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by joesmo 11y ago
"The other is the so-called Fermi paradox, which claims that we should see intelligent aliens here if they exist anywhere, because they would inevitably colonize the Galaxy by star travel—and since we don’t see any obvious signs of ali
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by joesmo 11y ago
Repetitive stress injuries like carpal tunnel if you use computers, so absolutely yes!
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by joesmo 11y ago
You've obviously never heard of repetitive stress injuries like carpal tunnel and others. Your brain doesn't do the typing/pointing and such crippling injuries are fast becoming the norm in most long-term tech workers. For so
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by joesmo 11y ago
Totally agree. The performance is atrocious. Most plugins don't work. It can't handle files bigger than a few hundred lines. Update fails often requiring a reinstall. It's such garbage, I don't even have it installed any
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by joesmo 11y ago
Probably so but no one makes chairs that go high, except drafting chairs which are extremely uncomfortable and even more so unergonomic for computer use.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Upon upgrading to Yosemite two years ago, Safari stopped working completely on two out of my three Macs (one brand new, bought just months before) with the third one intermittently working. Apple's software quality is really a joke and
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by joesmo 11y ago
What state exactly sends you to jail for failure to use a turn signal or running a red light? I want to make sure to avoid that state at all costs.
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by joesmo 11y ago
So they will only collect my information if I have broken the law? You're wrong.
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by joesmo 11y ago
The pile will topple, you're right. It's just a matter of how. Even people I respect a lot like Radley Balko are not on the right page about fixing the current problems with police. He talks a lot about community policing, liter
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by joesmo 11y ago
Between this and cops simply stealing money, also known euphemistically as asset forfeiture, it's a huge risk to drive anywhere these days. How can ordinary, law-abiding citizens have respect for the law when the law is written to spec
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by joesmo 11y ago
This is the first honest article I've read on the subject of serotonin and neurotransmitters in years. It basically concludes what very few people seem to be aware of: that we do not know what causes depression or anxiety nor do we kno
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by joesmo 11y ago
It's completely clear to me that universities using adjuncts as consultants are violating federal laws and likely many state laws as well. Like most other such problems, the only solution is a major class action lawsuit like the one ag
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by joesmo 11y ago
It's an amazing racket, the art of making criminals out of ordinary citizens, a racket the US government has got down pat. I have to really hand it to them. When the country and the world no longer requires their existence, they keep c
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by joesmo 11y ago
I have little respect for any director or producer who produces propaganda and absolutely no respect for any director or producer who does so at the behest of the government. Also, the movie itself was terrible, even seen as the far fetched
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by joesmo 11y ago
There are plenty of markets that could use a crash in housing prices, not the least of which is the Bay Area market.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Yes, but I'm sure that includes health insurance not on the Platinum level (pays 90-100% of costs) which is even worse than what is described above and truly only for catastrophes. In New Jersey, there is no Platinum health plan < $
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by joesmo 11y ago
Interestingly enough, I just noticed this happening on websites that have been doing it for years. Yes, some of these ads are in your face and you can't help but notice them, but a lot of these ads are in the background. I call the ads
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by joesmo 11y ago
And that's for one young, healthy person! The plans available, coverage, and costs are terrible. I can't imagine how regular workers making < $100k are paying those premiums and they're going up by about $50/year cons
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by joesmo 11y ago
Yup totally agree. That was not a 10x engineer, that was a 1x at best and probably < 1x. Building overcomplicated systems is a sign of a bad or inexperienced engineer and nothing else.
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by joesmo 11y ago
I suspect once the baby boomers are gone things will slowly start to improve. They are generally the ones who both invented and keep alive such atrocities as the drug war, our un-winnable foreign wars in too many countries to keep track of,
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by joesmo 11y ago
This is what happens when you let dogs make legal decisions. Thank you Supreme Court.
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by joesmo 11y ago
I paid for Prime and had my account cancelled for "too many returns," something that doesn't exist in any of their terms of service. Late and lost packages all the time, that goes without saying. Fuck Amazon.
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by joesmo 11y ago
It sounds like he's talking to a bot when emailing Microsoft. I'm not surprised they'd use one to respond to emails.
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by joesmo 11y ago
It says 'startup' but I don't see a business model or customers willing to pay for what they can already get free.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Varying potency. Dealers putting in fentanyl or stronger opiates to intentionally cause an overdose as marketing hype for their product (very common). Misjudging the dose of a known product. Tolerance. Using too much after some time stopped
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by joesmo 11y ago
Naloxone and clean needles should be available cheaply and over the counter, no questions asked. People who help overdose victims shouldn't be charged with drug possession. Until those things happen, I have no doubt overdoses will cont
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by joesmo 11y ago
If Apple doesn't do it or do it properly, someone else will. Who really cares what company ends up making good, safe, reliable electric cars? I think it goes without saying that they're not going to use the same engineering techni
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Creative blocks (2012)(aeon.co)
5 points by joesmo 11y ago|0 comments
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by joesmo 11y ago
Trust is indeed a huge issue that seems to be misunderstood and misapplied in the software community. Stallman's views on trust may seem radical, but he's pretty much right. Over and over I see the things he warns about come true
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by joesmo 11y ago
This is one of the reasons I cannot respect the police or the judicial system in this country and I seriously question those who do.

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