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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
I love the relevance of an XKCD as much as the next guy, but a clever graph doesn’t compare to the admissions of the military and US government that these videos are not faked. They can’t explain these craft that seem to be propelled in wa
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
It seems odd to be conducting the search for extraterrestrial intelligence by looking for radio signals from distant planets. Maybe we should figure out what all these UFOs are here first. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Every opinion host out there uses this defense when the inevitable suit is levied. https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/12/28/rachel-maddows-defen...
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
These days, the cycle with the fake news is long gone by the time anyone knows any facts. The facts arrive too late. The clicks have been clicked. The damage has been done. The media moves on to its next money-making event. No real repe
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Same here. At very least, understand the tradeoff you're making. If you love the creation of games so much that it's worth the stress and lower pay, go for it. Money isn't everything if you're doing something you love.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
People bring up actor and athlete unions - but programmer unions wouldn't work that way to allow high-performers to shine, be heavily recruited, and highly compensated. Actors and athletes have extremely high visibility. They are sing
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Stop watching cable news and listening to the prognostications of celebrities who got where they are through their looks or ability to act. The biggest problem we have today is that kids have no context that tells them how great they have i
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Yes, the people who sold the software to the university made a ton of money.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
You have to remember that to some, as long as everyone is in abject misery, it's "fair".
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
to charge someone with something they didn't actually do Not sure how you can frame a previous "strike" as something they didn't actually do. The strikes were actual crimes with convictions. The legal notion of senten
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Yeah, that's because of corruption. Lots of societies and forms of government are workable - whether they lean more socialistic, capitalistic, individualist, collectivist... whatever floats your ideological boat. But add corruption to
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Liberty and Accountability go hand-in-hand. When you try to decouple them, you decrease Liberty and sometimes make it nonviable.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Uh, yeah, I've read the account of the Basecamp all-hands meeting a couple of times. I couldn't believe how childish the whole dispute was after the first reading, so I read it again. Rather than spending that morning strategizin
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
I could see some of what you're saying as well. Although I would argue that if people think it's dead-end job working on someone else's toy -- the company leaders aren't focused on winning. They're still going to
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
I guess if you have a company that is completely isolated from the EU, you just ignore EU fines. But is that the case with Disqus? They are collecting marketing information on citizens of the EU. Who is buying that information? I would a
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
I'm going to be a curmudgeonly contrarian in this thread. You can highlight the text of my comment to make it easier to read after the incoming downvotes. :) I'm not desperately searching for work-life balance, using the latest f
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
If intent counted more, then nobody would be acquitted of a crime on the basis of a technicality One person's "technicality" is another person's last hope to have a core principle enforced like "innocent until pro
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
... and I thought I was harsh with marketers. I don't want their calls, their unsolicited email, etc. I don't want them to have my personal information or be able to buy or sell my personal information. But I don't begrudg
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Some good food for thought in the article. You want enough slack time and energy to be able to accomplish the high priority items. You definitely want to avoid low ROI busy work. But also beware the easy seduction of the idea that you don
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Oxitec mosquitoes carry a fluorescent marker gene that makes them glow when exposed to a specific colour of light, which makes identification easier. Should be interesting to see how long before the females develop the ability to detect a
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Wow, blast from the past. I learned so much poking around on my mac with Macsbug and later, TMon. I think that most of the time I was just looking through games for where they stored things like experience points.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
If it isn't diamonds, it will be land, water rights, drug distribution, religious purity, and on and on. Diamonds are just another means of gaining power and wealth. They're only a problem in societies that don't have the me
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Because people are rational and can be convinced to abandon notions of value deeply ingrained since childhood because of a nice analogy during a single lecture?
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
You can turn around and resell a Banksy for something comparable to what you just paid. Try doing that with a diamond. You walk out of the diamond showroom with it, and its resale value plummets to the value of the base metals, the work of