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by tenpies 9y ago
I think we just traded a bad system for a worst one. Could you imagine what would happen if Nabokov attempted to release Lolita in 2017 using a blog? Google/Facebook would ban him before he even got chapter 2 posted and there would
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by tenpies 9y ago
> But you want humans to have children, right? While I do, I don't think most of Western public policy does. It seems like we've fundamentally outsourced children to third world countries. Raising a child in any state is goin
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by tenpies 9y ago
> I think youtube needs to consider backing off regulating political content. They can't. We've entered an era where a disagreeable tweet is - in the mind of some people - a good reason to dox you and destroy your life. This
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by tenpies 9y ago
4. Allow the IPO underwriters to pretend that the company is not a single app company but a lifestyle brand.
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by tenpies 9y ago
> Such AI coupled with the inflexible policies of companies like Google and Amazon I would argue that there is a key difference in customer support which makes me much more confident in Amazon than Google. Google has non-existent custome
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by tenpies 9y ago
I don't think the COL argument works any more. Toronto is at Brooklyn levels (if not higher). Montreal was better, but got worst when Toronto passed new legislation for rentals and rental properties. The "free" health insur
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by tenpies 9y ago
It's not just protective. Snowden indicated that part of what they consider national security involves economic security. In their interpretation, their mandate includes corporate and economic espionage, and ensuring that the US main
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by tenpies 9y ago
It has basically fallen into a classic hype cycle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle This is partly why I'm skeptical of technologies when the media is talking about them. It probably means we're som
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by tenpies 9y ago
Maybe a minority view but, pay me a suit salary because I actually want to wear a suit. I'm a professional, not your friend's tech-savvy kid.
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by tenpies 9y ago
If he's verbalizing his thought process it might actually be better than the average comments you get on code. Might actually have to play around with dictating what I'm thinking at key points in the process.
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by tenpies 9y ago
I hate to go back to the recent elections, but that's probably when Snopes lost a significant amount of reputation in my book. It's not that they're mis-reporting, but there's a complete mismatch between what they claim
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by tenpies 9y ago
I'm sure Dollarshaveclub will pick up the slack. ;)
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by tenpies 9y ago
This is even more telling when you consider that the husband's employment status is the best predictor of divorce[1]. I wonder if some jobs result in an even higher incidence of divorce than unemployment. --- [1] http://www
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by tenpies 9y ago
I find the redeeming factor to be customizability. A McDouble with tomato, no pickles, lettuce, and Big Mac sauce for about a dollar? Yes, please!
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by tenpies 9y ago
> First, the most important person is your direct manager. In my experience, this is good advice for everyone. No one else in the organization will have as much input, weight, and sway as to what happens to your professional self in the
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by tenpies 9y ago
I wonder if it admitting it opens them up to legal action by those who were discriminated against.
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by tenpies 9y ago
Can you imagine trying to convince tax payers who don't even agree on universal healthcare that they should now pay NYU's tuition for someone studying Intersectional Feminist Literature?
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by tenpies 9y ago
> It also shouldn't be ignored that labour costs in Canada are less than half of what they are in the US Should add that this works both ways. Most Canadians who can, do end up leaving for the US since they can easily make 2 - 4X t
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by tenpies 9y ago
Personally I'm interested in seeing the privacy impact assessment if there is an actual proposal. This isn't Google doing it out of some utopian goodness of their heart. Everything in those 12 blocks will be logged, analyzed, an
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by tenpies 10y ago
It's also worth noting what an important role the SA file sharing forums had on on SA and the file-sharing scene. Many of today's private file-sharing communities are direct descendants of what began as "No Mp3s" and &q
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by tenpies 10y ago
Supplementary factor: growing up hearing that 50% of marriages will fail and then seeing what a bad divorce does to everyone involved. As a man, I've heard enough horror stories to never want to marry.
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by tenpies 10y ago
Former Canadian PM Harper gave an interesting talk earlier this year[1] where he touched on this. In short, Canada is incredibly lucky to be geographically protected from immigration. Its only land neighbour has a comparable quality of li
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by tenpies 10y ago
TSLA behaves mostly like 3 X Musk Tweets Bull ETF.
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by tenpies 10y ago
> how much they feel okay changing game-altering systems or behaviours. Apparently they made sure to keep a lot of what we would probably consider bugs. Goliaths and Dragoons still have "derpy" [they used this word] pathing an
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by tenpies 10y ago
I would, but it's definitely not a universally appealing film. It's very similar to something like the Weather Man[1] where there is a plot, but the real point of the film is to witness a character going through a particular poin
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by tenpies 10y ago
> I'm perfectly fine with censoring racist/sexist/homophobic etc. hateful or fascist content. With how liberally those terms are being thrown around now, I have no confidence in any non-human and even most human curation.
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by tenpies 10y ago
This clip from the Gambler summed it up pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdfeXqHFmPI (NSFW language) It's more about personal independence than anything and being able to take risks.
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by tenpies 10y ago
> We've already lost when an arrest is equivalent to a conviction. Doesn't even take an arrest these days - just ask any college aged male accused of rape.
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by tenpies 10y ago
> going thru an xray machine that haven't been properly documented Don't forget data retention. Those pseudo-nude pictures of all of us (including your children) are probably stored somewhere for perpetuity.
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by tenpies 10y ago
Why? The model has worked for Korea in many ways. Korea was an absolute disaster in the 1950s and unprecedented cooperation between private enterprise and government was one of the primary reasons why a tiny half-peninsula with no natural

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