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Climate change catastrophe has been exaggerated for over 30 yr now

UN predicted catastrophe in 1989

https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0

Title is incorrect. She lost her job because she outed her self on a controversial image that went viral. She then shared that image on her own social media.

tl;dr - she played herself

Re:Porting a Chrome Extension to Firefox on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:20AM (#14948137)
Absolutely correct. Even if you just change one line of code it will take weeks to get approved. Totally unacceptable. Chrome approval process is measured in minutes.

Due to this and ff terrible market share there is little reason to develop for ff.

Moz has killed ff with their own incompetence.

Re:Docker operations slowing down on AWS on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @02:40AM (#14854066)
Your giving really general advice that fits YOUR needs and experience. Meanwhile, my company has been in business for 10+ years and we have 60+ severs streaming a shit to of data 24x7.

Running "a few" dedicated servers is not some magic catch all for everyone.

Re:How Elephants Avoid Cancer (2015) on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @09:58PM (#14699533)
There are like 100+ cancers and likely not all genes affect all cancers.
Re:Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @07:32PM (#14608939)
Buying yahoo was a very dumb move for VZ unless they just want hold assets OR completely overhaul yahoo. Yahoo has been a losing brand since circa 2000. Soon as yahoo took over tumblr it started to suck more.

source : I work on other peoples tumblrs site all the time

Who cares? /s

"Cash Rules Everything Around Me"

Re:Why Chinatown Produce Is Cheap (2016) on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:58PM (#14251011)
Skimping on things like paying taxes, health standards, hiring people outside the family network, etc.
Re:Banks should let COBOL die on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @11:42AM (#14203953)
"The idea that large corporations are simply going to move on from COBOL is out of touch with reality"

Thank you. So much internet arm chair analysis falls into this category.

This is the worst part of the internet. Amateurs and 2nd year college students dismissing months/years of hard work by actual professionals​. They take all this work and "hand wave" it away in less time than it takes to make coffee.

The internet is full of amateurs and they are very very confident about their abilities.

"I, for one, have never understood the problem with landfills. "

Says the person who doesn't have to live near a landfill.

Life is not fair, never has been, never will be.
"feel sharper" vs "actually sharper"
Not enough quality control
Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser on Sunday April 23, 2017 @01:20AM (#14176663)
Some web users think they have a "right" to say how websites work.

Big sites take countless man hours to produce and maintain.

For the site I've worked on for almost a decade 95 of 100 user comments are totally off base and they don't understand the basics of how things work.

Npr is not a great news source
People be like : "spying is bad and I don't like it"

Aggressive spying has been standard since forever. If you are outraged it means you have not been paying attention. This is not new.

Re:An off-grid social network on Thursday April 06, 2017 @05:53PM (#14055005)
"off the grid"

and

"social network"

pick one.

Ford has that whole "roll over problem" back in the day. I'm sure they are not dying to rush to AI driving and be in the press again...
Lol I always think it's so funny when​ people are like "I've been using Linux for years, almost never a problem". The last Linux mint update completely crashed the default desktop. I've used many distros including Ubuntu starting back when they would mail you a CD. The problems are endless.
Re:Why Are the Highly Educated So Liberal? (2016) on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @11:44AM (#13868445)
Many highly educated are not liberal. Liberals feel free to speak out, it's safe. Not true for non liberals.
Nothing new under the sun, the rest of us suffer while the top part of society buys their 3rd house and 2nd boat. Let them eat Ramen.
Re:Notepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issue on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @05:06PM (#13824311)
"I can no longer proudly claim the West is free. We are living in a surveillance state."

This has been the case for a very long time.

Nothing is new under the sun - but now lots of people are seeing things for what they are.

Re:The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build on Monday February 13, 2017 @01:09PM (#13637372)
This is correct. The vast vast majority of people are not using adblock.
Re:Can behavioral science help in Flint? on Monday January 23, 2017 @06:55PM (#13467478)
This was something he let go of because it wasn't popular. I've watched many of his rallies and don't recall hearing this line. A few of his lines were so unpopular he let them go.
this is terrible advice
DotCom Bubble 2.0 is real $25B for an app like SC w/o a web presence is far far too high.