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by manicdee 8y ago
There are benefits to touching in social environments, agreed. The workplace is not a social environment. It brings together people who otherwise would never have shared the same space, so you need to be super cautious about establishing ne
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by manicdee 8y ago
The important thing is that when Jacinta Adern puts her hand out for a handshake, you don’t Scott Morrison your way in for a hug. Pay attention to the cues, be prepared for non-vocal cues that your physical behaviour is unwelcome in this co
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by manicdee 8y ago
How come the rules that restrict Joe Biden’s freedom to touch other people shouldn’t apply to you? There don’t need to be rules about shaking hands or high giving because those are mutually consensual actions. Fist bumping a non-receptive i
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by manicdee 8y ago
GGP’s comment is that he can’t keep doing the things he used to do like calling foolish behaviour “retarded”, slapping the female members of the seam on the butt in place of the high-five his male colleagues get, or asking female colleagues
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by manicdee 8y ago
They have greater capacity to build batteries than any other car manufacturer. They have a greater propensity to build BEVs than any other car manufacturer, since they are all dependent on dealerships who live and die on income from servici
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by manicdee 8y ago
It doesn’t need to, but that same developer that will jump ship for a pay rise will also jump ship if their pay is cut to afford higher rates for the workers bringing the actual value to the company. Why should I take a 50% pay cut just so
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by manicdee 8y ago
Calling a grocer “Widgets R Us” is neither relevant nor random.
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by manicdee 8y ago
What if you drive safely so you don't have to swerve to avoid the small child?
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by manicdee 8y ago
And yet here I am with a 2010 11” MacBook Air desperately hoping for it to break so I can justify a replacement (just not yet because the new keyboards are crap). I have three iMacs from a Strawberry second gen, one of the last white polyca
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by manicdee 8y ago
Eat the rich. Admit that our lifestyles are designed to drive the consumption based economy, rather than to actually make life more enjoyable. The Australian Aborigines has a stable, sustainable civilisation for tens of thousands of years.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Main difference: smaller form factor, flat sides. This alone makes it easier to hold for people with small hands or motor coordination issues (eg: elderly people).
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by manicdee 8y ago
Al Capone was only convicted of tax evasion. I am sure he denied that accusation at the time, and he also boasted about a plea bargain that the sentencing judge reminded him wasn’t between Al Capone and the court.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Please read the story before commenting on the click-bait headline. This is HN not Reddit or 4chan.
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by manicdee 8y ago
I do mind him being mocked when mocking him means you have totally failed to understand the situation.
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by manicdee 8y ago
He’s not an anti-vaxxer. He’s protesting the policy of not allowing children into school if they haven’t had a chickenpox vaccination. There are different medical opinions on this: IMHO since a private chicken pox vaccination costs upwards
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by manicdee 8y ago
He’s not an anti-vaxxer. Also note that the NHS in the UK recommends against chickenpox vaccine except where there are indications that it would be helpful (ie: you spend a lot of time around immune-compromised people). Chickenpox is compli
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by manicdee 8y ago
That is not a excuse for imposing mandatory birth control or sterilisation, and will become less and less pertinent as we pass through this extinction event and all the humans end up dead anyway. As the environmental disaster gets worse, we
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by manicdee 8y ago
The problem is that you are assuming that what these ships are burning is [hydrocarbons] when it’s much more than just that. There are various impurities including sulphur, which lead to extremely dirty emissions such as SO2. The OP is misi
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by manicdee 8y ago
Any attempt to discuss population control will be met with accusations of eugenics and genocide. So what you do instead is promote women’s rights, education about contraception and birth control, health care for children, immunisations, etc
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by manicdee 8y ago
Just because you present the facts doesn’t mean you aren’t biased. Note the focus of some of these articles on individual incidents in a civil war, for example a particular group of predominantly Muslims killing a lot of Christians on a par
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by manicdee 8y ago
Doesn’t have to pretend when it’s actually hilarious :D
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by manicdee 8y ago
Crossovers are — and I intentionally oversimplify — half way between a station wagon/minibus and SUV (4x4 wagon). The main features are higher ride, more head space (the roof of the Y is significantly higher than in the 3), more seats,
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by manicdee 8y ago
I have channels full of “1 blocked message” messages, thanks to people using stupid pointless chat bots. That is one feature I wish they could implement differently (the idea being that you can click the “blocked message” message to see the
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by manicdee 8y ago
Sounds like full stack data visualisation, rather than data science. You’re an engineer applying for science jobs. Check out the series by Jeff Leek, Brian Caffo and Roger D. Peng, “A Crash Course in Data Science.” Hope this helps, I can be
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by manicdee 8y ago
If my routine maintenance breaks the steering wheel linkage in my car, does the resultant crash mean that the manufacturer did not build enough safety into the vehicle to protect it from steering errors induced by negligent mechanics?
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by manicdee 8y ago
Not to say “no” but to understand the company’s direction and only say “yes” to things that align. Important in this mix is communicating direction to the team and explaining the yes & no decisions.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Or Musk thinks picking fights with regulatory authorities is a war he can win. Or Musk just doesn’t give a damn about the SEC considering they take his tweets more seriously than the deliberate market manipulation practised daily by various
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Is Japan’s population currently 1/10th of its peak?
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by manicdee 8y ago
Your claim that the purpose was to manipulate the market has no evidence to support it. If you want to talk about cults at least support your argument with evidence.
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by manicdee 8y ago
He did no such thing. You are probably referencing a series of tweets where Elon was openly contemplating what would be required to buy back Tesla shares. The settlement with SEC clearly stated that no fault was found and no guilt admitted.

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