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871.
by sosborn 12y ago
>they too often don't define "too often." Of the many interactions police offices have with civilians in a calendar year, what percentage of them could be classified as corrupt/evil?
872.
by sosborn 12y ago
I agree with your general sentiment, but what happens with a car is decidedly not private. You are on public roads and more importantly, your driving affects the safety of others.
873.
by sosborn 12y ago
It isn't that I think it should be at the employer's discretion, it's that there are better companies to work for out there and we should all endeavor to work for them if our current employer is actively screwing us over.
874.
by sosborn 12y ago
>The many employers you're thinking of are typically in the STEM fields or highly unionized gov't, manufacturing, transportation industries. Not trying to start an argument, but do you have any sources for this? I work for an i
875.
by sosborn 12y ago
>it seems like it's fairly low down in terms of standard of living/worker's rights/healthcare/etc. While this is certainly true when you discuss the bare minimum legal requirements, many employers here go above a
876.
by sosborn 12y ago
You should try to find more reasonable employers. Believe it not they do exist in the U.S.
877.
by sosborn 12y ago
>most of his contacts are from a couple decades ago There is a big lesson here for everybody.
878.
by sosborn 12y ago
>Replacing tens of thousands of workers with an algorithm would be insanely valuable as well. You have to believe that a company like Facebook would much rather have an algorithm doing this then spending money on getting it done manually
879.
by sosborn 12y ago
>I don't think you would ever hear those words coming from a millennial. I have heard these words coming from a millennial. The thought process isn't related to age, it is related to the mindset that karma is real: if I do good
880.
by sosborn 12y ago
I know a guy who is smart, well educated and gainfully employed, yet he cannot do financial math for his life. I used to try to educate him about these things but after a while I gave up. He was either unable or unwilling to learn those les
881.
by sosborn 12y ago
Lower price points.
882.
by sosborn 12y ago
> He's done some profiling In my experience on Stack Overflow, the people getting hit with accusations of "premature optimization" have not gone this far.
883.
by sosborn 12y ago
Diminishing returns.
884.
by sosborn 12y ago
> it will make things more difficult for us Not nearly as difficult as living on Mars.
885.
by sosborn 12y ago
>It's been dominated by the same gimmicky IAP games for a long time, is full of hacky junk apps, and noticeably devoid of serious productivity apps. These things are a turn off for us, but that doesn't mean that the market is f
886.
by sosborn 12y ago
>This kind of nervous uncertainty among devs is bad for the platform. Is that really true? This has been going on since day one and yet the platform is thriving.
887.
by sosborn 12y ago
> Bent (bentghazi) Thank god we aren't using --gate or --geddon for this one.
888.
by sosborn 12y ago
> iOS 8 is the buggiest pice of Apple release software I've used, maybe, ever. Whenever I see a sentence like this I usually write it off to hyperbole, but my experience with iOS 8 has been similar to yours.
889.
by sosborn 12y ago
Vizio is a TV manufacturer. I assume that these instructions are for product line that has Netflix built in.
890.
by sosborn 12y ago
>You could argue that Apple has more power than many governments. You underestimate the power of governments.
891.
by sosborn 12y ago
>his focus and moral goal is healing patients How do you know that for sure? Is it impossible for a doctor to be motivated by money?
892.
by sosborn 12y ago
>open-sores By far my favorite unintentional turn of phrase I have seen today :)
893.
by sosborn 12y ago
>Smart watches won't hold up for 5 years This will be interesting to watch (sorry!) over the coming years.
894.
by sosborn 12y ago
Let's be honest here, nobody knows one way or the other. I have friends who are out of space and friends who have plenty. Which one is the truth?
895.
by sosborn 12y ago
Japan's NFC payment ecosystem is owned by Sony and DoCoMo. I highly doubt that Apple wanted to subject themselves to the license terms and/or the lack of technical control. That system is also widely deployed but in my experience
896.
by sosborn 12y ago
Spinning it up is easy. Maintaining it is arguably not.
897.
by sosborn 12y ago
>first off, who cares if i included a setting but didn't make use of it? Were you doing this to avoid having the app killed when it went to the background?
898.
by sosborn 12y ago
If you take it with a meal you won't have problems.
899.
by sosborn 12y ago
Of all of the problems in the world, a movement to ban mandatory neck ties in any work related situation would be one of the few that would motivate me to action.
900.
by sosborn 12y ago
Sure, there was some luck (there was also some educated guesses involved) but I'm simply arguing against use of the word "never". Debt can be good if it is the right kind of debt.

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