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by jazzyk 11y ago
No, it is not rude. The seats were made to recline and I have never heard any flight attendants asking not to do it. You just take advantage of the comforts (mediocre, but still), offered to you.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I know you were being sarcastic, but airlines should start charging more if you are overweight, but NOT if you are tall. Height is genetic and normal and can't be changed. Being overweight is not normal and can be changed. It is that s
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I don't think they can be called terrorists, if they fight against the armed forces of ISIS. They don't knowingly attack civilians (surreptitiously).
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by jazzyk 11y ago
The proven business model: sell at a loss, but make it up in volume. Proven to go bust, that is.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I may claim that my encryption is breakable (any encryption is breakable), therefore legal. It will just take them 5 years to break it :-)
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Also, should the EFF score some victories, it would set a precedence and spread to other countries (spying agencies seem to follow the US)
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Left and right are increasingly meaningless labels. These days it is more pro-establishment vs anti-establishment. For example, the most vocal people on privacy are an amalgam of independent thinkers on the "left" (The Guardian, e
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by jazzyk 11y ago
The Economist is increasingly pro-BIG-business, pro-establishment, rather than fair/free-market (as it used to be).
609.
by jazzyk 11y ago
When it comes to protecting your money, cynicism is a good thing...
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Not the headline news, which is what most people consume. There ARE despairing articles to be found, but you need to reach out a bit to find them.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Agree. But I don't think that mutual lack of trust between employers and employees can be fixed, primarily for one reason - executive compensation (which has multiple repercussions): Many executives are incentivized to maximize short-t
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Forgot to say that these numbers are rarely ever mentioned by the mainstream media (MSM), not to spoil the back-slapping narrative of politicians and their sycophants "See? We stabilized the economy and saved you from a depression&quot
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by jazzyk 11y ago
The two - very telling - numbers to explain worries about money: - 62.4% Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate - the lowest in 38 years! ( http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000 ) - 9M people on Disability Insuranc
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by jazzyk 11y ago
See my response in the other subthread below
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Workplace accidents are caused by working in close proximity to heavy equipment and industrial machines. Do you not think that working in dangerous and/or unhealthy jobs (or being stationed in Afghanistan) affects your happiness? (Ther
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Your point about working conditions being the reason for fatal accidents is obviously correct, I thought it was kinda implied (wanted to keep it brief). I was not discussing potential benefits (or lack thereof) of circumcision - rather poi
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I listed "cons" because they almost certainly affect the high rate of suicides among men - the very topic of this thread. The statistics listed support the "deck is stacked..." statement. It is hard not to be frustrated
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Down-voted for stating fully verifiable facts?
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by jazzyk 11y ago
All very true. Perhaps men are more suicidal because the deck is stacked against them: - 93% of workers who died at work due to fatal accidents or violence were male - 77% of males are genitally mutilated at birth (in the US), female mutila
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by jazzyk 11y ago
This. While it is overall encouraging, I was also taken aback by the very narrow margin this resolution was passed (285 to 281).
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Cool stuff, sure. But, in my opinion, IoT will be slow to take off until the security aspect is solved - and it is a tough one.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Yeah, all the pictures of her in various affected poses, always in black turtleneck...She must have been on more magazine covers than most politicians or celebrities. Such pretentiousness and in-your-face personality cult (of a freshman-yea
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I am provoking to make my point. "Mentally ill" may mean a dangerous psychopath, or someone taking anti-depressants. Labels: Slippery slope.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
You are correct - that was my point!
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Not just political views. Most people would agree that mentally ill people should not have children. But what constitutes mentally ill? The line is fuzzy - perhaps someone is just a bit "quirky", but still could be a good parent?
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Well, CPU utilization is the least of Hadoop's problems (picking on it, because it is the most well-known JVM-based framework) Hadoop core has some shockingly bad design choices (lots of disk IO), and no amount of layers on top of it i
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Agreed. How I wish that (at least for the remaining few conferences where you can submit a proposal without having to be a "silver sponsor"), submissions were "blind". No name submitted, you get a reference number back t
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by jazzyk 11y ago
No disagreement here - but it is all in the past now. With the possible exception of Watson/supercomputing, IBM is a shadow of its old self.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Yup, it is all about giving consumer a "choice".
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Yes, while the utterance itself is general in nature, I object to (ab)using it outside of discussing software language features (as it was originally used).

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