Lawtonfogle

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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Removing even more factors have found that gap diminish even more. In some cases, looking at young adults with college educations with out children (with some other factors also made equal), they found that women out earned men.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>They call people Do they adjust for the bias introduced by using a phone survey? I would hypothesize that job holders are more likely to have a stable phone connection than the unemployed.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
When found in the wild, it is more a fallacy than anything else.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Some forms of encryption allow for keys that create evidence that has never existed before. A simple case is an XOR between random data and some illegal file (that only hypothetically exists). That XOR is a key to creating the illegal fil
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
From what I remember reading about the NSA, there are quite a few Dirty Dereks in the government.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>Can you guys stop thinking we're an election or two away from a fascist dystopia? How long did it take Germany? Maybe 3 or 4 elections then.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
It depends on who 'we' is. Anyone with a passing knowledge of the history of computer does not. They probably give more than a fair share to Turing and von Neumann, but you are right they don't think of those 4. But if we a
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>conspiracy theorist My favorite conspiracy theory is that the idea of conspiracy theories was subject to a multiple decade long attack by certain government groups to make conspiracy theory equate in popular culture to crack pot theory.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>Quads with cameras make people nervous. And yet people are fine with the government using the same if not worse. Based on those I speak with who hold such a double standard, there is a deeply held belief that it will never be used agai
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
It's great language for shifting blame as well. Instead of a business admitting they couldn't retain an employee, which would imply that they need to look at what they are doing. By calling it poaching, they are now a victim of
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
"Being that this isn't my specialty, I would research a solution online as it would provide a far greater business value for the time spent. But you probably want to see me try to solve it anyways, so I let's start with a br
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>It's unfair to discuss gender and race without considering class. Or other issues. Is someone cis or trans. Or maybe even non-binary. Are they nuero typical. What about the types of parents they had; were the parents verbally a
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>It's only meant to raise awareness, awareness that you clearly need, based on your post. And yet, awareness of other issues and even the opposite side of the same issue seem to not be as needed. > "white privilege" isn
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Because privilege is based on looking at only a subset of the group. A subset that changes to push a narrative. For example, white privilege often involves some concept related to being given leniency in legal matters. Less likely to be
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Yes, which is why I can't support the idea of a living wage in general, because a living wage in some areas would equate a nice wage elsewhere.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Being put on hold does put limits on what one can do. Can I be at the movies? Can I be having a discussion with friends and family? Can I driving? No to all of these (without having a performance impact). Being put on hold does far more
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>That doesn't make it okay to lie to them. You are right. What makes it okay to lie is that no harm is done to anyone I care about not harming. That they made themselves someone I no longer care about harming is their own issue.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
> If everyone simply linked the "canonical" version of jQuery (the CDN link is right on their site) then requiring jQuery will be effectively free because it will be in everyone's cache. So create one massive target that n
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Boaty McBoatface is not internet trolling. Look at Mountain Dew's renaming disaster to see internet trolling.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
When you consider the real reason you are getting the ticket isn't that you were speeding, everyone else was as well, but that you are an easy money with an out of state plate or maybe the color of your skin wasn't appreciated by
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Wouldn't the benefit be for the employee whose spouse can direct anger not at the employee but their manager? The benefit would thus be employees being less likely to have to choose between their relation or their job.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>E.g. men couldn't impress women with nice cars or any of the other status symbols that are so common in the West, and had to 'convince potential mates' through their personalities and actions Is this gender equality? It
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>and I'm not sure whether the immune system can be trained to attack only prions and not their regular protein equivalents. A prion tends to be vastly different than the original protein. I thought the bigger problem was that prion
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Oh, and the incubation time can be extremely long. A burger you ate 5 years ago could've been infected but it could still be years before you begin showing signs. I remember reading a bit about some connection between prions and deme
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>No doubt it will benefit them (which is why you paid all that money, I imagine). The nightmare many are facing is that it doesn't benefit them. Regardless of what self improvement one may receive from their degree, certain degrees
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>Because at some point it stops being fun to watch if your race from point A to B is won by a supersonic fighter jet. Not when the opponent pulls out a surface to air missile.
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by Lawtonfogle 11y ago
>Several of them lamented that every department had "slackers" who'd probably be fired from any real business, but basically couldn't get sacked if they tried due to Government policies. Seems like the end result woul
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by Lawtonfogle 11y ago
They pass a law saying it is a violation of human dignity to talk to your plants in the wrong tone.
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by Lawtonfogle 11y ago
>You have an absolute, indelible right to freedom of speech (unless we decide it's bad speech). Which is functionally identical to 'you don't have freedom of speech and can only say what we allow'.
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by Lawtonfogle 11y ago
Such a law should not exist. If a law is so bad that the only way people are willing to tolerate it is with selective enforcement, then it shouldn't be tolerated at all.

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