Kadin

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by Kadin 10y ago
While I normally detest simplistic evo-bio approaches to complex emergent social behavior (particular as it is frequently used to justify shitty, misogynistic behavior), quite a few of those examples could be chalked up to evolution taking
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by Kadin 10y ago
Matrilineal != Matriarchal. There are a substantial number of matrilineal societies, probably due to the ease of knowing who your mother is compared to your father, before genetic testing was developed. They are quite often not matriarchal
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by Kadin 10y ago
They wouldn't need to outlaw or ban all cryptography, only the particular communication systems that don't have "lawful intercept" capability. There are already laws for this on the books, although they've generall
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by Kadin 10y ago
One of the few of those silly "life hack" tips that I've seen floating around that was really useful was a suggestion to look at the 3-star reviews on Amazon, if you aren't sure about something. They generally aren&#x27
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by Kadin 10y ago
The software reportedly tells you there are problems with your computer when none actually exist. That's shady at best and fraudulent at worst.
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by Kadin 10y ago
Cars wouldn't be so much of a problem if there were fewer of them. A mostly-pedestrianized street with a car going down it at low speed every 5 minutes isn't much of an issue. There was a time in many major US cities where cars
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by Kadin 10y ago
> came to work jobs no one else would take This is a particular piece of rhetoric I find distasteful. If there are jobs that are structured such that only an illegal immigrant, who by definition exists outside the normal labor pool and
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by Kadin 10y ago
I think it's possible that "intelligence" is by definition always a chauvinistic property: it is whatever we possess that nobody else does. It is defined precisely by that difference between anything else, and "us"
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by Kadin 10y ago
The bar for "allowed to vote" is very different from "allowed to reset a cellphone account". One needs to never block any legal voter from voting, the other can be a balance between ease of access and ease of fraud. I
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by Kadin 10y ago
Boycotts are a pretty weak weapon compared to the ability to tarnish a company's reputation. I've yet to see a boycott really have any effect in the tech marketplace, but negative publicity often elicits some sort of response whe
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by Kadin 10y ago
That seems very skewed, based on hiring I've done. My suspicion is it's related to recruiters or other pipelines they were working from to provide them applicants / candidate resumes. There are definitely recruiters who hav
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by Kadin 10y ago
> If the ratio of those hired matches the ratio of applicants how does anyone make a complaint of discrimination? They'd complain that the company wasn't doing enough to attract resumes from underrepresented groups. That'
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by Kadin 10y ago
Companies can decline to hire someone for a position that requires a security clearance if they have reason to believe that it will be difficult or impossible for that person to obtain a clearance. There is a specific exception to nondiscr
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by Kadin 10y ago
Probably a big part of it. They might be very interested in appearing not to be a typical body shop. The odd thing is that there are fairly straightforward ways to write position descriptions such that the "qualified applicant"
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by Kadin 10y ago
> why is the qualified candidate pool, whatever that is, so overwhelmingly Asian, 73-85%? Isn't the candidate selection process biased towards Asians? This is almost certainly because they're using recruiters, and the recruiter
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by Kadin 10y ago
As of 2010 there were two Muslims in the US Congress. There were also two or three Buddhists. (The number varies by source, I think because of confusion over how to categorize Soka Gakkai.) There were nine "Unspecified", which
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by Kadin 10y ago
And somewhat perversely, while a chemical plant's waste is concentrated in a single place, which makes it straightforward (if expensive) to contain and treat, the "industrial waste" embodied in consumer products gets spread a
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by Kadin 10y ago
If that's the goal, we might as well just pay people to dig a hole and then fill it back in again repeatedly, and it wouldn't produce as much CO2 in the end. Or, you know, pay them to wash reusable silverware.
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by Kadin 10y ago
I think it's useful information. Many people are not aware of alternatives. Plus, it would be better for all concerned to have 25 smaller companies with 20M accounts each than one company with 500M accounts. Less of a security monocu
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by Kadin 10y ago
You don't really need to do anything besides a normal `git clone`; any clone is as good as any other, really. If the project disappears from Github someone would need to find a different place to host collaborative development, though.
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by Kadin 10y ago
Doesn't seem to be much of interest there if you're a Mac user without an interest in iOS devices. Of the WSJ's "Top 5" features [1]: - Universal Clipboard: Neat, but iOS only. Doesn't appear there's an
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by Kadin 10y ago
> I mean real, tangible, short term solutions to dealing with 20%+ unemployment? In a country that can't even get behind something like universal healthcare ... We'll do the same thing we did in the 30s when unemployment threat
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by Kadin 10y ago
I agree with you, but I have confidence that those security issues can be resolved -- by just removing the network connections, cellular backhauls, etc. if necessary -- while the alternative represented by the status quo has basically cease
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by Kadin 10y ago
Not to put words in the GP's mouth but as someone involved in hiring I find that idea intriguing, although I think how effective it would be would depend a lot on the nature of how it was implemented (isn't that always the case, t
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by Kadin 10y ago
That probably has to do with cultural preferences for the type of gambling that's happening in the casino. I'd suspect pretty strongly that if you looked at other forms of gambling (lottery tickets, scratchers, bingo halls, etc.)
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by Kadin 10y ago
That seems like something that could be solved by color coding or otherwise marking the connectors. I know Apple is allergic to color coding (and colors, generally), but there's opportunity to expose more information to the user other
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by Kadin 10y ago
There are a variety of Catch-22 situations with HDMI on some Macbooks. For instance, the maximum resolution on my current Macbook is lower if I use HDMI than if I use Thunderbolt.
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by Kadin 10y ago
It seems like a "fail safe" to me. The current design is a bit closer to a "fail deadly" in that it creates a mode that's the worst-case from the user's perspective: the camera works but the indicator doesn&#x
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by Kadin 10y ago
Can't tell if joking...
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by Kadin 10y ago
The warm and fuzzy feeling should have gone away immediately upon discovering that it was not a hardware mute, but instead a software-defined feature... no? I mean, if you can turn the LED off through software, it's really no better th

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