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This, absolutely. Communities can be healthy without a CoC, or unhealthy with one. But having a CoC sends a big, clear message to women and other groups frequently marginalized in …

I'm not sure why you are so vehement in attacking AA. Members (such as myself) who have access to other forms of treatment (medication, therapy, and sober housing) use them. What A…

This article attacks a straw man AA. I could go on, but suffice to say, if what you know about recovery consists entirely of this article, you don't know much.

This article attacks a straw man AA. I could go on, but suffice to say, if what you know about recovery consists entirely of this article, you don't know much.

This article attacks a straw man AA. I could go on, but suffice to say, if what you know about recovery consists entirely of this article, you don't know much.

Just a suggestion, but if you ended up with a caffeine problem, you're very likely to end up with a Ritalin problem. I don't know exactly what the laws are like where you live, but…

In the recovery community we call this state of being "dry", as in "dry drunk". The concept is that while she's managed to stop taking the pills, she hasn't addressed the underlyin…

As a recovering alcoholic, I can confidently say that this is not correct. Although many alcoholics get in trouble by drinking too much too fast (this seems like an acceptable defi…

> show some respect and sensitivity You can dish it out but you can't take it, huh? Gay people have suffered from a lack of respect and sensitivity for who knows how long, and you'…

> Machine: to find out what happens when we get to the planet earth . Something tells me the entirety of BSG was included in the training set.

It's kind of cute how the technical report[1] goes to great lengths to finger Israel, without explicitly stating it (see page 43). [1] https://securelist.com/files/2015/06/The_Myst…

Ah, the seventeenth century. A fuckfest before the word existed.

I have to disagree with you on this. A language should be expressive enough that it can easily support correct concurrent programming, and readily expose runtimes (OTP is a great e…

This is all true, and it's wonderful! I fired my previous employer for unethical behavior. They told me to settle down and act my age, so I responded with my two weeks notice, at w…

I'm curious as to why? It sounds like an exciting experiment! Incidentally, when the startup I work for reached a size where most companies would have started hiring managers, we r…

I think Freaks and Geeks made this argument pretty conclusively. It'd be interesting to see what happened to Lindsey after she joined the Dead Tour.

+1 for visible borders. How about power ups of some kind? Maybe a speed burst that shrinks you, for example?

AIDS deniers are pretty sensational if you ask me.

I found their functional programming series to be a good way to get acquainted with Haskell -- problems start with basic operations, move on to recursion, lists, other data structu…

Sigh, another cool looking language I'll never be able to use at work.

Unless you're on your personal laptop. It's a tricky question, one that we've spent a lot of time thinking about at my company (Conjur -- shameless plug, one of our use cases is se…

Yeah, that's why I emphasized letting them talk about their lives. But...there will always be those out of touch "why don't you just do x and then y and then have a house??" people…

This is so true. I meet a lot of homeless people through addiction recovery programs I'm part of, and there are as many reasons to be homeless as there are homeless people. If you …

That grammar tho! This guy seems like a native speaker, do CFOs actually use "its" instead of "it's" and "your" instead of "you're"? That said, all of this business cat stuff is wa…

I lived with some guys who had a TV that would mute automatically during commercials. This was about 5 years ago, but I think the TV was older than that (it wasn't a flat screen). …