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by sdrothrock 13y ago
I was confused by the claim that Kerry threatened "to expel Russia from the G8." I clicked the link and went to the other article, which had the following quote from Kerry: "He is not going to have a Sochi G8, he may not even
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by sdrothrock 13y ago
> Require FB auth. This is an instant dealbreaker for me nowadays. I refuse to have a Facebook account for a number of reasons and know a couple of other people that are the same. However, requiring FB auth may not make a large impact on
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by sdrothrock 13y ago
It's normal but can be really, really scary if you don't have a mentor or someone to help you out or point out some of the pitfalls on the way. Even something as fundamental as version control is, I think, passed up by a lot of be
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by sdrothrock 13y ago
I don't know about honorifics, but he was using "ore," according to Reddit. If he wrote the letter on the front page of Mt Gox, there are some weird/offputting polite language mistakes, too. (I can't listen to the r
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by sdrothrock 13y ago
Thank you for the clarification!
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by sdrothrock 13y ago
Edit: I misread the original post and thought they were scans of employee passports. Apparently a personal verification option was a scan of a passport. I still have no clue why this kind of information would be kept on a public-facing serv
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by sdrothrock 13y ago
Edit: This post is NOT ENTIRELY VALID -- they removed the old letter from March 2 and edited the original portions in addition to adding more. The Japanese portion at the top doesn't come across as especially professional and it looks
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by sdrothrock 13y ago
The article talks about disasters that could eliminate humanity, but I wonder if humanity is more likely to become extinct in the sense of no longer being "homo sapiens." For example, through a technological singularity or even ju
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by sdrothrock 13y ago
Agreed. All instances of the word "fat" are used by the writer. The only instance of a medical professional saying something that would warrant the word "fat" is Dr. Rolph, who is quoted as saying "overweight."
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by sdrothrock 13y ago
> they see candidates as cattle I think most candidates sense this and this is why they shy away from and react negatively to recruiters. My last comment wasn't necessarily directed at you personally -- more wondering if the recruit
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by sdrothrock 13y ago
> I bring this up only because a lot of pro-nuclear arguments comes down to bold assertions from experts that certain things could never happen. Heinlein said (in Glory Road, I believe), that "Everything is theoretically impossible,
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by sdrothrock 13y ago
I can't speak for his French (or English) proficiency, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that he "speaks Japanese." He may know enough Japanese to get along in daily life -- many people I know who have lived here for a
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by sdrothrock 13y ago
As someone who spent about a year getting used to VIM, I can actually document the progress of Stockholm Syndrome in my own chat history. The first few weeks are filled with things like "Why is (d)elete cut?! I want to delete it, not p
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by sdrothrock 13y ago
> We do not tell you the company name for a few reasons Has anyone ever tried testing whether the downsides of revealing the company name (except in case 3) really do outweigh the potential upsides? I'd like to say that I would resp