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by nikatwork 15y ago
Feral cats are a massive problem in rural Australia. They decimate small native mammals. The idea of introducing them to control rats and save native animals is insane - the cats would wipe out everything smaller than them. Introducing a fo
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by nikatwork 15y ago
If the animal is an introduced species that has decimated native populations, I would think the morality quite straightforward.
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not to mention, "you approved this yet it broke prod"
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I didn't get this impression. It seemed to me that while the admins found the content personally distasteful, they did not want to erode freedom of speech. This is why it "took so long"; it was a debate, not a clear-cut decision (in their e
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by nikatwork 15y ago
I agree that the author's argument was inconsistent there. They should have stuck to the point that the comments were inappropriate - which is the main issue.
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Sex, politics and religion do not belong in a professional environment. You are there to work, save the other stuff for after hours.
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Just because the guy said some things that weren't sexist, doesn't make the sexist comments less bad.
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As a Yahoo contractor, I did this daily. Filled in a wiki page which was emailed to the project manager at a set time. I loved it, basically a public TODO list that makes your workload clearly visible. The manager could see you were keeping
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by nikatwork 15y ago
Most factory workers are characterized by Western media as being poor, uneducated peasants from rural China who migrate to cities as they have little or no opportunities in their home villages. Now whether this is actually true or not? I do
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unless an official HN person sends out a press release, or asks the reddit people to include it in their press release (assuming they do one).
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Wikipedia suggests the Bushmen need to store nuts for the winter, and during early spring the only available food is game (all the plants are dead). But great point about not having to deal with snow.
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The Bushmen live in Africa. I would hardly call that environment abundant with a friendly climate.
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I think healthy Indians will be both wealthier and more empowered.
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Oz retail imports are controlled by a bloc who artificially inflate prices to line their own pockets. Which is why Oz online (overseas) shopping has exploded over the past two years. I sincerely hope it forces the local market to become com
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by nikatwork 15y ago
I'm going to seize your mobile phone for a year. See, it has some music on it, and there's no way for me to know that you legally bought every song.
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The methedology of the original 2005 study has been questioned. To me it sounds like the researches may have conflated weight loss caused by illness with having a low BMI at time of death. "... epidemiologists from the ACS (American Cancer
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The problem for you as a reader: a monopoly would allow Amazon to jack up retail prices as high as it feels like. Amazon could also eg set very unfavourable terms for authors, so only mainstream literature becomes commercially viable. Of co
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(^-- this is paraphrasing the article, not my opinions)
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My experience developing at digital agencies in the early 2000s agrees with the article. Terrible pay, insane hours and no recognition, even when you pulled off the impossible. Never again.
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OP's point is that there are multiple definitions of simple. The rotary has one use case, the iPhone many. A rotary phone is a simple telephone, so it's an example of Economical Design. The iPhone is not a "simple telephone", so it's an
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by nikatwork 15y ago
Your passion is commendable. I'll not go into the "a <li> is more semantic and accessible than a <td>" debate. I'll just say that 1) display:table-cell doesn't work in IE6/7 and 2) CSS's limitations make it annoying or impos
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I also like how CSS has less layout functionality than tables, specifically <td width="*" valign="middle">. Sure, you can emulate this with "display: table;" but a) it's not backwards compatible and b) that's the same darn thing a
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by nikatwork 15y ago
"Yet I simply cannot safely try them out without an exorbitant amount of work." If you are on Windows, Sandboxie is excellent for this. Just right-click the untrusted .exe and select "Run sandboxed". http://www.sandboxie.com/
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I've found this is due to the difference between small-to-medium business and enterprise customers. Once you pass a certain price point, you are generally dealing with an enterprise. This means 1) they are spending Other People's Money and
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Market size. Drugs are relatively easy to produce and smuggle and have a massive community demand. Nothing else comes close. Added benefit: fewer drug-related prisoners being trained up as career criminals. EDIT: also, "people" refers to "p
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People drink and take drugs because they enjoy it. What illegal activity are you proposing people will seek if drugs are medicinalized/legalized? Saying "oh they'll just move on" is a bit hand-wavey.
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So if I use a tool or product, I must automatically agree with the maker's ideology? I've used John Galliano aftershave, and I'm no racist.
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Code is not prose. The layout rules that apply to a written article do not (necessarily) apply. I prefer code that can be quickly scanned, and hard wrapping at 80 columns (IMO) doesn't facilitate this. If someone doesn't like it, they can t
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by nikatwork 15y ago
With the content-based apps, development is often outsourced to an external company. BigContentCo then gives the developers a content feed that's optimized for web (big PNG images etc). Yes, it would be nice to implement a caching and resiz