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by ksenzee 10y ago
I also know of such an organization. David Fahrenthold did some good reporting on it in the last several months. The bad press doesn't seem to have done it any harm.
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by ksenzee 10y ago
Yet again I ponder the mysteries of how things make it to the front page, and why there is no downvote button on articles. Although it's always good to have a reaffirmation of why I write software instead of trying to use that master&#
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by ksenzee 10y ago
I agree. It would be great if as a society we handled social media (and other addictive experiences) the same way we handle drugs and gambling: adults only, know your limits, here's help getting clean. Instead we have kids obsessively
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by ksenzee 10y ago
This article reads very much like me, a non-drinker, telling you why you shouldn't drink. I've never tried alcohol, but I've heard plenty of bad things about it, and here's a list of them! It's addictive, you know!
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by ksenzee 10y ago
The article isn't about stores transmitting beacons that our devices pick up. It's about our devices transmitting beacons that are then picked up by anyone who cares to listen.
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by ksenzee 10y ago
Yes. Although I think the plural you want is "parents."
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by ksenzee 10y ago
> the key here is to get women to know the odds and keep trying That's getting hold of the wrong end of the stick. The real key here is to fix the interviewing process, like the article said. Quit with the cargo-cult technical quest
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by ksenzee 10y ago
Just what I said: Voting in person is a ritual. You can take your kids with you and show them the foundation of our democracy, right there at your local polling place. Doing things in person has a different psychological effect. Whether or
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by ksenzee 10y ago
Washington state does all its voting by mail now, which is good in a way because it means all the ballots are on paper and subject to verification, but it's vulnerable to all the voter influence problems you just listed. (It also reduc
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by ksenzee 10y ago
I'm absolutely a free-range parent. My kids have the same freedom I had in the 80s to play outside with friends and roam the neighborhood and walk to the store. But come on, man. If I had wandered out on the roof at the age of 5, my pa
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by ksenzee 10y ago
It depends on the restaurant. At a steakhouse, for example, you'll commonly see quite large portions. There was a 24 oz prime rib on the menu at the steakhouse I visited last week.
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by ksenzee 10y ago
You may be correct, but without any research to back it up, this reads very much like a statement of religious faith.
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by ksenzee 10y ago
Treatments other than mindfulness training are not simply a "bandaid." CBT is the gold standard, for example, and countless thousands of people have found it alleviates their anxiety without their ever even learning what "exi
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by ksenzee 10y ago
I've only been in the industry 13 years, and I'm not using a single tool today that I used back then, but I'm still using the lessons I learned: How much time should my team spend on testing vs. code review vs. building new f
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by ksenzee 10y ago
Figuring this pre-tax isn't very useful. If you were in the (theoretical) 70% tax bracket and you spent 30% of your pre-tax income on housing, you'd starve.
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by ksenzee 10y ago
Let's not pretend because SF has problems that nobody else's problems are any big deal.
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by ksenzee 10y ago
No, the NYT is going to use Google Jigsaw in an attempt to improve their comment moderation.
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by ksenzee 10y ago
> The real outcome seems to be that the species is now 1/4 its previous size. I had a sudden panicky vision of miniature quarter-size giraffes caused by improper zoo breeding before I figured out what you meant.
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by ksenzee 10y ago
Not unless you're planning to underpay them. Besides, an all-woman firm isn't such a great idea. That "diverse teams perform better" stuff is for real, and it works both ways. Cutting out half the human population from y
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by ksenzee 10y ago
No, lots of people use password managers. You should try one.
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by ksenzee 10y ago
Nobody ever cheats on their spouse, so this is guaranteed to work.
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by ksenzee 10y ago
In our municipality it has to be double-bagged but it can go in with the regular trash.
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by ksenzee 10y ago
> Should i get a donut and nothing to drink? Sure, why not? I don't drink coffee (or tea either), and if I'm not in the mood for hot chocolate, I get a pastry of some kind, and maybe a glass of water if I'm thirsty. Nobody
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by ksenzee 10y ago
It doesn't take interpersonal interaction skills to be genuinely interested in what a person has to say. And if you can't manage even that much, trying to appear interesting is not going to help. Just give up and be yourself, awkw
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by ksenzee 10y ago
> I've never met anyone on psych meds who is doing really great. Of course you have. You just didn't know it. People don't wear placards around their neck announcing "I'm on psych meds!"
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by ksenzee 10y ago
Oh, you mean like "Donne-moi une fois quelques minutes" - the exact same construction as the parent was pointing out exists in Wisconsin. Fascinating. Thanks for clarifying.
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by ksenzee 10y ago
"Une fois" means "once" in standard French ("il y avait une fois..."). Is there a specific context you're thinking of where it's used in a non-standard way?
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by ksenzee 10y ago
> aquafaba, the viscous canned chickpea liquid most of us dump down the drain, ...works as a whipped cream substitute on top of a banana split Nope. Nope nope nope.
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by ksenzee 10y ago
Those Lululemon garments you enjoy are leggings, not tights. Tights cover the foot as well. (They're not pants, either, as far as I'm concerned, but I'm more likely to buy a women's top from ThinkGeek than Lululemon so I
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by ksenzee 10y ago
> Where were the teenage girls who shared my obsession? We were around. I spent my teenage years hunched over computers in my garage too (TRS-80 and IBM XT for me). As it happens, I didn't get into the BBS scene -- my parents wouldn

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