LordKano

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by LordKano 3y ago
I completely agree. In any field of sufficient complexity, 2 years isn't enough time to learn enough to have an informed opinion on reforming it. Like many others here, I work in IT and that's the kind of thinking that led to ever
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by LordKano 3y ago
Using such language is a guarantee that such an effort will not succeed. Of course it's important and it's inevitable but calling it an "emergency" would by hyperbole and cause it to be taken less seriously.
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by LordKano 4y ago
When I was an intern, my boss insisted that I learn Perl. I had not yet been introduced to the ways of the monks but I learned quickly. Perl is still my go-to language when I need to write something quickly. I have so many purpose driven ut
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by LordKano 4y ago
That's a fair call-out. I cannot link to any double-blind, peer reviewed studies. I'm referencing only my personal experience and gut.
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by LordKano 4y ago
I'm probably one of those people that you hold in contempt. There are more guns than there are fingers in my house. I am unabashedly pro gun. I have testified at hearings on behalf of gun owners. Still, the point I'm making here i
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by LordKano 4y ago
In my opinion, there are 3 types of people who get into law enforcement. 1. People who legitimately want to serve and protect their communities. 2. People who want a steady government paycheck and benefits. 3. People who have a psychologica
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by LordKano 4y ago
I post pictures on Facebook of myself and my children shooting guns. I had one high school classmate who wanted to become a cop. He was a runt who discovered weightlifting and steroids. The thing that kept him from becoming a cop was that h
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by LordKano 4y ago
Considering how many people go into law enforcement because they want to play with military toys without the burdens of military service, it's going to be hard to pull them away from that.
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by LordKano 4y ago
I think that manufacturers are too busy trying to be the Steve Jobs of cars. They're thinking about making their vehicles look differently than everyone else's instead of thinking about what would work the best?
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by LordKano 4y ago
It's so bad that I'd rather just scan my ID and get a product that contains pseudoephedrine.
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by LordKano 5y ago
Someone that passionate can probably be mentored into the skill set necessary to do the job. I spent a year at a TA at a University and in that time I had two students who were really stellar. They were outstanding programmers. They paid at
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by LordKano 5y ago
My favorite Apple related What-If is What If Gassee hadn't been so greedy when Apple was interested in buying the BeOS?
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by LordKano 5y ago
My experience is anecdotal but I have observed that in Pittsburgh, the thing that was accomplished by adding bike lanes was to increase traffic congestion on roads that weren't ruined by the bike lanes.
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by LordKano 5y ago
We could decriminalize marijuana today and watch what happens. That would free up over 80% of the DEA's budget to go after meth and heroin.
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by LordKano 5y ago
It's helping law enforcement maintain high budgets. The drug war fuels the violence of the drug trade and that violence requires the police be well equipped to handle it.
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by LordKano 6y ago
Man, that was a lot of work but at least you'll only have to do it once.
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by LordKano 6y ago
I have an OG account that's my first_name.last_name and I keep getting all kinds of other people's stuff. Apparently, one of them is a doctor with a caribbean bank account. I was getting monthly balance updates for years. I get co
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by LordKano 6y ago
I have to think a lot of people left it behind because of all of the malware that was masquerading as something else.
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by LordKano 6y ago
There are so many recruitment agencies in this town that I am not disadvantaged by not working with them. Their behavior wasn't ethical. They didn't approach me. I found their job posting and approached them.
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by LordKano 6y ago
I understand why they did it. My decision to make them persona non grata was about not rewarding them for behavior that negatively impacted me.
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by LordKano 6y ago
Approximately 10 years ago, I was really unhappy with my work situation and was checking job postings. I found one that sounded right up my alley and I reached out to the agency that posted it. They told me that because I was working for an
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by LordKano 6y ago
I may or may not have the torrent downloading right now. At this rate, it may or may not be finished some time tomorrow.
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by LordKano 6y ago
I have a philosophical problem with leaking people's personal information but I admit that I'm curious. I want to see what's in this data.
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by LordKano 7y ago
That's advice that'll get people killed. This isn't a junkie wanting your wallet. This is someone forcibly entering your home with weapons and assaulting you. You have to assume that once you have given up the thing he wants,
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by LordKano 7y ago
I am of the opinion that the government taxes rich people more because there are fewer of them and they are less likely to vote out the politicians who do it. It's the masses voting bread and circuses for themselves. Rich people only h
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by LordKano 8y ago
Psychiatry, psychology etc aren't doing a great job with that. I'm not sure that's a fair criticism. They're certainly not doing a perfect job but the number of people who have a higher quality of life than a century a
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by LordKano 8y ago
I have a special affinity for mantises. They have an almost otherworldly quality to them. I'm also extremely grateful that they're smaller than us. A dog sized mantis would be the stuff of nightmares and horse sized mantises would
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by LordKano 8y ago
I think the closer you are to the actual killing of animals, the more you tend to revere them, if anything. As someone who has recently joined that club, I agree. I have been hunting for years but this year I killed my first deer. The who
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by LordKano 8y ago
I need to pay a visit to the CMU campus to see if I can see their work.
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by LordKano 8y ago
Yeah, I remember moving so that I couldn't see the enemies on the next screen, mentally timing the movement and then coming back to see if they were where I thought they should be.

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