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by zorpner 13y ago
What do you think "consensual and non-coercive" means in the context of addictive behavior?
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by zorpner 13y ago
Yes, this is the myth that people tell themselves in order to ignore the fact that they had to work less to get to the same place because of their advantages in race, sex, economic or educational background, etc. Well illustrated. EDIT: Pe
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by zorpner 13y ago
I'm not judging particular people (I have no opinion on the individuals mentioned), and I honestly haven't kept up with this whole narrative so there are certainly no statistics I can cite. I'm saying that stating that someo
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by zorpner 13y ago
> And while it's possible for women to be sexist too, if you think Jessica, Kirsty, and Carolynn are sexist, I'd like to see you say it to their faces. That... is not an argument? There's ample evidence to show that membe
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by zorpner 13y ago
More specifically, companies are going to avoid entering markets (e.g. online lyrics databases) where Google has demonstrated an unwillingness to appropriately punish established players who use the same black hat practices, since it's
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by zorpner 13y ago
This is actually a major selling point for WHOIS privacy services (for SEO) these days, if you maintain the domain with the same registrar and continue to use their domain privacy service, the records won't change and Google won't
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by zorpner 13y ago
You... may want to read up on the history of the US's involvement in fomenting revolution, and how well it's worked out for us historically. Those who forget the lessons of history, &c...
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by zorpner 13y ago
This is always, always a bad idea, and has been so for decades: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/07/28/54583... It raises support costs, and frustrates the vast majority of cust
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by zorpner 13y ago
> So the only way women are going to be able to re-shape the system in a way that works better for women is to put up with the obnoxious bullshit politics for a while. It may be true in some circumstances that it will be possible for a s
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by zorpner 13y ago
I've spent time in dozens ... maybe hundreds of server closets in academia/companies that have been around for a few decades, and this is easily on the very, very clean side. When there are no rewards for cleaning up and every re
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by zorpner 13y ago
It's absolutely malicious, and what's more, they already know that: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/1/25
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by zorpner 13y ago
At a previous company, we had a competitor who we were trying quite hard to beat to market with a particular feature, and it was (half-jokingly, and not by me) suggested that we send them false reports of subtle but deadly bugs to occupy th
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by zorpner 13y ago
You dismissed an entirely relevant link because you are allowing your biases to blind you, and are actively missing an opportunity to learn about someone who actually embodied the hacker mindset, because you do not have it.
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by zorpner 13y ago
> guarantees that neither the interviewer nor the candidate is wasting the other’s time Yeah, it guarantees that only the interviewer is wasting the candidate's time. If you're hiring off the street I could possibly see some v
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by zorpner 13y ago
We're also going to read one sentence of your copy and assume that we know everything about how it works. We're going to draw a quick conclusion despite have never developed anything in that space and assert that your product has
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by zorpner 13y ago
Of course. That's neither what I nor the GP were talking about (read the next few words after "have to pay" in either of our posts if you're still confused).
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by zorpner 13y ago
> I hit the emergency help button and complain about the stench, the state of the service. Please stop wasting everyone's time with your abuse of the emergency help button. Your problem is not an emergency. Additionally, you do not
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by zorpner 13y ago
Do you object to a specific part of the research methodology in the article, or are you just showing your classism off for fun?
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by zorpner 13y ago
You assert that it's a binary choice between obnoxious false positives and life-saving potential, but this is because current smoke detector design is at a local maximum which optimizes for life-saving potential. There's absolute
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by zorpner 13y ago
Citation needed.
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by zorpner 13y ago
I heard back -- the incident in question for the other person occurred as a minor, so they could have it removed from their record, but had not yet done so. They explained this to the recruiter (a Google employee), who told them it would n
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by zorpner 13y ago
One of them did, I know, unsure on the other. I'll inquire to see if they're interested in providing that information or joining this discussion.
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by zorpner 13y ago
Appalling behavior on Google's part. Amazingly, I know two other people to whom this exact thing has happened (neither of which are you based on details in your story). One was so determined to work for Google that she reapplied afte
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by zorpner 13y ago
> That's true, but all of them derive from the same set of first principles, those defined by physics. More is different (PDF link: http://robotics.cs.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/anderson72mo... ). M
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by zorpner 13y ago
> First, archive -- record the language, its linguistic structure & features for science's and posterity's sake. All other issues with your post aside, this is not a thing that we can do. The subtleties of a real language
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by zorpner 13y ago
Oh, we've been scanning the blockchain for this for quite some time ;) It would be great to see it pushed down to the client, though. Easy way to avoid a simple cryptographic tripwire that's likely to recur if the BTC clients con
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by zorpner 13y ago
It may not have been identified specifically as an Android exploit -- there are people (I used to be one of them, though I wouldn't have used the result to exploit wallets) who constantly run crypto attacks on transactions in the block
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by zorpner 13y ago
Like most engineers/geeks/hackers, you've completely missed the point of the Nest. The point is: people like to adjust their thermostat. They're too hot? They want to cool it down. Too cold? Turn it up. The Nest al
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by zorpner 13y ago
I'm going to answer your first question with a question: what do you think he means by "nasty crash"? Because I guarantee it's not what happens post-excursion. There's no difference -- postprandial excursions are a
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by zorpner 13y ago
Oh, you're one of the people that believe that a perceived "sugar rush" has something to do with diabetic glycemic excursions? They're entirely different phenomena. Dismissed. But thanks for the irrelevant link!

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