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by tenpies 8y ago
I distinctly remember a discussion about Something Awful's slogan ("the internet makes you stupid") and how it was actually a keen observation about the internet. Pre-internet you would have people with really bad ideas. Th
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Yes, price aside I really like the US approach of basically giving everyone a chance and slowly siphoning people into specialization (or out of university). In comparison to some of the "free" university systems where you end up
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On the idea of a 2nd class civilian: Would that include level of support? If something goes wrong in any Google product for me, I am almost certainly SOL. If my scenario doesn't fall under automated support or is something that requi
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In this way, recycling has been one of the most catastrophic environmental efforts ever. If we had stuck with just "reduce and re-use" the world would look drastically different. But no, recycle got included and we got the 3 Rs,
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by tenpies 8y ago
There is also the classic "need X years of experience with Y technology" but Y technology has only been in existence for <X years. I love HR departments.
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> start taking action No please. 2018 was enough of a taste as to what "action" means to companies. They are simply spineless against media back lash or a small minority of users complaining.
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In modern Catholicism, coffee could be sinful if it is disruptive to your life or connection with God. This is very much the same as alcohol which is normally fine, but can have a detrimental effect in excess or if addiction develops. Ther
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Also quite tellingly, many of the early medical textbooks had areas devoted to cosmetics, perfume, incense, and scented aromatics. The 10th century Al-Tasrif, one of the most important medical textbooks ever written and in use until the 17
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by tenpies 8y ago
My biggest worry would not be about today or even next year, but rather ten years from now. In 2010, I could have said "women do not have a penis" and faced zero criticism. But if I say the same thing today in the ultra SJW woke
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> We do not shadow ban. You are always able to see the tweets from accounts you follow (although you may have to do more work to find them, like go directly to their profile). I have no words.
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Twitter: Setting the record straight on shadow banning(blog.twitter.com)
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Genetics will be interesting, but I wonder if we eventually reach a point where it's even beyond that. To use Gattaca as an example, a person with vastly inferior genetics was able to outperform genetically perfect individuals through
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Salon has been around for a while and they're not quite what you would call "fake news", but they are very Left leaning and "progressive". They also tend to focus a lot more opinion and analysis, so while the facts
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When I first read the title, I thought that they had mistakenly used the Statue of Liberty from the Man in the High Castle [1]. Now that would've been embarrassing. --- [1] https://i.imgur.com/5byF3NN.jpg
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Or oppression, pain, suffering, and something against which to push back.
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The alarming thing is that after seeing the Kanye & Kardashian empire get more political, I can very much picture a future where we have Kanye is president in 2020 or 2024. To put it in millennial marketing pseudo-jargon: how many likes
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by tenpies 8y ago
> The kids get involved early in learning about healthy food making and we get a cook book about what sort of food one should make for children when they start school. How frequently is this curriculum revised and how are updates communi
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> Google’s culture is pretty close to what a lot of this generation aspires to though; and doing work to enable state sponsored surveillance is likely personally threatening to their LGBT staff given the current president’s agenda That b
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Glad I'm not the only one. I thought I was going to see a slow progression of measuring devices and how we went from a somewhat straight stick with notches to what we have today.
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Could you not make the argument that a willingness to stay in a "doomed" city is critical for the re-emergence of desirable cities? Almost every great city in existence has had at least one awful moment at some point in its histor
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> and it's working While I agree that the efforts are working, this is very much like using a tea spoon to bail water out of the Titanic. You also have to consider that given a choice between the US and Canada, very few people woul
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by tenpies 9y ago
I can buy that, but then I can't understand why they refused to leave. There is an unwritten contract between any cafe and the public: purchasing any item - even the tiniest coffee - and you also get the option of staying at the cafe f
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by tenpies 9y ago
Can someone explain to me what Starbucks did wrong here? As far as I've read, there were a pair of men loitering in the store for an extended period of time. They did not purchase anything so this is the very definition of loitering.
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by tenpies 9y ago
I suspect it has to do more with human moderation. As much as Google hates using humans for anything, moderation still has a human element. As low as the minimum wage is in countries with a workforce educated enough to do this unpleasant
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One of the questions has literally been "What is Facesmash and is it still active?". I am picturing that this person looked at his agenda last night, saw "Facebook hearing", opened Netflix, and started watching the Socia
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He was not under oath, so even if he was caught lying it is legally inconsequential.
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"I'll get back to you" was essentially "On the advice of council, I would like to exercise my fifth amendment right". It was like a Chapelle skit at times.
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Disagree, see: Martin Shkreli.
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"Facebook? The ones that help get TRUMP ELECTED?" I think that would be enough to get you blacklisted in certain California crowds.
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> anything that might one day cause a public relations nightmare That category includes everything. Your post about how you're crushing some pancakes today could be considered a celliac-phobic statement punishable under the Freed

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