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by rosser 9y ago
The existence of workarounds for this behavior on Facebook's part makes it zero less shitty of them. Those images are mine (the general me); Zuck, et al , do not get to leave me a down-rezzed, EXIF-stripped version as a parting gi
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by rosser 9y ago
I'll take "less mature" over "data loss" every day and twice on Sunday. Whatever else you might say about Postgres, that community cares about the integrity of its users data, over pretty much every other consider
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by rosser 9y ago
From the Fine Article: > It's understood to be the largest number of calls intercepted by a single wiretap in years, though it's not known the exact number of Americans whose communications were caught up by the order.
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Nice work if you can get out(economist.com)
1 points by rosser 9y ago|0 comments
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by rosser 9y ago
Solar sails and balloons wouldn't require infinite money. Merely a lot .
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by rosser 9y ago
I think these racks were intended to be used indoors, in climate-controlled environments. I'd imagine at least token air quality management wouldn't be too difficult or expensive to add, and that's all you'd need to beat
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Provider Fighting Secret Surveillance Order Denied Access to Relevant Law(medium.com)
85 points by rosser 9y ago|16 comments
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by rosser 9y ago
Amazon didn't terribly Amazon-ize the culture at Zappo's, AFAIK; that's at least an existence proof that they don't always do that.
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by rosser 9y ago
And my original response merely suggested that using the ethically compromised complexity deliberately introduced into one of the more obscure forms of "money" we have to justify the technical complexities and their attendant cons
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by rosser 9y ago
What ever happened to the point-of-care test developed by a teenager (Jack Andraka) using CNTs to isolate and test for mesothelin, a potential biomarker for pancreatic cancer? EDIT: Looks like it's tied up in various patent and testing
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by rosser 9y ago
I'm probably not the person to ask, because my "succinct to the point of sounding flippant, but offered completely honestly" answer is: a profoundly destructive social fiction whose time is well past. The notion and role of a
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by rosser 9y ago
I don't think the predatory complexities found in some shady securities are a very prudent way of "excusing" the technical complexities and consequences of BTC, or any other cryptocurrency. "Not as bad as" is broadl
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by rosser 9y ago
I think Ayn Rand's oeuvre does a better job of explaining Kalanick's gestalt than Machiavelli's, but I might very well just be biased as regards one of those authors, and their "philosophy"...
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by rosser 9y ago
Yeah, I don't think The Prince was intended to be taken normatively .
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by rosser 9y ago
Please revisit basic arithmetic. 20/12000 = 0.001666... 20/12000 ≠ "0.001%" And that's only the count of people fired . So far. It's not the count of disciplinary actions of any sort, not even the cou
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by rosser 9y ago
I am reminded of nothing so much as Christopher Hitchens' quip about Libertarianism: "I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough." If
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by rosser 9y ago
FMLA leave is unpaid leave; anything beyond that is an employer's choice, and/or on the employee to be paying their short-term disability premiums, and claim it. It also covers taking leave to deal with the employee's own
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by rosser 9y ago
A CEO's job is to champion the interests of their company. If they're mired in controversy, legitimate or otherwise, their ability to do that job is compromised. Sometimes, it's the right move for the company to stand by an u
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by rosser 9y ago
As true as all that is, you still have to have somewhere to live. You can put some of that money back in your own pocket, or you can put all of it in someone else's.
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by rosser 9y ago
I'd read that the way healthcare became tied to employment had less to do with some beneficent interpretation of the "social contract" than it did taxes. That is, when the two were first tied, income tax rates (especially for
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by rosser 9y ago
No, the way to fix it is to create incentives that align for everyone . As with healthcare, the way we do infrastructure work in the US creates incentives that are aligned against some party to the process. In healthcare, it's the p
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by rosser 9y ago
I lived in UT for several years. I talked with I don't even know how many people who had family in the southern part of the state back then, more or less all of whom suffered similarly.
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by rosser 9y ago
I suspect that the general lack of exciting things involving NFC might have a little bit to do with the fact that ~half the mobile audience couldn't do anything with them. That appears to have changed, so this consequence probably will
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by rosser 9y ago
Countering one anecdote with another doesn't really settle anything.
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by rosser 9y ago
Is it really self -esteem if it's contingent upon acceptance within the social group?
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by rosser 9y ago
I think that would be more them packaging their algorithms into a (preferably free) smartphone app, which (optionally) silently collects "anomaly signatures" until it's on a trusted network, where it uploads its findings for
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by rosser 9y ago
It's probably all the BSD in my background that established these expectations. But the people who buy my time use Linux, so I do too... (I've also just spent my entire workday cleaning up the consequences of someone else's t
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by rosser 9y ago
Then that's improved markedly since the last time I bothered trying to `man foo` in the terminal for a GNU tool. I just go straight to the web, because at least there I can Ctrl-F properly. I'm not saying "don't even try
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by rosser 9y ago
An "atrocity" is admittedly hyperbole, but when the man pages are vague, at best, and often just say "use info instead", that reads more "Do it the GNU way, or you're wrong," than, "Weren't we th
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by rosser 9y ago
As well-documented as GNU software is — and it is! remarkably so — I think the project loses even more points for foisting the atrocity that is gnu-info on everyone. That is some abysmally "You will do it the way I want you to, and l

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