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Re:Is Amazon getting too big? on Friday July 28, 2017 @04:48PM (#14877459)
Yeah
Re:Ask HN: How to handle a workaholic colleague? on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:17PM (#12719307)
I only think that it's an issue when someone is working harder than their tolerance. I agree that management should take a role in the general welfare of their team, but in this case it seems like the poster is mostly concerned about someone making them look bad.
Re:Ask HN: How to handle a workaholic colleague? on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:11PM (#12719262)
Well your relative performance is worse, so either tolerate that or work harder. Nobody's work-life balance is someone else's decision to make.
I've never really used iOS so can someone tell me if this is even a real problem?

The apps shown in the linked piece seem totally fine to me, so maybe there are better examples out there?

Re:Austin’s Regulations for Kid Lemonade Stands on Friday May 20, 2016 @03:42PM (#11740848)
The simple fact of the matter is that we live in a litigious society. If the City could be confident that no lawsuit against a lemonade stand (and the City) would be heard by a judge, we wouldn't need this. But that isn't the reality of the world.
Right, but if you play chess against a lot of children and crush them 100% of the time and I play against moderately experienced players and win 90% of the time, I'm probably better at chess
I think that you would agree that null is not a correct prediction, so clearly the Silver model has failed for those votes.
Worth noting that pundit Carl Diggler has not had any trouble predicting results even without a fancy statistical model
Just as Nature intended, I will birth my child into this kiddie pool and the first thing that it sees will be Beyoncé
Re:Demon in the Freezer on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @10:15AM (#11722078)
I can't help but agree with this article's argument which seems to be 'there are some smallpox samples'.