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by mdisraeli 13y ago
And people wonder why we need LGBT+ activism still.... It is worth baring in mind that this incidentally will affect a lot of people in Europe and North America. India is a primary area for companies to outsource not just their technology t
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
That Octopus is probably one of their tamer patches. The National Reconnaissance Office missions have the best patches - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_Launches and http://www.thelivingmoon.com&#x2
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Ooooh, you have a good point! "Pick two out of three" is a nicer soundbite, but that is an important motivation :) I shall include that from now on!
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
"it’s the same damn molecule with a few cosmetic changes" pretty much tells you everything you need to know about this article. As any chemist worth their salt will tell you, small differences to molecules doesn't necessarily
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Politicians, non-profits, charities, and the like all typically argue that in order to get the best talent for the job, they have to offer competitive enough rates to ensure they even get a look-in compared to big companies. There is an arg
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
' [just] the government/military who are obsessed with labeling things "Cyber." ' By extension, this means anyone who works with them, which means in turn any FTSE/NASDAQ 500 organisation and their partners&#x2
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
I used to think that, but then I realised that within enterprise, "cyber-" comes with 20% extra salary for the same role. Downside is having to be able to translate for suits, upside is /you get to translate for the suits and
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
A delightful synthpop duo actually made a song that would make an ideal tie-in :P http://spray.bandcamp.com/track/pretend-girlfriend
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Anyone know the details of the music Spacex used on the feed when not broadcasting?
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Note that your own source is more or less not a rebuttal, certainly not enough to call the 'PBR' an "imaginary fact". From it I would draw the following conclusions instead: 0. It is a Letter To The Editor in a scientifi
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Web apps that only officially support older versions of IE. In some cases, blocking entirely other browsers even if they would work. And even when they don't, the vendor only officially supports certain browsers and rejects any inciden
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Surely you're just ignoring the other possibility - that increasingly gendered marketing is helping to drive feminism (which, from the people I know, does look to be the case!)
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
http://www.wisegeek.com/have-pink-and-blue-always-been-consi... http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/When-Did-Girls-St... - extract from this: 'For example, a June 1918 article from the trad
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Children have no buying power. Parents and guardians actually perform the purchasing, and will only buy items that they consider acceptable. This is governed not just by their own personal values and media consumption, but importantly by th
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
As the poster on 4chan concludes, you may not want to speak to the police about such things. However, not doing so could potentially result in accusations of knowing but not reporting a crime, or worse - destruction of evidence. I suspect t
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Generally most trans people have commented during QUILTBAG events or private company. I've found that in a formal office environment, they tend to welcome, or at least not notice, gender neutral defaults
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Because no-one's posted it yet, Tom Scott has a great video on grammatical gender that is worth a watch: http://youtu.be/46ehrFk-gLk
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Putting aside gender theory, there is a much simpler issue here. This is the same issue that affects wikipedia. Writing that deny took more effort than just allowing the change. If it really was trivial, then there is no harm in accepting i
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
'Refering to someone as "they" or "them" is an even worse offense.' I've actually tested this. Or rather, I live by this - I default to gender neutral pronouns for everyone. I have done this for many years
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
If you'd read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_English#Pr... as linked to from your link, you would have seen that there has been issues caused by this style guideline actively preventing women fr
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
"misogynist doesn't take any effort whatsoever anymore" You mean it ever actually took effort? The truth is that our entire society is misogynist. I'm a woman, and I do my upmost to not be, but /because society itse
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
This is why I take bitcoin seriously, the privacy implications are BRILLIANT :P In all seriousness, this is going to come across as a conspiracy theory, but why else would major government organisations be thinking that bitcoin is actually
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Another offer of support - drop me a line if you want a hand with not just technical security, but Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) aspects to such a project. I suspect a project like this has more complex Governance, Risk and Complian
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Not a parody post, but a serious commentary.... 4chan is utterly brilliant, in a "you stay over there, far away from me, and someone else will actually visit you and find the quality posts and link me to them" sort of way :P This
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
I'm trying to use twitter more, but I find keeping up to date with it very difficult! This isn't helped by following several distinct groups of people, and only having mobile client access most of the time. What do people recommen
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Talking to them now about CDNs and other means to handle the increased load - Sorry everyone!
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A crossword based on the Adobe password leak(zed0.co.uk)
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Because pharmaceutical/clinical nutritional sales have very little at all to do with websites! In our tech focused, Business to consumer / mass business market, it is easy to forget about hands-on sales. These products, remember,
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
I am actually excited by their move to an established manufacturer. A good manufacturing partner will be well placed to help them deal with FDA approval, which will be required. However, they big challenge they will eventually face is the e
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
From the link: "I considered Ensure but found it much too expensive, low calorie, unpalatable, and an ingredient make up that was far from complete or optimal" I have family ties into this industry, and quite frankly this comment

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