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by tjpnz 3y ago
Someone cared enough to base64 decode your email and contact you personally about your political views? Name and shame, please.
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by tjpnz 3y ago
If big brands aren't prepared to advertise on Twitter why would they integrate it for payments?
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>And seriously, when does where you went to school even come up, except on a resume (that “foot in the door”) Ever met someone who went to Harvard?
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Different context. There's not a sexual dimension to it at all.
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We got told to accept a less promising candidate for an internship program based on their "racial diversity". It was discovered later on that their wealthy father knew the CEO from when they both went to Harvard. Our DEI program h
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by tjpnz 3y ago
Despite all the saber rattling and meddling by China the people made their own decision, effectively giving a big middle finger to Dictator Xi. As a casual watcher of Taiwanese politics it's obvious that this is something they deeply c
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Of course not.
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Paula Vennells handing back her CBE doesn't get remotely close to accountability. Many won't feel a sense of closure until she's aggressively prosecuted and languishes in a prison cell for the rest of her years. I'm actu
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by tjpnz 3y ago
>She's just at the head of a one-trick poney: Star Wars is not an infinite canvas. It's this very narrow thing, that's not exceedingly popular outside North America. You're minimising her reach and impact on the indus
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I don't think anyone was under the allusion that it would somehow bring her back. Does nothing to absolve her of the antisemitism.
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The allegation is that they weren't taking reasonable steps to safeguard customer data under California law, the problem is that it's not stated what reasonable is. What's needed here are clearer regulations.
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The real story is how she was ever considered for the position. Her publishing record fills less than a page, no books, no chapters, no research grant applications to speak of and very few citations. There were 600 nominations for the role.
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You assume the US and EU would be starting at zero.
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By turning its presence on a resume into a red flag.
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Played it like a professional and shipped at 14:30 - the bug can wait. How did the cowboys fare?
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Golang took a decent stab at it with the introduction of modules.
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Why does a rapper who's been dead for years occupy the eighth position? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXTentacion
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by tjpnz 3y ago
SpaceX's Dragon capsule also carries hypergolics and they know not to mess around with the stuff, even trace residues are a concern when egressing astronauts and salvaging the capsule. There are similar stories from the Apollo era. Qui
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by tjpnz 3y ago
Not op but compared with Python it's heavier in the syntax department. You would have an easier time going in the other direction and encounter less situations where you have to stop and think about what to use in which situation while
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Who decides what's hate speech? I thought SCOTUS ruled that such laws were unconstitutional.
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The author can't seem to make up their mind about the use of a vacuum. In one section where they do propose using one they also suggest sticking a giant turbine on the end of the car. Maglevs are great. Why not build one of those inste
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by tjpnz 3y ago
>I think it's a sad state of affairs when someone simply puts an idea out into the world and says "We think it will work, but needs more input" and people get extremely angry and spew vitriol and hatred towards them simply
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The Japanese figured it out decades ago. Get them to build it.
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The white paper at the very least wasn't. It contradicts itself in multiple places and it seems the author has some misunderstandings around basic physics.
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There's a trendy taxi service where I live whose entire fleet is Tesla and I'll sometimes cut across their parking lot to get coffee. Typically there'll be a dozen parked up at a given time and they all have that issue to s
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The best laptop I ever owned was from Toshiba. Fantastic performance for what I paid, quiet and seemingly indestructible based on what it went through. When it came time to upgrade I learned that Toshiba had exited the market entirely and t
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I'm aware of that but am perplexed by the sheer volume of these compared to other articles.
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Bringing a virus into a lab for study doesn't automatically alter its genetic markers.
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This annecdote was referenced in yesterday's Chesterton's Fence submission[0]. Startup CFOs will universally grumble about such perks, but the competent ones know not to touch it, or only to tweak it in a way that's not going
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by tjpnz 3y ago
>whether public universities can enforce codes of conduct which may compel speech. Where would such a precedent leave things in terms of codes of conduct and open source?

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