well targeted ads for their shopping intent. 2. YouTube autoplay and recommendations and subscriptions. And these days, youtube channels are even buying YouTube ads.…
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Comment #10551237
How do you get to 300M? Is is possible that someone like University of Phoenix might offer $1B for the company? If so, might it be accepted? If so, how much are shares worth? At my…
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Comment #10533659
Enjoyment is different from understanding. Sachs career was all about studying (psychiatric) mysteries that were incomprehensible. It possibly gave him or fed his magical thinking,…
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Comment #10533633
Sachs's popular books consistently embellished reality to make a better popular read, and never really got called out on it by the scientific community , perhaps because psychiatry…
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Comment #10533554
The whole point of the article is to show that the premise is else, in every single case: there is no letter in English that always has unambiguous prononuciation.
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Comment #10533535
People taking this article way to seriously. It is a humorous story about a rigorous analysis of problem that makes false but naively intuitive assumptions to misprove a contradict…
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Comment #10533508
People are misunderstanding "trivial". Here what they proved is that there is no way to encode any of the English pronunciation rules as a function purely of context-free spelling …
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Comment #10469109
Name a successful startup that was beyond reproach.
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Comment #10469105
The high flying startups you know didn't go to market with the engineering processes you mention.
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Comment #10469086
Also the fact that the CEO/"founder" hasonly one year of college as relevant experience. She appears to be a pop star persona: a face to send to interviews to look cool in PR, fron…
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Comment #9609367
You say that, but really why does President want control? Once you are elected president, you are set for life with millions of dollars of "speakers fees" and free favors forever. …