Dr_tldr

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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
I know someone who works on the Tinder team, and if this is happening, it's news to them. Ie, you have no idea what you're talking about. If both parties have to swipe in order for them to receive spam, why does Tinder care? In yo
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Nearly all of the data contradicts what you're saying.
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
100% agree, but this is an epoch where even the most mediocre dev is capable of having a long and fairly successful career. I've worked with some huge systems filled with garbage code, and I've never seen a comment anywhere in the
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Surely you must realize how ridiculous that sounds. You can build basically anything (including a kernel) by working from tutorials and starter projects, then hacking through it. Someone's solution may be extremely sub-optimal, but I&#
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Would be interested to hear from someone more involved in the life sciences the exact point when Nature magazine decided to chase that 'Psychology Today' clickbait money.
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
I think you're right and for me the numbers skew about 70-30 for people who want an "edge" and people who want a "cure". Although, (at the risk of being pedantic and playing parlor games) I would say that many of th
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Yeah, I'd have to agree. At this point, talking about Vine is almost (not yet, but almost) like talking about a subsidiary of Yahoo; whatever the unique problems of the child company, the parent company's dysfunction remains the p
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Most people who are turning to more extreme and DIY solutions are doing so precisely because they've tried everything else. Outside of a small core of "natural cure" quacks, alternative medicine or "unproven medicine&qu
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Are you a non-native speaker of english at a lower-intermediate level? Because most conversational speakers of english would be able to successfully understand that it was implied as an ongoing process, while most lower-intermediate speaker
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Most of the enterprise internet ends up becoming the public facing internet. Enterprise isn't a moral agent for accessibility, it's saying "why should we spend hundreds or thousands of developer hours accommodating less than
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Except you're a a tiny and economically irrelevant minority who own cars but are intentionally disabling them due to some sort of mental block about it not being the year 1994 anymore. If you want to be Cyber-Amish, that's absolut
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
>The 1990s Post-Soviet aliyah began en masse in late 1980s when the government of Mikhail Gorbachev opened the borders of the USSR and allowed Jews to leave the country for Israel. Yes, the one you just linked and didn't read, at al
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/bye-the-beloved-country-w... People who live in a country usually know it better than foreigners, so if almost 40% of them are contemplating emigration, there are some deep economic a
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Most of enterprise development is on rich web apps that couldn't work at all with javascript. Saying that people who write javascript and don't use semantic html need to "learn the basics" is like complaining about peopl
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
The most obvious root cause of increased homelessness in Seattle is an increase in overall population and a larger economy . Without discounting any of the historical work the author has done, they need to establish a clearer causal relatio
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Except you don't see this in the Roman Empire. If anything, the economic sophistication of their european opponents steadily declined , making war a more appealing option than trade for them. And in warfare itself, with the exception
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
In practice, many parts of the rhetoric of "diversity" and "inclusion" end up using the same tactics as the jewish quotas that were implemented a hundred years ago in the name of white supremacy. Resentment and discrimin
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Interestingly, this problem of decadence and decay scales to countries, royal dynasties, empires, etc. We don't yet have any companies so large that their period of decline has been able to last for centuries, but it's theoretical
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Yeah, but that's not how people's emotions usually work. Although US foreign policy and intelligence decisions were more or less directly responsible for 9/11, you don't lecture people at Ground Zero about the dangers of
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Yahoo, the company that saves your unsent and deleted email drafts forever and will turn them over to law enforcement even though they say that should be impossible? http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-deleted-yahoo-em
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
>You will understand nothing about world events since mid-70s until you wrap your head around US's decision to throw the Shah under the bus and prop up the Ayatollah regime. Yes, the United States replaced a friendly regime with a h
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Yeah, no, not at all. Or actually, it's not that simple. Many non-competes are specific to a region in the hopes of making them less likely to be ruled overly broad. Furthermore, if you work and live in California, the WA court can be
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Yeah, exactly this. I read my first contract ever really closely, saw it had a bunch of potentially onerous terms, then signed it anyway because I had no negotiating leverage and it effectively quadrupled my income. What I've heard fro
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
I suspect that if you went to a political site that was strongly catered towards the "stay" camp and took a "leave" position, the results would be about the same. The problem is that both sides exist in a self-reinforcin
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
As someone with no dog in this fight, I have to say that many of the pro-stay comments here are dismissive, arrogant, and the epitome of hand-waving "we know best and everyone who disagrees with us is stupid or evil." It's an
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
It might worth remembering that anecdote !== data. Drawing conclusions about the motivations of a larger group from one member of that group is logically indistinguishable from all the discriminatory -isms.
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
If you reduced the global population to 50 million people with a common culture, climate change would become much easier to deal with, the standard of living would be much higher, and a single nation-state with no rivals would have no need
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
What makes you such an expert on long lived intelligent species? As far as I know, we're all working from the same sample size of one, with a written history and cultural memory that are evolutionarily insignificant. For all we know, i
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
This is pretty shocking and should be more widely publicized. A government agency covertly spying on the public with no warrants, no disclosures, and a fundamental lack of accountability rarely ends well. Even worse, both parties and most o
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
FYI: Smart TV typically refers to any television capable of connecting to the internet, not necessarily only to those with webcam, microphone, always-on functionality, etc. A TV with no peripherals that only knows your wifi password and not

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