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by will4274 8y ago
> technically rape is a property crime No. Not in most of the Western world it isn't today.
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by will4274 8y ago
You can't absolve a company from liability for US labor laws. So even after you sign the non-liability agreement, you can still sue. It's not a real shield for the company.
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by will4274 8y ago
My friend works for a large consulting company (you've heard of them). They were hired by a client who needed to reduce their labor costs by 10-15% (read: fire people) because they were hemorrhaging money. The team of consultants asked
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by will4274 8y ago
> why don't more developers say "f. you" and walk away from homework assignments, 5-round interviews, cubicle farms instead of offices, etc Some of us do and some of us don't find it all that terrible. I've decli
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by will4274 8y ago
> And then there's the word stripping. People are clearly misunderstanding what happened there. An advertiser would try to palce an ad. Backpage's algorithm would respond "Whoops, you can't use that word", and as
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by will4274 8y ago
I don't find that inconsistent. The Standford experiment showed that people act out the stereotypes of the roles they are assigned. My stereotype of a drill sergeant is yelling a lot, but fundamentally devoted to 'making unruly yo
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by will4274 8y ago
Sure, but that doesn't mean the US has to trade with them or offer them access to its financial systems.
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by will4274 8y ago
China admitted to killing one person (a 17 year old nun, at that) after the video evidence came out. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nangpa_La_shooting_incident
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by will4274 8y ago
> A simple Google search for how Oracle extorted $150M USD from the State of Oregon and flat out lied to them about their implementation services should provide all you need to know about how Oracle treats its customers. I did that simpl
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by will4274 8y ago
What if the problem is that the humanities are getting worse? The ancient definition of a liberal arts education was language (typically ancient Greek), mathematics, literature (often poetry), physical sciences, and history. During my time
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by will4274 8y ago
> compliance isn't particularly difficult unless you're going out of your way to do something harmful to your users. Please stop spreading this FUD. There are tons of architectures (e.g. Apache Kafka) which were totally sane an
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by will4274 8y ago
Hmm. I guess Mendal wrote a journal, not a paper per se. Millikan's oildrop experiment?
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by will4274 8y ago
Allow me to disagree. Chris Okasaki's thesis, "Purely Functional Data Structures" is That Good for the field of functional programming. There are other exemplary papers, like Godel's incompleteness theorem, Cantor's
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by will4274 8y ago
Smokers have lower health care costs because they die younger, avoiding some of the very expensive end of life treatments that are typical of heart failure and cancer patients.
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by will4274 8y ago
> What I get from the story is that no explanation was given, to anybody The story doesn't include any comment from US government officials. It also doesn't include that they failed to comment (excluding the one ambassador, who
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by will4274 8y ago
> I don't see a huge amount of actual evidence for that in the article, but absent a statement from the State department explaining their thinking, it seems like a reasonable conclusion to draw. This attitude leads to groupthink and
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by will4274 8y ago
I can get close to the math by being extremely generous. 15k of tramua fees. ~10 specialists on call for tramua. That implies each specialist got about 1.5k for the call. ~2 hours of work, maybe payment for transport time so super generous
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by will4274 8y ago
> I feel that it's perfectly reasonable to have a backup human driver if they are trained to act accordingly. Agreed. I think the right analogy is an airplane pilot. Operating an airplane and an autonomous car require special traini
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by will4274 8y ago
> evidence of them scanning my OneDrive Microsoft publically states that they scan OneDrives for forbidden content, like pornography (yes, all pornography is forbidden on OneDrive, not just child pornography). > I bet if someone uploa
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by will4274 8y ago
> their JS engine https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore > their compiler Microsoft makes half a dozen compilers, for as many languages: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn https://
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by will4274 8y ago
Yes, it was. South Carolina was the first state to secede; South Carolina cited slavery in their declaration of secession; the war began with secession or immediately following and because of secession. The civil war was fought over slavery
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by will4274 8y ago
This already exists.
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by will4274 8y ago
> Their free services have no direct support channels, as expected Why is this "as expected"? Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon all have direct support channels for free tier customers. They aren't as prompt, but it&#
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by will4274 8y ago
And yet, you're now aware of the gag rule and GNUs opposition. So, on that level, it's succeeding.
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by will4274 8y ago
As others have said, the glibc is part of a political organization. If the Chinese government had forbid GNU from speaking on forks and required the exclusive use of chopsticks, you'd see a similar joke on the page for fork. Nobody is
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by will4274 8y ago
> _Americans don't want those jobs back_. We really don't. > I think Dave Chappelle said it very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inlDT62oGy8 > "I want to wear Nikes, I don't want to make t
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by will4274 9y ago
The money is taxed when it is transferred from Google to Google's shareholders. Taxing it a second time when it is transferred to Google from other corporations is widely seen by economists as an economic drag and something that drives
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by will4274 9y ago
> law enforcement At least in my country, law enforcement has no obligation to handle anything. Legal systems punish criminals after-the-fact, it's up to individuals to prevent crimes. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2005
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by will4274 9y ago
And yet, there are more TV stations than movie theatres in many towns.
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by will4274 9y ago
> No one The intelligence services knew. The general public didn't.

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