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by mfoy_ 9y ago
>Jay Belsky, a professor of human development at the University of California, Davis, predicted 25 years ago that growing up under conditions of adversity would accelerate sexual maturation, a prediction borne out by research. Wow! This
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Care to give some examples? I can think of a few general counterexamples: * Fad diets (people flit from fad to fad, not outright reject all fad diets from then on) * Losing your faith, but then being fascinated by a foreign religion (i.e. T
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I also like that it repeats the theme of "arriving at the correct solution for the wrong reasons" that underpins so, so much of human scientific endeavour. It makes me really curious how much of our current medical (or other) kn
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Culturally ingrained beliefs (especially when related to status symbols) can be really, really hard to unseat. Similarly, Doctors did not use to wash their hands before surgeries, as they were considered "Gentlemen", and thus &quo
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Apparently not.
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I bought my Samsung Galaxy S5 in early/mid 2015 and it's still going "strong", although a bit laggy at times. The only issue is the battery has started swelling (again). I think I'll upgrade this time instead of rep
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I was thinking of changing from my old Android phone to the iPhone 8... Is now not a good time?
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Well, these are beasts of a different feather. These 416 aren't orbiting around each-other like in a Klemperer Rosette, they're just equally spaced out alone the same orbit around the sun. So it's a lot easier to get higher n
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Microsoft's "Ribbon" thing is very distinctive, it's not "obvious"... although whether it's "good" is debatable.
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So you're just denigrating the entire concept of patents? O.K.
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It's not creepy , it's pushy .
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Oof, imagine browsing through prospective plumbers' Facebook profiles... Just adds a whole layer... of... weirdness.
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Sounds like his head is already in the game!
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Software development needs some sort of Iron Ring ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring ) to remind us to be humble.
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If we want to accept that privacy is important and valuable then we need to accept that it is not okay for our industry to continue to do what it has been doing. I challenge you to give me an example of some "demonstrably bad" e
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No. Professionals in engineering or the trades have to know the regulations that govern their industry and abide by them. What many SVers call "innovation", other industries would call "reckless". How embarrassing for us
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>GDPR will require developers to know the legal and policy landscape of their profession. (This has been the norm for other fields for centuries: how embarrassing for us.) Favourite takeaway.
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This article is all very well and good, my only concern is that, imagine in a few years someone wants to find the list of all the laws and regulations and frameworks and whatnot that they need to comply with to run a truly international web
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Don't forget child labour! Clearly we're missing out on this great untapped pool of cheap workers!
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Spud gun links to "Sputnik 1", so if anything it's just weird that "Sputnik-1 EMC/EMI lab model" doesn't appear to link to "Sputnik 1" Well, rather, it DOES. Maybe the unencoded '/&#x27
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The whole trope of romanticizing the past... you know... Make America Great... Again? As if it isn't, but it... was?
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I'm imagining a tool that you run against a ToS or a EULA or whatever and it spits out bullet point plain-English results. It would make actually reading the damn things plausible.
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Oof. The "good ol' days".
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I mean... if you want to be really pedantic, there are technically some silver linings. But the disadvantages outweigh that stretch of a silver lining by so many orders of magnitude that it's almost insulting. It would be like telling
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If by "real work" you mean force time distance, then suuuure. The entire software industry does very little "real work", since it doesn't take very much force to move the keys on a keyboard only a little bit down.
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Especially because technology drives automation, and automation pushes us ever closer to a very difficult question: What, exactly, will happen when all jobs which can be automated, are automated?
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I guess the problem comes when the tool is so good that it no longer requires the worker who uses it, i.e. automation. When all jobs that can be automated are automated, where are we left? As a society? Do we argue against automation be
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Assuming that everything menial can be automated, we're left with very few "real jobs". So where do the non-creative non-entrepreneurial types land? Do they live in some dystopian future where they have to dig holes for the s
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His point is fair, though. The article describes two types of approaches taken by the roaches. But only shows the "clever" variation, with the angled body. The main finding was that even when the roaches did not angle their bodi
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I feel like if I carried a knife I'd just be that more likely to cut myself on it, or have it taken and used against me...

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