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by bbarn 10y ago
Those books exist as a method for billing insurance. The DSM only recently (1983) stopped considering homosexuality a diagnosis. As a result we're hearing the phrase "somewhere on the spectrum" for any number of behaviors we
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by bbarn 10y ago
With the exception that the human factor is removed. I have to imagine the number of teenage kids who'd take an en route drone out of the sky is greater than the number that would attack a UPS driver or steal from someone's door.
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by bbarn 10y ago
I know it's very slippery-slope in nature, but drone deliveries bother me. I think of them being great theft targets, then of course they need to defend themselves, then we've got armed drones delivering packages. This would adv
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by bbarn 10y ago
When the Zika outbreak hit, I was reminded of this movie. It's not the same magnitude, but still.
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by bbarn 10y ago
I had a simple auger-fed model for our cat. I realized very quickly she could reach up there and get food meant for the next cycle... and eventually realized I didn't care. If she takes the food intended for the next cycle, less come
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by bbarn 10y ago
I suppose in today's web ecosystem, the initial HTML state of the page is useless in almost all cases after the DOM loads. Rarely will you care about the pre-javascript page, and if you do, you're probably debugging a web site, a
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by bbarn 10y ago
To be clear - I am not suggesting that everything on the books should be followed, I am suggesting that punishing people who are following these specific laws in question, which are following NSA letters and gag orders, does not fit what I
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by bbarn 10y ago
Where did I say anything remotely like that? You're taking an ideological stance on privacy, one I generally agree with, and forgetting the motivator behind the overreaching laws, which is quite simply to ATTEMPT to do something to mak
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by bbarn 10y ago
> So now, quitting your job (because you're asked to do something unethical) is the equivalent of losing your life and limbs? It's an expression. How about "Losing your livelyhood." It's a real thing for some p
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by bbarn 10y ago
Wow. This is probably the worst comment I've ever seen on HN. You're suggesting that people who follow the law, which you disagree with, get blacklisted, following the model of criminals killing other criminals who follow the la
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by bbarn 10y ago
Good luck, in all seriousness. The article is fresh, and maybe it's recentness will help you win over the AG office.
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by bbarn 10y ago
Ditto. Was traveling for a living, and didn't care at all about it for years, then I got worse and worse, and had to change careers. I think part of it was the increase in stress overall after 9/11 in travelling, but maybe anoth
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by bbarn 10y ago
I've been told opposite stores from my n=2 sample size. One has said it's miserable and he couldn't wait to get out, the other that it's great and his group is doing really interesting work and I'd love working wit
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by bbarn 10y ago
Why would you not believe me? It's not like I can force you to take a job either way. I expect people to want to either make more money than they are now (I never ask that question, btw.. I think that's offensive IMO) or have a b
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by bbarn 10y ago
There's a big problem with salary ranges: Everyone wants the highest number listed. This prevents employers from being honest, because that max range should be the MOST They want to spend, but to the applicant, it's the least the
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by bbarn 10y ago
How do they deal with weather on complex installations this size? I have to imagine some of the equipment they're installing isn't meant to be wet?
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by bbarn 10y ago
There's a number of countries with legislation passed or pending (Germany is one) to criminalize doping. Marion Jones spent time in prison for it here in the US (though her case was linked to check fraud too, and that's likely wh
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by bbarn 10y ago
Except when this service that was supposed to "disrupt" gets proven to be largely a failure, where does that leave the cab companies then? With their monopolies even more solidified - because billions in VC funding couldn't
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by bbarn 10y ago
Another big point that he didn't make, which helps his argument a bit, is that Uber is no longer novel. It's spread and network effect have stopped, and gone are clean cars and a positive experience, replaced with mostly beat up
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by bbarn 10y ago
39x11 the whole way home..
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by bbarn 10y ago
"It got trump elected" worked on my 17 year old daughter :)
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by bbarn 10y ago
I've enjoyed having no alternative for several years. Not being constantly tied to status updates from others is very freeing, I'd suggest trying that for a while.
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by bbarn 10y ago
This also assumes facebook is a net good, which I don't believe it is. Take away even the guise of freedom of speech on it, and it's absolutely a net negative, in my mind.
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by bbarn 10y ago
I feel like anyone reading this, on this news site, should be telling every friend and family member they have to abandon facebook, if they aren't already. We, the "guy/gal I know who's really good at tech stuff" n
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by bbarn 10y ago
I've been telling everyone I care about to follow my lead and leave facebook, twitter behind. Like the author, people seem surprised that someone in my field is against it so much, and once I explain why, they seem to understand but n
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by bbarn 10y ago
"The Expanse" gives what I consider a much more realistic view of the future.
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by bbarn 10y ago
Could be because there'd be assertions made under the old system, that were later found to be unhelpful or unwise?
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by bbarn 10y ago
>Im going to wait on owning one until an auto company open sources their code and there has been enough time to examine it thoroughly. In short, bring on the self-driving cars but do not make them mandatory. Just make licensing much more
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by bbarn 10y ago
>This isn't misplaced nostalgia for the days when driving was more dangerous, but I do believe as cars get safer, situational awareness worsens and riskier behaviors are less likely to result in serious accidents -- so some drivers
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by bbarn 10y ago
Because some bot will automatically moderate it away? That's what's happened every time I've made even minor spelling corrections on wikipedia.

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