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by zzalpha 9y ago
Sure, but the argumentation in that blog post is that novelty seeking is a proxy for dopamine sensitivity, and dopamine sensitivity may be linked to extraverted/introverted tendencies, hence why that gene study is relevant. But, as I n
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Hmm, funny, because a little googling on that gene turned up this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine_receptor_D4 Despite early findings of an association between the DRD4 48bp VNTR and novelty seeking (a normal c
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Because there's scientific evidence strongly suggesting otherwise. About this you are mistaken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion Despite these differences, a meta-analysis of 15 exper
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Here's a wild idea: Why don't we all agree that the "introvert/extrovert" dichotomy is a false one, and that while we all have tendencies, it's also good to step outside our comfort zone a bit. For those with
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Any app can do that without violating Apple's rules. Actually, no, doing so specifically violates Apple's rules. That's the entire point. That "any app can do that" is tautological... it's not like Uber&#x27
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by zzalpha 9y ago
It makes the world better by not attempting to draw a legal distinction based on somebody's internal motives. That's called mens rea and it's how, for example, various types of murder and accidental death are distinguished.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Uber could tell if I changed devices or bought someone else's used device, giving them potential insight into my device usage and buying habits. Is that "spying"? It's certainly tracking beyond a level I would reasonabl
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Or possibly have to stop on a hill and accidently hit someone behind you or in front. I take it no one taught you how to start on a hill in a manual using the handbrake?
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by zzalpha 9y ago
There's far more than just these 20. Honda, for example, has plenty of manual models available (we happen to own a manual Fit). They may be dying but they're far from endangered.
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Yup, no question. I'm not claiming Uber's approach is flawless, I'm just describing what I believe they were doing and why.
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Phone numbers can be trivially changed. In the article this is in the context of fraudsters buying used phones to fake rides in China and take advantage of incentive programs to make money. So they want to track these devices as they chang
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by zzalpha 9y ago
They mention fingerprinting in the article. Uber engineers assigned a persistent identity to iPhones with a small piece of code, a practice called “fingerprinting.” Uber could then identify an iPhone and prevent itself from being fooled ev
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Care to elaborate? This is a very vague statement taken in its own, and the GuixSD website does no better at explaining their real life value prop...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
A functional approach & Scheme for all stuff is a big plus. I'll bite. Why? Being "functional" and using "Scheme for all stuff" is just a means to an end. What value does it bring me as a user or administrato
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Why on earth do you believe a formal system would make backstabbing and politics worse? I'd argue it has the potential to make it better since it creates a papertrail and transparency. I'd rather that than Joe Angry Developer sne
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Because no one can possibly get better at their jobs? Everyone just wants to hide away and quietly keep doing what they were originally hired for? And feedback has no value in helping people improve? Seriously, I'm baffled by this at
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by zzalpha 9y ago
> An immediate review system, which in this case sounds like just a forum for immediate complaints/reprimands, sounds terrible because given a negative situation the feedback hasn't had any cool-down time. It sounds very toxic,
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by zzalpha 9y ago
My guess is it supplements. Ultimately the person managing an employee's development still has to be involved in coaching and formal evaluation. 360s provide data points as well as an opportunity for ongoing improvement rather than s
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Why wouldn't they? Seriously, I'm curious. If you're going to get 360 feedback, wouldn't you prefer to have it in a timely fashion instead of getting blindsided monthly, quarterly, or yearly? Or is the very concept of a
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Agreed. Unless you're a cancer patient on palliative care, turning to opiods for long term pain management (particularly as a first line of defense, which so often seems to be the case) strikes me as completely insane. Part of the pro
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Many many people don't start with heroin, nor do they turn to drugs for the reasons you cite. They start with back pain due to a workplace injury, for which a doctor immediately prescribes them a powerful opiod (and perhaps a companion
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Absolutely. There's one sure way to control an epidemic like this: education. That means educating the populace on just how addictive and dangerous these drugs are, educating law enforcement to treat addicts as people who are sick ins
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Eh. The method described in this post (ie bare repositories on a filesystem and ssh transport) is perfectly sufficient for my personal use if I'm hosting. The minute there's a MySQL dependency I'm a hard pass... I buy the n
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Yes, she did...
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by zzalpha 10y ago
In terms of culture, United needs to learn from Southwest. Southwest has great culture internally as well as externally. LOL, you mean this Southwest? https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/feb/15/overwe
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Ditto. The reality is the number of tenuous social "connections" I had went down, and the number of high quality connections went up, since I now actually have to invest time in those relationships (which I've also come to va
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Facebook only based on my reading.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Apps and the operating system cache lots of different things. If your system was under memory pressure then you'd see it lower. There's a problem, though: it doesn't work that way. The size reported by Windows is (if I&#x27
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by zzalpha 10y ago
And there's constant talk of them going native because of how poor the current client performs...
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Speaking as someone with an Ultrabook that had to run Chrome, Outlook, Skype, and various office apps and so forth, this attitude infuriates me. Slack uses 400-500MB of memory. That's 15% of my RAM. For a chat application. Every Ele

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