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by tesq 7y ago
Young, inexperienced people tend to not know their worth and are easily manipulated into working longer for less. Sometimes the hiring calculus maximizes quantity over quality.
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by tesq 7y ago
> Gig economy jobs were never meant to be people's bread and butter This is the same talking point people use when arguing against raising wages for retail or fast food workers. Reality shows that, like retail jobs, gig economy jo
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by tesq 7y ago
> But OP referred to the “toxic” nature of the fish. What’s “toxic” besides the PCBs? If you had watched the documentary you commented on, you would know. Insecticides, dioxins, various neurotoxins, heavy metals, and various toxic was
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by tesq 7y ago
> The problem with scare media like that is that it does nothing to put the risk in context. What is the actual danger from eating fish with high levels of PCBs The problem with not watching the documentary you choose to comment on is
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by tesq 12y ago
Power will always opt for securing and expanding its hold, and in its paranoid frenzy it is evident that rights, people and property are expendable to the vanguards of absolute security. I don't think anything happened that hasn't
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by tesq 12y ago
The assumption that the public can be exposed to potentially harmful radiation by people with a badge and no accountable way of verifying any relevant degree of training, study or certification is equally as ludicrous. There is no justifica
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by tesq 12y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I'd say it would hinge on how much the NYPD publicly releases about how they're used in investigations. I expect that if they're used in criminal or FISA Court suits, evidence will be obfuscated, cl
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by tesq 12y ago
What implications does this program have for the 4th amendment right to not have a search conducted without a warrant? If they're used on the public at large, generating mass probable cause or a blanket expectation that anyone could be
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by tesq 12y ago
"Passive" scanners violate the 4th amendment just as much as "invasive" ones. Kyllo vs United States determined that thermal imaging without a warrant was a search and constituted a violation of a person's 4th amend
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by tesq 12y ago
That it does, but you cannot dismiss the addictive qualities of ketamine with such a statement, because it is an addictive drug. What part of tolerance build up and withdrawals makes you think it isn't physically addictive? Both are ph
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by tesq 12y ago
Tolerance builds quickly and a strong mental addiction develops quickly. Having to take a shit ton constantly means you're pissing brown within a few months and cessation means withdrawals (nothing even close to heroin, but still there
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by tesq 12y ago
This seems more of an outlet to vent and quantify the frustration of the Python 2 to 3 migration than it is a 2 vs 3 use survey. I transitioned to 3 over a year ago and haven't looked back. I am happy with how the ecosystem has adapted
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by tesq 12y ago
Why mention the "psychoticlike" effects? Don't sleep or alcohol do the same? Psychotic effects can have lasting mental damage to those susceptible to mental illness, just as heightened blood pressure and heart rate might be a
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by tesq 12y ago
Money is the oil that runs the firms. Kickbacks, favorable contracts, consulting opportunities, (legal) protection and maybe business intelligence from the most well funded vehicle on Earth? It's a cushy deal.
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by tesq 12y ago
Given the increasing amount of PR pieces and fluff pieces fellating multinationals (the Firestone ebola article, anyone?), I wouldn't be surprised.
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by tesq 12y ago
Phew, problem solved.
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by tesq 12y ago
Prisons aren't punishment and retribution factories. I also like that you get on your soap box about being detained as if that justifies your shitty opinion. Having been through the system as well, I am amazed that you'd come to t
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by tesq 12y ago
You are fooling nobody and your use of code words to organize a crime would be held against you in a court of law if anyone gave a damn about your post here on HN.
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by tesq 12y ago
It may be "incredibly safe" physically, but it is known to trigger mental disorders in people who may have had a predisposition or not. I don't think something that has that powerful of an effect on someone's mind should
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by tesq 12y ago
Sorry, any insights and perspective shifts brought on through tripping can be made just the same if you work on it through life experience instead of relying on a drug to enlighten you. I say this as someone who has had many psychedelic exp
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by tesq 12y ago
The AGPL prevents no such thing, they are free to do so provided they follow the license the creators published the code with.
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by tesq 12y ago
Some federal judges turn a blind-eye to such tactics because doing so puts people they think are guilty behind bars. Other incentives wouldn't be surprising, a la Kids for Cash.
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by tesq 12y ago
You don't have to become a psychopath to be goaded into dropping everything in your life to build an unlikely fortune for a VC, just naive and greedy.
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by tesq 12y ago
It's surprising that one would be depressed working 10hr+ days for little to no pay chasing what, as time goes on, seems to be a dubious dream to make someone else very rich.
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by tesq 12y ago
Violent abdominal heaving + swallowed magnets = greater chance of injury
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by tesq 12y ago
So is Winnipeg.
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by tesq 12y ago
We have a millenia of past attempts to draw from to help you decide whether that would be good or bad. What problems would this solve?
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by tesq 12y ago
Why do you think the consumer will see any significant price benefits from automation instead of having the profits diverted to shareholders, executives or as reinvestments?
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by tesq 12y ago
Why do you despise the man?
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by tesq 12y ago
Race relations would have gone nowhere and would have been co-opted and neutered were it not for people like him.

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