themartorana

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by themartorana 10y ago
Ugh. Ag-gag is perfectly analogous. I don't understand it one iota. When you make reporting an illegal activity illegal, you have made that activity legal.
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by themartorana 10y ago
When that chain is complicit all the way up, there's no longer a legitimate path to raise the red flag. We know the chain was complicit all the way up to Clapper, and so did Snowden, which then makes "proper paths" illegiti
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by themartorana 10y ago
The reason the government incentivizes whistleblowing and protects those that do so is because without those laws there is a legitimate fear of retaliation. In order to protect itself, the government makes sure that that fear is actualized
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by themartorana 10y ago
I agree - having to rely on the kindness of someone with more disposable income - or worse, the shaming of another person - for your income while the business owner gets to keep more money as profit is abhorrent.
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by themartorana 10y ago
I don't believe you. No one I know likes tipping. It's awkward no matter how you slice it. We would all much rather just pay what it costs and not have to tip. -- Looked it up. You were right. Well, at least in the pay structure.
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by themartorana 10y ago
Not in all places even where required by law. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-skipping-phys-ed-class...
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by themartorana 10y ago
"But humans also “evolved with a very large stick: if you didn’t exercise, you had nothing to eat.” Exercise was mandatory. For many humans today, he points out, there are very few incentives and no penalties." Not entirely true
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by themartorana 10y ago
Yeah, which is why I'm so surprised people are surprised about Brexit. It wasn't some full-on racist rant. Many people just wanted sovereignty for real, including a large number of Labor voters who voted quietly, fearing retaliati
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by themartorana 10y ago
Very, very common for conquering people to build religious buildings on the religious ruins of the vanquished.
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by themartorana 10y ago
Also this really isn't a Buzzfeed list - it's a rather personal story, with a little fraud sprinkled in for funsies.
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by themartorana 10y ago
Also, support for unions is waning. Here in Philadelphia, union support is at an all time low. They were rendered toothless in recent elections for the first time ever, and a series of bad press (arson, assault, and destruction of property
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by themartorana 10y ago
Your anecdotal experience does not change the reality of the audience that uses social networking and messaging and the dominant players in those markets. If you decided you wanted to join in your choices would be limited, and these two ser
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by themartorana 10y ago
There is a non-evil way to interpret this. A lot of small international business is conducted over WhatsApp - for instance, many key sellers in the vintage watch market offer WhatsApp as a communications method. But it requires more work th
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by themartorana 10y ago
I want to. But it took enough time to get the entire family using WhatsApp. We have so much history in those groups and conversations. I'd very much like to be able to change over (and when ads start creeping in, probably will just bit
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by themartorana 10y ago
Answering letters like this, while tedious, probably helps cement the path forward for a young child with the brain and curiosity for engineering. This one was a bit late, obviously.
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by themartorana 10y ago
Wooooow. It's always funny/concerning when people who make money by taking advantage of others by leveraging their lack of education then start acting as though fixes to that imbalance are afronts to their earned/deserved pos
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by themartorana 10y ago
Not in my experience or the experiences of anyone I know or work with.
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"Corke and his team reported that the wind tunnel test item, which used “new actuators that developed 20 times more thrust while consuming 100 times less power, produced a 65% drag reduction.” The Notre Dame researchers have found tha
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by themartorana 10y ago
What does this do to the cost of real estate overall? I'm in no way versed on investing, let alone in real estate trusts, but $900B seems like a lot of money. Is there an impact on the cost of housing in general?
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by themartorana 10y ago
It's the price of living in a society. When we do not adequately help people, we end up with ballooning homelessness as it exists in SF and elsewhere, poverty, and crime that make your and my lives less safe. Where you draw the line be
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by themartorana 10y ago
I don't understand why this is a bad thing on the PC list. They are pictures to be clear, and attractive pictures tend to have more likes. We're also humans, and being attracted to other humans is in our DNA, so, we should stop
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by themartorana 10y ago
Ops wins should just be assumed, though. Not to be flip, but you'll gain performance wins picking just about any other language/stack than Ruby on Rails. Even Python blows it out of the water. Move to something like Erlang/El
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by themartorana 10y ago
At ~500 light years away, even if we did see lights, who would we be communicating with _now_? And would it be disappointing if we saw a technologically-similar civilization that hadn't contacted us yet, being 500 years ahead of us? So
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by themartorana 10y ago
Agreed. CS degrees do tend to insinuate some degree of focused study, but it's a unique field where you can put in the same focus outside of a collegiate setting and exit with the same result (for undergrad, at least). I have a CS degr
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by themartorana 10y ago
I imagine the backlash against trying to eradicate mosquitos - the disappearance of which had all but proven to have a minuscule (if at all measurable) impact on the planet, and would save an insane number of human lives - as being thundero
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"...an achievement that was credited with saving tens of millions of lives..." This is what "changing the world" actually looks like. What a life to have led, and what a legacy!
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by themartorana 10y ago
I was born in the 70s, so I still remember middle school research papers that required no less than 4 sources sited, only one of which could be an encyclopedia. In any case, it still gives me pause to consider that I have a box with almost
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by themartorana 10y ago
Overreaction is the calling card of not having learned from the past. In any case, would scraping sites like nist.gov and mirroring the information therein be considered illegal?
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by themartorana 10y ago
Nice! Also you don't live too far from me :)
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by themartorana 10y ago
Is the illegalization (made up a word) of weed in Europe at all a USA export as well? Or did they come to it on their own?

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