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by jack9 10y ago
"surprising" as in "not surprising" - way to go LA Times. You hit another one out of the park with backwards editorializing. Next, another "surprising" link between water pollution and cancer.
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by jack9 10y ago
> Amazon requires employees to obtain written permission even to contribute in your free time I would never agree to this. Generally, if you work at a place that commonly throws around the phrase "<X> is in breach of contract
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by jack9 10y ago
The implication is that if Trump is against everything the ACLU "stands for", the protections are anti-ACLU? This is categorically inaccurate.
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by jack9 10y ago
> Trump did actually already invade a country You're playing with words to fit a narrative, which doesn't match reality. At the same time, the Trump tropes are not about invasion of another country, so now you're being dis
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by jack9 10y ago
> Trump is systematically wrecking the process. Systematic how (what's the system, so far)? Wrecking how? What process? Talking in vague codewords without meaning (except in your head) does not tell me anything about what's wro
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by jack9 10y ago
> I think it would be more accurate now that Trump is anti ACLU and everything it stands for. That's less accurate. I don't think you understand what the ACLU "stands for", in context not in literal acronym. Not to sa
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by jack9 10y ago
The injustice is the negative peace we have been living in. At some point the Executive sins of the Bush/DNC dynasties has to be rolled back. I mean, it's not like he invaded a country and got people killed. It's fantastic th
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by jack9 10y ago
> Sure. It's a nuanced discussion. Nope. > It's not just about price. It's also about the various experience within the local talent pool. Same thing. H1B just made them that way, with both metrics being in favor of the
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by jack9 10y ago
> I also think it's a bad idea on its face Definitely. Leaking information isn't just righteous, it's fun and can be monetized...there's just too much incentive.
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by jack9 10y ago
Not a law. SMH - Any more than Regulations are laws. I don't need to explain it to someone who is intentionally trying to misrepresent facts. Good luck.
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by jack9 10y ago
> This new rule is a violation of the existing contract. The US government down to the municipal level, is not bound by that concept. Ignorance of the law etc. It's strange how many people are figuring out how screwed up the US sys
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by jack9 10y ago
I don't think that's true. I don't think you hear from the "vast majority" of the 1%
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by jack9 10y ago
> I was taken back by this rather harsh treatment of Python. I am taken aback by the evangelical tone of Python enthusiasts, where is has warts intentionally maintained by the creator in the form of missing features. If you want speed yo
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by jack9 10y ago
> Nerds are unpopular because a big component of the definition of "nerd" is unpopularity. It's embraced, but it's not a component. Humans communicate nonverbally more than verbally. Nerds are betas in the classical a
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by jack9 10y ago
Isn't one of pony's strengths, that it's doing GC better?
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by jack9 10y ago
> doesn't reek of a system of crony capitalism and oligarchy? It reeks of political corruption. Money talks and Trump talked the loudest AND was populist. As a politician, you can't go wrong pandering to the largest groups (e.g
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by jack9 10y ago
> Except that if his administration wasn't so far behind on staffing up the department, "Except" sounds like you're trying very hard to disagree while specifically agreeing, for some reason. The failure to staff is th
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by jack9 10y ago
Without context, fringe has no meaning, that is what's pertinent. It's about as popular as Scientology (anti-GMO seems to be about twice the anti-vax).
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by jack9 10y ago
> You were incorrect and you admitted it, which is good Ironically, you are incorrect and have strangely doubled down on it in some sort of pyrrhic victory dance of failure.
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by jack9 10y ago
Smoking must cause cancer is the same kind of misleading nonsequitor. It misses the point. So no it "mustn't" be anything. It just is.
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by jack9 10y ago
Why would he run? His political support is purely from economic interests and the public treats him like a pariah at every turn. Maybe if he wrote a book about the art of the tweet or something, he might have a chance in 30 years. Seriously
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by jack9 10y ago
Bait title for blog hits. These aren't unexpected consequences, they are some of the specific benefits. It adds nothing to the discussion as it's neither comprehensive nor insightful. Why does the author think autonomous cars are
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by jack9 10y ago
As a single guy, I almost never leave my bedroom. The family room with the huge screen TV is rarely used since I torrent most everything. I have a laptop for bed and an attached bathroom. Food delivered by postmates on a lazy day.
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by jack9 10y ago
This title ensures I ignore the article. Wrong wrong wrong. Might as well say "offshore is just as good as in-house"
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by jack9 10y ago
> The thing with learning "haskell", is that there's faar more to it than learning the basic language constructs That would be a compelling reason as to why it's not popular. This basically means your programming expe
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by jack9 10y ago
> Any app that has voice turned on whenever it detects sound by default, without prompting the user on installation, doesn't take security seriously. That's an an opinion.
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by jack9 10y ago
My experience after over 35 years of hardcore gaming (since I first saw pong). Largely, video games are about linear optimizations with multiple complex variables in a highly dynamic (borderline chaotic) environment. This approaches the com
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by jack9 10y ago
> than a wager informed by knowledge of the research on the factors that contribute to longevity. Not the longevity that gets you to 100. The stats on centennials shows it's genetics. - see the Forbes article covering the people stu
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by jack9 10y ago
How is this deep or smart? It reads like the common armchair "this is how to run a company" without so much as an anecdote. In fact, the foundation is his unnerving preoccupation with the number 3, not with any eye for business. &
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by jack9 10y ago
Notice the article starts by talking about the mythical "superstar" instead of the more common "sub-performer" or "redundancy". Employee turnover FUD is all over, when existing dysfunction is ignored. I intervi

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