panzagl

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by panzagl 8y ago
Purity Of Essence
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by panzagl 8y ago
Communications majors work in HR, advertising, PR, etc. Most liberal arts majors are the same way- there are jobs, just no recruiters throwing themselves at you. CS is unusual in that there's a huge demand for recent grads, most other
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by panzagl 8y ago
Time for the weekly thread where CS majors call anyone who is not a CS major stupid and worthless.
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The fallacy is defining all crimes as drug crimes, then saying legalizing drugs will end all crime. Might as well legalize violence directly.
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by panzagl 8y ago
Then we should also get rid of the prohibition on ivory- after all, think of all of those future generations of criminals we're creating by jailing poachers.
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by panzagl 8y ago
TFA didn't mention drugs, it talks about a family where burglary was a bonding activity. Plenty of crime existed before War on Drugs, and it still exists in places where such strictures don't exist.
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"Tracey Bogle, who served a 16-year prison sentence for kidnapping, armed robbery, assault, car theft, and sexual assault" Yeah, he'd be a saint if drugs were legal.
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90% of everybody's incoming calls are spam bots.
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by panzagl 8y ago
Most of the debris in orbit is a result of 2 events, one of which was a purposeful action of the Chinese government. So if humanity can refrain from blowing up satellites, or at least keep from blowing them up in the stupid way the Chinese
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by panzagl 8y ago
Because he knows it's only a matter of time until someone grabs an email of his from 1998 and uses it as the centerpiece of a twitter shitstorm.
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They will have equivalent regulations, and they will tell the US all about your rocket anyway so World War III doesn't start because you thought it would be cool to try to sneak something into space.
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This information was always public though, just no one cared. 'Information wants to be free' is a universal law, not just for governments, universities and corporations.
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If I don't like the outcome the system must be broken...
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Maybe I should be more specific to making money online- but nobody collects data that I didn't give them. The tone of EU laws is that instead they 'took' that data from me.
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The US assumes people are capable of understanding things for themselves- my grocery store tracks my purchases in exchange for coupons and discounts, I feel it's worth it. FB holds my family's pictures hostage to show me ads, not
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by panzagl 8y ago
Between GPDR and the copyright law it seems like the Internet is effectively read-only for European citizens and companies, at least below a certain size.
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by panzagl 8y ago
There's a difference between a company being profitable (revenues>income) and being profitable to investors (stock goes up). Oil companies are profitable, but bad investments, especially long term.
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by panzagl 8y ago
Let me guess, you don't even own a TV.
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There is a fine line between 'right to be forgotten' and 'ability to be disappeared'.
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As someone who went to a recently desegregated school district in the late seventies that was certainly the case, and people weren't even coy about it.
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by panzagl 8y ago
Traditionally it's been a way of playing the odds- between the 5 different services one of them has probably done the right thing. But that only works when you have enough money to throw around.
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You can sue BP, can't sue the atmosphere.
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The also have important secondary uses for controlling humidity and air quality- I may add A/C to my house just to filter out the smoke that is increasingly common every summer.
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by panzagl 8y ago
I was trying to show how usages change, I shouldn't try to be clever after business hours. But at one time the loosening of norms around language and women was seen as a progressive thing, a breaking down of barriers and back room typ
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by panzagl 8y ago
Not really effective- it's the most confrontational way, and the most divisive, but I doubt it will really change anyone's minds. Instead you'll get zealots from both sides of the issue yelling down any reasonably conciliato
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'but the process has to be complicated when you get down to the numbers of how many people are for hire and how many are worth hiring.' i.e. we're trying to hire imaginary unicorns because we don't respect actual program
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Someone filing in the 35 to 44 category in 1991 would be in the 60-69 age range by 2016- basically it's the same age cohort declaring bankruptcy at a high rate as they age through the categories.
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If people can't get their shit together enough to make sure their kid has a sandwich everyday they certainly aren't putting their kid into boarding school. Parents found unfit for parenting have their kids placed in the foster sy
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For lower socioeconomic status kids a stable environment means not being at school at 6 am because Mom kicked you out to 'party' with her new boyfriend, or not coming to school high because Dad hotboxed on the drive over.
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Feeding the world's hungry hasn't been about agricultural output for a long time- it's more about transportation and distribution.

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