BobbyJo

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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Perception. People see a different world today. One where douchebags are rich, and people who work 9-5pm, and raise a family, are NPCs. Everyone trying to get rich off an image has to sell that story in order to make money. If the world tho
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
> So you need to be clear where your points come from They were responding to a post specifically asking about Americans' feelings toward unions. That made it pretty clear to me where his points were coming from. If they were respon
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Have to agree with this. The ads I see now are for the kind of things temporary mall kiosks sell. Hard to believe they are raking in ad dollars from those.
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
> This is so hilarious wrong I don't even know where to start. Anywhere at all would be better than nowhere. I worked for a defense contractor for a few years, so I'm basing my comment on my experience there. > The post that
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Have to +1 this. A lot (most?) of NASA's funding is directed toward keeping people employed and skilled, as opposed to accomplishing goals, as with a lot of government money. NASA could do a LOT more with the funding they already have,
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
You could an you'd be right. Although, then you are trading one regulatory body for another, which you can do pretty freely with currency trading. Crypto is where you go if you don't want any regulatory bodies at all.
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
> I thought Trumpism is not welcome here? China having an export surplus precedes Trump's presidency by a few decades. > globalization is just westernization? I think the idea is that countries need similar regulations to comple
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
> At the same time many Americans don’t quite believe non-Americans are proper humans. I think it's the broad, off-topic, pro-China/anti-US comments, like this that make people feel like it's probably a bot or human equiva
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
> It’s also not China where police routinely murders random people on the streets with impunity. Tiananmen Square?
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Makes sense!
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
The lead with > So, you quit, or get laid off, or fired. That family culture, and friends you saw every day and bonded with are either no where to be seen or the dynamic shifts so dramatically it becomes practically unbearable. As well a
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Counterpoint: as a 35 year old man, I met all of my closest friends at work, in the office, and I still talk to 3-4 daily. I work remote now and making new friends has become significantly harder because I no longer have consistent repeated
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
I see two ways of interpreting "companies break the law constantly". One, that there is always a company out there somewhere acting criminally. If that's the intended meaning, it is a factual statement, but doesn't not c
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Ahh, so an attack on Musk as opposed to Marc. Makes sense. I wasn't intending to make Musk look bad with that statement, just pointing out what I believe to be the fallacy in Marc's viewpoint, but I get how your interpretation wou
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
> Not devaluing the lives of the elderly is implicitly devaluing the lives of the not elderly. This is a trade off that was given almost no consideration in the greater (US) discussion. It did though. We are going back to normal for the
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
What part of flattery did they fail to understand?
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Also, it's survivorship bias, to a degree. Being nice is just as much tool as being smart, and you can wield it with intent that is just as malicious. Truly successful people have to wield many tools successfully, it's only natura
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
I wasn't trying to imply that Musk would do any degrading. He does however expect the employees to do it themselves, given the working hour expectations and minimal consideration for stability he's given Twitter's employees.
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Twitter is firing people left and right, then bringing some back only to fire them again. Seemingly without direction. The only reason I could see Twitter being a good place to go for a young coder is the potential to work closely with Musk
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
I recognize this as reactionary and low value, and will refrain from similar in the future. I fail to see how it is a personal attack, though. If you have the time (I know you're busy around here), the connection would be elucidating.
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
If you're a coder in your 20's and you're not degrading yourself for the chance to be in the same room as a wealthy man that doesn't care an iota about you or your life, what are you even doing? /s
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
> Likewise, certain US groups who pointed to total deaths not only ignored comorbidities but also that the average age of death for a Covid victim is past the average age of life expectancy. Did they ignore them, or were they just not de
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
The day the "too dumb" defense works is the day we can open all the cell doors and close down the prisons, because that's everyone's defense.
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Are bison more thermodynamically efficient than cows?
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
First, most cows are not grass fed. They are largely fed things that have bioavailable calories for humans, like soy. Likewise, chickens mainly consume corn. Second, farm animals are not 100% efficient in absorbing calories and converting t
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
If we go off thermodynamics there is a lot of energy being wasted in producing the meat, even if that energy isn't expended by those tending the cattle. To say nothing of the animal suffering involved, we currently expend ~10x the calo
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Buy tickets as gift. Person already had tickets. Resell tickets at a loss. Get a 1099 because tickets were resold for 650$. Rage.
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
This is already the case for the most part. I don't think anyone expects AI to displace "name brand" art. Low quality and stock art will become profitless virtually overnight, while artists that already make good money for or
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
Which makes it legal. When the courts interpret law it addresses a case and informs going forward. I don't believe, for instance, people can be retroactively tried for abortions during the period Roe V. Wade stood.
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by BobbyJo 4y ago
> Companies break the law constantly That's obvious hyperbole and not a useful, or even factual, rebuttal.

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