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by adekok 12y ago
> Why would you side with that? Because the letter of the contract and law is more important than reasonableness or ethics.
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by adekok 12y ago
> Torture works. No, it doesn't. All available research shows that torture is one of the worst ways to get information. The best way to get information is to befriend the person being interviewed. Put them in an open room. Wide w
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by adekok 12y ago
> Is there such an amount? As far as I know all income is taxable, there is no "minimum amount per source." In Canada, if you owe the government less than $2 in taxes, they don't want the money.
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by adekok 12y ago
OpenBSD focuses on security. NetBSD focuses on engineering and architecture. Having used both, I'd say the security focus of OpenBSD means it's often lacking consistency and "polish". NetBSD's focus on engineering
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by adekok 12y ago
> In a private corporation where an employee is issued stock options, a taxable benefit exists ONLY when you sell the shares for a profit. I really don't think so. There are many cases in Canada of people getting screwed by buyin
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by adekok 12y ago
> When most people discuss the patriarchy, they're not referring to conscious, willful agents. They're talking about systemic sexism. In my experience, that's the minority view. I've had a number of people tell me out
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by adekok 12y ago
> I would never attempt to deny that there is a systemic patriarchy in place I would. There are a couple of counter-arguments. One, claiming that there is a "patriarchy" sounds a whole lot like a conspiracy theory. Replace &q
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by adekok 12y ago
> No, she doesn't look empathetic, but, considering the broader context, how much empathy can you reasonably expect? Lots. The "broader context" is that people who aren't Hank harassed her. As a result, she sugges
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by adekok 12y ago
Then she should be afraid of sexual assaults, not killings. And reading that page, I see most of the items are of this severity: > An offensive tweet was made against the PyLadies group Really? That's inappropriate, but it's n
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by adekok 12y ago
Having worked in Europe and seen the process at work, lawyers are cheap. Employees sue and succeed in their suits for surprisingly simple things. Europeans take employee protection very seriously.
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by adekok 12y ago
It goes on: > “Danger,” she said. “Clearly my body was telling me, ‘You are unsafe.’” > “Have you ever heard that thing, men are afraid that women will laugh at them and women are afraid that men will kill them?” she said. Remind me w
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by adekok 12y ago
Except nothing in that page gives any facts about why he was fired. The author claims: > A man was fired for violating the conduct rules in a professional space. Which is naked supposition on her part.
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by adekok 12y ago
The index seems to be a git-only feature. It's one of those concepts that's so simple, it makes you go "Why the hell didn't I think of that?" The index allows you to have partially staged commits. This is most i
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by adekok 12y ago
> What the article doesn't reveal is the attack vector, how did the firmware in these drives come to be infected? If criminals can target a bank to steal $300M from clients, the NSA can target a HD company to steal the source code.
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by adekok 12y ago
When something is unmeasurable, it's more properly placed in the realm of "magic" or maybe "philosophy". If people have unmeasurable low self-esteem, than the original theory is unfalsifiable , which means it&#x2
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by adekok 12y ago
> Self reporting is the antithesis of empiricism. Not entirely. The article talks about this. The theory was that low self-esteem led to violence. The facts are that self-reports of high self-esteem are correlated with increased v
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by adekok 12y ago
> The mistake of many modern feminists, he writes, is that they “look only at the top of society..." And see themselves as deserving of the same. As entitled to it. Without doing the 20 years of 16 hour days which helped the C
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by adekok 12y ago
This should be read as a story about belief versus data. Forty years of naked dogma resulted in massive social impact. It took a challenger to go through the data, and show that the ideas weren't true. And from the data, had been k
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by adekok 12y ago
I'd agree, except that the replacement cost of a worker is usually pretty high. The bosses are really making a statement that maintaining their power is worth the extra cost of replacing a worker.
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by adekok 12y ago
The truth is that millions of people a year travel, and don't have any problems. So you're most likely to be OK. The worrying part is that you don't know what will be "alerted" on. Flash cards? Pictures of your k
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by adekok 12y ago
Didn't Heinlein predict this in the 70s?
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by adekok 12y ago
They're right. I spent the last 5 years trying to get i18n working in a protocol: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-radext-nai-15 The working group came to the same conclusion. Whatever crap the client puts
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by adekok 12y ago
The problem is that SSH uses a terrible buffering algorithm. This fixes it: http://www.psc.edu/index.php/hpn-ssh It's able to consistently fill 1G ethernet links.
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by adekok 12y ago
> Do we really know what the average programmer actually produces? Industry average is 2,000 lines of code per programmer per year. I've regularly produced 10x to 40x that amount. Others I've talked to have done the same. The
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by adekok 12y ago
> Completely agree on this. I don't believe in innate talent. A little critical thinking shows there must be innate talent. Most human abilities / behaviors / properties vary around a central mean. Some people are short
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by adekok 12y ago
> In reality, "took down * drug runners who spent * years evading us and supplying * with amount of drugs over * years" looks really good on someone's CV What I found most interesting was the disconnect between the reality
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by adekok 12y ago
The system hasn't evolved on it's own, like bacteria. It has changed over time due to new systems which were designed by people. Knowing what we know now, would those designs be different? Undoubtably, yes. Would they likely be
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by adekok 12y ago
I'm running it now on a repository with 15 years of history, and ~15K commits. Let's see how it goes. :) One thing I noticed is that the scripts are written to run once, and always do everything. It would be better to have a Mak
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by adekok 12y ago
By that logic, the police should be able to search your house or car if they're not locked. The Canadian Supreme Court isn't known for it's intelligent decisions. http://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/justice-system-s
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by adekok 12y ago
I suspect that this list is really just a database sort over a weighted set of criteria. That sort gets you the "most problematic" criminals by some criteria. After than we have the following: * the person is in jail, in which ca

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