OrangeMonkey

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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
I've moved from corporate, to having a side gig, to doing it full time, then back to a side gig, and now I've mostly spun it down. The stress of always selling was hard. The constant thought of "I could be working right now,
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
I am sure you, personally, are a good person. At least I want to believe it. Its more a me-failing than a you-failing. I've been told by people I consider wise, that to believe in the goodness of others brings grace into your life.
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Good point. GOG Connect is great. I haven't seen anything new offered to me in years, but I haven't bought from steam in years. Likely a correlation. Thanks for bringing this up.
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
I made a decision years ago that I would stop buying things on steam and only buy them in GOG. It was hard sometimes - gog only got older games and definitely not the best of the newest titles. I found that I would simply hold off on buyin
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Macroeconomics is whats up with the prices. It is a three headed dragon, and we see two of them already. * Massive increase in money supply (more money chasing goods) - CHECK. We printed and our sins do not go away as quickly as we wish th
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
I understand your concern, and appreciate the explanation you provided. I respectfully disagree in so far as in the United States, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Your interpretation that this require
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Respectfully: If one side expands scotus for political gain, I guarantee that the other side immediately does the same the moment they get the house and senate. The only way for that not to happen is to guarantee that they never lose the
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
The only time in my life when I thought I knew everything was when I was a stupid new developer.
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
When I was growing up, the local burgerking had an amazing playground. It was a three story monster where the way up was by going into a cylindrical tube, fully metal, with a ladder in it. Once you get in, you are going up. Once up, the
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
I was exposed to the C4 Model a year ago and it just clicked. It gave a framework that I could use to expose diagrams to the architecture audience that actually helped aid understanding instead of just being mothballed. Love seeing others
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Don't engage with people who try to shoe-horn a comment about race as the first thing they notice. Its not helpful to either party I think.
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Work in the healthcare / life sciences world. I choose to work mainly with oncology related life science companies and it is a great feeling know that I am helping patients live longer and help with the treatment of cancer.
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Crypto is - depending on who you ask - either an investment or a currency. If we say this is a currency as that seems to be the way you are treating it, then if we replace that word a few times... "I think if done right, linkedin/
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Companies that sell 20 dollar bills for 10 see limitless growth prospects and have amazing customer retention. If paying people to search for a job was worthwhile, then indeed/linkedin/etc would be doing it. Adding ".. but w
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
You can't. The best you can do is to build a market thesis that represents your views, try to find reasons that you are wrong to help harden / shape your views, and only then try to find others that believe the same way your thesi
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Could have been yes. Imagine if it was a beanie baby instead man. I think those are going to the moon.
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
That they showed by sexually exploiting children in the filming. There is no excusing this - forget about the 'message' - one is watching children in sexually explicit situations and trying to say 'the artistic direction exc
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
If your idea can win in the marketplace of ideas, then free speech is the answer. If your idea loses in the marketplace of ideas, you ban the speech you dislike until your idea wins in the *marketplace of ideas. If any group is busy saying
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
My wife and I were feeling cooped up from Covid so we started a new hobby - storage auctions. We buy abandoned storage units at auction, sell the things, keep (very very rarely) any upgrades or things we want, and move to the next. Its sti
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by OrangeMonkey 5y ago
I am native to the united states and, to this day, I still do not fully get what time "12:00 AM" and "12:00 PM" mean. I try to set meetings for 12.01PM. If I absolutely must meet exactly at noon, I start the meeting &q
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by OrangeMonkey 5y ago
In what way can one force someone to sell at a price you want them to. Is it price gouging if I refuse to sell to you a commodity that you really want if I think I can get more out of it? Is there such a thing as price gouging for metals a
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by OrangeMonkey 5y ago
Blockchain is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist in the real world in any appreciable sense.
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by OrangeMonkey 5y ago
Things net out at the end for new home buyers. The mortgage rate may be 3%, but the cost of your home increases at a much higher number causing the value you have in mortgage rate to be offset by the higher up front cost of a home. People &
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by OrangeMonkey 5y ago
Senior tech management, Deep SE background.
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by OrangeMonkey 5y ago
The bitcoin fanatics are correct - people will be studying the rise of bitcoin for hundreds of years in finance. The book will be titled "The rise and fall of bitcoin; 'I thought I had enough time to get out.'" At this
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by OrangeMonkey 5y ago
An alternative view point is instead of forcing words into peoples mouths, we can just choose not to censor comedy, music, and the arts. It wasn't a dangerous stance to take at one time - lets not censor people. Its music.
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by OrangeMonkey 5y ago
Comedy, Music, The Arts - things I don't want the ruling class of the day to suspend and police. The parties go back and forth every so often - it used to be the conservatives who wanted to censor music, now its the liberals. Its tiri
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by OrangeMonkey 6y ago
In general, I think you are right. In this case, the person involved admitted in an interview with "The Street" 6/12/2020 that it was to keep the supply for healthcare workers. > "Well, the reason for that is th