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by eplanit 5y ago
Thank you for the clarification -- but Merkel has been in power for over 15 years. I don't care how many interested parties and fellow bureaucrats keep re-electing her, or that her position is less-than-queen. For the rest of the wor
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by eplanit 5y ago
Germany should really consider term limits for the bundestag and chancellor. Allowing a single politician to rule the country for an entire generation is absurd.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Hmmm.. Apple makes the phones that run only Apple's OS. Apple's OS runs apps that others create, but only Apple controls (they can dis-approve of you at any time, and can change the rules at any time). Despite paying fees and s
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by eplanit 5y ago
Humor aside, it does raise a legitimate question regarding stereotypes -- there may be very good (biological, psychological) reasons that correlate athleticism with not-so-impressive cognitive skills.
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by eplanit 5y ago
DNA &| cameras, both with proper chain-of-custody would satisfy me.
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by eplanit 5y ago
It's from 2019 -- it was squashed and buried quickly.
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by eplanit 5y ago
That has driven job-hopping forever, and rightfully so. It's a good way to manage your own career. Companies don't give raises to make sure you're compensated well -- they raise it minimally enough to retain you.
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by eplanit 5y ago
It seems like "Principal Engineer" is the new "Architect".
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by eplanit 5y ago
I agree. Codenames were originally internal names for products, to be used to keep the actual product secret. Then the stupid "cool factor" won the marketers, and for 20+ years we get these ridiculous, meaningless names for produc
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by eplanit 5y ago
I don't want to rehabilitate someone who violently murders people. If they took life cruelly, then losing the effective use of their own life is just.
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by eplanit 5y ago
It should be applied only when the evidence is physical and without doubts (eyewitnesses are insufficient).
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by eplanit 5y ago
I'm genuinely curious why you chose the USA to migrate to. Would you have been better off in the EU or Asia?
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by eplanit 5y ago
Security engineers, unfortunately, have a weaker voice at the table than do the marketers and bean-counters. The more secure means would be to require the car be taken to a dealership -- but that's costly to the auto maker (they have t
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by eplanit 5y ago
Coloradoans looking for remote work will now be competing in a smaller pool (with each other), and for fewer positions, than if the whole country were open to them. If other states start this then more will go to India and China.
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by eplanit 5y ago
I think it's legal to discriminate based on geographic location.
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by eplanit 5y ago
My sympathy is with the employers. Colorado did this to itself with such an anticompetitive law. Beyond this effect, it also encourages sending the work offshore altogether.
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by eplanit 5y ago
What is "offensive" is subjective, so it's impossible to algorithmically, or otherwise, to label tweets as such without imposing bias -- which, will be itself offensive to others. Lose-lose. Twitter is a cesspool, and I exp
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by eplanit 5y ago
"San Francisco’s office vacancy rate has risen to 19.7 percent" Wow -- when I was there in the "dot-com boom" of the late '90s and early '00s, such a vacancy rate was unheard of (it was 0.5% for housing, and si
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by eplanit 5y ago
What a tedious read. Note how the writer is simultaneously both a victim and a hero.... and everyone else is vapid and shallow.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Why did people object? Because "purchased" makes it legitimate?
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by eplanit 5y ago
Are prisoners forced to work against their will for no compensation? I think not, and therefore "slavery" is hyperbole. I used to work with mentally retarded people. They had a jobs program where they contracted with companies fo
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by eplanit 5y ago
Correlation does not deny causation, either. It's reasonable to postulate that it's a cause, and then study further to learn more.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Social networking companies seem more like tobacco companies every day.
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by eplanit 5y ago
I like to be clear and differentiate between "dorks" and "nerds". Dorks are insufferable by definition. Nerds might sometimes act like dorks (ex: talking about bitcoin throughout a dinner), but nerds have, on balance,
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by eplanit 5y ago
I remember them hyping blockchain in their tv ads a few years ago -- how they were going to revolutionize everything with it. Pure hype. IBM is a great old brand, but all things pass, and it's way overdue for them. New things grow wher
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by eplanit 5y ago
Preparation for the next event _requires_ understanding the origin of this one to the greatest extent possible. I think it's very wrong to shy away from inquiry of the truth out of fear of politics.
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by eplanit 5y ago
I think that you have confused Go for Java.
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by eplanit 5y ago
My Linux environments are open -- I am free to obtain and run software from wherever and whomever I please, and they're not infested with malware. I apply my own reasoning and decision-making, which includes considering the reputation
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by eplanit 5y ago
Not _yet_, but surely that's on the horizon. We (developers) need a truly open mobile platform, soon!
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by eplanit 5y ago
From what I understand, with murder generally all who participate can be charged equally.

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