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1y ago
You have a moral duty to report your employer for this. Frankly it should be treated the same as treason.
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4y ago
> What's one to do then? GP gives a hint: > You haven't changed your behaviour at all. TLP[1] said it best: > There you go again, thinking about yourself. Your impulse wasn't to say, "am I doing this to my kids?
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6y ago
Check out the "Firefox Doom Party" screen shots: http://toastytech.com/doom/ffdoompics.html
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8y ago
Something similar happened to Sega's Shining Force for iOS. I paid $1.99 for it around 2013 or 2014 and it was great. Shining Force is one of my favorite games for the Sega Genesis and it's perfect for on the go mobile since it&#x
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It does! Even though, Martin Richards' homepage [0] hasn't been updated in a while you can try it out with a small amount of fuss [1]. 0: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/ 1: https://gist.github.com&#
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> I don't remember the Buddha being big on conversation. He did seem to nod silently a lot, but I'm not so sure if he was against conversation per se. Rather, he wasn't big on conversation that served no good purpose. >
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9y ago
Stringer Bell said it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBdGOrcUEg8
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9y ago
It makes sense to me: when measuring stuff like you would in a lab use metric, when measuring stuff like you would in a kitchen use imperial. I think it only seems weird because we rarely do both in the same sentence.
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9y ago
This http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/ might be relevant to your interests.
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> So you are admitting you are bad about making decisions about people? Luckily you have something empirical because you are no good at judging someone. This is almost entirely the point of take home assignments. In fact, this is almost
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A bit of ambiguity about certain things is an important lubricant for almost all non-romantic relationships. My family has a good idea of my salary (as pointed out elsewhere: they can see my house and my car) but I keep the specific number
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> I have no interest in using an app that by default broadcasts my transactions to everyone This is such an astounding deal breaker for me. I'm honestly more than a little surprised it's even legal. It just sounds like one of t
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There's also The Great wall of Gorgan: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/irans-great-wall-is-now... > It was so well-known that it allegedly factored into the plans of military legends such as Genghis Khan.
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Huh? Those are all careers that require a high level of cooperation with people you might not like, a general understanding of civics and pro-social behavior, and a stick-to-it attitude. What's more, those careers, in my limited experi
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9y ago
This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2orn6T2QFM is a good DIY experiment along those lines and is interesting if not necessarily correct at the nuclear scale.
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9y ago
The subreddit is good too. Some people feel it's a bit too right leaning. I tend to agree. But it's nice to not have the other side shouted down at every chance in at least one forum I actually care to visit. The moderators don&#x
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I live in Texas. I've seen it all over here and pretty much every other state I've visited in the last few years. Maybe it's an American thing?
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9y ago
This is a really good question and one I think about often. Either possibility is pretty depressing to me.
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I think this is the one thing about technology I'm old fashioned about (I roll my eyes hard when people say stuff like "You should delete your Facebook account, you'll be better off."). If I'm eating food with som
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9y ago
I know this counts as an accessory that bridges two devices rather than a complete device in its own right but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Game_Boy . The Switch, as neat as it is, isn't without precedent.
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9y ago
Just wanna say: I love this.
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9y ago
It's definitely been a thing for a while: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6otjCKg594
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9y ago
I work at a company that sells ebooks and directly competes with Amazon in that space. All of our infrastructure is on AWS. We could move elsewhere easily if we had to, but we probably won't. A good friend who works over at AWS said th
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> Is there actually any actionable information here other than: "Don't make unpopular decisions?" Make sure you actually do a cost-benefit analysis, even if it's just quickly in your head. Decisions like this are th
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A home being hard earned does not preclude the possibility of it being ugly and worthy of ridicule (from an aesthetic point of view).
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> It's OK to be mean to people because of the socioeconomic class they belong to? No, see the first sentence where I say I generally reject the premise of the whole concept of punching up and down (I think there is such a thing as b
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> It's punching down I generally reject the premise of punching up versus down; but McMansion Hell is emphatically not punching down. Anyone who can afford a $1 million 5000+ square foot house deserves very little sympathy for their
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> why does "scale" matter in education? Maybe because, specifically in the U.S., there are 73.6 million [0] children aged 0-17. 45.7 million (or 50.4 million [1]) of which are school age. If that isn't a problem of scale I
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I've posted this several times, but... https://github.com/seaneshbaugh/rosetta-euler It's an ongoing thing I work on when I'm not working on anything in particular.
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I'm from the Bay where we hyphy and go dumb From the soil where them rappers be getting their lingo from
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