el_cujo

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by el_cujo 7y ago
This is kind of a touchy subject. I feel like a lot of people would balk at the idea of the top 1% not doing better and better, not because they have any extra insight into the topic but because to say this seems like you're defending
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by el_cujo 7y ago
This is exactly the type of thing you have PR people on staff to write though?
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I wonder if this will result in any big changes at Google or is just codifying the way things have been run for a while.
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by el_cujo 7y ago
From my memory, "tl;dr" used to be a response to a long post that was supposed to be an insult, like "do you really expect me to read all of that crap?". Then it morphed into it's current usage where people would tr
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I found it surprising that Hawaii was chosen for the first expansion. Maybe someone looking for an excuse to take a trip?
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by el_cujo 7y ago
And now people who want to convince others to leave behind their fitbits need only point them to this article to lend legitimacy to the claim that "everyone is doing it!". Stuff like this is part of why people don't trust the
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I like the idea of these tiny computers, but really anything with a blackberry-style thumb keyboard is just a non-starter for me. It looks cool, but if I sit and think about actually using it for even a second I know I wouldn't like it
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by el_cujo 7y ago
>Just because you’re not a fan of it doesn’t mean it isn’t a solid solution for the rest of us. Leaving out USB-A ports isn't a solution for you though, it's just a limitation that affects some people but not you. >And the r
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I remember at the time of its release, social media was pretty monolithic as well. All of my friends at the time thought it was a joke that the search engine company was trying to ape Facebook. Twitter was big, sure, but nobody I knew had o
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Your characterization of things makes it sound like you only read headlines and never the memo. Which is fine I guess, but it seems silly to have such strong opinions about something without looking into it at all.
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by el_cujo 7y ago
>One of them had searched for and shared confidential documents outside the scope of their job, while the other tracked the individual calendars of staff working in the community platforms, human resources, and communications teams, she
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I certainly wouldn't call them perfect, but again, being able to criticize the leader (whether that be Trump now with the left-leaning media or Obama previously with the right-leaning media) puts them head and shoulders above what Chin
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by el_cujo 7y ago
>Furthermore, the whole point of anti-discrimination laws are to prevent judgement based off traits that cannot be changed. Where you live is not the same thing as your skin color. This is very true. People are getting very caught up on
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I think you're being a bit disingenuous. It seems you're almost implying Chinese and Russians are being randomly discriminated against for no reason, as if the kind of thing Gitlab is worried about has never happened before. Speci
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by el_cujo 7y ago
>I have no control over my government. Zero. 0. Do you understand the concept of 0? Thats the amount of influence I have over any government matter. Then you should be more pissed off at your own government and screwed up system than the
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Because the USA has an independent media that is very critical of its government while China doesn't (at least not on the scale as the USA's main stream media). I mean maybe if you're a conspiracy theorist you could say it&#x
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by el_cujo 7y ago
>I'm curious who all these sarcastic bio "experts" are that are suggesting getting a PhD or hiring one >Don't listen to anyone that tells you that you can't do something because you don't have a PhD. I de
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Yeah I'm not sure I agree you need a full-blown PhD just to understand this stuff. Some-hands on work, definitely. I would say that you need a PhD to be taken seriously as a leader on the science-side of a biotech company though.
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Your best bet is probably to look for a co-founder with an MS or PHD in molecular biology rather than trying to get yourself to that level from the ground up. If you have some biology background and just want to understand the specifics of
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by el_cujo 7y ago
>This is certainly a special case (and also somewhat of an endangered species.) I'm not so sure about that. This site isn't that different from stuff like reddit or tumblr at it's heart, even if the level of discussion&#
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I feel like the only good reasons to use a VPN are if you're torrenting or if you want access to sites from different countries (foreign Netflix libraries, streams from state-run media channels, etc). Most VPNs worth a damn aren't
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Is that really true though? I would tend to think a transactional employee would be the first to think "I don't make enough to deal with this bullshit" in the face of drama/downturns in a start-up. If it's just a &q
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by el_cujo 7y ago
>And the thing about hiring is, as long as you don’t say the illegal thing out loud, and you use that coded language, you can do whatever you want. This, seems like as long as you say a candidate "isn't a good culture fit"
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by el_cujo 7y ago
The only "raids" I can remember in recent history are things like online polls to choose the new Mountain Dew name or "who do you think won the debate last night polls", but then again maybe it just doesn't make hea
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I think it's totally fair to want to take a sampling of a lot of great authors to try out their work and then maybe follow up on more of their stuff if you find it compelling. True, they might not have the same level of appreciation fo
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I'm not a huge fan of capitalism, but it's a bit of a stretch to call this situation a failure of capitalism when the whole debacle exists because the Chinese government is making demands of Apple, which is not very capitalist. It
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I'm not saying I like this current system either, I but I could definitely see some downsides to letting people legally sell bodies for profit. It certainly seems chilling to me that people could have serious conversation about "w
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Just skimming through the article you posted, it says trials with a similar treatment resulted in one patient dying from a massive immune response and two other got cancer. Sounds like it relies on a virus to deliver the DNA, but I didn&#x2
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by el_cujo 7y ago
> Having watched a control group lose 70% of the people while the people getting the real drug survived is just inhuman. Again, at this stage you're just assessing if the treatment even works. The point isn't to fix one group a
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Needed, I would say yes, definitely. Having controls is really a core tenet of science. I wouldn't really think it's any more unethical than any other clinical trial for any other disease. The whole point is you don't know if

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