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by pyre 10y ago
> When you have political fact-checkers actually trying to claim that Trump thought email was 'bleached' with actual bleach, by taking his entire conversation out of context, I don't blame him. The media is clearly biased
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by pyre 10y ago
> i think it's perfectly reasonable to return a non-zero status in certain non-error conditions, like when `grep` doesn't find a match To be fair, grep only does that if you explicitly pass it an option that whose only purpose
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by pyre 10y ago
> Is it hard to believe most men don't do those things, too? Some do, sure. I think this is more of a "of the people that get these things, most are men" than a "all men get these things."
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by pyre 10y ago
- Working at a man in construction/military/transportation gets you more respect when telling others what you do for a living than women that work in pornography/sex work. - A number of injuries that happen as a result of por
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by pyre 10y ago
"Due to regulatory pressure, we have decided to..." "We decided to" devoid of any qualifiers makes it sound like it was a decision made with full autonomy, and not a decision made because you were backed into a corner.
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by pyre 10y ago
So much this. There are also weird quirks to deal with when dealing with browsers vs. native. On iOS, native scrolling 'just works,' but within our app (Cordova-based) it took a bunch of hand-holding to make it a decent experience
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by pyre 10y ago
IIRC, they rotated the cameras between officers, and postulated that wearing the cameras had some sort of lasting affect on the attitude of the officers (even when there were no cameras). That said, all officers knew that they were part of
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by pyre 10y ago
> your CC does the conversion automatically At a markup. This was 1% for Visa and MasterCard back in ~2006 when I looked into it.
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by pyre 10y ago
I used to walk past the parking lot for Border Patrol at the Rainbow Bridge (US-Canada crossing in Niagara Falls), and 80% of the cars for the US Border Patrol had bumper stickers all over them stating that they were veterans. One of the st
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by pyre 10y ago
Do you have faith that these aspects of human society will be solved in parallel with increased "designer baby" technology?
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by pyre 10y ago
It's not a hard and fast requirement, but there is definitely a wage-gap between the have's and have-not's when it comes to college degrees.
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by pyre 10y ago
Are you saying that we should disregard all science-fiction that has explored this topic when considering possible implications? I was referencing sci-fi as more of a "further reading" than as part of an argument.
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by pyre 10y ago
It's not always about whether or not you see everything as a competition. Consider the "requirement" nowadays of a college degree. I could say that you "need a college degree to compete in the work-force," but that
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by pyre 10y ago
> What about drugs in general, not just performance enhancing drugs? I meant, everyone want to participate in modern medical treatment, right? What? I'm talking about performance-enhancing drugs here because they enhance performanc
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by pyre 10y ago
A better analogy for "designer babies" would be performance enhancing drugs in sports. If we accept their use, then it basically becomes a requirement on anyone that wants to participate (or at least compete).
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by pyre 10y ago
That's fine, but I think that the parent was responding to this: > ABET (the engineering accreditation society in the US), doesn't have "Software Engineering" as a valid discipline. Which can be true or false independ
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by pyre 10y ago
It's probably easy to dismiss/justify some of those things when you can view the code yourself to see that nothing "bad" is happening (at least at the current time). It's a little harder to rectify Google blatantly
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by pyre 10y ago
> The version of Allo rolling out today will store all non-incognito messages by default — a clear change from Google’s earlier statements that the app would only store messages transiently and in non-identifiable form. The records will
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by pyre 10y ago
On the other hand, the idea that large entities should be able to get away with "small" transgressions just because it would be too costly than is worth it to pursue litigation isn't exactly the best situation either. I'
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by pyre 10y ago
> ScrollyTelling demonstrated that it would rather burn them than mediate technical fuckups. From what I understand, they tried contacting them directly, but were given lots of promised callbacks / actions that never materialized. I
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by pyre 10y ago
Well, worse (and more troubling) is the effect on textbooks used in schools.
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by pyre 10y ago
To be fair, this is about travelling across Africa rather than visiting a specific locale, that makes it more likely that you will need to pass through some of these "dangerous areas". Much as the other commenter here was menti
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by pyre 10y ago
That node_modules directory was created using Node.js v5.10.0 and npm v3.10.5.
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by pyre 10y ago
Might depend on the "class" of prison. For example, at a more local level sometimes people are allowed to serve their time by working all week and spending weekends in prison.
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by pyre 10y ago
> I've gotten to where I only install stuff via npm when I'm on a free connection; I normally work on mobile broadband, which is very expensive You could always use this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-p
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by pyre 10y ago
> Who would want a pair of running shoes from a gift basket anyway? Well, I'd say that claiming they are getting something that they are not leaves a bad taste in one's mouth, even as a viewer.
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by pyre 10y ago
What about the show where they faked signing a deal with The Sharper Image? Was that not a lie?
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by pyre 10y ago
> Deep forum links on weird topics is my goto What about this? http://miketysontattoos.blogspot.ca/2011/06/quotient-rule-di... Not quite a forum link, but I really couldn't figure out what the purpose of t
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by pyre 10y ago
Because that's the loophole the government needs to attempt to limit export of it. Why does the FDA want to class inflatable pools used for water births as "medical devices" that need millions of dollars in studies before the
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by pyre 10y ago
> That debris went into orbit, then coalesced to form the Moon. And that raises an intriguing counter-theory: maybe that Mars-size impactor, which planetary scientists call Theia, is the object that became Mercury. If that’s correct, the

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