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by wtbob 10y ago
> For example Comcast has on demand, but once you watch a show you have to literally go back and search for the TV show name again before you can watch the next episode. Netflix and HBO are similarly terrible. There's no way for me
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by wtbob 10y ago
Presumably if these people are referred to him by their clerics then they have agreed to have his report sent back to those same clerics. Priests, lawyers, physicians, surgeons & psychiatrists are all members of a professional class, wh
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by wtbob 10y ago
> But the current anecdotal evidence is that those companies _can_ pay very little, and yet, no catastrophe has happened. The only valid business conclusion is that the highly paid engineers aren't needed there! They pay in other wa
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by wtbob 10y ago
> OP isn't removing the names. 'Much later, she permitted me to tell her story.' It's the last sentence in the second paragraph. And, as a matter of fact, I don't see any names of either psychological or spiritu
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by wtbob 10y ago
sigh , my secret worry is that Steve has been publishing stuff like this ever since his blog went silent, only now it's for Googlers only. His essays have been and still are so very much worth reading for anyone in the software field
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by wtbob 10y ago
With names removed, I don't see why a cleric can't share non-confessional details with a psychiatrist, nor vice versa. Are you seriously saying that in the U.K. one can't discuss cases with names removed? How does the Lance
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Because that knowledge tells you absolutely nothing about any given individual. You can't know the heart of any man: all you can do is make predictions about how he will behave under various circumstances, based on the observation
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Armed with a small amount of data about information over a population on average gives you absolutely no information about any specific case That's akin to saying that being armed with all of medical science's knowledge about
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by wtbob 10y ago
> No you shouldn't, you should asses each patient individually Assessment means making observations; making observations means observing ; observing means actually opening your eyes to the facts as they are. You'd be killing
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by wtbob 10y ago
> These studies have known drawbacks in that they serve as a rallying point for all sorts of discrimination masquerading as high-minded discourse, and we're yet to see a benefit so far, so the burden of proof here is on you. You&#x2
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by wtbob 10y ago
> A study shows a genetic basis for a difference - on average across the whole population - where blue people are 10% less intelligent and 10% more violent. > Are you justified in preferring to hire green people? No. Why the heck wou
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by wtbob 10y ago
That doesn't make sense: spending $24 to retrieve 75¢ of materials is a massive loss , not a win. Throwing stuff away isn't a problem (the world's huge; besides, today's landfills will be a future generation's mine
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by wtbob 10y ago
> If nothing else, the stereotypical "possessed" behavior is exactly the opposite of what you'd expect a literal hell-demon to do. If the Devil was real and wanted to tear down God and religion, he'd make the possesse
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by wtbob 10y ago
> He honestly weighs evidence he's never seen? I don't think he is: rather, he's point out the failure of the debunkers to make a sound argument against something which he's not seen. I think that his position is,
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Terrifying that he has some power to detain people against their will; or to force people to take medication against their will. Why's it any more terrifying that a religious dualist person has that power than an atheist materiali
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by wtbob 10y ago
> However, I don't think it makes sense to have a complex special case like "if you only have one of this subset of extra privileges, allow TMPDIR but don't allow all the other potentially dangerous environment variables&q
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by wtbob 10y ago
> You can theoretically use tmp to gain any privilege. Not when you access it as yourself rather than root. The capability in question only grants access to open low ports; there's no way to combine that with files in a temp direct
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by wtbob 10y ago
What's funny is that in this case the dynamic loader was sanitising something irrelevant to the actual capability granted, which seems to me should be a bug. Also, I'll be an advocate for just starting emacs with systemd, and neve
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by wtbob 10y ago
Yeah, but the problem is that modern pages are written in such a way that that almost always displays garbage. I tried to do it for a few weeks, but it was terrible looking.
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by wtbob 10y ago
What burns me up is that CSS was supposed to allow site authors to have sensible defaults for their pages while enabling me to override them, and yet when I set a dark theme in Firefox all hell breaks loose. Honestly, the web was better end
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by wtbob 10y ago
I love Lisp, and I love s-expressions, and I honestly can't viscerally understand why others don't. From listening to my teammates' comments, I think that it has something to do with how they register visual patterns in code
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Also, IMO stuff in decimal is almost always easier to compare than fractional. When someone asks me for a size up from an 8mm wrench, I know to grab the 9mm. When someone asks me for a size up from 5/16", it'll take me a
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by wtbob 10y ago
> millions of Americans use imperial measurements There are two types of countries: those using 'metric' units, and those who have been to the Moon. There's absolutely nothing fundamentally wrong with standard units (indee
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by wtbob 10y ago
> a lot of the benefits fall apart if you don't have people working to maintain the build environment, automated tests, developer environments. The thing is, a monorepo makes clear what multiple repos can obscure: if you have a soft
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by wtbob 10y ago
Anyone have a cache? Without reading it, I've used monorepos and multiple repos, and far prefer the former. What people don't get is that any system consisting of software in multiple repos is really a monorepo with a really poor
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by wtbob 10y ago
Your government is free to negotiate whatever treaties are acceptable under its laws and the U.S. Constitution; you have whatever voice in your own government that your laws give you. It makes literally no sense to me that a government woul
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by wtbob 10y ago
I think your idea misses the point that every one of us will eventually be in a 'late-stage disease state' (for a fairly broad definition of 'disease,' to include trauma). When we're young, we tend to think that ou
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by wtbob 10y ago
See, this is why I just don't get drug prohibition. Why aren't we rededicating the resources we throw away on prohibition to preventing & investigating things like this? why is $100,000 worth of marijuana a greater threat to
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by wtbob 10y ago
The Indie Web camp[1] guys have ideas for how to implement pretty much all of the value of Facebook using HTTP and other stuff on top of it — no need for a blockchain, no need for IPFS, just web servers talking to one another. They have pr
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Hayek in the Hill Country: On Austin's Outlawing of Airbnb(nationalreview.com)
6 points by wtbob 10y ago|0 comments

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