GavinMcG

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by GavinMcG 5y ago
That to me immediately communicates a decreasing chart. I would have no idea that the right-angle lines represent right angles generally and not chart axes.
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Point is it used to be
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The author agrees with you: > Your own choices in these situations might go in different parts of the graph. I think it’s less about the specifics and more about understanding what it means to assert—but not baby—yourself, given who you
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Yes. Learning to manage one's own life is important, and making it a fun process from an early age is worthwhile.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
You're making the point that someone else's experience can't possibly match yours: that's why they shouldn't claim to understand what you're going through. The reverse is also true. Don't assume so casuall
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Apparently. I generally don't include lying in my toolbox.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Both of you are right. It's not incumbent on someone grieving to be gracious, and yet choosing grace is better than choosing to react with anger or hurt.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Yes, of course. And yet, having a gap on a resume is also something people make judgments about.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Resumes have employment dates on them, which will be interpreted long before past employers are asked about anything.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Appreciating art often requires suspension of disbelief.
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There's a difference between Facebook collecting data when I'm on their site and collecting data from embedded trackers. Draw the line wherever you want, just don't conflate different things just because they're both dis
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Deterministic time-reversible things could still have causality in a universe that has causality. But that's not an effective response to the claim that there's no causality at all.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
How does including telemetry for a product make a commitment to privacy from unrelated companies' tracking "smoke and mirrors"? There's a difference between the privacy I expect from a direct service provider and from
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Conservatives tend to emphasize loyalty, authority, and purity as fundamental values, over and above the more widely-shared values of care, fairness, and liberty.[0] These "binding" values are a foundation for in-group vs. out-gr
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
"Great" as in "insightful" as a definition of conservatism, rather than as an endorsement of the philosophy (one hopes).
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
You're looking at it in retrospect, but decisions to involve NATO in responding to an attack on a member aren't made with the benefit of hindsight.
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Saying "X is indisputably the accepted and intended meaning of the phrase wherever English is spoken" is not in conformance with those principles at all.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
I have expertise neither in physics nor in theater. But I do want to chime in to suggest that any time you're about to make a categorical statement like "fresnel is not a noun" in response to someone using it that way , it
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
It's not possible to fix a particular semantics outside a particular time and context, and certainly not possible to do so in general. Here, as soon as someone recognizes that the amount of energy cited is way higher or lower than woul
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
It's entirely disputable as evidenced by this conversation. It's also an incredible waste of time to argue over definitions. They're always disputable because they always arise in response to two people using a word differe
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
> all of the guarantees Insurance? Regulatory oversight? Which services?
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Does indeed appear to be the side with the missing braces—the piping seems to match.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Take a look at the 14th Amendment and § 1983.
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Not really. Various groups may disproportionately take up health resources, but the risk we're talking about is acutely overwhelming health systems.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
He explicitly doesn't care what code looks like on other people's screens, as long as it stays there: > I don’t care what you do in private. Although I predict you will eventually burn yourself on this hot mess, my main conce
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Nah, depending on the state, the law permits them to cover nearly anything.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
I don't think "→" necessarily misrepresents the meaning of "->" (though see the objections throughout the thread re: differing ways that languages notate "not equal to.") The point is that programming
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
The response was about leaving the windows open. Do you leave the door of your tent open when you winter camp?
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
> Ligatures in programming fonts are a terrible idea. > And not because I’m a purist or a grump. (Some days, but not today.) Programming code has special semantic considerations. Ligatures in programming fonts are likely to either mis
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
"Luther"

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