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by JBReefer 9y ago
I agree. There's a measurable relationship "bonus" to my life in happy relationships - having someone who double checks my logic, notices things I missed, works when I'm sick, etc. make things much smoother.
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by JBReefer 9y ago
This is super, super weird but could be huge. It's very Black Mirror, it sort of makes me uncomfortable but I can't explain why. I think it could be a much better version of what Facebook is trying to be, but .... something's
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by JBReefer 9y ago
I have 0 support for this, but it the mixed race people I know tend to be much, much, much healthier. It makes sense when you think about inbreeding, but it's sort of weird to think about. A friend who is 100% Polish Jewish - a people
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by JBReefer 9y ago
I have 0 problem with websites that serve up ads that: 1. Are from their own domain 2. Are not flash/autoplaying video 3. Don't track me/aren't ad tech 4. Actually have something to do with the content Run a homebrewing
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by JBReefer 9y ago
If anyone knows a way to programmatically export reader-mode style PDFs, I can throw a quick website together or something.
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by JBReefer 9y ago
I disagree - I think the one vendor open source thing works well, consider Node, Scala, VS Code, etc.
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by JBReefer 9y ago
This is an odd posting. It's a (very) short history of the reasoning behind and purpose of the Mir project at Canonical, but doesn't hint at the future of the project or the team. It's a dictionary definition more or less, bu
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by JBReefer 10y ago
Buy and then sell a sport bike. They're a TON of fun, if not in exactly the same way. They're also dramatically more dangerous.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
I really, really miss that brief, beautiful period when the internet was ONLY stuff like this, and you just kind of wandered around.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
Would you mind defining "blacklist" in this context? That's kind of scary!
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by JBReefer 10y ago
That's a strong claim that you could probably support with data with little effort, but as it stands, it's conjecture. I do agree with your analysis, but it's a weak argument to incentive.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
Swear to god - lives in a one bed in Hyde Park, perfectly fine, normal apartment. He's not in Westport/the River Market/the coolest neighborhood of the week, but Hyde Park is still pretty nice, and his place is definitely not
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by JBReefer 10y ago
This sort of matches Duverger's Law[0], which holds that given a particular set of constraints that sound a lot like the smart phone market, you will always end up with 2 players/political parties. [0] https://en.wikipe
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by JBReefer 10y ago
This doesn't mention a huge side effect of having so much of tech clustered in 3 regions - housing costs. It is so, so much cheaper to live in other places, and at this point the bubble is such that most of my friends aren't aware
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by JBReefer 10y ago
On one hand, this is a truly incredible accomplishment for Google, and in so little time! On the other, it's sort of amazing this hadn't happened already - so, so many people in the developing world are entirely reliant on mobile,
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by JBReefer 10y ago
Honestly, that it's not Github/BitBucket/etc. It looks pretty cool, but there's a great ecosystem out there already that I'd rather use for CI/Build/SCM.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
Nah, the next frontier is more likely everyone fully consolidating around REST as it stands today. This looks like movement for movement's sake, instead of improving developer ergonomics in an increasingly predictable world. This is li
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by JBReefer 10y ago
Given how many comments here lament the requirement to live in SV, this makes perfect sense. It's sort of shocking it hasn't actually started to happen, based on how much people talk about wanting to leave.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
I don't see how that's relevant. It's also less than some 1 bed apartments in London, and it's more than 4357 people in the Congo make in a year. It just seems like agenda pushing.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
If there's a book on the downfall of the NYT, I would love to know about what happened. The quality drop in the last 8 years has been truly shocking to me. Before the stopped their local coverage, their articles about the outer boros w
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by JBReefer 10y ago
Few Western countries. Population is a huge problem in much of Asia. We should all praise the success of Bangladesh in addressing the problem so quickly, they really dodged a bullet there.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
No, it's that this isn't the place for memes
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by JBReefer 10y ago
I'm sure a growing number do, now that the most popular vehicle in America is made out of the stuff (F150)
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by JBReefer 10y ago
I feel like I can't get a handle on the inflation numbers I see. I pay - and the math checks out - roughly the same amount for gas, produce, and essentials. My smartphone is 1/3 the cost it was 10 years ago. And then housing and h
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by JBReefer 10y ago
There's an incredible write-up on this effect by Scott Alexander, that goes into depth about the cultural propagation on the internet of exactly the phenomena you're describing. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014&#x2F
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by JBReefer 10y ago
While this is charming, this seems more like a reflection on how being from a place is different from living in a place. I have the same long meals with friends and family here, despite the commenters saying the "Silicon Valley&quot
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by JBReefer 10y ago
Isn't it also because class is very important in England, and the weather is a neutral topic?
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by JBReefer 10y ago
New Yorker with an accent strong enough that they don't ask me questions at Customs: he's full of it. Never been to a catered private meal, also all the catering sucks in this city.
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by JBReefer 10y ago
I'm fairly sure that more than just "tech nerds" are against large scale democide, especially when the alternatives are pretty reasonable (bike lanes and wind power, the horror!)
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by JBReefer 10y ago
This is whataboutism. Both are bad, and holding the opinion that rent seeking is bad is logically consistent with condemning both action classes.

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