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by JackFr 3y ago
Cyclists in NYC are positive menace. They don’t need to be but they choose go the wrong way down one way streets, routinely ignore all traffic signals, ride on busy sidewalks and eschew bike lanes to weave in and out of heavy traffic. Well
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by JackFr 3y ago
You aren’t subsidizing McDonalds labor cost. If McDonalds paid them more, they would be paying more than the revenue that’s attributable to them, and creating a net loss by hiring them and they simply wouldn’t do it. As a society we have de
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by JackFr 3y ago
> Why does anyone work there? Ask them. They are choosing to work there. They have options. Also why is McDonalds an example of an exploitative company?
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Needing to pay the mortgage is a HUGE motivation, but it doesn’t necessarily correlate with job performance. What I would say I look for in software developers is people who are genuinely interested in software development. You don’t need t
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by JackFr 3y ago
You don’t need to socialize - a recruiter reached out to me and I let him know that I wasn’t in the market, but the guy who had sat next to me for 3 years (open plan offices FTW!) at my last job would be perfect. We weren’t terribly friendl
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by JackFr 3y ago
How far along are you in you’re career? The first 15 years I was recruiter or responding to ad, but after 20 mostly network.
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by JackFr 3y ago
> On the contrary, this is playful, it is not evil or abusive. Taking someone to court is not playful.
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by JackFr 3y ago
All my automated integration tests use a real Postgres database in a known state. I don’t mock or stub or use an in-memory database pretending to be Postgres. It’s nice.
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I think the reasoning for the low fines was the expectation that compliance would be pretty good, because honestly building owners and residents don’t want a gated eyesore next to their luxury construction and keeping them nice and open is
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by JackFr 3y ago
There was a comment a few years ago from the parking violations commissioner, when people were complaining that parking tickets were exorbitant, that they had to keep raising the fines to keep above the price of parking n a lot.
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by JackFr 3y ago
What does “rarely get to write songs” mean? Is there a powerful Committee of Songwriting who determines who gets to write the pop songs? I think a better way to look at it would be to address how song writing credits are assigned, who is g
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by JackFr 3y ago
You've got a parcel of land. You are farming on it or renting it or doing something which generates income. Because of that, you discount your future cashflows and determine it is worth X. Disney comes along and estimates that with
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Yeah - I meant to agree, emphasize and provide another example.
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I believe it was Freeman Dyson describing Feynman, and I paraphrase, but some geniuses are like you and me, just much, much smarter. And some geniuses just see the world in a way we never can.
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Newton.
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Well that’s the thing. No one deserves forgiveness (Christians especially should know that forgiveness is not earned with merit, but distributed with grace.) But genuine forgiveness is a powerful thing, though it’s very hard.
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It was a cold war exercise, and viewed through that lens it almost certainly was a better expense than say the Vietnam War. I suppose a more apt hypothetical would be considering what the return spending that money on various additional DA
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by JackFr 3y ago
> I'm not convinced I won't see civil war in my lifetime. You lost me here. There’s not gonna be a civil war. They’re just grifters left and right. Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t leading a movement, she’s just using populism to p
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So 25 years ago Fox News was a legitimate and reasonable news source. It had a slight right editorial bent which distinguished from the other networks and they drew a decent audience, to sone extent because of that. They later drifted a lit
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That’s true, and it’s the point. The reality is that there American system sucks by some metrics, and yet by others which are real and not BS, the US economy crushes. In the end human flourishing, and life satisfaction are more important th
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Terrible advice. Survivor bias.
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Have you ever tried to scratch your back with only a wing?
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They had me until the antepenultimate paragraph: > Fear-mongers may be expected to gin up opposition to any human future which does not involve half-naked pithecanthropoids digging for grubs with dull sticks, and design, construction, ma
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Norway’s economy is dependent on fossil fuels which represent over 50% of their exports and 20% of their GDP. The idea that Norway holds some sort of moral high ground with respect to fossil fuels is offensive.
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> But you’re not improving this game’s chances. You’re quite wrong. That is precisely what you are doing.
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One hundred million years is a long time for a screwdriver.
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What about XTartan and Xrisk???
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> If you realize that the space your brain takes is not special and holds no “soul”, it becomes obvious that consciousness must be sort of a field that sort of resonates with islands of enough complexity. But if you believe that, then tr
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It isn't stealing per se, but it is a violation of the agreement you made with the airline, and it is within their rights to terminate the rest of the contract and ban the customer. Your second point is the more important one, and to m
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The big difference is that the first function may be be wrong, but the second is quite obviously wrong. The smallest odd of a list of numbers > 9999 is not 9999. The smallest odd of an empty list is 9999 is not 9999. The smallest odd of

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