copsarebastards

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by copsarebastards 11y ago
Ugh, P.C. white people annoy me. You're not better than a racist, you're just better intentioned. Why on earth would we that poverty and fried chicken (and black people) aren't associated? Racism begets poverty, and poverty b
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> Say "We're default dead, but we're counting on investors to save us." Maybe as you say that it will set off the same alarms in your head that it does in mine. And if you set off the alarms sufficiently early, you ma
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> By abandoning their AJAX crawling scheme as described in the OP, they are essentially saying that they will evaluate JS for all sites. No, they are not. If you even think that's possible you're fundamentally misunderstanding
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
You're right, I understand his motivation now, and I hate society a little more.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
I'd have picked a different legend: the sword in the stone is more similar to how this works, the sword can be wielded by anyone after the king pulls it out of the stone, and this hammer can be wielded by anyone after the engineer pull
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
Keeping this PG: maybe it's a well-oiled team of robots?
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
I'd be surprised if they didn't consider it: it's a common enough model in our industry that I'd even be surprised if one of them has previously worked as a contractor. There are a lot of unappealing things about contrac
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> I think this is why a lot of acquihires fail (like, acquihired employees leaving quickly). They way the acquired team works together doesn't mesh with the way the new company works. I agree that there's typically a culture cl
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
I don't know, I was just presenting an alternative solution to the problem you were talking about. I imagine that the sides of the encasement would have to be pretty impermeable to keep oxygen out, but it's probably harder if the
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
Ultra-high vacuum is way harder to maintain than simply keeping it in nitrogen.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> American rapper Wiz Khalifa claimed on Twitter that he was handcuffed by customs and border patrol officers at LAX airport because he refused to disembark from his transporter. I don't know whether the officers were justified in o
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
This is going in the wrong direction. "Grey" doesn't indicate anything to the user. Instead, they should make HTTP sites show up with a yellow triangle, because they aren't secure. It's also a little silly to clai
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
The study isn't forcing anyone to do anything. High deductibles save health insurance companies billions. We already know that health insurance companies own congress: that's why we don't have a sane socialized medicine syste
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
Just what we need, another solution to a problem that was solved two decades ago!
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> It's not enough that you solve a problem. You actually have to bring it to the world. Mochizuki claims to have solved the ABC conjecture, but isn't doing anything to promote his work, leaving the rest of the mathematics worl
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
Dysfunction on other teams doesn't mean we need managers, it means we need to fix the dysfunction.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> Why do you care about the success of the technical products you're working on? If you're asking that question, then really everything else in the pile of mediocrity you just wrote makes sense. If you don't care, then dys
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> The first is an insulation between the team and and the outside world. Your "problem solvers" aren't going to get anything done if they spend their entire days negotiating with clients or fielding reqs from other departm
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
This is exactly why I think that managers are counterproductive to the success of technical products and should not have the authority to make these kinds of decisions. If you can't solve problems, you have no business managing people
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
It's the thinking and core idea of Lisp that is great, not the implementation. Every implementation includes tradeoffs, hacks and compromises. Clojure's success is largely due to the fact that they've made a set of tradeoffs,
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> I rant on this because of a taste this weekend, trying with mixed-to-poor results to get my BioLite Camp Stove (otherwise highly recommended) burning a good fire suitable for charging electronics via its built-in thermocouple generator
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
I call BS on the ground that things being around longer doesn't necessarily make them harder to remove. At a minimum it takes $20 worth of paint and an hour to make a passive billboard less obnoxious. This objection is silly.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> As much as I hate advertising, how exactly would you reconcile such a ban with the first amendment in the US? This is a solved problem; SCOTUS has already ruled on various aspects of this[1]. [1] http://www.firstamendmentcen
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
This is especially relevant internationally: people in the West often forget that i.e. China has tons of mountains and much more limited transport infrastructure.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
The future of Slack is that they'll do what every other chat application has done in the past 2 decades: they keep "innovating" on a solved problem, add "features" that get in people's way to the point that it
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
Why is this a negotiation? We don't have to have passive ads to get rid of active ads, we can get rid of both. Advertisers never asked before barging obnoxiously into our collective consciousness. We don't need to pre-emptively ma
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
Agreed. We're all short on evidence, and I'm unwilling to rely on my (very negative) anecdotal experience to make confident general statements about police. But many people see police as groups of thugs who show up and harass or a
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> People don't argue about using the word rape on reddit, that place is a bastion for anti-trigger warning rhetoric much like tumblr is a haven for pro-trigger warning rhetoric. Sure, if you ignore TwoXChromosomes, Shit___Says, etc.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> So let's not blame officers. They're probably doing the best they can with a bad situation. I don't know how you come to this conclusion from the data you're citing. You seem to be claiming that LEOs kill more peopl
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