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I would have also thought this an insult, until joining a company where nobody was classifying the tickets.

She tried to defund the Special Olympics. Her brother, Erik Prince, founded Blackwater, the security contractor repeatedly accused of murder and other crimes in Iraq. She had no ex…

I don't want to speak for anyone else, but the point might have been that there may be other ways to get energy which accomplish the goal without requiring that sacrifice.

Love that the meth ad has a picture of a kid eating a banana in the background.

Facts can't be copyrighted, so such things as whether or not a person worked for a certain company, or went to a certain school, are unprotected, and with this ruling can be scrape…

Compliance with robots.txt is and always has been voluntary, and many crawlers have long ignored it, including Archive.org.

Lincoln did criticize his generals, eventually removing McClellan from command for timidity. He was careful about how he did that though, and how he interacted with the rest of the…

Disagree. How do you suggest they operate their business? Does this extend to print magazines and newspapers--do you suggest they stop running ads and just give away their product?…

The solar resources in Kuwait are exceptional--this may be more about pragmatic cost optimization than anything else. With the falling cost of solar, if they can save the oil that …

This is a legit blockchain application.

And now Fargate.

It would be great if Twitter had a way of accepting community contributions to addressing their bot/troll/spam problem. I see a lot more efforts like this coming from outside of Tw…

Wow--a crude implementation of Whuffie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie

The comments in this thread focus on senior engineers, but a lot of the big earners I know in the Bay Area aren't engineers--they may be in tech, but senior BD, marketing, product,…

I, too, am pro-nuclear-energy, but that's quite a bit different from being in favor of testing bombs. The kind of nuclear power that does not blow up is much safer.

When reddit first launched I remember thinking, what a pathetically derivative site, they're going to get crushed :-)

And this is what populists should be irate about. Not... other things.

He said "seeing if I could go without" medication, which I think is different than saying he's cured. But your point about bipolar II is really important. Taking anti-depressants (…

I love you for writing this. I spent thirty years either trying and failing to fix myself, or being misdiagnosed (turns out treating bipolarity with antidepressants can do more har…

Sometimes you need a therapist and/or meds to figure out that you need to (or even can) figure it out, and it's possible to overdo just about anything, certainly including exercise…

Well, money, and the concomitant access to things like good health care it provides, certainly tilts the board in your favor.