JenrHywy

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by JenrHywy 4y ago
My 11yo came home from school today: "Dad! We can't get rid of any of our Roald Dahl books. They're changing the words in them. My class talked about it and we all think it's stupid". A few months back, my 16yo was
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Why it is weird? In both cases, as the GP said, the concept of womanhood is being erased.
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> There seems to be this weird erasure of women taking place at the moment. This is the crazy thing. After a century of legitimate struggle for equality, women are having the language of feminism turned on them to deny the existence of f
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I really enjoy being a father. It is 100% worth it. But the first 4 or 5 years are brutal . Tack on a few more if your kids a "special needs". There is a ton of that period is which is amazing and profound. I think in general par
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The "public health or morals" clause certainly leaves the door open for abuse. But it's still more useful than talking about the First Amendment as if it applies to the whole world. I also think it's useful to frame righ
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I'm not sure if many people realize the the UNHCR has the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights[0], ratified by ~180 countries. Unlike the First Amendment, the preamble the the ICCPR makes it clear that it is concerned w
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I don't know about that. I have teenagers (boys, though) who has no interest in social medial or alcohol. In many ways they're far more sensible than I was at their age.
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Interest rate control is not a subsidy.
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> What does lower interest rates have to do with lower rents? Interest rates affect repayments. Higher repayments mean that the rent an owner is willing to accept will be higher (or, they won't enter the market). Your whole model se
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When rates are lower, more people can "afford" to buy a house because the repayments are lower. Lower rates also (all thing being equal) means lower rents.
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In general, we have variable rate loans, though you can choose fixed rates for a certain period (usually 1-5 years). So yes, it should be more liquid than the US.
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There's an interview with John Danaher talking about if his student, and widely considered the best grappler of all time, Gordan Ryan, could compete with a grizzly or even a chimp. It's a fun listen.
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That's the policy where I am, for any work-related conversations. Private conversations obviously are different.
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Ah, yes, lets return the fulfilling life of subsistence farming ;)
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I'm with you - I don't love teams, but it's certainly no worse than Skype. We use it constantly for meetings, chat and calls in our team of ~20, and across the broader organisation. There were some teething problems when it w
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If I accepted to work for free, I would be absolutely fine with the company taking me up on the offer. I'd be shocked if they didn't.
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6:15? Holy crap. High school here (Australia) starts at 8:50. And even then I think that's too early for natural teenage sleep patterns. My kids are lucky in that we're close enough to school that they can leave at around 8:15. Wh
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That would be a terrible business decision, because the company would have no employees.
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Well, there are plenty of examples outside of the US's fairly young history where revolution has not always gone so well. Plus, I think one could argue that the US is still to prove that it can survive the aftermath of the Civil War. S
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To interpret the quote charitably, I think it's more that age can come with an appreciation with the fragility of society, the recognition that it's a miracle it works at all, and a humility about how much and how rapidly a system
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Spotify is a particularly terrible podcast client. It's fine for music, most of the time, IME
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We test it implicitly with integration tests across the API for the most part. We occasionally have unit tests (in C#) that directly call stored procs. The backbone for this is that we spin up a DB per unit test, so we don't have to wo
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While it's pretty badly written, the book Die With Zero changed my perspective on retiring a bit. I'm not sure I'd recommend reading it, but maybe reading a summary of the core ideas would be useful. The main take-away for me
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That's a rather narrow definition. The engine of capitalism, at least in a Smithian sense, is gains from and rewards to specialization.
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Yeah, that's kinda of my point. Google is a incredibly successful capitalistic entity, but is punishing an employee for being biased in favor of ability. Favoring ability is rather core to capitalism.
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> When he asked why he was non-inclusive, Olohan was told that he had shown favouritism towards high-performing employees I always expected capitalism to eat itself, but not like this... not like this.
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It's a bit of a slow burn, but the final section (the bit actually and Sisyphus) is beautiful. It's worth pushing though the earlier chapters to get to it.
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IME, once you take tax, tips and the exchange rate into account, Australia in generally on par, or cheaper, than the US (California, at least).
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As another Australian, tipping and tax are the worst part of traveling to the US (other than maybe the toilets....). I don't really mind what the final price is, but I really would like to know it up front without having to do a bunch
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I find this problem with the vast majority of practices, and annoying, particularly with those that work. If I read a book or listen to a podcast that touches on the practice I'll pick it back up, then it will gradually fade out over t

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