CarpetBench

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by CarpetBench 10y ago
Absolutely. Agreed.
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
Yeah, I agree. He was being an idiot. I was just trying to point out that he didn't actually support sex tapes for 5 year olds. He's a dumbass for trying to make a joke under oath, but not a dumbass who would post a 5 year-old&#x2
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
I mean, he's clearly joking if you read the transcript. He's an idiot for having even made that joke, but still. I think that whole conversation is a perfect example of why you have to be extremely careful when making tasteless jo
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
Sorry, I should've clarified - I'm not opposed to the principle, in moderation of course. You're hitting on places where it is quite useful. It's incredibly mind-numbing when it's being used to justify laziness and
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
To anyone who's planning to use this or Atwood's article on writing less code as a little red book: For the love of god, please use some common sense when repeating mantras like "write less code." I've seen this use
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
You're being annoying about an extremely minor phrasing issue, and being incredibly rude to the person you're responding to. The person you're responding to is obviously trying to imply something about the strength of their b
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
> As a backup mechanism your liver can also produce glucose by converting amino acids (muscle) and even fat, a process known as gluconeogenesis. Just a quick note, and your explanation is fantastic otherwise: this isn't quite correc
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
I think that's the point. Hooli is a stand-in for any large tech company, and I don't think they mean to specifically single out google. Sure, "Hooli search" and "Hooli phone" seems like a dead ringer for Googl
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
Just because I was curious, here's the actual breakdown: Highest level of play by current NFL head coaches NFL: 10 Division I: 7 FCS: 6 Division II: 2 Division III: 4 High School: 3 This is pretty generous bucketing, i.e. the NFL buc
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
> I think something really important that doesn't get discussed very often when "free speech" comes up is that there really are categories of speech which most reasonable people expect and perhaps even prefer would not be
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
> I know that one of those structures was renamed after Ed Koch Just in case it was bugging you: The 59th St bridge is officially the "Ed Koch Queensboro bridge," but totally correct that nobody calls it that. Sometimes you&#x2
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
> I'm sure NYC would be perfectly willing to have the right to search all people entering the city (or at least Manhattan... Uh absolutely not. Nobody who lives in the city would vote for that, ESPECIALLY if it was just for Manhatta
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
> In part because of this, I find it really difficult to deal with people I work with complaining about pay/bonuses/hours etc, I get what you're saying and that you likely don't mean any malice, but just in case: It i
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree :).
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
> There's a shift underway. I think we'll see a repositioning of the GOP that will lead it to a majority in less than 10 years if not sooner. I'd argue mostly the opposite. There's a shift underway, but I don't t
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
> The Left used to align itself with the working class, struggling against capital. Now it aligns with the cosmopolitan and against the unsophisticated. Huh? That's not really true. Part of the reason the GOP is having such a hard t
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
Ehhh. I work at a company that has a similar policy. What ends up happening is: 1) Everyone becomes conflict-averse for fear of looking like an asshole, so bad ideas often go unchecked 2) People find other ways to be assholes when they want