JimboOmega

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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Didn't we just elect a new DA who has openly stated he will not prosecute any quality of life crimes?
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
It's important that this applies to virtually any endeavor, from coding to being social or dating. You are going to be dumb, lame, awkward, etc at pretty much anything you haven't done before; the only path to not being that way i
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
I think you and the other person are referring to two different "spectrums". Our vision covers a tiny portion of the EM spectrum, for instance, we can't see infrared, microwave, gamma, x-ray, etc. There are separately colors
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
I assume most TOS are just a blob of legalese, and not a "this is what it means to behave on this server". It feels like the trend has been in the other direction. In most services I've interacted with recently, the service o
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Yes. If you're a senior IC and tend to do several days work on your good days but get little done on your bad days, depending on the boss you have this can cause a lot of friction (even if overall you're producing a lot). There&#x
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
I've found the more senior I get, the less spurts of productivity are tolerated. People will rattle on about consistency and expectations. Especially so if this is more on the scale of weeks than within a day.
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
At least with stock, even if they aren't paying a dividend in theory you own a portion of the earnings stream; it is instead reinvested in the company. But still a lot of companies do pay them (e.g. AAPL). If you owned all the shares o
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Oh, also, FYI, transgender is adjective, not a noun, so rather than say "MTF transsexuals" you should say "transgender women". "Transgenders" is also incorrect usage.
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
> I perceive that they often get lumped into a third category (that isn't male or female) This is what I mean by the "uncanny valley of gender". Some people, btw, do identify as non-binary and intentionally wish to be seen
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
I hadn't seen that study before, and I have a lot of thoughts on it. Most of all I'd be interested to see how it changed. (For one thing, the term "transsexual" now is feels so dated it's borderline offensive) To br
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
I really can't upvote this enough. I've experienced both sides of this as a transgender woman. As a relatively effeminate man, I failed to fit in with the culture of "cocksure masculinity" as the OP calls it. But as a wo
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Especially since they're the same ones that gave him still MORE money.
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
It's so hard to untangle hormones from life events. I transitioned in a way that's somewhat backwards from how people typically do it these days; I was presenting female or genderqueer pretty much 100% of the time before I transit
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
As a transgender woman, I can assure you that hormone levels (estradiol in particular) do affect mood. If I forget to take my medication I will get a migraine, for instance, and this is a pattern also observed in cisgender women. But what l
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
"I just stare at my desk. But it looks like I'm working!" - Office Space
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Move to the tropics; there's some variation but it's never very great.
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Los Angeles is far south, even in the context of California; that's not true for San Francisco. Also the shortest day of the year isn't the day of the latest sunrise - that'd be the day before daylight savings time ends. On t
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Remember the Arab Spring? How did that turn out? How do the Kurds feel right now? A lot of people want self determination, and they haven't exactly made much progress recently. (Also, ask the Scots how they feel about the UK and especi
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Actually, a lot of the reasoning behind the tariffs is the converse, that if we can't rely on China for making all of our [insert thing here], we'll have to make it ourselves. I mean, maybe we have to build iPhones in the United
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
But what, exactly, do they gain from this?
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
I feel like there's part of this story I'm not hearing because just using gender neutral language for everyone on its own shouldn't be offensive. Unless, as I said in my other reply, you're basically doing it to avoid ha
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
The issue is when you use pronouns for others, but you won't for one person, because they're transgender. You're really calling their otherness out, and it hurts. There are people in this world (ex: Ben Shapiro) who simply r
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
But this is in a case where the pronouns are (presumably?) known. If you were obviously doing it with regards to one person, it could be very offensive. That is, if you insist on referring to a transgender person as "they", when y
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
One could argue that unmet demand saves money; assuming they only pay for what gets stocked.
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
It does, but the author's point, I think, is that dividing by GDP isn't particularly meaningful. They argue that the cost of additional borrowing is a better measure - will people loan you more or are they getting nervous they won
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
It is also done to commute from Baltimore to DC; for me it's just way too much. Redwood City was my limit and I really hated it, even with my motorcycle. I know there's a Google Bus from very near to me all the way to Sunnyvale,
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
It's something very roughly and geographically like if SF is DC, then SJ is Baltimore. You could theoretically commute between them, but it's quite impractical. SJ is part of the Bay Area and absolutely has skyrocketing costs;
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
> We, in fact, know that Ashley Madison wasn't actually used for cheating because there were no (zero) real women on the site. There were numerous bots and fake accounts to attempt to make it seem as though there were more women on
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
The thing is, I'm often happy to get extra responsibility on its own; it makes the work feel more meaningful. In this context, I view responsibility as more of a level of operating rather than just "more work". For instance,
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
I rather strongly try to avoid doing that sort of thing. I have a habit of having an outfit that works very well for some specific context and buying something similar to it repeatedly. But outside of things I wear to work every day, I don&

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