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by wisty 7y ago
> What was contentious at the time internally was the Real Names policy. This was all Vic Gundotra's doing. He routinely gave the example of not wanting to interact with someone called "Dog Turd". To me, this is stunning.
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by wisty 7y ago
The justice system is part of the system. You choose not to commit crimes because harsh penalties are a possible consequence.
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by wisty 7y ago
"While driving" could mean you've stopped the car, but you haven't put it in park, applied the handbreak, and switched off the engine. The police are a bit vague at what constitutes "driving" because they want
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by wisty 7y ago
> His proposed solution is to get John, a man who has publicly stated that he speaks in bad faith, together with the people he attacked for a “conversation”. I feel like "bad faith" is now a thought-terminating cliche. As long
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by wisty 7y ago
Possibly, you could say the planes were landed, as in forced to stay on the ground (because of damage, fear of enemy fire, or damage to the runway). But grounded would be better.
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by wisty 7y ago
You could also read documentation and ask questions about it. And unlike meetings, everyone won't just forget the answer and have to have the discussion next week.
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by wisty 7y ago
A lot of engineers hate documentation and meetings. It's their managers job to make sure they do the boring stuff that the organisation needs. If a manager says "remember to do some meetings" at the start of the year then nev
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by wisty 7y ago
Think of it as testing a backup.
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by wisty 7y ago
Uber has a market cap of like 50 billion. It's real. It's no Apple or Google though.
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by wisty 7y ago
In the US you don't need a law degree to be a Supreme Court Judge. It's pretty common with elected positions - it's up to voters to make the decision.
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by wisty 7y ago
I think there is genuinely a libertarian argument that healthcare is partly expensive due to government over-regulation. A lot of what you said also applies to car mechanics. But they are less regulated, and there's unregulated alterna
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by wisty 7y ago
There's 3 main factors talked about in deterrence theory - severity, certainty, and speed. The US generally has severe enough punishments, and increases do little to add deterrence (and the downsides then take over). Certainty and spee
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by wisty 7y ago
Lie detectors are already a thing that some studies have shown with up to 100% accuracy (using fMRI and machine learning) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_detection#FMRI Yes there's countermeasures, but these s
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by wisty 7y ago
I wouldn't say most Chinese love the system. They don't despise it though. I think a lot see the HK thing as an attack on their country. There's a fair bit of history (the insult of losing territory to foreign powers) and als
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by wisty 7y ago
The same is true of most genres of music that were really popular during a specific time period. Punk rock arguably was constrained to the late 70s, but you can still find artists who are arguably punk rock. Genres are a fuzzy classificatio
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by wisty 7y ago
One example - Medicare is insanely expensive. IIRC the US government spends more on healthcare than Canada (adjusted for population etc) due to the huge costs of the most expensive clients (old people) getting "free" gold-plated p
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by wisty 7y ago
The fact that people sometimes break rules doesn't necessarily make them ineffective. Parents are not encouraged to give children unlimited access to alcohol or tobacco or hard drugs. Sure, they might find ways to break the rules, but
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by wisty 7y ago
Before writing was commonplace, students would memorise works like the Odyssey and Iliad. Before calculators, students would memorise times tables. Before Google, students would need to learn about the world. Before Siri, students would nee
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by wisty 7y ago
Also gums, patches, etc. I'd guess patches as the best, because the slow release breaks a lot of the fun of the addiction cycle. Apparently though, it's best to use both patches and one other NRT - https://www.cochrane.
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by wisty 7y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-31751672 > But it also reveals that teachers can be biased towards giving girls higher results than boys, even when they have produced the same quality of work. It would be ironic
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by wisty 7y ago
Yes, and since these customers are hurting business (by causing higher turnover, more stress on employees, etc) they should also sue those customers and push for the police to lay criminal charges if possible.
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by wisty 7y ago
A lot of these customers are so abusive that they should be facing civil or even criminal action. These are not customers who annoyingly ask for a discount or need a little hand-holding to get through some forms. These are customers who scr
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by wisty 7y ago
Teachers often score by similarly sensible criteria.
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by wisty 7y ago
It's been argued that a hose pipe, a helium balloon, and a bit of sulphur could easily cool the planet as much as we want. But of course, people get mad about "playing god" or "using pollution to fight pollution". K
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by wisty 7y ago
There's 350 year old books that more or less use phonics - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/06/phonics-taught-3... Before that ... who knows? I think English was mostly phonetic at the time,
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by wisty 7y ago
There's a Romantic (Rousseau was a major perpetrator) view of education that seems to be based mostly on just whistful thinking and novels. But I think there is a grain of truth to it. Emile, or On Education (by Rousseau) proposes an i
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by wisty 7y ago
> Statistics I uncovered were deeply disturbing — fewer than 16 percent of adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder were employed full-time, for example. Autism has changed its definition though. Adults with autism are often diagno
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by wisty 7y ago
A lot of programming has low stakes and immediate feedback. If a "bad" process means you have to fix a bug and recompile it's no biggie. And since there's rapid feedback, a "bad" programmer will usually be doin
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by wisty 7y ago
Pet clownfish (like most marine species) are mostly wild caught - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphiprioninae#In_the_aquarium I believe Clownfish and blue tangs are all Least Concern. There is some concern that they m
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by wisty 7y ago
There's a difference between getting help, and getting enabled. People with mental illness often make terrible decisions, but there's a trend to say we have to tolerate these terrible decisions because that's helping them, wh

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