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by random_upvoter 11y ago
It's a rather dubious claim that "fishes and birds are better off" in the deserted areas around the reactor. The studies mentioned by Greenpeace talk about morphological defects, heritable mutations, decreased fertility and d
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
Here's what the press release says concerning Chernobyl: > The Fukushima disaster is the single largest release of radioactivity into the ocean and one of only two Level 7 nuclear disasters in world history - the other being Chernob
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
I'm a bit disappointed that the top comment is a plea to legalize all drugs. I don't see what this has got to do with the topic, namely that a legal drug is killing 19,000 Americans each year while making many more addicted. I w
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
If your employee is a habitual pot smoker there is still the risk that one day he turns up high for work. Why would you take that risk if you can hire somebody who does not smoke at all? Other than that, consumption of cannabis is correlate
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
> But failing a marijuana drug test says absolutely nothing about weather you are under the influence of marijuana. I'm not so sure of that. Failing a marijuana drug test means that there's a measurable amount of THC in your bo
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
Interestingly, in Colorado it's legal for a company to fire an employee who has (legally) smoked marijuana. So even with legalization drug tests may remain a thing.
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
Where I live people can, and do, get euthanasia for psychological suffering. Now, research has shown that a rather large percentage of the elderly are suffering from depression. Part of the reason is, of course, that getting old can be very
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
Note that manufacture, import and sale of drugs is still illegal in Portugal. I find it hard to understand why so many people in the US want to switch drug policy from one extreme of the spectrum to the other. It's a rash social experi
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
A while back I was considering Freenas and in the documentation/forums I read dire warnings about running ZFS with less than 8 gigabyte of ram. Apparently, this could actually put your data at risk. I was a bit nonplussed by this. The
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
A flâneur is someone who walks around leisurely, having time to notice stuff and interact with people. Every self respecting snob should have the word in his vocabulary :)
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
Programmer jobs
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
Reading discussions on drone strikes makes you wonder what ever happened to pacifism. This whole idea that you can just go around other countries killing people -- even if they intend on killing you, and even if you would be able to hit the
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
> Men normally don't want to marry a smarter woman then them Maybe that's true for a certain type of man suffering from insecurity. In general I find that men love to find a woman who is smart and practical. After all, this is
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
The brain is a mechanism that turns intelligence into action, language or memory. But who has ever said that intelligence is generated in the brain?
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
DO should do what's written in their terms of service, and the customer should read them carefully.
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
A wrapper for the exiv2 library (for editing metadata of picture files) that works on Windows
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
> Large swaths of the population unemployable though... That's a real issue. IMO the one job that is most threatened by future progress in AI is the job of software developer. As for the menial jobs, of course nobody cares whether a
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
Most young people don't want to become good at programming in the same way that most young people have no desire to become good at mathematics. They just don't want to shove their minds into that straightjacket of strict logical t
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by random_upvoter 11y ago
There are quite a few differences between msvc and the other compilers. For instance: #define a(x,y) x+y void f(int i) { a(i,+); } will compile without errors with cl but not with any other compiler.