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by altero 13y ago
> There is profit to be made in vaccines, sure. But it's hardly the same as in patented drugs. But there is also good chance to convince government to buy huge quantities. Flu kills and becomes pandemic nearly every year. Bird/
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by altero 13y ago
There is also other side of vaccination when pharma industry pushes untested and ineffective serum. Mostly it is for viruses (hint: virus mutates too fast and vaccination is practically useless). Great example is bird/pig flu, serum wa
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by altero 13y ago
All we (men) can ask for is equality in programs dominated by females. What this university did to increase proportion of men in Gender Studies?
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by altero 13y ago
Just give your boss what he wants. Optimize for metric "number of bugs solved". Fighting back costs way to much energy and is usually useless. I have been in similar situation before. I joined team with absolutely un-maintainable
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by altero 13y ago
> that a quiet young man of Asian descent Perhaps that could be the problem, HR used test as an excuse.
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by altero 13y ago
LOL
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by altero 13y ago
At least they did not try to kidnap her as is common in some muslim countries.
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by altero 13y ago
Now it is just question of time when FBI finds child porn on his computer :-(
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by altero 13y ago
For sub-humans outside of US the encryption is the only solution. Political solution would be declaration of war to USA, which is not very practical.
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by altero 13y ago
I guess the key is to run faster then others, so bear will not eat you. Most people do not care about privacy.
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by altero 13y ago
> negative stereotypes that the author wanted to rail against by mentioning all this. > ‘Do you know where the proxy settings are?’ I asked, hopefully. > Well for Christ's sake don't ask her something she almost surely do
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by altero 13y ago
One thousand years ago there were farms in Greenland. Just two hundred years ago there was Little Ace Age and river Thames would freeze every winter. Single vulcano explosion releases more CO2 than entire mankind in a decade. Yet somehow it
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by altero 13y ago
Iceland is too small and I bet most of its trafic goes via US or UK. Germany has strong privacy protection laws thanks to its history.
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by altero 13y ago
Germany and Switzerland seems like a good choice.
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by altero 13y ago
All discusion so far has been about spying on US citizen. EU citizens have zero rights in this case.
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by altero 13y ago
It already started. Irish Google has been sued recently for sharing data with american mothership.
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by altero 13y ago
I think this is the end of the cloud. For me (as european) it is now unacceptable to use american webservices and remote apps. We had a good run.
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by altero 13y ago
UN is bunch of Climate Change denialists! They sold their souls to oil lobby !!!!
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by altero 13y ago
How? By using 'he' instead of 'she'?
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by altero 13y ago
there is lot of unrelated junk on HN. Nobody cares to flag socialism vs kapitalism discussion. So why flaging this post?
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by altero 13y ago
54% Lebanese are muslims. Do word count on "muslim", only a few times. Most of her "rant" is about not being able to walk on streets and abuse from her family. I really do not get how this is religion related. I sugest
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by altero 13y ago
This is not crititicism of islam, there are many muslims, who do not lock up their doughters.
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by altero 13y ago
It is all politics: snowden, positive discrimination, global warming, women in it, starving children in africa. Yet somehow womens rights in muslim countries are not even tolerated for discusion.
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by altero 13y ago
There are also some paranoid people who use encryption because secret services could be spying on them. We have no idea how aids causes hiv, cannot even predict weather for next week, but we are 110% sure some theories are right. No wonder,
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by altero 13y ago
Using word 'denialist' in connection with scientific hypothesis seems somehow wrong.
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by altero 13y ago
> Why Does Talking About Creepers And Harassment Make People So Angry? Because it is usually followed by demands and hate. "I am woman, you are sexist because you are a man, now gimme your money".
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by altero 13y ago
Good for you. For me this ended when I said at school that global warming is caused by solar activity and not by humans.
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by altero 13y ago
> Tolerance has no limits. All it requires is some adaptation time. One day, people will be open about their sexuality, religion, political ideologies and feelings, and the world will be a better place. Or some extremist party wins elect
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by altero 13y ago
Thanks to open-plan office I developed anxiety, high-blood pressure and stress. I could not concentrate in the office and I had to finish most of my work at home over evenings. I nearly divorced thanks to open-plan office. I already quit 3
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by altero 13y ago
Why US government has so much self-restraint? 1% of Americans are already in jail, it could be easily increased to 10% or even 20%.

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