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Why Uber Hires Economists(youtube.com)
2 points by secstate 7y ago|1 comments
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by secstate 7y ago
These are too funny: https://www.empr.com/home/features/the-strangest-and-most-ob... Choice selection: V91.07X - Burn Due to Water Skis on Fire(?!) W61.42XA. Struck By Turkey, initial encounter. If a duck is invol
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5 communication types that destroy company morale(qz.com)
3 points by secstate 7y ago|0 comments
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by secstate 7y ago
I love historical pieces about technology. There's so much new and shiny all the time in tech, it's nice to reflect on where we've been. Makes me want to re-watch Bryan's talk at Monktoberfest a few years ago on oral tra
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Exponential Sums of the Day(johndcook.com)
1 points by secstate 7y ago|0 comments
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Nobel prize awarding process needs updating(aeon.co)
1 points by secstate 7y ago|0 comments
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A Small Town in the Philippines Banned Gossip(msn.com)
77 points by secstate 7y ago|77 comments
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Gov'ts are shutting down the internet more frequently(twitter.com)
2 points by secstate 7y ago|0 comments
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Is GDPR Being Enforced?(politico.com)
3 points by secstate 7y ago|1 comments
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by secstate 8y ago
The point isn't that Chrome doesn't do things to help privacy. But having a monoculture web built around Blink is terrible. We know this from experience with IE. Brave uses Blink. Chromium uses Blink. IE now uses Blink.
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by secstate 8y ago
I've been working remotely in various forms for nearly a decade, while also living in a rural area. Organizing coder groups is hard, but one of the most interesting things I've discovered is that you don't get to be as picky
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by secstate 8y ago
Again, pitchforks down -- devil's advocate, but why is the topic not open for any discussion at all? Isn't that what defines a religion?
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by secstate 8y ago
I dunno. Stuxnet and the general use of networked computers to manage things like nuclear reactors or power distribution networks would beg to differ.
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by secstate 8y ago
I understand the serious issue of ensuring immunization. But you do realize how your comment might come off on the fascist side of liberty, right?
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by secstate 8y ago
I don't think OP is referring to a touch keyboard, but rather that the keycaps of each key would be one part of a larger multi-touch surface. As your finger left one key you could sort of "guess" the direction it was going an
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by secstate 8y ago
While I generally prefer optimism to pessimism, this comment seems horrifyingly accurate. We may escape to new planets, we may learn to live under the sea. Humans will likely persist for a longer time than you suggest here because we'r
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Senior engineering values(medium.com)
2 points by secstate 8y ago|0 comments
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by secstate 8y ago
> I and society are not compelling you to do anything, but I and also society at large can certainly comment on it. I think this is the root issue here. We have freedom of association, but there should be no expectation that there will b
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by secstate 8y ago
You can try: pip install worldcup And then: watch -n 60 worldcup today And just make the font in the terminal window huge :)
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by secstate 8y ago
Um, regarding GitLab or BitBucket, I'm pretty sure Atlassian owns BitBucket, and the idea of them being acquired seems hilariously low given they've almost always been profitable and never relied on the pump-and-dump-err-acquired
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by secstate 8y ago
See, but with Disney, at least there's an outside chance they try an Old Republic movie. So long as Lucas held the keys, nothing at all was going to be made except for cartoons mistakingly marketed at children. And books that had a lim
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by secstate 8y ago
Totally agree with this sentiment. I found a mastodon instance that has some really fantastic people on it, and I only dip into the federated stream when I'm up for a rollercoaster of opinions. Federation has to be the future because
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Solutions are meaningless(medium.com)
2 points by secstate 8y ago|0 comments
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by secstate 8y ago
My take is that most people don't know what the hell they're doing most of the time. We're all trying to figure it out. When I was 20 I was copy-pasting the hell out of Rails examples. By being curious and actively incorporat
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by secstate 8y ago
I grew up messing with GNU/Linux, so I know what it means to tweak kernel parameters and not have working wifi. But in the past five years of using Ubuntu full-time I haven't had a single issue with out of the box stuff working on
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by secstate 9y ago
And your comment - cynically - assumes that no one knows how to cook anything. A friend of mine who works in a VA hospital sends every patient home with a cheat sheet on how to cook vegetables to make them delicious and has seen fantastic u
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by secstate 9y ago
Incidentally, I'm working in healthtech right now and I have looked at this a million different ways, and the first and biggest problem is the quality of the data and trust of the data. You make a big deal about after I explicitly a
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by secstate 9y ago
I suppose my experience in large corporations is limited. But I'm going to hazard a guess that for all but the biggest corps "company sanctioned" is a not an official term, and that most have given little-to-no thought about
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by secstate 9y ago
I think the bigger problem that the OP pointed at is that whatever adjectives you attach to this, surveillance is almost always the wrong way to change behavior, unless your desired outcome is to make everyone suspicious of everyone else. W
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by secstate 9y ago
What's stopping the harassers from setting up a secondary Slack install for coordination of such nefarious ends? The only use I can see for this would be evidence after the fact. Surveillance is almost never the proper way to enforce a

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