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by jbob2000 6y ago
This also means your team's day does't start until lunch.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I think the EU is doing this to spark interest in EU tech companies. Right now, you get laughed at if you suggest building a social network product. But if the legislature can create an environment where this market opens up, then it might
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I read your articles, thanks for sharing. A community of people can loudly declare whatever they want, it’s their actions that determine who they are. Go and look at some surveys from furries, like the ones listed in the Wikipedia article.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I think your documentary is biased, as it’s been made and hosted by a furry themselves. On the Wikipedia page about furry fandom, it says: > The furry fandom has its roots in the underground comix movement of the 1970s, a genre of comic
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by jbob2000 6y ago
It’s disqualifying because, in the case of furries, it started as a sexual fantasy. Much of the furry community sees fursonas as a sexual choice. If you included pictures of scantily clad people in all of your posts, I would also hesitate t
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Put yourself in the shoes of someone who wants to send these articles to their manager to support an idea/project of theirs. It absolutely detracts from the professionalism of the post. Any joe-schmo can string together smart sounding
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Solar panels aren't the only way to generate energy using the sun. You can build a concentrated solar farm (see: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/06/motorsport/morocco-solar-... ) which uses mirrors a
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Many in the LGBT community feel that the acronym does not accurately capture their identity. LGBTQIA+ is the currently acceptable acronym to use, so you can see how the use of .lgbt would be "harmful". Also, you can't have a
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by jbob2000 6y ago
All phones have hardware killswitches. It's called a dead battery.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
It was tongue-in-cheek. Because if we'd be allowed to deploy a robot to stop loggers, then we'd also be allowed to just not let the loggers log. The problem is humans are taking over nature. Planting a couple of trees here and the
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by jbob2000 6y ago
What's the smallest nuclear reactor possible? Could I have one to power my home, for example? Or is the energy released from even a single particle so great that it needs a huge structure to capture it?
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I wouldn't call what smartphones do "spying". But if you're already at a place where you consider these devices adversaries, then sure, cutting off your nose to spite your face is the right move.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Trees plant themselves, they've been doing it for millions of years! What we need is an anti-deforesting robot.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
This isn't a good thing, smartphones are cheap products, all we're doing with this device is making a toy that will gather dust after a few months. It's wasteful to ship a product like this where 90% of it doesn't work.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
At my company, we have Technical Service Analysts and Developers. The distinction is that a developer has power to modify the application they manage, whereas a TSA only has the power to use the application they manage. Both can write cod
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by jbob2000 6y ago
If you're going to open source this, at least do us the solid of not hosting the compressed version. You haven't stopped me from reading your source code, you just made me hate you for having to copy and paste it and click format.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Why is nobody asking how a recommendation engine is supposed to work if there’s nothing to recommend? Is it possible that even computers recognize 90% of media as garbage?
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by jbob2000 6y ago
He’s not controversial if you believe in reality. A good example of something that may get him attacked is his anti-creationist post, https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/28/creationism-unchalleng... . Any time
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Why did everyone leave digg? It wasn’t because they fucked up the news aggregation, it’s because they fucked up the community - the ambitious and passionate users couldn’t get their posts to the front page any more, it was reserved for peop
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by jbob2000 6y ago
This isn't helpful in the context of an app where its purpose is the community , so you haven't really answered OP's question. I can't play reddit on single player mode. Communities start around passionate, interesting
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by jbob2000 6y ago
What do you define as long term? At some point, the best answer for longevity is for a company not to exist at all, given that the purpose of most companies is extraction , or some sort.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Here’s what I don’t understand (childless person); How did parents get by for thousands of years always having children by their sides? What is it about the modern world that makes children act like starving cats all the time? Is it the sug
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Airport security is one of the vestigial organs of the military industrial complex. The purpose of these ID checks and X-rays are to drive funding to the companies that make these machines. Now that these companies are sucking on the teet o
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by jbob2000 6y ago
You aren't contributing honestly. The police systems work, but they have problems. And again, don't view Canadian policing with an American lens . Toronto, for example, has an independent division of police called the SIU, Specia
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by jbob2000 6y ago
This is no different than the human profiling that Police engage in. Except now we have logs and we can track the decisions that are being made. We can adjust the algorithms rather than re-train humans. We can replace an algorithm quickly i
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Netflix has a documentary series called Unwell which dissects these modern "health therapies". They have an episode on Bee Sting therapy, which the documentary does a pretty good job of explaining fairly. I recommend this if you&#
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by jbob2000 6y ago
This is my layman’s understanding; “The price of Big Macs should be rising at a steady rate. It is bad if the price of Big Macs falls. Let’s put in some policies to make sure the price of Big Macs rises steadily! Oh wait, they aren’t rising
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by jbob2000 6y ago
> They take a special glee in breaking your code in ways you did not think of. God, this is so true! It's made me a better developer though; "You know this will break, make it better so Carly doesn't yell at you" .
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by jbob2000 6y ago
That's a good point - we're still doing TDD, just with "human code" instead of computer code. You're correct that they write out explicit test cases for each of the acceptance criteria. It's not cheaper than de
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by jbob2000 6y ago
The design damage from TDD is very real, I'm unsure if the complexity added is of any real value. But once you turn your mind to it, it becomes second nature. I wonder if people's woes about it are because it's hard to change

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