Jiro

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by Jiro 4y ago
Women in countries where women are relatively low status get engineering degrees to make money, not to follow their dreams. Women who get degrees for personal fulfillment don't like engineering so much. This results in women getting
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Fixing Wikipedia articles is often impractical, because there are users who know the arcane Wikipedia rules better than you do and who can always give some sort of reason as to why your change can't be accepted. And even if the user i
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Because if they do, the next time they sell a remastered anything, people will think "I don't need to buy this because I'll get it anyway when the servers for the original version run out," costing them sales.
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There's also always the item that's too light to be registered. Powdered drink packets are the one I run into most, but sometimes other things.
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Reading through that site, I see some things that... aged poorly. Like https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/11/21/choices-headaches/ which tells you to avoid giving users choices, which is hiw you get pr
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>I wouldn't like to work in a place where most people lied to get a job. "A place where most people lied to get a (tech) job", is the world. And the world is the only place that has jobs.
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Blech. This is one of those cases where the genetic material is repeated multiple times inside the same "organism". It would be considered to be a filament made up of multiple cells, except that there isn't anything separati
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What happens if your company gets sued and everything on your phone goes to discovery because it might be work related?
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>After spending an hour of time writing the perfect bug report a couple of times, and each time receiving no reward (= fix), Something that may be happening in that case is that the demand for making the bug report high quality is not si
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>Not sure where that 90/10 ratio comes from... From the previous poster. >wondering also what your opinion is of felony drug convictions (for possession)? I'd be fine with a project to get people convicted of felony drug or
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Wouldn't you normally need to use "expect" or equivalent for this?
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You might argue that the hardships imposed by the justice system aren't self-imposed. But this was about hiring criminals. Aside from certain special cases (like laws which prohibit hiring felons for certain jobs). any hardship that
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I think you basically answered your own objection. Probably 90% of convicted criminals are really criminals, and that's why people are suspicious of hiring them. The point of this project wasn't "get convicts hired because
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The cutoff at age 18 is so that gang warfare that kills gang members who are under 18 can be counted as shootings of "children".
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The response would probably be that they can't fire him because he's a minority. But that doesn't make it right. It just means that minorities can get away with stuff that nobody should be able to get away with,
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It doesn't say the exact word "privacy" or "abortion", but what it does say is a lot closer to privacy than to abortion.
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This is good and bad at the same time. It's like having a law that says that the police can shoot anyone at will, and then announcing that since people were concerned that the police would shoot someone going to the grocery store, all
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I had to replace my phone because of the AT&T 3g shutdown and the fact that no company is going to pay AT&T to approve their old phone models. I got a S10E for pretty much the same reason: small, SD card, headphone jack, and resolu
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Even something like that flounders on the question "these instructions say to pull down the shroud, what is a shroud?" or "I can't find those hex screws, where are they located?" Repairs are inherently visual, alth
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It's really hard to tell the difference between "intended to disgust the viewer" and "intended to tittilate the viewer with a fetish I don't share". I mean, any scene of sexualizing children is going to disg
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The EFF wanted to kick Richard Stallman out of the FSF based on fake sexual harassment accusations. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/statement-re-election-...
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If it's able to connect by pressing a button that is not a physical on switch, it's not off.
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>I avoid companies which reward negotiation skills with higher salary. This is like saying "I avoid companies run by humans".
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If creationists argue based on a belief in God, yes, it's a core belief that's hard to undermine. But a lot of creationists argue in contexts relating to teaching creationism in schools. Youre not allowed to teach religion as tr
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It means "things like the following". https://applawyers.org/blog/10317283
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>usually the thing that keeps wages low isn't business owner collusion it's the availability of workers accepting work with a low wage. But if you have a labor shortage and low wages at the same time, that means that workers ac
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Actually I don't use the Pebble for fitness. I like having the weather, calendar, location, and sunrise/moon phase (though that depends on the watch face).
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My Pebble is color, not B&W.
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I'm still waiting for someone to create a modern equivalent to the Pebble watch with a color e-ink screen that can stay on all the time. I still use my Pebble, but the battery charge only lasts about a day and a half and I'll hav
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It is possible for there to be rules that someone cannot be reasonably expected to follow.

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