Joe-Z

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by Joe-Z 9y ago
You can learn all sorts of tricks with them too. Maybe it's just you getting older and developing more of a 'get off my lawn'-mentality? :D
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
This annoys me too most of the time. Being in traffic is not the time to play Mr. Friendly, it's the time to follow the rules and thus behave predictably for the other drivers.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Wow, are we really just deleting comments from people we don't agree with? I haven't seen any insults here, just people commenting from a seemingly pro-Erdogan perspective. What's the reasoning behind that? EDIT: Specifically
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Well, even here you seem to be posting from two different accounts. Even I get the feeling of 'suspicious activity' with your story.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. The video actually explains the ABC conjecture, which the article really doesn't. Also, the second-highest comment in this thread right now is one explaining this conjecture.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Well, I wasn't advocating tar sands here, I just repeated the info I got from the article. However, it is a reality that this industry exists, so sure it might be better to not extract tar sands at all, but as long as it's happeni
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
They are not only trading it for environmental saftey. As mentioned in another comment, using these balls you don't have to rely on specialized rail waggons anymore. So, while you may lose some space due to inefficient packing, you cou
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
The article mentions that it's more environmentally friendly. The balls float on water and apparently can't be poaked easily. That's a plus in my book.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
I consider it from a problem-solving perspective: I don't need to know the intricate details of dozens of sorting algorithms or data structures. What I need to be able to do is solve the problems that get thrown at me in daily work. So
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
I sincerely hope that we will succeed in keeping the internet as democratic as possible and not let it be destroyed by corporate interests in the name 'terrorism prevention'. I'd like to give a shout-out to epicenter.works, a
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
You have to start somewhere though. Changing the "fundamental structure of our economy" takes nothing short of a revolution.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
I'm currently a C# developer, but have tried functional languages before. As mentioned in the article, I think a lot of people are satisfied with the functional capabilities C# already provides. I don't need to write functional co
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
If you'd apply this exact reasoning to gender (Or sex? I don't know what's the correct term here, sorry), you'd get downvoted into oblivion. Maybe younger people (or men, to further my point) are inherently better suited
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
>A warrant possibly means that they go out of business, because the servers are physically seized Why would the police be interested in destroying a legitimate business just because they want data for 8 users? They can just as well get t
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
I get why you're being downvoted, but I fully agree with you. When I was still in college and read 'this is water' for the first time it felt like an epiphany. Now, a few years down the road, it just seems pretentious to me.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
This article also struck a chord with me. About 3 years ago I started working half-time as a software developer at a civil engineering company. Originally they wanted to hire me because they had some 3D visualizations in their software with
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Because in dystopian movies (your comment reminded me of 'The Fifth Element') they never show the 'but it's just so convenient!'-part. Not arguing for these things, I'd never get one either, but I'm just
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Interesting that you would say that. After a few painful and confusing months I finally decided to reduce contact with a female ex-flatmate of mine to a minimum. The conclusion I arrived at, is that she's pretty much exactly the type o
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Who does? The bad one's or the good one's? Genuine question.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
However, Alice is dependent on tuna sandwiches to maintain her and is desperately hoping for Dick to change the rules, so she can finally go eat some mac'n'cheese.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
> the actual person "doing" the pollution is you and me, when we buy a gas-powered car and drive it dozens of miles through suburban gridlock to get to work, or leave the thermostat at 68 on a hot summer day These examples demo
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
A politician representing the interests of the people who voted for him/her is a fallacy? Then consequentially I should get back all my tax money that went into setting up international trade and other economic deals, since apparently
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Phew, sounds like a lot of work! If only we could muster up some congregation of people that speak for many other people, so that they could speak on our behalf and tell these companies to cut the crap... That sure sounds nice.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Probably the same super capable kids just starting 10 years later as - still super capable - adults, realizing that their college degree has brought them virtually zero advantage over everyone else in the labour market.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
>If someone says 'my labor isn't worth 15$ But that's what I think is good about it!: It sets a baseline for what human labour is worth. Nobody has to say how much (or rather how little) his or her labour is worth. If an e
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Thank you for your example, that's interesting! I guess the story can also be interpreted the other way around: Employers were only willing to hire black people because they were worked for lower wages, because they exactly knew that t
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Thanks for clearing that up! I wasn't trying to insinuate that they were cherry-picking data. But doing a study on the Seattle labour market and excluding these major companies completely seems to be overdoing it.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
>Who am I to tell a homeless person that she is legally forbidden to engage in a voluntary, hourly employment contract for less than $15/hr? Someone who hasn't unterstood minimun wage fully? Minimum wage covers exactly this sit
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
OTOH if they draw conclusions from data that only very poorly reflects the Seattle labour market the study's got a problem
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
And you seriously post this response to a thread where all the GP wrote was 'look at this guys huge shoe:' and a link to a picture?

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