MajimasEyepatch

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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
There’s this thing people online tend to do where they’ll take a well-defined word or phrase like autism spectrum disorder and just decide that it actually should mean something else and get mad when everyone else uses the word in the “wron
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
> My ability to type this message and read is not a constant. There are times when I am non verbal. There are times when I cannot read because the letters are all jumbled in my head. When I'm able to read and write and speak, societ
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
There’s so much brain development that happens in the first few years after birth that there’s absolutely no way you can say that with confidence.
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
Providing health insurance for full-time employees in the United States is just part of the cost of doing business. It's not cheap, but it's absolutely something you can budget for. IIRC this guy had over 50 employees working more
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
Be that as it may, it's not like the ACA invented employer-sponsored health insurance. Health insurance is just part of the cost of doing business in the United States and has been standard for full-time employees (and many part-time o
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
Same with people who complain about paying a living wage or basic benefits. I once had an Uber driver who, apropos of nothing, started telling me that he was driving for Uber because he had to shut his old business down after Obamacare went
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
Sure, but PE certification is only relevant to a small subset of engineers in the US, even outside of software engineering. Outside of a few specific fields, most people in the US will not think "PE" when they hear engineer, unlik
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
No one uses the DOM because they think it’s the best possible GUI technology. They build software for browsers because browsers are the lowest common denominator for distribution, which is far, far more important than technical consideratio
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
So what should they be using, if they did know better?
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
The Wikipedia article is correct in a pedantic way, but for all practical purposes, DNA -> RNA -> Protein is the place to start. Then you layer on the myriad complications that have evolved over four billion years.
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
If you're an experienced software developer, you can also just get a job as a software developer at any number of companies in pharma and biotech. No need to do it for free.
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
You're literally commenting on an article from pcgamer.com.
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
I think it’s because the vast, vast majority of Apple users never need to deal with customer service, and those who do can usually go to the Apple Store and have a pretty good experience. (Please don’t reply to this with your anecdotes abou
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
> If it was so bad then you wouldn’t see engineers with 10, 15, or 20 years experience staying there. They already got their money from the IBM purchase so if it were bad then they would leave. Every big, old, stagnant company is full of
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
Absolutely right. These basic concepts like the central dogma aren't especially hard to learn, but it's important to really understand them deeply if you want anything to make sense. Among textbooks, Molecular Biology of the Gene
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
That's not correct. Bytedance is headquartered in Beijing.[1] TikTok Ltd. has two HQs in Singapore and Los Angeles, but Bytedance is still the parent company. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance [2] h
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
> > TikTok directly asking users to contact their lawmakers was an overt act that shows the platform is capable of spurring on political action by its users. > What's wrong with this exactly? You have rights to call your congr
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
As long as the leadership of Bytedance is in China, the CCP will always have the power to do whatever they want. And come on, their objections have nothing to do with the economics of a sale.
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
Hey, they're the ones who keep talking about invading Taiwan. Authoritarian regimes tend to be surprisingly honest about their intentions. Believe them when they tell you what they're going to do.
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
This is correct. People like to conflate the privacy concerns about American social media with the national security concerns about TikTok, but they really are different things. Yes, privacy will still be a problem, but a) no more than it i
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by MajimasEyepatch 2y ago
Why would we allow a hostile foreign power with whom we may be at war in a few years to have total control over a major part of the information diet of millions of Americans? The Soviets wouldn't have been allowed to own NBC in the Col
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by MajimasEyepatch 3y ago
Yes, the people who set the priorities have to feel the pain in some way. If you as an employee want your boss to do something, you have to communicate it in a way that makes clear how the problem will affect what the boss cares about, not
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by MajimasEyepatch 3y ago
If you're afraid of AI, I have bad news: it's just as capable of taking those jobs as it is of taking software engineering jobs, or any other white-collar job.
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by MajimasEyepatch 3y ago
None of that actually proved to be true. Tech was certainly not over after the dotcom bubble burst, which is what he's talking about. People have lost jobs to offshoring, but the growth in software engineering demand in the US vastly o
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by MajimasEyepatch 3y ago
If you had to submit the PR yourself, you’d have to remember to do it in the first place (and take the time to do it). Bumping a bunch of patch version numbers has never been the hard part and isn’t really what these tools solve. Their purp
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by MajimasEyepatch 3y ago
Inventory is an asset, so if you want to account for inventory in this example, you would record two debits and two credits: - $5 debit to cash (asset => debit means +5) - $5 credit to revenue (equity => credit means + 5) - $X debit t
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by MajimasEyepatch 3y ago
Imagine a world where only the people like you can be insured. Everyone else, “of which there are too many to count,” has to go without insurance because they can’t get approved or the premiums are so insane they can’t afford it. Some of th
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by MajimasEyepatch 3y ago
Reinsurance isn’t magic. This helps with one-off losses, but if you’re fundamentally not able to make a profit, they’re not going to cover you, because all you’ve done is shift the negative expected value to them.
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by MajimasEyepatch 3y ago
In the long run, yes, but Lemonade and other insurtechs have struggled to actually get that right. Their loss ratio (claims paid / premium collected) has historically been close to or above 100% (i.e. losing money), though I think Lemo
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by MajimasEyepatch 3y ago
Your best bet would probably be to go to your state Department of Insurance. They're the ones who regulate insurance in each state, including issuing licenses and appointments, and agencies and carriers tend to take DOI complaints seri

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