thirduncle

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by thirduncle 8y ago
Countermeasures?
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by thirduncle 8y ago
From 2016 and definitely a repost.
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Russian museum discovers secret order to destroy Gulag data(theguardian.com)
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by thirduncle 8y ago
I cant tell whether you are joking. Seriously. That's what life in a Big Corp is quite often like, actually.
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by thirduncle 8y ago
That mountain often seems to bring the worst in people. No, it wasn't "the mountain" that brought out the worst in these people. It was quite simply the obsessive pursuit of money, acclaim, and ideology.
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'Carbon bubble' could spark global financial crisis, study warns(theguardian.com)
2 points by thirduncle 8y ago|2 comments
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Ambulances Were Called to Amazon Warehouses 600 Times in Three Years(vice.com)
32 points by thirduncle 8y ago|10 comments
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by thirduncle 8y ago
"... that about the driver ..."
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Russian journalist and Kremlin critic Arkady Babchenko shot dead in Kiev(theguardian.com)
5 points by thirduncle 8y ago|1 comments
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by thirduncle 8y ago
Is it? My understanding is that (other than the brand and parent ownership) as services they're quite different.
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by thirduncle 8y ago
And good riddance. An incredibly callous attitude to take at what must have been a truly profound sense of anguish and despair experienced by a person known to others as their "beloved father, husband, brother, friend." (Yes, I
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Glenn Snoddy, 96, Accidental Inventor of the Fuzz Tone, Dies(nytimes.com)
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by thirduncle 8y ago
I have actually - including some pretty nasty ones. But I'll confess at this point to be at a loss to understand this "smartphone addiction" thing people keep talking about. Being as I've tried using them, and never unde
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by thirduncle 8y ago
Smartphones provide useful functionality in day to day life. Do they now?
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by thirduncle 8y ago
Ban them all you like, they will be used regardless. We'll see about that. I'd say legal bans are worth a try at least. Privacy is dead, and nobody can save it. If you keep repeating that to yourself as you go to sleep each n
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by thirduncle 8y ago
So you try it first, and only adjust when you have real evidence that this is not working for you. That's the whole point -- in order to find evidence that it isn't working, you have to start looking at the false negatives -- or
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by thirduncle 8y ago
It's actually quite easy to "break" your addiction to smartphones: Don't use them in the first place.
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by thirduncle 8y ago
They call him a friend and say he never wavers in his passion or mission. But do they... agree with that "mission" -- or more specifically, what has become of it in 2018? That's the question you should be asking them.
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by thirduncle 8y ago
I mean that it objectively is a bad deal for Turkey, I'm sure you agree with that. Let's just assume that it is. But you'd have to agree also that's hard to have much sympathy for Turkey as the victimized party in the
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by thirduncle 8y ago
I agree that it's complex and political. But this language that sees Turkey as the one being "massively screwed over" in the region - that I think we dispense with.
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by thirduncle 8y ago
It ends up screwing over Turkey massively, which unsurprisingly hasn't signed. Turnabout is fair play, you know. Unless one wishes to pretend that certain events in 1974 have no role to play in the equation.
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by thirduncle 8y ago
Solved by getting a good office manager. In theory, I guess. But -- getting back to the original subject -- for some reason during interviews the odds that you'll get an inadequately stocked and clean whiteboard seems to be almost
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by thirduncle 8y ago
Actually no, I didn't.
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by thirduncle 8y ago
If there are dozens of watches scattered around, of course you first look where the light is good. At first, yes. But when one has had enough experience looking for scarce commodities (of whatever kind: genuinely attractive apartments, i
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by thirduncle 8y ago
The problem is when everybody starts doing the same, but without the prestige, salary, equity and lifestyle that Google provides. Or without actually needing to problems that even remotely resemble the kinds of problems that Google (somet
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by thirduncle 8y ago
I don't understand this hate for whiteboards, What's not to hate? * unless both the board and markers are of very high quality, the boards tend to stain over time * as do your fingers * and the markers dry up, and the erasers ge
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by thirduncle 8y ago
The reason they are important is that they are part of every engineers day-to-day work. We use them to collaborate and design and understand. Hey if they work for you, that's great. But the simple fact is that they don't fit eve
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by thirduncle 8y ago
Or it may be 45 percent worse. Or 200 percent worse. Either way, I certainly don't trust a rightwing think tank like the Koch and Scaife family-funded Reason Foundation to produce anything like credible research on the topic. Or even
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by thirduncle 8y ago
Actually yes, hafta say. Granted there are few places in the world that are exactly the same as they were 20 or 30 years ago. But then again, certain places -- like San Francisco New York, London, and many, many other cities -- have arguab
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by thirduncle 8y ago
Another point of view is that the "powers that be" is you - and me - and everyone else who has a choice to make about whether to work on technologies like these. Historically speaking, the "if I didn't build X - so

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