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by sgustard 7y ago
I've been leaving copies of The Atlantic at my parents' house and it hasn't made a dent. I think the problem is campaigns like "Stop believing conspiracy theories!" are really hard to pull off, especially when compa
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by sgustard 7y ago
I didn't TLDR so can someone tell me: is 93% of the planet's fresh water contaminated with plastic? Or is there something about bottling water in plastic that adds plastic to the water?
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by sgustard 7y ago
I hope in that case you buy it in refillable 5g water cooler jugs, rather than small disposable bottles.
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by sgustard 7y ago
> top-down organisational pressure created by technically incompetent strategic management Do most people work in this kind of environment? At my company our management couldn't care less what technologies we use. They want to see r
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by sgustard 7y ago
Here's a link to the memoir he wrote about his father: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062890566/think-black/
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by sgustard 7y ago
eBay is a marketplace because people have always bought and sold stuff. There was no pre-existing marketplace of drivers looking to drive people around for money before Uber came along.
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by sgustard 7y ago
What if as a condition to accept a job offer you request a meeting with the CEO? Would the company refuse or do they value you enough to make it happen? I have never taken a job without talking to a top executive. You get a view of the comp
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by sgustard 7y ago
My digital camera does one thing very well, but cameras are becoming extinct. My old iPod did one thing well and it's gathering dust in a drawer, next to my old cell phone. The argument for single-purpose vs multi-purpose devices is no
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by sgustard 7y ago
I completely agree. "White flight" is not a new phenomenon, despite attempts to re-brand it. I'd love to hear cases of people of color moving to smaller cities while retaining a sense of community and belonging.
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by sgustard 7y ago
> your engineering team should be replaced My engineers are all React and CSS web developers. They don't know anything about multi tenant data resiliency. But they can make a real pretty "system down" page.
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by sgustard 7y ago
That's pretty bad, and ironic that reviews for a book about communication are all written in such broken English. Sadly fakespot.com rates that page an A so now I'm sceptical of that site too.
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by sgustard 7y ago
You moved because something happened twice in a county with a population over 1 million? I'm just trying to process the irony of this entire discussion. American kids are over-protected because the media has created a culture of fear t
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by sgustard 7y ago
The iPod wheel has a physical barrier acting as an affordance for your finger to trace. It certainly works better than it would just floating in space in the middle of a touch screen.
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by sgustard 7y ago
Absolutely a travesty, but still you're engaging in false equivalency. The difference in being jailed with or without some legal process is significant. Study up at https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world&#x2
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by sgustard 7y ago
False, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-fivethirtyeight-gav...
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by sgustard 7y ago
Closed as duplicate: https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-ve...
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by sgustard 7y ago
> view these incidents in context I view them in the context "software can kill people, and can do so at scale." Same way I view the recent Boeing 737 incidents.
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by sgustard 7y ago
"Science is facing a 'reproducibility crisis' where more than two-thirds of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, research suggests." https://www.bbc.com/new
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by sgustard 7y ago
A recent thread on that subject: https://twitter.com/panic/status/1106633444157607936
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by sgustard 7y ago
Airplanes are just hollowed out birds, and so on.
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by sgustard 7y ago
I want to believe that, but then we have this 65 meter trash pile in Delhi. https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/india-trash-mo...
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by sgustard 7y ago
I always felt that my mother, as a traditional housewife, seemed rather lonely, and that she blossomed once she started working outside the home. But the social support she provided for my dad and us kids took a hit. I would argue the net e
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by sgustard 7y ago
What's the general split between laptops and desktops for developer use? Certainly I've migrated to 100% laptop which gets regularly used in a variety of locations.
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by sgustard 7y ago
"Indian citizens pay approximately £3 billion (about $4.9 billion) in bribes each year." So with a million government/bribe-able officials in the country, that's $4900 a person, easily a doubling of salary.
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by sgustard 7y ago
"Bond. James Bond" covers all the options.
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by sgustard 7y ago
If a programmer is lazy, forcing him to use Java or C++ isn't going to fix it. And I've seen good developers ship plenty of quality code in Python or Ruby.
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Who Is Responsible for Uber's Failed IPO? Uber(pando.com)
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by sgustard 7y ago
Per https://legal.uncc.edu/legal-topics/contracts/contract-check... "If the worker is not integrated into the institution's operations and the right of control is not obviously apparent (no training, no
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by sgustard 7y ago
I am forced to treat the people who cut my lawn and clean my house as employees, according to tax law, for funding unemployment insurance among other things. But Uber's labor force, without which literally the company wouldn't exi
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by sgustard 7y ago
The "vote alignment by ideology" view on this page linked elsewhere is instructive. https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/05/opinion-analysis-divided-... Basically in order from left to right numbered 1-9 the

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