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by tajen 9y ago
More than 5 doctors confirmed the memo was consistent with science and his text referenced appropriate sources, as common with any paper. It's incredible that non-medical people can override science with their belief. It's Galileo
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by tajen 9y ago
That's underestimating his common sense: - The guy just maximized his chances of being hired at a company that selects for skills, hereby surrounding himself with the most competent. - He was obviously discriminated at Google (otherw
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by tajen 9y ago
Or is it intentional by the leaders of CNN to try to side with Google on that case?
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by tajen 9y ago
All those people telling me that boys and girls have the same interest in tech, and clichés is all that keeps girls from reaching their potential... - Doesn't match with my observations of girls around me. My goddaughter was educated i
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by tajen 9y ago
The founder just doesn't understand the risk, hence this behavior. He's the average victim who would fall for a $99 fare. He certainly can't believe the risk would be that high, hence he's upset with "a hit piece&
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by tajen 9y ago
Ah. Maybe the best to protect the consumer would be to rename it AirGoat or AirDarwinAward. More seriously, the people using those services will probably be from a too poor background to come across this blog, and don't have the educat
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by tajen 9y ago
I wouldn't even carry luggage for my wife or my mother, even if traveling with them. My mother once said "We haven't had problems with my morphine when we visited China (She's old and suffers from hip arthrosis). Actuall
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by tajen 9y ago
We could also check whether "The Willy Wonka elevator" arouses more curiosity: It's a feature of the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory book (and in the movie from Tim Burton).
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by tajen 9y ago
...do they care? Is there a correlation between committing crimes and, for example, being on the no-fly-list? The TSA doesn't wait for a crime to interrogate you, send you back, download or bug your phone, and I'll eat my hat if t
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by tajen 9y ago
We should have overwhelming confidence that people are detained for good reasons. Given US's track record, it is entirely reasonable to think that it's not the case, until demonstrated otherwise by proof brought forward by the agr
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by tajen 9y ago
Shouldn't we all avoid US conferences? Half the people have some day done something which in a generic way is "against US interests" (from a false name on Facebook to competing against a US corp to starting a petition or a se
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by tajen 9y ago
Yes, it would be fun. The problem being that there is no scale to measure humour and taste, and that moon joke doesn't seem good. But I regret that, in the absence of a scale, our culture decides there shouldn't be humour. I'
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by tajen 9y ago
Documentation should contain a complete reference off all options. StackOverflow rather describes... usecases. It sounds fine to me, because the programmer can't think about all usecases, so they better be on a user-managed website.
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by tajen 9y ago
I highly recommend watching the related episode of "Mayday" Air Crash Investigation about Tenerife. Hulls are so fragile that they've often shred up in flight (De Havaillan, DC-9). Landing is around 200-250kmh only, but pla
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by tajen 9y ago
Can you see the X at the beginning of the runway while sitting in the pilot seat? I was told the pilots' eyes are expected to be at mid-windshield height, but pilots prefer their seats in slightly reclined position and no position is c
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by tajen 9y ago
...or team up with rehabilitation organizations. Unfortunately there's no shortage of ex-prisonners in USA: About one third of the people in age of working.
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by tajen 9y ago
That's not what he's talking about. For example, today, it is much easier on social media to share left-wing opinions than to explain the drawbacks of, for example, positive discrimination or massive fundings for [insert minority
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by tajen 9y ago
It participates to negating the difficulty of building and delivering a product, thereby giving said laymen a sense of entitlement over "undeserved wealth".
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by tajen 9y ago
I second this: Open-source projects, please send invoices so companies can bury them in their accounting. Even postgresql.org let me down with a "the only invoice is the CC receipt from paypal", which triggered a specific discussi
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by tajen 9y ago
Genius. Name a module "Tiananmen" and Chinese won't hear about the project?
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by tajen 9y ago
I'm generally against generalizations ("the rich have subverted ...") as it leads to witchhunt and lynching of the wrong people. However, he convinced me that a wrong balance of powers is keeping us too much in the "stat
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by tajen 9y ago
For example, instead of spending millions on ads, write a story about "how you're not going to spend millions on ads" and get noticed by a lot of wealthy consumer in the prime pages of their Business Review newspapers.
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by tajen 9y ago
Maybe people enjoy a bit of positivity about partially successful efforts towards diversity. It sometimes feels like all efforts towards it get little recognition and only more risks of being falsely accused. So when someone says something
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by tajen 9y ago
They should sell the original iPod Nano with the wheel, it was awesome.
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by tajen 9y ago
...and petrol shock, particularly in Europe. And sexual liberation. Time to study the correlations: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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by tajen 9y ago
In France the state's prosecutor is the accusation, and cites the victim as a witness. That allows pursuing the trial if the victim is pressured to remove the complaint.
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by tajen 9y ago
This is horror. We need to stop it. I still don't get why rapes generate the kind of immediate and massive solidarity from society that men's life doesn't.
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by tajen 9y ago
I once ticked "IPv6" when ordering a Debian VPS. It was super-slow and I didn't know IPv6 was the cause. Basically the system always tries IPv6 first, times out at 30s, then tries IPv4. I never completed an `apt-get update` a
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by tajen 9y ago
And Tesla even affords the attitude to say they don't want to claim the whole market and they're happy to let others use their ideas, because they want a world with fewer carbon. So, even if they don't win, they can claim it
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by tajen 9y ago
A bit late to answer, but by their EULA you are not allowed to talk about the performance of their products. Yes, they did that!

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