EliRivers

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   by EliRivers 7y ago

   Except, perhaps, this one: Like the men and women in its crime novels, the city, a multicultural diary of splendor and hurt, is its own character: grisly, sinister, smooth, sly, urbane, verbose, sparse, fatalistic, celebratory, hopeful and
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   by EliRivers 7y ago

   Let's not forget that the studios have an artistic side too; Harry Potter and the Order of the phoenix lost over a hundred and fifty million dollars (sic) but out of the goodness of their hearts they pressed on with the series!
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   by EliRivers 7y ago

   Apropos of the theme, when "meritocracy" was coined it was a warning; something damaging to society that was to be avoided. At some point, the term was hijacked and pushed as a force for good (I suspect, but cannot prove, mostly b
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   by EliRivers 7y ago

   If you were a regular dev - one of the majority of software engineers - you probably didn't notice it beyond news articles or the like. You were working for some company that hadn't been part of the dot com bubble and wasn't
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   by EliRivers 7y ago

   I take more solace in imagining (hoping) which authors won't be remembered. Lee Child and Dan Brown, I hope :)
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   by EliRivers 7y ago

   Many businesses appear to disagree; "they must also invest in their employees, protect the environment and deal fairly and ethically with their suppliers" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/business&
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   by EliRivers 7y ago

   I disagree. There is a huge section of the market that is not simply chasing the most physically attractive purchase possible. It is also the case that, despite the suspiciously homoerotic incel obsession with looking like "Chad&quot
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   by EliRivers 7y ago

   So there's no reason for any one individual to look at these statistics and from them deduce that there's no point even trying? If they're just generalities and unattractive men routinely beat these odds, anyone choosing to d
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   by EliRivers 7y ago

   I see unattractive men getting married every day.
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    I believe you are conflating "being in the market" with "not being successful in the market". You said they're not in the market ("totally removed"). If they're not in the market, attempting to make a
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    a large percentage of men are totally removed from the dating market, they do not have sex, they have no hope of getting into a relationship Well perhaps if they were in the dating market, they'd have a bit more hope of a relationshi
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    kebab-case never made any sense to me until I discovered that what I call a kebab other cultures call a "gyro" (and various other names) and that what I call a skewer, they call a kebab. Naming Things Right is cultural.
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    The choice between the big-bang and tired-light is a choice between self-consistent theories which each explain the available data ... but tired-light then goes on to fail at explaining other data, and experimental tests. By all means, co
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    Ah, I see. Based on this deleted comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268682 you are Kirsten Hacker? And here you are, with more of the same. On reflection, this is starting to feel less like a coherent argumen
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    Stars in our vicinity tend to breathe in synch and that is why they are easy to see. Utter, utter rot. You're vanishing into your own new-age hand-wavy magic word bullshit, creating new nonsense to explain away huge flaws in a hypoth
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    but that the timing of the motion of atoms in distant stars is not synchronized with our own What is this "synchronised timing" of which you speak? Atoms in distant stars move in some way that is fundamentally different to movem
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    That doesn't sound like new-age mysticism to me. It sure does. That's classic new-age mysticism. They love hand-wavy energy modes and vibrations. If it had the word "quantum" in it, it'd be ticking all the boxes.
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    That's great for you. You don't want that. However, if you code in a team, doing everything for your own wants rather than considering the needs of the team (present and future) is just bad software engineering.
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    There are startups in Europe, but the founders are mostly older people on their second run instead of young people getting an opportunity. Is that not also true in the US? https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-ave
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    Good for you. Many people cannot do it. Are not capable of bootstrapping. They will live and die in misery because you and others like you put your ideology ahead of reality and people. Just look at how well you wrote your words. You are fu
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    Didn't a lot of mining jobs already, to a significant extent, go away? Here's coal mining in the US, over the last 35 years: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES1021210001
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    I understand a lot of poor people in these regions lack the resources to move to more populated areas. Would you support a federal or state rehousing program to enable that? It's a genuine question; should the US taxpayer pony up so po
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    He gets paid the daily rate for his rank (and any applicable modifiers) for each day on duty. So if he spends a weekend at 77 HQ or some training location or other such, on duty, he'll get two days' pay for that (potentially a smi
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    I'm replying to this comment only because there are numerous other comments talking about the use of this for people who are in some way physically impaired. What's the state of designated parking spaces for such people? Just yest
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    Look at the windows on some of those. Wow. Everything else aside, I would love to have windows like that.
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    Can sealions not use google?
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    Seems unlikely. His best chance of doing that - of leaving the EU - is to get a majority of parliament to vote for whatever deal he presents. Proroguing parliament would appear to antagonise parliament and make that less likely.
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    Mistake #1: Windows != GUI I think that's only true in a literal sense. For many people, it's untrue in a practical sense, and those people live in a practical world.
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    I learned very thoroughly that the software version details were under "Help -> About". If it's not there, I'm not only stumped; I'm genuinely angry. That doesn't have to be logical; emotional reactions happ
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    by EliRivers 7y ago

    You clearly can't trust yourself. Put someone else in charge of ensuring quality and make sure they've got the ability to spot when you're not delivering and the authority to bust your chops for it. In my place, this is often