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by burnthrow 6y ago
Followed by a person narrating the news with flashy graphics. I can't stand this sort of garbage, there's nothing new at all, it's just to sell an ad.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
I see a VPN ad.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
> Technosolutionism is a way of understanding the world that assigns priority to engineered solutions to human problems. Also known as technocracy, but someone has to feed The Saurus I guess.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
It's rather discouraging that in `date +%Y` so few are aware or care about selective cropping. It's everywhere.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Reading HN comments yesterday I learned that if I can't quickly devise an algorithm to lay out stars evenly on a flag, I'm worse than programmers in training .
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Thee/thou/thy
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Please stop with this fake thought-crime "stochastic terrorism." It's not clever, no matter how much Anderson Cooper loves to say it. People are responsible for their own actions.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
I've experienced this at small startups and BigCorps. Granted, at the BigCorps fewer things blew up in general, and when they did, it was interesting.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
But then I'd just find another job (when it was clear that something was rotten). There's an argument here about the ethics of having helped build something that ultimately became terrible, however I don't think inability to
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by burnthrow 6y ago
> taking threads further into hell Okay, you win, that's a good point. Tbh "don't take conversations further into hell" sounds like an excellent additional guideline, even if it can be read between the lines.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Okay, hear me out... maybe, just maybe, it's not a conspiracy, and you're the crazy one for not understanding basic common sense. Maybe.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Until the past few days, I had no idea this site was legion with the basest /r/conspiracy buffoons. Now I'm definitely gone, you can have it.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
> > Many of Us will return ... carrying Our weapons. ... We will come in numbers that no standing army or police agency can match. However, the police are NOT our enemy, unless they choose to be! This is so embarrassing, you'd th
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by burnthrow 6y ago
00:00:00
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by burnthrow 6y ago
I'm nauseous.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
I'm certain the small startup I work for hasn't failed too badly ethically. But I don't own a home in SF so... failure?
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Flagged by embarrassed Trump bitter-enders.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Give me a break, a job with Facebook isn't the only one that pays the bills.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
So, they didn't make you an offer.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
They wouldn't realistically get into the car (they didn't), but if they did, they'd trash the interior too. If the driver got out to fight, they'd beat him up obviously. If he just got out to "clear things up",
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by burnthrow 6y ago
The driver stopped short, causing a cyclist behind him to crash. That's a crime. He can play victim all he wants in his BMW SUV, he got off lucky, both legally and extralegally. Of course the video's edited to only show the pissed
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by burnthrow 6y ago
> It is very unusual for anything to come up overnight and being paged is the last resort. This does not jive with my experience. Most companies aren't Google as you've described it, and in most cases the person on pager duty
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by burnthrow 6y ago
> The balance we found at the company I work at is that you are oncall Thursday-Thursday and get Friday off If I'm reading this correctly, the expectation is that the on-call person doesn't sleep for a week, and that a single d
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by burnthrow 6y ago
Well, the rail line is behind schedule.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
I thought this sounded familiar https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25555457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25531118
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France struggles with public's wariness of Covid-19 vaccine(latimes.com)
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by burnthrow 6y ago
That's all it includes. For your convenience here is a direct link to the agency memo, from the linked article. http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/dhs/1100458_Directive_6rev... As for "unacceptable situat
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by burnthrow 6y ago
> It’s not something I suggest lightly. Anonymous HN comments lack a certain gravitas.
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by burnthrow 6y ago
While the headline makes it sound like Grandma isn't getting a ride because she's frail, "little chance of survival" is more specific: > Patients who are not to be transported to hospitals include those whose hearts h
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by burnthrow 6y ago
> the Red Planet is too hot and dry to have ever accommodated a river large enough to slash through the crust like that May want to proof-read this.

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