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by jazzyb 10y ago
> how does income affect stop-and-frisk or drug possession arrests? It's typically poor communities that these tactics are done in. I think the tactics are reprehensible, and race probably does have something to do with it, but I&#
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by jazzyb 10y ago
Fascinating. In Tennessee at the turn of the millennium, I knew many students who were working 6-hour shifts at fast-food joints after school and were working several nights a week. That doesn't even take into account the kids who ha
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by jazzyb 10y ago
> This is a high school student, not a college intern. I know. My comment was addressing high school interns like the student in the article. > during the school year there were incredibly tight restrictions on any job I could have
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by jazzyb 10y ago
That sounds like a wonderful program, and that student sounds significantly more prepared for the working world than most recent-graduates I've met. If I were the company, I would re-think not paying interns. I understand that they do
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by jazzyb 10y ago
Pasting bash snippets into chat is so frustrating when clients try to render emojis :/
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by jazzyb 10y ago
I don't understand the point your trying to make. In most recent high-profile hacking cases, hackers stole customer information (including credit card numbers) from the businesses. The financial fall-out for those customers could be
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Sad reality: It's cheaper to get hacked than build strong IT defenses(theregister.co.uk)
195 points by jazzyb 10y ago|116 comments
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by jazzyb 10y ago
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but I suspect the differences of opinion between you and the person you replied to may be due to age differences. I was a nerd in high school and was picked on when I wasn't being out-right ignored. My
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by jazzyb 10y ago
I had to look this up myself because no one is spelling it out. In short we developed larger brains than our ancestors (which meant larger heads for infants) at the same time that we also developed an upright walking posture (which narrows
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by jazzyb 10y ago
I'm not a professional Python coder, so maybe I'm missing things, but I can't tell if this is really subtle sarcasm or not: > What they did have was a frightening-looking hodge-podge of cucumber-esque feature tests. I say
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by jazzyb 11y ago
I think it's important to think about the effect technology has on culture (both positive and negative). To that end, I would recommend _Technopoly_ by Neil Postman. (And optionally _Amusing Ourselves to Death_ by the same author --
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by jazzyb 11y ago
Such a thing exists: https://www.curecoin.net/ Edit: Also: http://www.gridcoin.us/
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by jazzyb 11y ago
Slang for "beaten".
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by jazzyb 11y ago
My personal experience: It depends on the guest OS. I'm on a Mac. VMWare Fusion runs Windows 7 and 8 with noticeably less lag than VirtualBox. For Linux (Ubuntu Trusty) and FreeBSD 10, I've never noticed a difference.
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by jazzyb 11y ago
The article doesn't characterize the disorder as being without emotions. It quotes researchers as saying that while sufferers display the physical signs of emotions, there is some sort of breakdown either in the expression (as you men
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by jazzyb 11y ago
> I got great feedback by the examiners on the solutions provided. Better comments than most of my peers were getting. But the next day my boss would give me another one of these 80 hr / week problems to solve. Isn't it so odd
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by jazzyb 11y ago
> It is depraved and cynical to suggest that the purpose of a college should be job-training. This is a wholly american idea, and a shitty one at that. Not wholly American. I have a coworker in Brussels who was surprised to find out tha
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by jazzyb 11y ago
I entered A, B, C. The form didn't let me submit the sequence, so they are doing some verification that the entries are numbers. Rational numbers work, though: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3.
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by jazzyb 11y ago
You might be interested in Neil Postman's Technopoly: http://www.amazon.com/Technopoly-Surrender-Technology-Neil-P... It reasons along a similar vein.
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by jazzyb 11y ago
Interestingly, Elixir was created by one of the Rails Core developers mentioned in the article: Jose Valim.
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by jazzyb 12y ago
I find it fascinating how technology changes the definitions of words. I heard a speech by Zuckerberg once that began with the phrase (paraphrasing) "The world has never been more connected than it is today." If you had asked so
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by jazzyb 12y ago
If you enjoyed this article and find the unintended side-effects of new technology fascinating, I would encourage you to read anything by the author Neil Postman -- particularly his works _Amusing Ourselves to Death_ and _Technopoly_.
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by jazzyb 13y ago
To play devil's advocate: The comment was poorly worded, but there is a kernel of truth in it. Being openly gay in the 1940-50's in some places in the US may very well have been a death-sentence. Those people would have been w
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by jazzyb 13y ago
Wow. How true. I started reading this book in college one night right before bed (~8 or 9). I finished it at 4am. I had no idea this book had a similar effect on others.
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by jazzyb 13y ago
The letter is directed to the teacher who taught the daughter's programming class during her last year in the US, and all the incidents that the mother mentions occurred in this US class: "During the first semester of my daughter&
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by jazzyb 13y ago
I am not a lawyer, but this is how I understand it: Hypothetically if they had issued a FISA warrant to the landlord, then the landlord could have let them search the apartment and additionally would not be legally allowed to inform his
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by jazzyb 13y ago
The end of the story sounds suspiciously like Zersetzung: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Zersetzung
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by jazzyb 13y ago
The NSA is heavily Mormon? Where did you get that information? I've been looking around online, and the only thing I'm coming across is conspiracy theory websites about the new Utah compound they're building.
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by jazzyb 13y ago
The clue is "Like slavery in the 18th century, prisons are a necessary evil..." It is a very good piece of satire.
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by jazzyb 14y ago
I would imagine they're hoping the people using the coupons have a good time and then tell their friends about it, and the tour gains more money through word-of-mouth.

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