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by cjensen 10y ago
Your linked article does not say anything about the scientific basis of Carlson's claims. I will say Carlson's claims were overdone. The book title, "Silent Spring", implies the extinction of all songbirds, and most song
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by cjensen 10y ago
The problem with DDT isn't that it hurt higher animals directly . The problem was that it is a very stable molecule that doesn't decay well over time. It built up in the food chain and killed birds which eat fish and birds which
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by cjensen 10y ago
A lot of the photos in the article sure looked like pingos[1], which are common in the Arctic and subarctic, rather than something exotic. Horses before Zebras and all that. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingo
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by cjensen 10y ago
Fastrak is shipped with a mylar bag that prevents scanning so you can have privacy on-demand. Also, Caltrans routinely scans Fastrak transponders silently in non-toll areas to gauge traffic flow.
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by cjensen 10y ago
Being in Fremont, I immediately searched to learn more. It's permanently closed.
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by cjensen 10y ago
I'm being flippant regarding people's flippant dismissal of the pervasive culture of discrimination in their own company? No. No I am not. This is a serious matter. The only thing unserious is the insistence of some that being ask
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by cjensen 10y ago
If you work for Uber and can't find a new job in this market, you either aren't trying or aren't qualified. We aren't talking about hypothetical people on the verge of bankruptcy here who we have constructed from first p
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by cjensen 10y ago
Yes it is socially acceptable to call on people with moral failings to work on fixing them. Also, Free Speech is a human right acknowledged in sensible parts of the global like Australia. It's not just a law in a particular fiefdom.
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by cjensen 10y ago
It's prejudicial and morally bankrupt to avoid people who are happy to work for a company which breaks the law in prejudicial ways? That's not how basic logic and common sense work.
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by cjensen 10y ago
Quitting doesn't mean losing your house. You are being silly. If it gets to the point where I blacklist Uber employees, not only will my boss know it, but I'll probably show him the resume so we can have a laugh. We have company p
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by cjensen 10y ago
> does not give people the right to demand... People always have the right to demand things. That's literally what Free Speech is.
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by cjensen 10y ago
If the employer says "Irish Need Not Apply"[1] and you take a job there because you are hungry, then you are desperate. If you take a job there because you have a nicer manager than you might have elsewhere, you have no morals. So
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by cjensen 10y ago
This isn't about saying something someone doesn't like. This is about unlawful behavior which, from the outside, appears to pervade the entirety of Uber.
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by cjensen 10y ago
I evaluate resumes when we have openings. I can accept that an employee might want to wait to see if Uber can turn it around. I wouldn't count that against them. But if Uber fails to fix itself, then it's time to leave. If I see a
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by cjensen 10y ago
Jupiter is 5.2 times farther from the Sun than the Earth. Thanks to the inverse square law, it gets 3.7% of the sunlight that Earth does. You won't be growing any plants there, and solar electric is going to be terrible. Saturn, which
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by cjensen 10y ago
Article says there was a report that showed weapons could get past the TSA, and the TSA is responding by checking the groin more carefully. Missing from the article: did the report say that the TSA was only failing to detect weapons smuggle
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by cjensen 10y ago
Okay, I am wrong about the Y-Scale between graphs. Nevertheless the author did make the incomparable y-scales between temperature and causes intentionally similar.
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by cjensen 10y ago
That was a terrible use of graphs. The biggest error in this presentation is that author-chose a scale to ensure that the carbon scale was amplified just right to appear to be the same as the temperature scale. In all other cases, he chose
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by cjensen 10y ago
YouTube takedown waves are not examples of the DMCA. YouTube gives rights-holders far more power than the DMCA alone would give. Which is a shame. If they used the DMCA and you had a video taken down for a spurious reason, you could claim
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by cjensen 10y ago
The ISRN appears to be a French government agency. They are claiming to have detected non-natural levels of radioactive iodine across Europe. The implication is that someone, somewhere had a nuclear accident and did not report it.
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by cjensen 10y ago
Portmap[1] lets you use names instead of port numbers. A server just grabs an arbitrary port number and then registers itself with the portmap server. When you want to connect from a client, you first ask the portmap server for the port nu
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by cjensen 10y ago
You are right that they won't shut the plant anytime soon. In the long term, they could manufacture anywhere. Staying in Fremont isn't a sure thing.
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by cjensen 10y ago
You appear to be assuming that because I disagreed with one thing the guy said, I must disagree with all of the things he said. That is wrong: please dial back on assuming things.
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by cjensen 10y ago
Edited: Removed insufficiently polite comments I live in Fremont. The Tesla plant is our #1 employer and I'd really like to keep it. I'm suggesting that the employee stick to arguments that makes sense to everyone (work causing ph
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by cjensen 10y ago
Part of the complaint remarks that since the Tesla plant is located in an expensive area, the workers need more money. They might want to rethink the wisdom of that comment: that's a great argument to move the plant to Tennessee. Or Ne
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by cjensen 10y ago
A horrifying proposal based on the assumption that servers and network are the end-all and be-all of everything. "Commodification" is a thing, and Xilinx fits everywhere , not just in places destined to have no profit. In fact, t
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by cjensen 10y ago
I like functional program a lot, but that very first transform of a chain of if's into a horrifying mess makes a pretty good case for using if. In the if case, function2 and function3 were called identically, but in the functional case
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by cjensen 10y ago
Yep, and I appreciated that they included those quotes. While "sending data to China" is literally the same idea, it kinda implies more sinister than it is.
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by cjensen 10y ago
The media really likes to take it to 11 when security researchers find issues. In this case, it looks like the App is sending lots of identifying information about you for advertising purposes. Is that Evil? Yes. Is that done all the time i
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by cjensen 10y ago
Then the officer calls the home planet to verify that an ID exists for that name and address. Problem worsened.

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