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by sverige 8y ago
The Salvation Army is similarly exploitive. I knew a manager of one of their facilities and had a tour that was (probably unintentionally) eye-opening. For example, he talked about how any clothes they didn't sell in a certain amount o
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> I'm not blaming Intel for this, I don't know if Intel could have foreseen the problem. The potential security issues with out of order processing were noted publicly at least as far back as 2007. The problem is that, on the w
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by sverige 8y ago
Wow, for once I could be a class member in a lawsuit that I'd actually like to succeed. The only problem I foresee is measuring damages, but it's California, so it might be possible to get them up to a billion. It'll take at
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by sverige 8y ago
> But it's just to drive on. I'm American but I understood what you meant haha! Pop and rock lyrics are mostly not worthy of rational attention.
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If that's a shout-out, I feel really sad for you.
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> I think he was genuinely reluctant to ratchet up the slaughter of his countrymen, especially when he had the clear advantage. Yes, they were his fellow countrymen in a sense, but they had declared themselves to be another country and w
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British and Canadian governments accidentally exposed passwords to the Internet(theintercept.com)
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Nearly half of Americans don't want a self-driving car: survey(foxbusiness.com)
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It's interesting that electric trucks and buses are making a comeback. A hundred years ago, they were pretty common in big cities. Also, the article seems to acknowledge that city driving is the best application for electric vehicles.
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Who's going to take care of the people injured in the riots?
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From the article, the hospital couldn't decide if the patient was competent. They claimed she wasn't when it suited their guardianship case, and claimed she was when they "discharged" her. No one else has claimed she&#x2
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Seattle Erupts Over Plan to Tear Down Iconic Theater for Apartments(bloombergquint.com)
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It's a nice gesture. Unfortunately, it is not required for software engineers to pass any test on this or subscribe to it or otherwise be held to the standard before they are allowed to write and publish software, so unless and until s
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So that's where the youtube videos of CNC milling machine failures come from! TFA noted that major causes of the disaster was the culture and failure to independently unit test the machine.
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Mandoc-1.14.4 released(undeadly.org)
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That's a strong statement. I can immediately think of one exception to your rule: the "Unabomber," Ted Kaczynski, who both held radical ideas and was notably isolated in a remote mountain cabin with no electronic communicati
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by sverige 8y ago
Your source is itself notorious for not being what it claims to be. I would argue that any website that claims to be a fact checker (whether left or right politically) is automatically less trusted, since their entire raison d'etre
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This is a very timely service, given the current climate in which de-platforming is poised to accelerate.
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Facebook is shedding massive traffic – and it’s apparently flocking to YouTube(bgr.com)
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Online daters aim 'out of their league,' says study(france24.com)
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> In most societies today, it is accepted that we must be identifiable to appropriate authorities under certain conditions (consider border crossings, traffic violation stops as examples). While there are conditions under which apparent
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If they can figure out how to make circuits with a material that operates as a superconductor at practical operating temperatures, it would have wide application. But I don't think that's what the article is saying. More of an int
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by sverige 8y ago
My point is that there are lots of people who don't want to endure the viewpoints that you perceive as being so obviously correct that there is no need for further discussion. This attitude is much closer to the Catholic Church's
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by sverige 8y ago
The idea that anyone (including me and you, dear reader) is free from bias, especially when discussing politics, seems painfully obvious after reading lots of history. And yet, the claim that this or that person or organization is 'n
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I don't care as long as Waterfox doesn't change its logo.
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One way to think of it is that Bezos' personal wealth is still short of what Carnegie or Rockefeller accumulated when adjusted for inflation or viewed as a percentage of total personal wealth. The Gilded Age was still more excessive th
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I think it's the fact that it's a mess that makes people who strive to write correct code and keep it all neat and tidy look down on webdev. It's sort of a variation of the "clean" vs. "messy" roommate con
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City report on Confederate monuments raises idea of renaming Austin(mystatesman.com)
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Yes I did. Everyone got the same treatment. Anything "private," such as disciplinary action that needed to be delivered, was always done with a witness, whether the employee was a man or a woman. Everything else was done in groups
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I treated the men exactly the same way. It's not illegal discrimination to manage people without having 1:1s with them. It's not illegal discrimination to manage people in such a way as to eliminate any suggestion that you might h

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