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by suprgeek 11y ago
Take the low-road, publicly engage in character attacks on ex-employees, do not refute the "brutal workplace" charge and remind people of "Amazon makes employees cry at their desks" two months after the article has been
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by suprgeek 11y ago
If anything, such a cynical and mean-spirited "reply" makes it absolutely and positively certain that working at Amazon should be the last thing any half-way competent Tech person should consider. This piece reads exactly like an
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by suprgeek 11y ago
So we are supposed to believe that: 1) There are super secret helicopters that allowed the US Seals to fly over Pakistan to Abbotabad (which is nearer to India than to Afghanistan) without the Pakistani military which is always paranoid abo
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Prototype Device Allows for Real-Time White Cell Counts Through the Skin(medgadget.com)
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by suprgeek 11y ago
What a big shocker! You are telling me that a sick person would not try and spend many hours comparison shopping for doctors with poor metrics for quality and low pricing info and then make a possibly large upfront payment based on a guess?
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by suprgeek 11y ago
Welcome to the party Microsoft! We were missing you...
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UK scientists seek permission to edit the genes of human embryos(in.reuters.com)
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Google has patented a way to hunt down potholes(businessinsider.com)
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Fake EFF site serving espionage malware was likely active for 3+ weeks(arstechnica.com)
5 points by suprgeek 11y ago|1 comments
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by suprgeek 11y ago
There are two main problems with science & especially health research "news". First is the urgent need of the Media to "sell more papers" (Or whatever the digital equivalent). Nothing sells more than vaguely alarmist
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Universal flu vaccine comes closer, scientists say(bbc.com)
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by suprgeek 11y ago
Take the number of vehicles in the field, (A), and multiply it by the probable rate of failure, (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of- court settlement, (C). A times B times C equals X...If X is less than the cost of a recall,
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by suprgeek 11y ago
All of the announcement makes sense except the part where the Conglomerate is the one that is trading on the market. Are the hived-off business separate in any sense if at earnings time everything sinks or swims together? the most logical m
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FBI: Retweeting terrorist organizations could get you arrested(engadget.com)
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MIT claims to have found a “language universal” that ties all languages together(arstechnica.com)
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by suprgeek 11y ago
This is a really good move on Microsoft's part & affects about 60,000 people - so not an insignificant number. What is sad and pathetic is that in the US people are actually shocked by how good this is!! Everyone is programmed to g
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by suprgeek 11y ago
Great move and perfect examples of the Court doing its job i.e. striking down Stupid laws that do not pass constitutional muster. BUT The fact that this law WAS even on the books is blatant proof that Dollars buy Laws in the United states.
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by suprgeek 11y ago
In the US the Police are a "Guns & Badges" Culture thru & thru. Only the truly "macho" are regarded with respect. There is no concept of de-escalation. The bigger problem is that the policies & incentives are
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by suprgeek 11y ago
- LinkedIn has employed "Dark Patterns" for a long time to scarf up your Address Book via your e-mail id. Then unless you are VERY careful you will end up spamming everyone with an invite. - They also employed a MTM attack on your
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by suprgeek 11y ago
They could have tossed in a few of the large moons of Jupiter & Saturn and included the Oort cloud at the very end for completeness. Great visualization nevertheless...Especially loved the various markers for spacecraft. Mind boggling w
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LHCb experiment reports observation of exotic pentaquark particles(press.web.cern.ch)
102 points by suprgeek 11y ago|18 comments
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by suprgeek 11y ago
Shell, Exxon, BP will pour massive lobby dollars to slow down the spread of electric cars. GM, Ford, Honda & Toyota (and the Dealer network) will get in on the lobbying action against electric cars when they see their current monopolie
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Plants talk to each other using an Internet of fungus(bbc.com)
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Key to Winning: Not Getting Lost(nytimes.com)
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by suprgeek 11y ago
For those of you in the Bay Area, there is a Hackathon (SVJUG Meetup) at Google on July 11th that is expressly dedicated to JShell - http://www.meetup.com/sv-jug/events/223263007/ Drop by, check it out &
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by suprgeek 11y ago
While there maybe subtleties in "public access by humans" over "automated scraping" - these belong in the "business dispute" side of the fence. Using the CFAA is by definition - playing hardball - it includes C
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by suprgeek 11y ago
A non-adversarial system, with the Judge being a part of the Govt. Does anyone ever believe that this is anything other than the thinnest of fig leaves to cover the almost limitless power of the NSA to peep into people's private busine
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Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight(medium.com)
353 points by suprgeek 11y ago|392 comments
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Did Google car cut off rival's self-driving vehicle in traffic?(oregonlive.com)
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Controversial trial of GM crop shows no benefits(arstechnica.com)
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