jkyle

I've had the opposite experience. Except for very small companies or startups almost every company of size I've worked for or interviewed reimburses for continuing education.

Graduate level algorithms is a required course. Many of the courses in the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence tracks are very math intensive.

"Isn't phenomenal" is hard to qualify. It's kind of relative to what you consider phenomemal.

I've always done well academically relative to my peers. Most of the courses are on some kind of curve. So I've done fine in OMSCS.

I guess what I'm getting at is...if you've done good enough academically in the past and you're willing to apply your full effort, you'll likely do well at OMCS.

The fact that automobiles are on the road for longer than ever and their life expectancy keeps growing makes me think they're getting better at reliability and maintainability rather than worse.

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I also find AAA much better than crawling under my car in the middle of the night 50 miles away from anything...in general. But I know that's a personal preference.

Since the opposite would be entirely impossible to prove (that Costello did not receive any mail), it certainly would be on Zavodnik to prove they were sent and received.

This is what the whole "You've been served" process is about.

Or they starved to death. With their kids. Or they started selling themselves or their children to get by.

If you go back a little further than 100 years (in the U.S. anyway). They were also relatively likely to get together a bunch of folks with guns and weapons and murder men, women, and children and take their land to make their own.

I'm not sure the hutzpa of 100 and 200 years ago is exactly what we should aspire to.

I bet some even have code like that stored in their snippets library.

You're forgetting Social Security, which is a regressive tax system as it is not taxed on income over ~$118k. You're also forgetting things like Medicare. Both SS and Medicare carry an employer contributed tax, which is a hidden tax on the employee (employers just adjust wages to accommodate the extra taxation).

Finally, within the context of comparison to other nation's benefits structures, you're forgetting health care expenses which are included in most western tax systems.

Health care is also regressive in that it comprises a greater proportion of expense for lower income earners and carries a 'hidden cost' in the form of employer supplemental payments. It's perfectly valid to include these costs when comparing to other nations or to alternative tax & benefits proposals which include expanded health care.

By including or excluding varying costs and expenses, the cost to earnings curves bend dramatically....even with the AMT. The fact is, the answer to this question is not a single acronym. And the discussion can't even legitimately begin until some ground truth on what services and benefits are and/or should be included.

> I don't see how it had an impact on revenue if ads weren't displaying

1. browsing hacker news sees interesting article, uses ad block.

2. posts link to Facebook

3. link gets propagated across Facebook and clicked by 1000's who do not use ad block

4. x1000's

You can think of ad block users like carriers. They show no symptoms, but could be the man vector for distribution of your content. So they may have a value that can't be measured in ad clicks.

The interesting question is if they saw a subsequent fall in ad revenue indicating a correlation between ad block users and more ad revenue.

> There's a good chance you'll do about as good as 50% of the stock market investors(or more counting fees lost)

A naive response may be "well, then. I'll invest in the other 50%...".

It's important to note that no one, to date, has shown they're capable of predicting who which survive, which fail, and which beat the markets. And if such a person or persons exit that can do so they're sure as hell not sharing it with you.

Or public transit or riding a bike, etc.

> You have a right to not have violence initiated against you

This is a right of outcome. The outcome of not having violence committed against your person or property.

Rights of outcome vs rights of opportunity are a false dichotomy. All rights are a right for some specific outcome and are considered violated when that outcome does not occur.

> I believe you have the right of opportunity, but not of outcome.

I may be assuming too much, but in most don't really believe this.

For example, I'd wager you firmly believe you have the right to a safe and secure society such that you are relatively confident you will no be randomly murdered in your sleep with no consequences for the murderer.

This is exactly a right to the outcome of a minimum level of security in your person and property.

If you do hold this belief then you believe in right of outcome in society. Though you may not agree with others what outcomes we should be guaranteed.

I did. Programming oriented courses were my strongest subjects.

Ostensibly, these publications are written in addition to the services rendered for grants.

If an author received a grant specifically to write a book on a topic, then I'd say yes. This is rarely, if ever, the case.

With research, however, it is the norm not the exception that they are paid for or subsidized through some form of public funding.