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Accidents at Amazon: workers left to suffer after warehouse injuries(theguardian.com)
114 points by mcfunk 8y ago|23 comments
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by mcfunk 8y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only person who rolled my eyes at this (and in my case, decided there were other things I could be doing with my browser). Perhaps it's good communication in that it signaled to me that what followed woul
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by mcfunk 8y ago
I love fermented things on the whole, seriously (including e.g. pickled herring) but despite being outside and having the can opened underwater at a progressive dinner party, the smell was god-awful and the little bits that got on our cloth
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by mcfunk 8y ago
The most interesting suggestion I read about this was: > With the rescuers, doctors and other staff likely to enter the cave, rescuers could open scuba tanks to ensure they had all enough oxygen. “It will create air pressure and the car
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by mcfunk 8y ago
Fantastic resource.
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by mcfunk 8y ago
My jaw definitely unclenched seeing that Pinker was not on this list.
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by mcfunk 8y ago
+1000 for Kate Bowler, every interview she's done, and her podcast "Everything Happens". https://katebowler.com/everything-happens/ The profound intimacy (not without its joy or laughter, but full of bru
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by mcfunk 8y ago
I cannot let this topic go by without recommending this fantastic interview with an artist who created a model of David Bowie's early-career teeth: http://w.dental-tribune.com/articles/news/europe/21686_i
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by mcfunk 8y ago
This really makes me want to fire up the BASIC cartridge for my Atari 400.
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by mcfunk 8y ago
Self-hosted could be nice, though I don't see any other advantages (aesthetic or otherwise) that this offers over Bear ( http://www.bear-writer.com/ ) - though I assume Bear only appeals to markdown users. Also would be
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by mcfunk 9y ago
Thanks for linking this. The community response is quite something. "Even the short amount of time I wrote Eve taught me that programming doesn't need to be so complex. If Eve didn't come along I wouldn't have believed y
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by mcfunk 9y ago
We're not doing enough to understand the environmental factors in a trend like this. As fashionable as it is for each generation to shit on the next, "will power" is clearly not explanatory for a shift of this magnitude. I ha
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by mcfunk 9y ago
There will never be a point at which there is nothing left to invent or discover; it will be preempted by a point at which humanity is no longer around to invent or discover anything.
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by mcfunk 9y ago
> The human body is so complex. We can try to gather some knowledge by means of experiments, models and statistical data, but we must realize that the scientific method is a human endeavour and is therefore imperfect by definition. Being
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by mcfunk 9y ago
Absent public service loan forgiveness (which we may very well soon be, if Republicans in Congress get their way), the number is actually 30 years and the forgiven amount is taxable income. Additionally, income-based plans often result in p
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by mcfunk 9y ago
Pebble definitely does. 1 year into being orphaned, mine is functioning quite well with the exception of the Misfit app being flaky and now-unsupported. And the rebble community makes the future look more promising: https://rebbl
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by mcfunk 9y ago
It's unfortunate to see laptops conflated with "all electronics" here. I benefitted greatly from using SoundNote on an iPad in grad school, which allowed me to make recordings of lectures that I could then annotate in real ti
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by mcfunk 9y ago
When I give feedback on something important in the technology, I have to repeat myself, repeat myself, wait a week while you "think about it," and then finally have a male co-worker go over it with you so you can, in a 5 minutes&#
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by mcfunk 9y ago
Women don't have a choice as to whether we participate. It comes up everywhere. It comes up in our workplaces, and as the minority group in conversation, we have to be there to contradict the people who take it as justification for the
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by mcfunk 9y ago
This is exactly it. Women in spaces (virtual, in-person, in their workplaces) are being forced into this conversation to defend ourselves, because this "bomb" was dropped/leaked, outside of all relevant context, and now hype
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by mcfunk 9y ago
Right on the nose. And in fact, the proportion of women in computer science was tracking with other sciences until the mid-eighties, when it started to dive, while women's representation in other sciences continued to climb. One of th
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by mcfunk 9y ago
I mean, how nice for you? This article seems to be very much about how there isn't a problem for people like the OP, because people who don't feel they benefit from all-women's tech groups are perfectly free not to go to them
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by mcfunk 9y ago
This is a fine analysis if you imagine that every road only ever has cars on it. But this is not the reality, and speed of cars has a huge impact on the fatality rates of vulnerable road users when they are hit. Results show that the averag
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by mcfunk 10y ago
As a once frequent Farecast user I was initially excited about this, but realized that for the most part airfarewatchdog has completely replaced this use case in my life.