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Yes well the Copenhagen interpretation is the most widely accepted interpretation of Quantum mechanics, so it's not crazy incorrect to equate the two
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He has undergone six different chemo therapies since then but none have been successful. His Consultants have concluded that he is now in a position where his only hope of reducing the cancer enough to be able to receive a life saving stem
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Bullshit. 80 hours a week is at least plausible. Working 100, no fucking way. That's 9am - 11:15pm actually physically inside the office EVERY SINGLE DAY OF YOUR LIFE. There is no way "most" of the gamedev industry do tha
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Who the hell works 100 hours a week? 14 hours a day, every day of the week?
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Yes, definitely. I think our current consumerism is unsustainable and will either kill or mostly ruin us and the planet. More unemployed people will either lead to us realising we don't need to constantly be consuming more, or revolu
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It just slows down, people buy less, then, because of the low sales, companies lay off employees, so people buy even less...and so on. Good. I think the world could do with less consumerism.
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You don't need to refocus. You're focusing on the screen which isn't moving.
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238 streams to cover the cost of a single CD Justin Bieber has very roughly 5 billion plays on spotify. Using your math, that would equate to 17 million CDs sold. Seems pretty reasonable. I'm sure he would have been better off befo
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I don't get what is so bad? If you watch the video it has a story, it is just really poorly animated.
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Read up on what the word regressive means in this context before going off on your anti gub'ment rant
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Well that's the trade. You get a guaranteed pay, the company assumes the risk and gets the reward. In dollars today it would be about $45,000- and think of all the times they would have done that development and the product didn'
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U.S. manufacturing makes more than it ever has. There are just fewer jobs because automation has replaced them. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-manufacturing-dead-outpu...
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could imply a possibility of perceptual differences isn't quite the same as is able to discriminate among shades of green that basically look the same to us
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Obama was a community organiser in 1985, 22 years before the presidental election. He had already made political speeches in college previous to that (where he majored in political science). After that he was a civil rights attorney, and
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And the meat-man with a vengeance shows up. Yeah but he only showed up because the vegan made the discussion about veganism. People who eat meat aren't going around making every discussion about eating meat, they just appear when ve
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Except in this case (if this is what happened??) they're paying a bribe to do something you shouldn't be able to do anyway. This isn't paying a bribe to conduct standard business, they're paying a bribe to access someon
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But for those classes it is a censorship with a relatively limited effect. In this case we're talking about removing these opinions from the internet. the initial requests we received to terminate their service came from hackers who
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Censorship is when the state I, and most other people, disagree with this definition. Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information that may be considered objectionable... Governments, private organ
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don't see why an appeal to authority is necessary. If you didn't want to discuss their authority, then don't bring it up- "youtube faux philosophers". You made an attack on their authority and the other person ju
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There's a huge, gaping difference between those two things Is there? If you need companies to effectively publish on the internet, then those companies refusing to work with you means you can't publish. Do you consider that ce
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talking about how the author said women are less suited to being good engineers Quote from the memo: "I'm simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ "
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Disney makes a lot of content. You might think of Disney as Disney animation studios, but the company makes a lot of stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_f... That doesn't even coun
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I see lots of people cap out at senior engineer What's wrong with that? The majority of software engineers are senior engineer or below, any skill you only need to make it past that level clearly can't be considered core to the
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The sort of strategy that enforces existing, useful social norms in my country. Nobody in any company I have ever worked at has done anything like this. If anybody ever said "the Marxist intellectuals transitioned from class warfare
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No I don't, because I don't live in the U.S. Google didn't fire him for the reasons I gave.
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I'm not saying people shouldn't discuss company policies. I'm saying they shouldn't turn those policy discussions into a national/cultural political argument. If you say "interviewers are being sexist and so w
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Reading the letter, what surprised me was how political it was, framing everything as a "left vs right" cultural fight. I think if it was up to me I'd probably fire anybody on either side of that debate who started circulati
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White hats have to traffic in I feel like you're changing the terminology here in order to confuse the pretty clear lines. Obtaining and analysing != creating and selling.
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I'm reading this as someone being upset that they were asked to pay for what they ordered So you assume some unstated motivation behind something and then get angry about the thing you just made up? Hmmm...
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Once code is developed that proves to be bug free, it can be used over and over with no bugs! Doesn't seem to quite work like that in real life.
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