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by Fins 8y ago
Numbers I've seen are that 10-15% were women.
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by Fins 8y ago
It's quite understated, compared to reality. Also, the truth does tend to be quite one-sided; POV of cheating, lying murderers doesn't get included in it.
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by Fins 8y ago
The problem with* Gulag* is that (in Russian) it is quite badly written, unlike Shalamov's stories which real literature even before editors got to them. History-wise, there are better sources, too.
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by Fins 8y ago
Kolyma Stories is probably the best book about the reality of communism.
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How to Fight Amazon (Before You Turn 29)(theatlantic.com)
2 points by Fins 8y ago|0 comments
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by Fins 8y ago
Maybe there is that element that Tesla is risking not only their business (which would be totally fine) but also their customers' lives.
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by Fins 8y ago
Crime is very much concentrated; if you live in an area where a software engineer is likely to live, it is perfectly fine. IMO, much better quality of life than SFBA. If anything, you are not likely to step into human excrement...
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by Fins 8y ago
There's that pretty old saying about people who do not want to feed their own army ending up feeding a foreign army. It's actually quite accurate.
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by Fins 8y ago
Does 2 seconds a day vs. 1 second a day really matter to you, or most people? There certainly is signaling for many people's purchases of high-end watches (moreso with Rolexes which are easily recognizable compared to some "better
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by Fins 8y ago
Oh, it might be valid, in regards to the magazine, alright. It just smacks of hypocrisy when their research is pretty much bound to be used for unethical purposes.
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by Fins 8y ago
Not quite every corp out there has a business model of specifically misusing and abusing personal information, manipulating peoples' emotions, etc., etc. I work for a rather minor corporate entity anyway, does it mean that I am always
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by Fins 8y ago
Not to say that they are wrong in boycotting, but I find it hard to take seriously a moral stance from somebody working for Facebook.
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by Fins 8y ago
Weren't some of APL-related languages, to keep it on topic, like A+ and K created at or on contract with a large company?
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Scientists Say Elon Musk's 'Nano' Claims Don't Make Any Sense(livescience.com)
2 points by Fins 8y ago|0 comments
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by Fins 8y ago
Would be interesting. If it is anything similar to this memorandum [0] DOL might determine if something rises to the level where it needs to be prosecuted criminally, but prosecution would be handled by DOJ... [0] https://www.jus
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by Fins 8y ago
Not sure why any sane person would want them (and why taxpayers would allow Sacramento to purchase those for their own fleet), but the same people who bought Juiceros or stand in line for the latest iPhone would snap these up.
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by Fins 8y ago
Wouldn't criminal offenses be outside of DOL's jurisdiction? And whatever it is that Fluffington is complaining about in the FA, it would be inapplicable to a criminal prosecution anyway. Then, of course, I don't patronize
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California crazy meets European crazy in the Mugshots.com case(reason.com)
1 points by Fins 8y ago|0 comments
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by Fins 8y ago
Philips was involved in the standard (back in the day they were involved in lots of standers) weren't they?
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by Fins 8y ago
That's a pretty bad non-article even for Fluffington. Especially since no ruling was made yet on the Chipotle case
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by Fins 8y ago
Also USSR and Middle East.
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by Fins 8y ago
And the MSX standard, pretty big in Japan and a few other places.
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by Fins 8y ago
From that mentioned Vanity Fair article I sort of got the impression that the captain expected the storm to be similar to what he had experienced when sailing Alaska, not what a proper tropical storm is.
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by Fins 8y ago
Yeah, exactly. Pretty much anything will have some bias. Not to say that I would take this, or any other, chart as the gospel (if anything, I certainly wold not have put NYT as high), but it is interesting to see that WSJ, as corporate a
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by Fins 8y ago
People in those areas have been growing rice precisely enough for centuries. It is their main food; they will consume rice either way. Acquiring and distributing vitamin pills would be more difficult. If it were so easy, why none of the ant
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by Fins 8y ago
I guess that's how they can keep the place reasonably clear and moving along.
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by Fins 8y ago
Interesting that none of the signatories appear to be experts in, you know, biology or any relevant field.
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by Fins 8y ago
Maybe I did not word it well enough, too. I am not sure if being viewer-funded by itself guarantees accuracy and relative lack of bias -- people will support what they want to see, not necessarily what is accurate, and the selection of news
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by Fins 8y ago
Ah, nice. Might be something new, unless I missed in 2 years ago when I was there last time.
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by Fins 8y ago
You're welcome! I would not really consider MSNBC and alike to be particularly progressive or left-wing myself, that would be something that Sarah Palin would believe, with her screams about "lamestream media". Among the clea

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