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931.
by gerbilly 8y ago
Of course not, but that's just it, when engaged in as a practise to deprive long term workers of benefits, it is unethical, at least to me.
932.
by gerbilly 8y ago
There have also been studies showing no meaningful long term association between salt intake and high blood pressure as well. The stories that get retold, aren't the ones that are true, but often the ones that are simplest to tell.
933.
by gerbilly 8y ago
Lots of unethical practises are 'Standard practice' these days. So what?
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I read long ago that a famous american cardiologist simply asserted that high salt intake leads to high blood pressure, and that it has been known as a fact since then. Regrettably I can't find the source.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I've been at a few Canadian startups on the tech side, some as lead Architect, and the thing I took away from them is that while they all called themselves tech startups, what they really are are sales organizations . In each startup
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How the infinity pool became a social media status symbol(theoutline.com)
2 points by gerbilly 8y ago|0 comments
937.
Why we all take the same travel photos(wired.com)
2 points by gerbilly 8y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 8y ago
The braces make that more difficult, awx and sed can work with YAML more easily, but awk works best on column oriented data, and YAML and JSON are more row oriented.
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Scientists Develop 10-Minute Universal Cancer Test(theguardian.com)
1 points by gerbilly 8y ago|1 comments
940.
by gerbilly 8y ago
> "While the U.S. has similar public spending, its private sector spending is triple that of comparable countries". Healthcare in the US is corporate welfare for insurance companies.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> I am asking, where was the criticism early on? Why was Facebook a darling of the media for so long, before it all changed? I don't think there is a big grand plan behind the arc in the coverage. In the early days of these compani
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I wanted to like jq, but honestly, I can't figure out it's crazy syntax.
943.
by gerbilly 8y ago
> We are discussing the press' behavior in this thread. I wasn't aware we were discussing just that. It took people a while to figure out the potential downsides of social media, press included. Are you going to tell me that if
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by gerbilly 8y ago
See: https://imgur.com/gallery/snhvea1
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> And also give car owners an incentive to keep their keys safer, given how many vehicles out there are vulnerable to this. Just fixing this for new cars is only half the solution. Why is it always up to us to deal with the consequences
946.
by gerbilly 8y ago
> except selling to Obama was seen as "supporting progressive cause" I'm pretty sure Obama didn't use a Russian troll farm during his campaigns.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
So they are being taken advantage of then. Sounds like they should just legislate away the "Residency match system."
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> during pre-med training: with on-call work hours up to 120 hours a week. Can someone please tell me why they still put medical students through this institutional hazing?
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I think that often people judge programming languages, or frameworks, based on how it would work for them when working on a medium sized one man project. I believe the designers of Go are onto something. It's not just the code, but how
950.
by gerbilly 8y ago
> Who draws a line between generations and why? Market research organizations I think. They segment people into generations (and smaller subcategories) in order to better understand how to sell them products and services. They are market
951.
by gerbilly 8y ago
A famous Zen story says a very similar thing: There was once a general who asked the Zen master Hakuin:"Are there really such things as Heaven and Hell?" "What do you do for a living?" Hakuin asked him. "I'm a
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by gerbilly 8y ago
>In my experience, OOP is just way too restrictive of a model... Maybe, but if it's cross cutting concerns that bother you, just combine OOP with an aspect oriented programming library.
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Learn Git Branching(learngitbranching.js.org)
300 points by gerbilly 8y ago|27 comments
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Schelling 1971: Dynamic Models of Segregation [pdf](suz.uzh.ch)
1 points by gerbilly 8y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> If you have a week there, and it's on the list of things to do, why wouldn't you go do it? Maybe one day. I guess I'd rather pack in as much surfing as I can. I don't feel I've missed out on the Haleakalā sunri
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I believe there is such a thing as "queuing culture." I don't know if it's driven by Disney resorts and cruises, but it seems as if people like standing in line for some reason.
957.
by gerbilly 8y ago
This reminds me of the first thing everyone asks when you tell them you just got back from Maui: "Did you go see the sunrise on Haleakalā?" And, no I have not, because I don't want to wake up at 5:00am while on vacation and d
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Beautiful ad. It made me think how many strange beautiful worlds humans may have destroyed already. It's a bit ironic that we then create fiction and movies, say like Lord of the Rings, that invent all sorts of fantastical lost worlds,
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> They have become vassals of Facebook (and Google) in order to harvest the clicks they desperately need. I know a lot of people in the newspaper and magazine industry, and this comment is spot on.
960.
by gerbilly 8y ago
> except they give you much more information at a time without having to endlessly scroll. I think getting people to scroll isn't an accident, they want you to have to scroll. Scrolling a website makes you physically interact with

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