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by dspeyer 13y ago
What is your reasoning? I've never heard of phone companies being sticklers for proper warrants.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Does anyone know where to find the full text that he has leaked? I see so many analyses, but I don't trust any of the people writing them. I'd like to look at the source if possible.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
In talking about causality, the article makes two counterfactual claims: had the Soviets not invaded Manchuria, Japan would not have surrendered and had the bombs not been dropped, Japan would have surrendered. (In my opinion, the first cl
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by dspeyer 13y ago
When I click "filter" on /companies nothing happens. No javascript errors. Firefox 21.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
According to another on-the-ground account http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1fi07t/im_so_conf... > The military has been handing out gas masks to civilians and there is a video of then getting into verbal arguments with the
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by dspeyer 13y ago
A physicist comments: http://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1fev5e/artificial_m...
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by dspeyer 13y ago
The question is whether capable developers in Poland and India work for cheap outsourcing firms. Probably not. It may have been the case once, but the developers have a lot more to gain by simultaneously cutting the middleman and raising
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by dspeyer 13y ago
PLEASE STOP THE METAPHORS!!! (shouting justified by how many of these have been written) They don't add anything to the discussion. Do you need special techniques to work with walnut? I don't know and I bet the author doesn't either. And
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Going one level meta, there's a specific thing that bugs me in this discussion. I'm seeing the words "abuse" and "butthurt" used a lot. Using either word makes a claim that the negativity in the previous thread was or was not excessive.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
I don't think it's all about money. I live in NYC in large part to avoid driving. If I moved to Kirkland the lower rent would easily pay to lease, fuel, insure and maintain a luxury car, with cash left over. I'm staying here. So are my 8
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Saving money in comparison to what? To spending that extra commute time working for money, no. To spending the extra commute time driving to a gym and riding a stationary bike? Definitely.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Isn't one guy working alone for 6 years how Fermat's Last Theorem got solved? It did have a flaw that got fixed later in collaboration, but most of the work was one individual's deep focus.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
"Killer" bees are africanized . That is, they are european/african crossbreeds. These are simply african bees. Much safer.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
This film at least seems to be well-researched, unlike Dan Brown.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
> pornography implies objectification It really doesn't. People can relate to porn in many ways. Unless the definition of "objectification" is so broad as to make the statement meaningless.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Isn't it pretty well established that farming led to an increase in violence? Thinking in terms of "development" is generally a bad approach. History doesn't have levels. Using generic terms like that implicitly assumes all sorts of corre
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by dspeyer 13y ago
> Could it be that schools aren't teaching their students the right stuff, that despite their fancy credentials, today's grads lack the programming chops or logical prowess needed to succeed at a Google or Microsoft? Not so much. Having
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Draw a map of drug-related violence. Draw a map of poverty. Same map?
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by dspeyer 13y ago
While it does produce leet, the "th" sound doesn't exist in the original hebrew, so it's kind of appropriate.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
How does the first stage not get damaged by the backblast from the second stage seperating?
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by dspeyer 13y ago
No, it just requires the PR person to send the press release to the journalist without posting it publicly.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Default application, yes. A browser tab, no. When I just want to look at an image, firefox is largely preferable to gimp. When I have a bunch of pdfs, firefox tabs are easier to manage than evince windows.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Generally the "open" option opens in some other app, not the browser. Including for formats the browser actually displays better.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Can anyone fill in the geology of this? Geographically, I'd expect an Andes-like volcano from the subduction of the pacific plate, but they're talking about rivers of basalt.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
The real question is: why did Americans drive so much? Was it to have larger houses+grounds? Was it to be further from poor neighborhoods? Was it about signaling?
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Is that first one valid Excel? I've never seen it before.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
> I mean Excel is at its heart a query language. So your logic equally applies to Excel The least readable query language ever. Instead of names, everything must be addressed as column,row. Imagine a C program that instead of declarin
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by dspeyer 13y ago
> It may be hard to swallow but the extra effort and hours that you put into your job as a software developer does not usually amount to someone higher up thinking you should run the company. It has been my experience that good producer
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by dspeyer 13y ago
This comment really bugs me and I'm not sure why. Somehow I keep hearing in my head "I don't like labeling these gunshot wounds as 'injuries', what's really wrong is the environment full of random gunfire". It's the individual who is suff
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by dspeyer 13y ago
You're also teaching your management chain to provide the minimum reward, fire frequently, and generally be unpleasant to force you to work more. And you turn your daily life into a struggle, as you and the management feel out and try to b

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