king_jester

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by king_jester 12y ago
> Comics were never supposed to be educational or have any non-entertainment value and primary tarted at hormones soaked male teens. This hasn't been true of comic books for several decades now. The medium has many examples of high
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by king_jester 12y ago
> Comics are how they are because the market imploded and they have to appeal to the niche of of niche that is their customer base. It's been a long time since that implosion, that isn't an excuse any longer for why comics cont
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by king_jester 12y ago
Using women as a prop for self confidence is pretty douchey.
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by king_jester 12y ago
The point I'm making is that we expect people to continue living their lives while going to school, that doesn't change. Getting financial aid isn't a contract to live a strict monastic life nor should it be. Also, the fact t
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by king_jester 12y ago
> Should we encourage "pair accounting" and have accountants share a laptop screen to get their work done? Have you ever seen finance people work? That happens all of the time.
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by king_jester 12y ago
> The latest fads of Fat Acceptance and Healthy At Every Size show the trend quite well. Fat acceptance is not a fad as you put. It is about people being able to accept and love themselves as they are. Fat people are bombarded with messa
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by king_jester 12y ago
> Daily hard exercise - the panting, heart-pounding, drenched in sweat kind of exercise - increases your metabolism. This is not true for all people and can be highly variable between different people, let alone not necessarily possible
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by king_jester 12y ago
> I believe that most "normal" people are capable of doing enough exercise (combined with good eating choices) that they can lose weight. The point is there is there no set point of "enough" exercise to induce weight
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by king_jester 12y ago
I love this post for how wrong it is: * Acting like regular college students don't have classes that are super simple to game and pass * Saying life moments like dating/flirting aren't important (what exactly are students sup
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by king_jester 12y ago
> And I don't see them snooping for their own purposes. That is contrary to the history of how companies take advantage of data provided to them, even when that data is supposed to be confidential.
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by king_jester 12y ago
You must be living under a rock to not have read one of the bazillion of stories about policing and racism that have come up since last fall, but for a great overview of the subject I highly recommend The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in
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by king_jester 12y ago
As a scoop user it should be noted that scoop is much more oriented towards developers. Scoop runs in the Powershell environment and tends to mostly offer posix tools or SDKs as available packages, although git repositories can be added to
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by king_jester 12y ago
Its not a hard cap, its a cap of number of residencies that will be supported by federal funding through Medicare: http://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2012/08/30/why-reside... A large majority of resi
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by king_jester 12y ago
This is disingenuous. Medical schools would increase resident caps even without the bonus money from Medicare if there was a reason to do so. Reasons go beyond just the Medicare funds that go for those slots.
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by king_jester 12y ago
> Which is completely irrelevant, as are accent/sex/other discriminatory factors that make zero difference to how someone is likely to work within a team. This is just plain ignorant. Every single place I have worked has had it
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by king_jester 12y ago
> I'm pretty sure that if you run statistics, you would find out that people from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be criminals, violent, less educated, less intelligent. I'm pretty sure if you run statistics you would fin
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by king_jester 12y ago
> and although software development is meritocratic, it's not as meritocratic as those orchestras Software development IS NOT meritocratic and neither are orchestras. There is just as much politics, networking, and problems with &qu
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by king_jester 12y ago
Orchestras are not a collection of independent workers. Everyone works together as a team and chemistry is very important. > your team, understands your industry, and cares about your mission When teams are largely made up of a certain k
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by king_jester 12y ago
"Code review? What code review?"
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by king_jester 12y ago
> This is part of the author's larger point: your title does not limit your contributions. You don't need permission (a title) to act a certain way. Titles, then, are an acknowledgement, not a license. While it's true you
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by king_jester 12y ago
I had the exact opposite experience. Learning about native peoples and their history was extremely fascinating for me and I wouldn't like to have missed out on that knowledge. Learning more about other people is never a waste.
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by king_jester 12y ago
> It's interesting to me how we finally got rid of Original Sin, but now have replaced this with other, atheistic forms of this, like trying to make our children feel guilty about Native Americans and Slavery. I personally think thi
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by king_jester 12y ago
> In his case, he was stuck at work at a public housing project for 3 days with the residents, because the city didn't ticket parking violations and the plows couldn't clear the clogged streets. This has still be case during so
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by king_jester 12y ago
> Restaurants are a reflection of what the population wants, not the driver. In order for there to be more vegetarian choices in a restaurant there has to be more demand for those items. Restaurants that don't do that go out of bus
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by king_jester 12y ago
This is a horrible idea. What will happen and has happened in reality is that those with less scruples or money will simply pay for the cheaper unlicensed work and not pay for extra insurance. Those people or their tenets then suffer by inj
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by king_jester 12y ago
> But this is simply crony capitalism. There may be risk, but there is no crime here. At all. That is where you are quite wrong. The regulations of taxis goes way back to carriage regulations in the 19th century. The reason for this is c
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by king_jester 12y ago
This is a lot of anti-union FUD. Unions generally now don't seek to ban or outlaw non-union operations in the same field. Remember there are A LOT of unions and behaviors and platforms of various unions range widely.
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by king_jester 12y ago
True, but in some places taxi drivers are vetted or have background check to some degree before being allowed to operate. The question is are Uber's practices too lax in this regard?
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by king_jester 12y ago
This is one of those weaknesses about 3rd party dependencies on Android. Unless business and product teams value user privacy and permissions, they usually could care less than vendor X's library requires permissions to read phone stat
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by king_jester 12y ago
> In the commonly-believed version of events There is no commonly believed version of events. There is a lot of inconsistency and disagreement about statements and testimony involved in the grand jury decision, you are attempting to pain

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