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by joesmo 11y ago
Over 90% of accidents are caused by human error. That doesn't mean it's necessarily the truck driver's fault, as there are other drivers on the road. But if it isn't his fault, it's the fault of another driver. Cons
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by joesmo 11y ago
Honestly, it doesn't matter what SV people think. If they want to claim this isn't true, they're essentially claiming a mass employee conspiracy. Let's see, a mass employee conspiracy against Amazon or Amazon, a large co
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They make a ton of mistakes. This is by far, the worst feature of the American health care system and it shows up as bad care, lives lost, and huge costs. Every single American who pays for healthcare is essentially fucked by our ridiculo
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by joesmo 11y ago
On-call is not the norm, nor to be expected. I've worked over a dozen jobs easily in this industry and not a single one has had an on-call requirement for any amount of time, let alone throughout the night. This will not be the case as
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by joesmo 11y ago
I use the same with no scaling. I just wish I had a lower desk.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Why the hell would you assume a system developed 40 years ago by phone companies would be secure? That's just insane. We knew this system had holes. Hell, there's even articles from last year which I found out using Wikipedia of a
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by joesmo 11y ago
If he could actually fix the software, it's possible he could break the digital lock to get there. And it would be illegal. So what? At this point, it should be no surprise to anyone that just about everyone in America needs to break t
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by joesmo 11y ago
With a fully distributed model, everyone is essentially running a backbone server. If you don't feel comfortable with such an arrangement, then you'd probably have to opt out. There are plenty of people willing to put up with it,
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by joesmo 11y ago
There's no such slider on my page, only a text box. Tried disabling privacy plugins, but they're not the culprit.
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by joesmo 11y ago
So City Hall would actually save less money (12k vs 13k/14k) than the two regular homes I tried in San Francisco. If the numbers are correct, we're looking at $650-700 a year in savings. Not bad, but not that great either, especia
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by joesmo 11y ago
Going to HR is indeed the end. I had one boss suggest that some incredibly minor conflict be solved by HR. Immediately, I knew it was time to change jobs. A few weeks later, when I handed in my resignation, my boss was surprised and tried t
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by joesmo 11y ago
Sounds like Bezos is just doing damage control. The original article is somewhat interesting but hardly novel. I've never talked to a single person who worked at Amazon who had anything positive to say. You have recruiters recruiting f
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by joesmo 11y ago
I don't see any reason that a standup is superior to sending an update email in the morning and many reasons why it's inferior. Mainly, it's a tool for managers to feel important. That's it. There's no need to optim
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by joesmo 11y ago
Seems just like an excuse for Putin to censor dissenters.
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I think the many successful businesses and open source projects that exist prove that not only do we have the right tools, but that real, successful, big projects can be and are completed with some or all of the contributors being remote.
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by joesmo 11y ago
That's a really great summary. It's an interesting alternative way for companies to produce a fair amount of open source contributions and still make money. I can definitely see this with other companies including ones that specia
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by joesmo 11y ago
You just proved yourself wrong with your own link: "The allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are pretty straightforward in terms of Swedish law: he's been accused of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.
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Exactly. Now they're bowing down to the demands of children (who are likely to be over 18, but still children) and that's the problem.
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It sounds to me like they're not interested in being in class at all, are causing disruptions in the education of the ones that are, and should be kicked out of university.
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by joesmo 11y ago
My argument is obviously not meant to be taken literally. It's a _reductio ad absurdum_ argument. I should have said destroy instead of abolish, as that is already happening because students are refusing to learn because they're o
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by joesmo 11y ago
I don't need to. The article already has. I'm not sure if they're female, but that's irrelevant.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Does it help women if we stop teaching law students about rape law? If you're defending the students in this piece, you're defending ending teaching law altogether as some students are offended by the word 'violation,' a
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by joesmo 11y ago
So you're saying we should bow down to these students, and we should stop teaching law students about rape law and not even use the word "violation" in terms of law to bow down to students' incredibly stupid wishes? Why
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by joesmo 11y ago
None of the campus movements that brought about any change was created by students afraid of words, though. Quite the opposite. These students aren't standing up for anything except their own inability to understand comedy, irony, and
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"The article in The Atlantic that inspired my blog post/rant suggests that this may ultimately be damaging for education and mental health care." No shit. It's the universities' responsibility to teach children and
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by joesmo 11y ago
So you're defending their practice of using ill-informed opinions made by people who don't understand the facts? I'm sorry, but that is not too much to ask of a publication. I'm not talking about getting an expert, sim
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by joesmo 11y ago
Yes, having sex with someone while she/he is sleeping is rape and yes, as far as statute of limitations, it should be treated like murder. The only reason to not make the punishment the same is that it would entice rapists to kill th
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by joesmo 11y ago
Yeah, that's called rape.
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I think the allegations are likely fabricated to get Assange to Sweden so he can be extradited to the US.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Although this particular case is highly political and likely fabricated, the tragedy of such a law of limitation applying to rape is sickening. That's not just in Sweden, but many other jurisdictions, including most of the US states. T

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