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by kpil 8y ago
The stereotype joke? Objectified woman and a weird comment on top of that? Misogyny sort of requires an actual women being treated in a way a man would not have been treated. My best guess is that taking offence to this joke requires primin
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by kpil 8y ago
I say that while the issues described in the article are real and not unimportant, I got triggered by the offendedness and the virtue signalling of it all. For one, it's a text based medium. I find it unlikely that people can express t
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by kpil 8y ago
If you can store large amounts of compressed air to take advantage of energy gluts, it's probably better to just storing it and generate electricity to sell on the market when the price is high...
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by kpil 8y ago
Yes, Adams Smith's invisible hand will always deliver the global maximum AND all local maxima at the same time ! So Say We All!
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by kpil 8y ago
I remember this guy that automated his own job while working on distance... In the end he had a full time job automated into a couple of hours a month. https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93696/is-it-un
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by kpil 8y ago
Seems to be a fair amount of desinformation going on. Why does the soldier in the right part of the picture fall, seemingly handlessly? I'm pretty sure gas explosions in a nearby house don't do that.
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by kpil 8y ago
I'm far from an expert but the first google hit seems to indicate that the re-offending rate is higher in Sweden than in US, and on par with the rest of EU, except the other Nordic countries that have half the rate. The paper looks leg
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by kpil 8y ago
The general idea in Sweden used to be that en criminals should become rehabilitated, rather than punished. The crime rate is much lower than US, but I doubt it's related to the relatively lenient sentences. Right now it seems to attrac
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by kpil 8y ago
Uh, lake Mälaren is 440 sq mi and up to 200 ft deep. It's one of the largest lakes in Europe. 5th if ignoring Russia. They get so much news anyway.
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by kpil 8y ago
I highly doubt this. Not the type of planning typical criminals in Sweden are good at. Also, there is no plea bargaining in Sweden.
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by kpil 8y ago
Yes probably. I think the warning against coffee haven't really been based on anything else than "common sense" and possibly that it's a recreational drug. Maybe it's border line if you already have arrhythmia, but
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by kpil 8y ago
I agree, it's tough. Not much to do really, but if I would do this, I'd stay away from changing the methodology and the code, and make it clear that it will be tough to make this fly. Focus on: Reduce scope. Make sure only the imp
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by kpil 8y ago
That makes sense in the bizarre backwards world where security implies security from the users.
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by kpil 8y ago
The problem with JIT is the same as the problem everywhere else: When the wrong type of bean counters look at a cost too nearsightedly, they typically address the "static" costs and miss the hidden costs that are much harder to bo
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by kpil 8y ago
I think it might be more than just "culture". Bugs, maggots and worms are associated with disease, decay, and death. I doubt I've learned to jump when I see a spider, or gross out when I find maggots in the garbage can,there&
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by kpil 8y ago
The problem is more that the lawmakers need something to do... EU is producing a torrent of regulations, which is a bit absurd since it's layered on top of a substantial amount of already existing legislation in the member states. It&#
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by kpil 8y ago
Maybe a lot of agriculture and small business?
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by kpil 8y ago
I don't think you are totally fair - the Wallenbergs started as bankers, caught a chance during the Krüger crash and became quite pivotal industrialists and have a large part in the exceptional growth in Sweden during the 20th century.
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by kpil 8y ago
It means you're drunk.
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by kpil 8y ago
Is it really true though that a few tiny blue leds would affect our bodies that much? If I recall correctly, significant effects required rather bright lights. The light level outdoors is like 100000 times brighter. A laptop probably won&
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by kpil 8y ago
If i remember correctly, they created the first transatlantic ARPA link in the first years of proto-internet, so they were there from the beginning, ie before DNS. Maybe they just stared to use DNS earlier than Berkeley. They had a rather r
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by kpil 8y ago
The CEO dating someone is always sort of problematic, and relationships between people when someone reports directly to one of them should clearly be avoided, but forbidding relationships between employees in general seems unreasonable to m
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by kpil 8y ago
I don't know about 'older' devs, in my experience just about everyone else except the developer who wrote a particular slow function will spam-click if nothing happens after a little while when clicking on something.
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by kpil 8y ago
Is there a yaml parser that preserves comments and a writer that manages to write them back though?
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by kpil 8y ago
It means someone else's server, wrapped in a nice package.
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by kpil 8y ago
Typing something you know is there, is awesome if you know what you are looking for. The traditional hierarchical tree that showed you what was available, by grouping them into narrower and narrower groups, is awesome if you don't
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by kpil 8y ago
It has a inadequately trained police force, apparently with some cultural and management issues, probably under-staffed and wearing down under a high workload and too many encounters with the worst kind of people in some districts, where th
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by kpil 8y ago
Isn't the UN HRC run by a prince from Saudi Arabia and a number of other representatives from undemocratic and repressive states?
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by kpil 8y ago
In Sweden, I'd say it's mostly due to the immigration. The prevalence is much higher, unfortunately also strands that are harder to treat. It's not only stds, also other diseases such as hepatitis and tuberculosis etc, but it
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by kpil 8y ago
I think that maybe the last thing humanity needs is high density- low quality- apartment blocks, built in ill-planned areas that promotes anonymity and does not promote socially sound communities. Especially when sold at a high margin, beca

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