jeklj

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by jeklj 8y ago
Prognostication has never been Cringely’s strong suit.
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by jeklj 8y ago
Not only we don’t understand the mechanism causing depression, we don’t really understand (as far as I am aware) why medications work or don’t work. I deal with mild depression sometimes, but this scares me off of considering medication for
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by jeklj 8y ago
Meaning what you’ve pointed out is clear; the problem was the statement and not material discrimination. “No blacks allowed”, in America at least, was no idle threat.
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by jeklj 8y ago
> The DO said that no individuals had been discriminated against, and noted that the festival had not in practice enforced the ban on cisgender men Alrighty then.
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by jeklj 8y ago
> If nobody ever heard anything counter to the group-think, the organization itself would very quickly become stuck by momentum. Indeed, that's a great reason not to fire people when they're honest. And yet, here we are. At lea
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by jeklj 8y ago
Keep it anodyne, pretty much always. You can tell your spouse what you really think. Or better yet, your dog.
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by jeklj 8y ago
Yeah yeah, but ultimately this all comes down to whether you think government interception of private messages is ultimately better than the messages staying private. People here obviously don't feel the same way you do about that. Mys
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by jeklj 8y ago
Maybe we should consider that goods can still be worthwhile despite their mitigations.
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by jeklj 8y ago
Yes, I love this story too. It really demonstrates so much. And oh, the hackles it raises. :)
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by jeklj 8y ago
Companies like them want employees who think for themselves and work hard to change the world... But only within implicitly-defined areas.
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by jeklj 8y ago
I'll buy that it's the top seller, but are the majority of bottled drinks water? Because when I go to a convenience store there is usually one fridge for bottled water and several for all the other stuff (soda, tea, juice, Gatorad
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by jeklj 8y ago
I don’t believe your last sentence is correct in the case of brands like Dasani that are just filtered tap water. And for drinks other than water the bottles still have to get made and disposed of. Again, they are all just bottled water wit
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by jeklj 8y ago
That is silly! I'm just not sure the solution is to switch to Powerade.
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by jeklj 8y ago
Sure. And that’s as true for juice, tea, and soda as it is for water.
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by jeklj 8y ago
Right but shipping Sprite around is just as wasteful. It’s almost all water.
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by jeklj 8y ago
Are you sure about that?
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by jeklj 8y ago
I don’t understand the focus specifically on water bottles when this comes up, seems like any drink bottle would be just as problematic. I understand we don’t all have pipes that bring Coca-Cola to our homes, but when you’re out and need so
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by jeklj 8y ago
I don’t want to fight battles, at all. At least not in my working life but really not anywhere else either. I’ve seen a lot and done a lot in my career, and I don’t feel I have anything to prove to anyone anymore. On the other hand I do fin
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by jeklj 8y ago
I did something similar once but failed to glean such a valuable lesson from the experience. My takeaway was, those people are touchy so leave their shit alone. Not because it’s right but because I’m just trying to get through my day, and i
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by jeklj 8y ago
To be a bit glib, unit tests don’t catch security vulnerabilities. Maybe I’d agree this can happen to any project, but my example might be something more like OpenBSD
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by jeklj 8y ago
Nothing bad ever comes to companies as a consequence of these leaks, so what is their incentive to stop them? It happens so often that it goes down the memory hole after maybe a week or two, so even that isn't much of an incentive. We
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by jeklj 8y ago
Yes, that single ad.
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by jeklj 8y ago
Sure. Give “Children of Men” another watch, and strap in.
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by jeklj 8y ago
Come on
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by jeklj 8y ago
It’s nice that you can store photos and it’s nice that you can maybe actually finally get support from them, but I don’t understand why those two things are bundled together. Their product offerings are typically sort of baffling
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by jeklj 8y ago
I am not sure it is possible any longer for JS to avoid getting larded up with a bunch of features from other languages, due to the popularity it has achieved. But one of the things I used to like about it was its relatively constrained fea
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by jeklj 8y ago
Yuck.
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by jeklj 8y ago
Until there is some reliable way of comparing the complexity of two things, when people say something is “complex” what they usually mean is that they don’t like it or it’s unfamiliar. Or better yet, your complexity is incidental, mine is e