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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
Step 1: Establish disciplines that ridicule radical criticism. Step 2: Hire undergraduate math/stats students who took criticism courses at gun point and hated them. Step 3: ... Step 4: "OMG Ponies and revolution" Sir, you do
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
> Why do you want to move out of academia? Get a tenure and you'll be doing your research plus you'll secure a job for the rest of your life. In short, the privatization (education for profit) and adjunct (severe labor exploita
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
Do you happen to have any open positions for techie non-programmer education / social sciences people? -Thanks.
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
> Windows is one of the top 5 most profitable software products in the world. Trust that they know how to make money. Monopolization of the markets. I do trust it, but only when I do it. ;)
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
> Trees are a renewable source of energy / building materials. You are too. :) > So again, its not that much of a big deal. ...
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
> EFF-card-carrying subset of the tech community, people who are most able and least ethically inhibited from piracy anyway. Good rhetoric. They are evil because they believe in ethics. Go for it dude, who's holding you!
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
(I'm the OP, was on my phone so ended up with a diff account.) Unfortunately, I am trying to move from academia to the private / non-profit sector's 'research associate' etc roles. Finding it to be truly difficult.
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
That sounds like (GNU Social) + (Diaspora) - (Distributed Content) Sounds great until your (sub)domain(s) gets censored or targeted.
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
How did you afford a 6-year long mac warranty?
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
This was helpful, thanks for the reply.
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
> An acre and a half of Amazon rainforest disappears every hour, and this is the deforestation you get upset about. According to this logic, I ought to not get upset, nor criticize any policy, perspective, or activity that causes less de
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
Nope, the author says they pretty much had the trees chopped, in a later comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9503287
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
> They directly processed the trees to firewood, which they were intended for. :) I honestly do not understand why you take video and pictures of a planet you do not care about. To try out your RPi toy, I guess? Or for some kind of publi
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Ask HN: Recruiters of HN, where do you socialize?
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
> The local authorities helped us a lot, the forester aranged the cutting of two trees for us We killed two trees for a 15 minute long youtube video. Is this how little respect we all have for life?
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
> opening the box was unscrew the case and change the drive for an SSD Does that not void the warranty?
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
> The police officer is 100% at fault here. The paramedic has medical equipment. The cop has weapons. This is not a zero-sum game. They can be (and, I think, are) 100% at fault. The paramedic has a medical responsibility to ensure the me
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
> Did you read the article? Yes. > The patient did not go to jail. The patient was almost taken to jail. The EMS left him there to be transported to jail. > There was a 10 minute delay in care, until the patient became unresponsive
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
> After a long and complicated trial, the jury agreed that my client was not at fault. The client EMS is as much at fault as the police officer. He let someone whom he knew in his medical opinion to be having a serious medical problem go
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
> Citizenship required. Why? > Technologists/Developers Can you add a job desc please.
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
> all EU computers mandated to run OpenBSD That kind of social change would require a change in the econo-political system.
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
> Specifically /r/programming vs HN. HNers /behave/ more knowledgeably about startups and software. > Is the user-base different? No. White middle class men. Anything else is downvoted or not spoken of.[1] > Is
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
Politicians in EU and US call various institutions a "NGO" when they disagree with it and want to ridicule it to intentionally reduce its public reputation. EP is a high reputation organization and has force within the EU structur
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
> systemd has replaced Upstart as the standard boot and service manager on all Ubuntu flavors except Touch. At the time of the 15.04 release there are no known major problems which prevent booting. The only service which does not current
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
Good article by Eagleton but I do wonder very much if it would have made headlines on HN if the title was "the slow death of the university as a center of humane critique" and the HN readers knew of https://en.wikipedia
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
Their actual reason is probably related to the arguments presented at http://www.drop-dropbox.com/ Unsure why "they" would not come out and say that.
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
tl;dr > The critical question is not whether the dog sniff occurs before or after the officer issues a ticket, but whether conducting the sniff adds time to the stop. [p. 3]
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
It's 2015. We have seen again and again the Black Rights Movement, Women's Rights Movement, various Third Word Rights movements, and the Animal Rights Movement interrogate and challenge, again and again, the ways in which human cu
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
> Office 365 is such a good deal for $100/year compared to iCloud o_O Was the whole post in a sarcastic tone, or just this part? Serious question.
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by pXMzR2A 11y ago
> The police have to know they can't win this battle and should throw in the towel and capitulate. The police has already won this battle; that is why this EFF page exists. In the last decade or so, the police has successfully and p

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