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So, not to be a troll, but can anyone actually vouch for the legitimacy of this? I don't really doubt it's legitimacy, and it's nice to think that gender is not just a psychological spectrum but a biological one too, but this article is completely devoid of sources.

I was a tortoise until age 7. Being a reptile is a bummer, and my tutle penis didn't develop until age 45. Most people born in CA are like this... Just sayin'.


Okay so first off, the educated people in this country don't care about this stuff. I stopped reading a few sentences in because it was clear the author had some vendetta against the company. People don't just attempt to crucify businesses for no reason. And just to be clear: most of America has no idea what's going on in SV. We're not all wearing google glass to order Uber delivered Big Macs despite what you might think.

Secondly, a lot of Americans are behaviorally conditioned by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Roger Ailes. They elected our President, but they don't represent America (as I assume you don't support Mussolini's ideals because you're from Italy - also check out "The Brainwashing of my Dad" on Amazon Prime to understand the plight of many young Americans dealing with this insanity)

Some people live off emotional editorials. Not to be confrontational, but how worked up you seem to be upon reading this fluff piece in Italy makes me think you're not that far off from a middle-america pleb.

Our media system has been developed to evoke emotion because emotions sell... don't buy into it unless you want to be pissed off.

Also, what don't you like about the Olive Garden specifically? While I was in the process of becoming an engineer, I was a OG waiter trying to pay my college bills. Nobody is calling it Italian... It was developed as an American company. I really don't understand the argument. Americans should just eat wheat, corn and chicken? Sounds a lot like cultural appropriation which is the first sign of fascism.

My curries are not Indian, they're American. My Mole isn't Mexican, it's American. My paella isn't Spanish, my fried rice isn't Chinese, my panang curry isn't really Thai, and yeah, I make a grilled cheese macaroni that might blow your mind. Deal with it.

Food is the common denominator between cultures. It doesn't matter where you're from or who you were raised by, if you enjoy food: you love everyone, because we all have our secrets of deliciousness. Please don't try to make it a dividing factor.

To add insult to injury, people from your country came here, incorporated what they loved about your culture with ours and to you they're 'portrayed as "pizza, mafia, gobbledygook mamma mia".' I don't think this way, and I don't believe anyone I know in this country feels that way.

If you want to generalize, I will too which means as an Italian, you're a Mussolini supporting fascist. However, if you're willing to be an empathetic human being, I will too, and maybe you'll understand generalizations are one of the main sources of hatred that you should avoid.

The author here either has an agenda against someone at this company or an issue with gentrification (an issue all major American metropolises are dealing with). Don't assume some wacko's point of view defines America's situation because Silicon Valley was name dropped. Again: Nobody wears google glass in this country aside from the diluted.


All this and I still can't use Screenhero on Ubuntu? Way to destroy a useful platform for the open source community, Slack.


So what? I still got a 500 error while trying to process an order and when I refreshed - sold out. "60% of the time - it works every time" is only good for Panther scented cologne.

12,900,000 / second - WOW. Too bad the request rate was probably closer to 15,000,000 / second and you just abandoned everyone else.


I don't know what is blowing my mind more: Those numbers, or reading someone on this site reacting to them with a "so what?".


Only 60% of your requests to Amazon went through? That is really really bad. I don't remember hearing of an outage.


It's all available on their price list under Machine Learning.

https://cloud.google.com/pricing/list


I can't find an entry for TPUs, only regular machines and GPUs. Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place?


Since when has a company enforcing their TOS been discussion worthy? Their content policy clearly outlines what is considered "Unwelcome Content" and it seems like the majority of the alt-right thread would be classified as "Violent Content" under Reddit's terms.

I think a much more amusing enforcement of such policy would be for Twitter to ban Donald Trump, thereby also banning the @POTUS account for the term of his Presidency for "Abusive Behaviour" on Twitter such as openly harassing the cast of Hamilton.

https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205701105 https://www.reddit.com/help/contentpolicy#section_unwelcome_... https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311


I know this is beside your point and not to be the Coloradan in the room, but has she tested the efficacy of marijuana to ease her pain? I'm not a doctor, which is who she would want to talk to first, but from my understanding, pot is so harmless that can be taken in conjunction with Opiate pain killers. It's not addictive or potentially life threatening like opiates. There are strains that leave you mentally functional while killing pain. And depending on how much she needs, the retail cost would probably be in area of $70 - $200 a month and would be going to local entrepreneurs & farmers. If you grow it yourself, the cost goes down to maybe $10 - $30 a month depending on your state's MMJ regulations.

Side note: https://livertox.nlm.nih.gov/Opioids.htm


I live in MN, we just recently got a full medical marijuana program.. but the paperwork is quite extensive and the approval process long. There is already quite a wait.

But yes, I'm sure it would help her somehow. Although she is in remission from lung cancer as well and is on oxygen, I'm a bit ignorant to the side effects there.


As another Coloradoan there are extracts that can be inhaled in a vapor that could be useful if the smoke is an issue might be worth talking to your doctor.

When my mother was passing from cancer she didn't like the edible formats since they take a long time to kick in and it can be hard to determine an hour out how much pain or nausea she would be experiencing.

Vapor and smoking seemed to be a great way to get a fast dose to decrease suffering.


When you're responsible for everything, the weight of the world is on your shoulders at all times. When you're a cog in an accepted system, you aren't singled our for your inefficiencies . Perhaps less gratitude for being a baller, but a lot more comfort in knowing you aren't going to be wrongfully terminated because the CEO has a personality disorder.


My wife spent years working for our local transit company, starting in the call centre (at a startlingly high wage for a call centre) and moving to other departments (scheduling, etc.)

I really envy her ability to leave work at 5 PM (or whatever her shift's 5 PM is) and not have to think about work until 9 AM the next day. I'm always 'on', always thinking about the next problem or outage or project, and frankly it's exhausting. If she calls in sick, they call in someone else to cover for her. There's no wondering 'will this get done' or 'what if...'. She never books a day off and then ends up having to work that day anyway.

Add to that that she's working a union job and getting a pension. She's got four weeks of vacation now, five or six years in, and it's only going to go up (her mother had months every year by the end). She's guaranteed raises based on how long she works there, and if she's qualified for another position and she's the most senior person then she'll get it (rather than having to kiss the boss's ass, or 'sorry we can't do without you in your current position'). Her pension is based on her 'best five years', so if, down the road, she does five years in operations, in a stressful, difficult, and frustrating job, she can then hop back out and do something simple until she retires.

There are no highs or lows in bus driver scheduling like when a server goes down and you're losing thousands of dollars an hour, but honestly, when a server goes down and we're losing thousands of dollars an hour, that sounds pretty good to me sometimes.


Could be - hopefully OP will elaborate.


I have no idea what publications they're referring to in this article, but here's what you probably came to read:

Article: [Fat, sugar cause bacterial changes that may relate to loss of cognitive function](http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2015/jun/fat-sugar-ca...)

Study: [Relationships between diet-related changes in the gut microbiome and cognitive flexibility](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306452215...)

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Article: [This is your brain on sugar: UCLA study shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory](http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/this-is-your-brain-on-suga...)

Study: ['Metabolic syndrome' in the brain: deficiency in omega-3 fatty acid exacerbates dysfunctions in insulin receptor signalling and cognition.](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22473784)

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Also: [Systems Nutrigenomics Reveals Brain Gene Networks Linking Metabolic and Brain Disorders](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396416...)


My biggest problem with this? As a resident of Colorado, I have never heard of this law.

The article suggests that the law was passed like many Colorado criminal statutes exclusively in the state house, never being asked for, voted on, or necessarily seen by any Colorado resident who doesn't have direct involvement with the law. Furthermore, LexisNexis: "Official Publisher of the Colorado Revised Statutes" has no record of a C.R.S. 18-7-107 code even existing. (http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/Colorado/)

Regardless of subjective arguments of morality, how can people be charged with criminal laws that they have no way of knowing exist?


As a fellow resident, as a person, I agree about the access to law issue. Its such a problem that there is an entire political movement dedicated to the issue: the Free Access to Law Movement. (That website is not free; the notion that my rights[1] are worthless is quite offensive to me.)

[1] http://www.lexisnexis.com/terms/


I think you hit the heart of my concern, even with access to the law, most people need a lawyer to translate the laws into something that can be understood.

Not to mention that the comments to the article prove that when many see one case where the defendant was quite obviously being an asshole and see a law like, "prosecute people for posting nude images to hurt a person without their consent" would just say, "Hey yeah, screw those assholes!"

But there is no mention of the civil and constitution rights quagmire that a law like this can create. Not to mention that most people would likely read this and think it only applies to revenge porn and doesn't have implications to content published in a mutually consensual nature, where the consent was later revoked. Or where a person has their data hacked and leaked and the ex jumps to the conclusion that the content was posted by the creator to hurt them.

It's nice that they protected minors by only including people over the age of 18 in the definition, but to me, the issue is that laws like this allow for potential abuse by former romantic partners and prosecutorial abuse if charges are ever pressed and that isn't at all clear in the way the law is written.

And the article also doesn't stipulate that the damages guaranteed by this law are not only the fines of up to a $10,000 which just goes to the court but also the right of the victim to file a civil suit with a minimum $10,000 + legal fees. So basically, they have created a major incentive for unscrupulous people to turn former lovers in regardless of whether or not they have actually been harmed in any way or had given consent to post the content or whether or not the person charged was even involved with the distribution.

In this case, yeah, the guy needs some reform. But in any other case, all that would likely be needed for a conviction is a sexually explicit video that features both parties with a profile with the picture of one party and the other as the crying victim.

Sir William Blackstone said, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." I believe laws like this are designed to harass innocent people, whether intentionally or not.


This page is prominently linked from colorado.gov and sort of undermines your argument (at least how you have stated it):

http://tornado.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/olls/digest_of_bi...

Then 2014, then Criminal Law and Procedure and it is listed.

You could narrow things down and complain that the official public record of law is not updated fast enough, or that too much law is created for a single person to keep up with. But there is a pretty easy way to find ongoing changes to Colorado law.


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