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Man. I like two things. Boring languages/frameworks, and minimalism.

Boring languages/frameworks Just Work, and are usually pretty secure.

Minimalist --which is to say, making something as simple as possible, but no simpler-- means fewer moving parts which can break in production.

90% of what my places of employment and clients need is the same old shit, and I like to build it so that when something breaks, I can jump in and hammer out the broken thing and get the process moving again without needing a ton of research.

Microsoft and Intel happened to them.

For example: https://www.pcworld.com/article/169919/5_netbooks_microsoft_...

But if they did, we'd be able to patch it at home :D

That would be great. I may ping you in a couple weeks to see what your opinion is. I really like the idea, but I also have a notebook and a camera in my phone.

Likely the latter, and for that we can largely thank large motorist groups in the US. Michelin comes to mind, as they created their "Michelin star" metric to give people a reason to drive places, and then lobbied like hell to create town/city layouts that mandated driving.

A hundred years later, driving is a massive part of US culture, and we have trouble seeing the problem because that's "just how things are".

The hype looks good on this, but the reviews are pretty brutal. Losing pages on export, then updating the original file to the lossy file? Yikes.

Using a standard lined notebook, I just counted out lines and number of pages. So, if I had a notebook with a hundred sheets (200 pages) and 26 lines per page, I need to set aside four pages at the start of the notebook to have a different page entry on each line.

Pretty sure Travis didn't. IIRC he had the single largest bloc of voting rights (~18%), but that can still be overruled.

~58% (Zuckerberg's share percentage) can't be ousted no matter how the other voting shares vote.

Oh, these are things of beauty..

> Power LEDs on a laptop charger for example.

...Oh, right. The things under the electrical tape patch on my laptop :D

The expectations part is the brutal one for me. Did it for years. Only started trying to not in the last year. Lost a few folks I thought were friends, but turned out to just be folks who were outsourcing their problemsolving to me.

Why do these things treat a finger-print reader as a feature? That alone puts a phone on on my no-buy list.

I assume that the parent poster is referring to Sherlock Holmes.

Bondage, domination, sadism, and masochism is what that stands for. You've correctly identified one facet of domination, for some folks.

There's a lot left there which your "BDSM is about social hierarchy" doesn't even begin to address.

Because Lyme is often asymptomatic, other than the initial rash!

"Today, in Places That I Can Never Go, Now"....

>Sounds like a senior dev to me.

That's what I'd call them.

I've always like troubleshooter, though: when there's trouble, they shoot it.

It's a quote from Glengarry Glen Ross. That is one of Alec Baldwin's lines.

And I choose to feel okay about that.

Anger wasn't supposed to be surprising, hence parent's use of punctuation. Awe was supposed to be the surprising one.

College definitely has something to do with it --for all the reasons you just rattled off. We get fucked once on, say, a misdemeanor, and then we learn this FUCK out of how to handle cops. And a fed is just a cop with better shoes.

as I am not surprised, I assume the author was using "literally" according to its secondary definition: "figuratively"

Obvious reasons.

And three million kilotons ahead on emissions total, which are what matter. Also, how and where was this data collected? We know that we can't trust companies to report this accurately. Was it collected by the state? Since it's not privacy-related, I sort of trust the US to report accurately, whereas I don't trust the PRC to do so.

Yeah, and that's pretty much my point. No matter how expedient and net-win a prospect like that might be, it's still not just.

I think we agree, I'm just saying this because I hear way too much about 'right' and 'wrong' with armed conflict. It's all wrong -ALL of it.

Nothing justifies a massacre. Or war, or any sort of nonconsensual act (I'm asserting here that murdering people en masse is nonconsensual). There's no casus belli that makes war just.

But making shit stop, and stop right now? That can be useful as opposed to just.

Definitely. In general, though -all other things being equal- if I have to decide who dies, I will decide they won't be people fighting on my side.

Well, sort of, but no.

The thing is, your given (some event corrupts the cell's DNA) needs to be examined. Let's agree that some event corrupts the cell's DNA as you suggest, and then follow up with some questions.

1) Where in the enormous strand was it corrupted?

1a) Was it one place, or several?

2) What corrupted it?

2a) Again, was it one cause, or five different causes, three of which we don't know about and can't currently track?

3) Does the mechanism of action (the thing that caused the mutation) change the way a specific pathology progresses, even if it's a similar mutation in the same area? (yes)

So that's sort of the problem with cancer research. They're not trying to solve a single problem with a bunch of different presentations, they're trying to solve a fuckton of problems with a similar number of presentations, some of which are similar even though they have different roots.

>phones aren't always listening, always recording, and always reporting my location

But sometimes they are![0]

[0] http://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdro...

Well, it's not so much 'words that are assigned social stigma' as it is 'words that become red flags for people who might be murdered right after hearing them'.

Which I think is a pretty solid argument for not using those words, unless you're cool with frequently hanging the threat of murder over <insert minority>'s heads. Personally, I'm not cool with that.