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5 votes
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Polite vs Helpful
I've noticed an interesting cultural difference between New Yorkers and Californians. Lets say I am a bumbling tourist, inconsiderately impeding foot traffic, yet clearly lost and in need of help....
I've noticed an interesting cultural difference between New Yorkers and Californians.
Lets say I am a bumbling tourist, inconsiderately impeding foot traffic, yet clearly lost and in need of help.
New Yorkers, in my limited experience, will bluntly say "hey moron, get outa the way," but then there is always one willing to help me out if I ask.
Californians, in general, will be very polite, but typically get a little nervous if a complete stranger asks for help.
Disclaimer: I've lived in California, but have only visited New York, so my observations are a little biased.
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PlayStation State of Play | September 24, 2019
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Four years in startups - Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns
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Sentry raises $40 million Series C from Accel and New Enterprise Associates
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Sid Meier discusses Civilization's original design as a real-time strategy game and the transition to turn-based | War Stories
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WeWork CEO, Adam Neumann, stepping down under pressure
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How to decommission a data center
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About Alexis Kennedy
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Icelandic company Flygildi has been developing a drone in the shape of a bird – which caught the attention of US investors during Mike Pence's recent visit
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Kik is shutting down their chat app and firing most of their employees to focus on their Kin cryptocurrency and SEC trial
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Is the era of the $100+ graphing calculator coming to an end?
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Endemol Shine brings back Big Brother in Sweden – the fourth European territory to revive the flagship reality format after a hiatus
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The life and work of Lady Hale
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Norway will pay $150 million to Gabon to battle deforestation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions
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How many users are here now?
Just curious how popular this place is now.
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Study shows Venus may have once enjoyed a temperate climate
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Germany’s North Channel Bank has been fined 110 million Danish crowns by a court in Denmark for its involvement in a dividend stripping scheme
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Crime and Punishment is an interesting, hard to watch, docu about the UK prison system
Channel 4 describe the programme "Series that captures the work of police, probation, prison, prosecution and parole". Here's a link to the first episode:...
Channel 4 describe the programme "Series that captures the work of police, probation, prison, prosecution and parole".
Here's a link to the first episode: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/crime-and-punishment/on-demand/64655-001
Crime and punishment is a documentary series that looks inside prison to tell the stories of the criminal justice system from the viewpoint of those involved.
The first episode spends some time talking about the unjust "Imprisonment for Public Protection"[1] sentences (these are no longer given by the courts but there are thousands of prisoners still imprisoned on them), how they went wrong, and the awful effect they have upon prisoners. It's a difficult watch. It shows how severely the mental health of prisoners is when they're on this type of sentence, including their serious self harm.
Episode two talks about pressure inside prisons and how that results in "riots", about how prisoners use the only power they have available to them.
I like the programme because it avoids judgmentalism. The prisoners are not reduced to the bad guys; the officers are not simplified to the good guys. You hear a little bit about some of the offences committed by the prisoners
Here's a Twitter thread from someone working in the English NHS. She works in forensic services as a psychologist. https://twitter.com/SarahE_Davidson/status/1173707912981700608
I guess Channel 4 On Demand have geo-blocking. I don't know if it's available on other services, or on torrent.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprisonment_for_public_protection
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YouTube's Database "Procella"
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We are all potential victims of the con artist
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Streaming services and the endangered magic of the long-form series
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Scott Aaronson's Quantum Supremacy FAQ
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Blame economists for the mess we’re in: Why did America listen to the people who thought we needed “more millionaires and more bankrupts?”
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Alexis Kennedy of Weather Factory (formerly Failbetter) responds to the abuse allegations made toward him three weeks ago
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Google Claims ‘Quantum Supremacy,’ Marking a Major Milestone in Computing
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Coalition of charitable and peace-building organisations in Finland crowdsource for 'forgiveness' emoji
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'Ban kids from loot box gambling in games,' MPs say
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Josef Leimberg - Boiler Room Los Angeles Live Set (2017)
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Preparing for our prefab future
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Yugo Kanno - Il Vento d'Oro (The Golden Wind) (2018)
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The animation of Hollow Knight
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Exploring the tech and design of 'Noita'
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Exploiting the pyramid | Multi-level marketing
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Inside the Ethics Committee
Inside the Ethics Committee is a BBC Radio 4 programme. They describe it like this: Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to wrestle with the ethics arising from a real-life medical case....
Inside the Ethics Committee is a BBC Radio 4 programme. They describe it like this:
Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to wrestle with the ethics arising from a real-life medical case.
Each episode is chaired by Bakewell, with a range of different experts (who all sit on hospital ethics committees), talking about the ethical difficulties faced by healthcare professionals (and the organisations they work for) in different real life cases.
Some of it hasn't aged very well - there's an episode about HIV testing an unconscious patient after a needle-stick injury. With advances in treatment and reductions in stigma I think would have made it a very different programme today.
But most of it is pretty good, and explains in detail how some decisions are made.
For example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0643x61
Ashley is 14 years old when doctors discover a brain tumour. Tests reveal that it's highly treatable; there's a 95% chance of cure if he has a course of radiotherapy.
Ashley begins the treatment but he has to wear a mask which makes him very anxious and the radiotherapy itself makes him sick. He finds it increasingly difficult to bear and he starts to miss his sessions.
Despite patchy treatment Ashley's cancer goes into remission. He and his mother are thrilled but a routine follow-up scan a few months later shows that the cancer has returned.
Ashley is adamant that he will not have the chemotherapy that is recommended this time. He threatens that he will run away if treatment is forced on him. Although Ashley is only 15 he is 6'2" and restraining him would not be easy.
Should the medical team and his mother persuade him to have the chemotherapy? Or should they accept his decision, even though he is only 15?
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Introducing Ristretto: A high performance, concurrent, memory-bound Go cache
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How do you power your personal site/blog? What should I use?
I currently have a personal "portfolio" site that I haven't updated in close to a year. I'm planning now on revamping it, and I am using this opportunity to reconsider the static site generator I...
I currently have a personal "portfolio" site that I haven't updated in close to a year. I'm planning now on revamping it, and I am using this opportunity to reconsider the static site generator I am using.
I host my site on Github pages, which means that Jekyll was originally very appealing due to its nice integration with Github. However, I have found it difficult to greatly customize the themes I find, and I'm the type of person that likes to get everything "just right". It seems like Hugo might be more extensible in this regard, but I'm not sure if that alone makes it worth the switch from my current setup. Anecdotally, a lot of the blogs I find whose layouts I really like tend to use Hugo.
Pure HTML/CSS is an option but that seems like a big overhead for what I want. I'm no web developer and I don't plan on becoming one.
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How to spread hep A without leaving your house
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Twitch's latest crackdowns on 'sexual' content are leaving streamers baffled
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Why so many Americans are turning to Buddhism
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Linux Distro for an old PC
I found my grandfathers old PC on the attic and want to revive it for him. He really loved that pc. Sadly that potato barely runs Windows xp so I thought about putting a Linux onto it. My Linux...
I found my grandfathers old PC on the attic and want to revive it for him. He really loved that pc. Sadly that potato barely runs Windows xp so I thought about putting a Linux onto it. My Linux experience is limited to Mimt and Debian, both way to heavy for this old laptop. I need recommendations for a very light weight Linux Distro!
Specs:
256 mb DDR1 Ram
Intel Celeron M 320 @ 1.4GhZ
40gb Hard DriveIt's a small, simple gift and nothing where I want to put money into. Also it won't be my granddads daily driver so please don't recommend me a new one (a lot of people did that on other websites so I am rather careful). Thanks in Advance!
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British travel firm Thomas Cook collapses, stranding hundreds of thousands
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Would it be bad to mount a macbook pro upside down on a VESA tray?
I've got a smaller desk with two monitor arms -- one with a monitor (left side, different system) and one with a VESA mounted tray for my macbook pro (late 2013 15".) I'm going to be adding a...
I've got a smaller desk with two monitor arms -- one with a monitor (left side, different system) and one with a VESA mounted tray for my macbook pro (late 2013 15".)
I'm going to be adding a 1440p monitor from the macbook pro, but I'm short on desk space. Instead of having the laptop on the tray normally, if I lay it lid down with the laptop portion up, the laptop base could sit behind the new monitor with the screen coming out the bottom -- perfect for static applications like VSCode, iTerm2, etc.
Here's a mock up. The thicker outline represents the macbook pro screen.
Can anybody foresee any issues with this configuration?
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People with learning disability have the right to ask for reasonable adjustments during sight tests
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Raoul Wallenberg is thought to have saved as many as 30,000 Jews but his descendants do not know how, when or why he died
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Today marks the 18th anniversary since Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak was arrested and put in an Eritrean prison
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Communicating science online increases interest, engagement and access to funds
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Chechen authorities are carrying out literal witch hunts
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Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather for UN talks
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Jukebox The Ghost - Everybody's Lonely (2018)
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