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Recruiting Women to Online Dating Was a Challenge(theatlantic.com)
2 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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High School Murals Depict an Ugly History. Should They Go?(nytimes.com)
2 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
It isn't a simple matter of "paying people" to get them out of their homes. You have to force them out via eminent domain. And not only that, rewrite your laws to extend the powers of eminent domain well beyond their curr
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by drugme 8y ago
[politics]
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There’s a dark side to women’s health apps: ‘Menstrual surveillance’(theguardian.com)
4 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
This may be a good moment to get a refresh on this question: Can anyone recommend a sequencing service that offers some semblance of a reasonably solid privacy guarantee (in exchange, of course, for a suitable fee)? Your inputs will be very
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Wall Street loves socialism for bankers – but not for ordinary people(theguardian.com)
57 points by drugme 8y ago|11 comments
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Marine plastic pollution costs the world up to $2.5tn a year, researchers find(theguardian.com)
2 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
Consider how things might look from the other side: I'm getting a big push from a fellow co-worker to try TDD. He thinks it's the best thing since sliced bread, giving examples of random articles that validate his point of view.
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by drugme 8y ago
The best few (spanning multiple decades) have been those that didn't feel like modern "interviews" at all. That is, no: grilling, brain-teasers, "culture fit" tests; no pre-loaded, condescending "lemme see how
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by drugme 8y ago
And who, therefore, must be fired immediately.
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by drugme 8y ago
I wouldn't say that having had a private education is a turn-off. It isn't really a marker for anything, in my book. But wanting to date only people with private ed backgrounds? Definitely a huge turn-off.
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Hundreds of millions of Facebook records exposed on public servers – report(theguardian.com)
1 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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The activists fighting to save their neighboorhoods from the tech giants(theguardian.com)
1 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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Deadly appetite: 10 animals we are eating into extinction(theguardian.com)
3 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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Bullshit: A Scientific Study(theguardian.com)
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by drugme 8y ago
Another fun aspect is that, surprisingly often, these "tests" are poorly (and in some cases, plainly wrongly) articulated and/or simply not do-able as articulated. Or do-able, but they end up requiring 2-4x the "just a c
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by drugme 8y ago
Fair enough - thanks for clarifying.
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by drugme 8y ago
If you're bad at taking tests, being able to make a vague excuse for why you failed one is not an acceptable substitution for passing it. Nor is the above argument an acceptable substitution for a sound argument that these kinds of t
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by drugme 8y ago
For example, "what are the strengths and weaknesses of classifying grammars via the Chomsky hierarchy?" What's the point of grandstanding like this? To make yourself feel smarter than they are? My way of dealing with bulls
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by drugme 8y ago
I don't work for Cisco. If your client is Cisco -- then you work for Cisco (at least in part). It's as simple as that.
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by drugme 8y ago
I'm getting the impression that you believe that having that opinion on that topic should disqualify someone from any important role. Am I correct? The basic point seems to be that independent of her opinions (e.g. "The Equali
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Google employees call for removal of rightwing thinktank leader from AI council(theguardian.com)
29 points by drugme 8y ago|36 comments
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The big picture: Scott Walker, 1943-2019(theguardian.com)
2 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
Noted, thanks.
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by drugme 8y ago
So after "letting them negotiate you down" -- what's the actual, final, median rate we're talking about here, please?
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Scott Walker, influential rock enigma, dies aged 76(bbc.com)
2 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
This is almost satirical. I didn't read it that way - but your retort reads as quite definitely snarky. Either way -- could you condescend to explain to us what was so outright ludicrous in the sentence you quoted?
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by drugme 8y ago
The title says "because higher wages", which of course touches all kinds of buttons. But if you read a couple of lines down, it's because of the broken taxation system: There are many reasons restaurants close. But one reas
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by drugme 8y ago
I have never seen X happen. I doesn't happen very often -- but it does happen.

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