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by jbob2000 8y ago
My grandparents died in their 60s and 70s. My parents are well into their 60s, still working, and healthy as ever. I don't blame the baby boomers at all, they aren't the problem. The problem is that they're healthy, healthcar
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by jbob2000 8y ago
The decades of data only make sense when you consider that a very small percentage of the population was attending college. Of course they were highly paid; they were rare. If everybody has a college degree, then those skills aren’t rare
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I was able to finish reading the article before the page finished loading. To WebMD: Fix your ad networks and write better articles.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I don't want to call it an unwillingness or inability, because they are good people who do good work. I really just think that at our scale, we move with the world, and the world isn't agile nor does it care about agile, it just
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by jbob2000 8y ago
At my company (80,000+ people, bank), we have an app security department that handles everything. We give them a URL to our test environment for a dynamic scan and we give them the contents of our release branch for a static scan. We are no
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Nobody should be in prison longer than their rehabilitation takes and the focus of their stay should 100% be rehabilitation. The prison system should be structured around reducing costs by getting people out of the system, not reducing cost
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Depends on your skills and preferences. I would choose Ghost since I am a JavaScript developer and would be more comfortable with a node.js solution. I'm actually so happy I was reminded about Ghost by this post, I might try to set it
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> If someone with authority over you isn't willing to take "no" for an answer, they're not going to take "no, you idiot" either. They might! An insult is like a splash of cold water to the face, it's a
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Absolutely, which was why I fought the urge and didn't say it. But if I was getting these requests all the time, all throughout my career, yeah, my guard would get worn down and some harsh words would slip out.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Well I'm of two minds about this. Linus Torvalds is, by all accounts, a bully. But that's how science goes sometimes; it is unforgiving and will make you feel stupid and inadequate, why blame the messenger? And science is hard! Pe
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by jbob2000 8y ago
This all assumes that healthcare is a human right, which I am not so sure about. Why should health education be free but not engineering education? I'd hazard an argument that not everyone deserves healthcare, so it would be difficult
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by jbob2000 8y ago
There are certain cultures throughout the world that are leveraged for their passivity and deference to authority. I too would tell a client that their idea was bad, but I was raised under Western ideals of liberty and individuality, which
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by jbob2000 8y ago
If I work in a coal mine, but don't die due to a cave-in, congrats! I get to live to 65. But my lungs are weak from years of breathing dust and fumes, and during a hot, humid summer, I suffocate and die. 10 years before my wife, who sp
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I read the article and am engaging with it. They completely ignore labour; they've missed the forest for the trees. We spend most of our lives working and our labour is a part of our biology.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Or perhaps your different perspective convinced him to stop work on what would have been an amazing development? I'm just responding to your anecdote and I do agree that different perspectives are valuable. My point above was just that
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by jbob2000 8y ago
This article misses the elephant in the room (as if how we store fat has any bearing on it, what a joke); men work dangerous jobs. > A large majority of occupational deaths occur among men. In one U.S. study, 93% of deaths on the job inv
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by jbob2000 8y ago
As a developer, my requirements are handed down to me from business. I have a small amount of power to suggest improvements, but largely, the design of the system isn't handled by me; I just implement it. I'd agree that having dif
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by jbob2000 8y ago
This is sad. You have relegated your child's cognitive development to a cheap electronic device. He's supposed to be communicating with you and learning how to communicate with people, not crappy electronics designed to gather you
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I'm curious what people think about protest commits. Would it be unethical for a group of employees to get together and push an update to put up a protest banner across some google software? Much like a picket line across a factory ent
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by jbob2000 8y ago
That’s a huge list of assumptions. I’m really surprised I’m getting downvotes for this. The bill she proposes simultaneously pisses off big business and the right wing. There is absolutely no way this legislation is getting through, it’s
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by jbob2000 8y ago
She totally could have. But other means of suicide give family and bystanders a chance to intervene. Pills and alcohol can be pumped out of the stomach. You can be pulled down from the edge of a bridge. You can rescue yourself from a hangin
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by jbob2000 8y ago
As much as I like what Elizabeth Warren says and stands for, it seems that she has absolutely no power to get anything done. So much so, that whenever I see her name in a headline, I know to avoid the article because it's all fluff and
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Oh 100%, I agree. But good luck having that conversation in the US.
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You'd be under the jurisdiction of the Ontario Provincial Police and their marine unit would no doubt ride some snowmobiles out there to find out wtf is going on.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Hey, no offense, but NYC has a few very large arts colleges and the city is teeming with arts majors looking for work. If you want to immigrate there, you'll need to really stand out from students that were hand picked from all over th
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> Wait for the snowplows, let the cars dry things out This could take 2+ days, how will I get to work on those days? > electrically heat everything on the scooter So I basically need a car that isn't a car at this point, ok! I&
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Nope, this will never catch on anywhere that experiences winter. You can't ride a two wheel vehicle on icy roads and it takes a ridiculous amount of clothing to keep warm. If I have to buy a car for winter to accommodate my scooter lif
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Looking at this with another lense; Spotify could use a DPO to cash out quickly, fearing they are a relative flash in the pan. The streaming service market is in an interesting place right now, with Hulu posting big losses and Disney about
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by jbob2000 8y ago
This is ridiculous, these bikes are a fad. The company will get sold to a gym or furniture giant for pennies once people get bored and realize they paid $2,000 for a clothes hanger. I will say it's an interesting take on an old busines
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Holy crap, y'all are still missing my point! Having an employee open a locked cabinet would be AMAZING if it reduces packaging. I don't give a shit about costs, why do you think I care about cost savings? I care about reducing was

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