TheBobinator

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by TheBobinator 6y ago
Joe Rogan had an excellent podcast up on this which is well worth your time to listen to IMO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtNW3I1FZ5o What you have is a significant portion of people with c-ptsd due to the abuses wester
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by TheBobinator 6y ago
This articles takes 4 pieces of anecdotal evidence and concludes rents are dropping; there is no study, no calling around, no use of modern technology. Just 4 anecdotal pieces of evidence. Then everyone on HN is going to start talking abou
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by TheBobinator 6y ago
Move was a group who's guidelines looked like cult material and who's members had a lot of criminal convictions. A cop got shot up and the mayor asked them to disband. Keep in mind, this is a country where you are innocent until
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by TheBobinator 6y ago
Public corporations grant their investors and executive management immunity against such charges unless it can be traced directly to their involvement and even then, most of the time someone is made into a scapegoat and hung. Much of this
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by TheBobinator 6y ago
The purpose of copyright is to provide a temporary monopoly to creators for their works to encourage them to create more and thus transfer more to the public domain. Currently, it takes greater than 2 average lifetimes for a work to transfe
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by TheBobinator 6y ago
Holding them "to a higher standard" is verbal masterbation; feels good, conclusion is a climax of moral splooge, you even get to nap after, but it sets no defined goals and says nothing anyone hasn't already heard. Police hav
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by TheBobinator 6y ago
Historically, The states power was plenary is because everyone had first hand observational knowledge of the pandemic; they lost friends, family, acquantences, and so forth. Nobody on the street knew how bad it was at the time until statis
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by TheBobinator 6y ago
The heart of this discussion is not the freedom of speech, it's the the ability to say whatever you want without consequence. What Twitter wants, though selective undocumented "curating" of its platform, is the ability to sla
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by TheBobinator 6y ago
Your software records a phone call an employee made while not on the clock? Congratulations, That's a felony. Your software reports on their browser history when an employee is not on the clock, Congratulations, that's another fe
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by TheBobinator 6y ago
Forcing work during a pandemic that might kill people without providing them PPE or making changes to operations is the literal height of insanity. Amazon has been a subsidized american corporation servicing chinese interests for 2 decades;
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by TheBobinator 6y ago
First of all, in your example, the DB server is doing the other 97 lines of work that java had to do; one approach uses data structures the other uses a SDE designed for data management and access. I think most employers would prefer a dev
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by TheBobinator 6y ago
Few things to be said here. First, people are, in general, really bad at navigating traumatic events and situations. Now if you've been through some real Sh!tty situations in your past, you're better able to navigate new ones, bu
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by TheBobinator 6y ago
We're talking about people in the ~155-180 IQ band; In a city the size of Chicago you have 20 or so people in that band. The reason it's called "Gifted" is because you get born with it, just like your skin color. I didn
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by TheBobinator 6y ago
There was a long interview on youtube from John Taylor Gatto I listened to once where he said essentially creativity must be constrained for society to be stable. Your anecdote reminds me of this. Teachers focusing on test scroes is a gre
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by TheBobinator 6y ago
EQ is a load of poppycock; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi48uZjpJDk What you are referring to are people with high IQ who are not well socialized and thus develop neuroticism and have emotional instability, which can hap
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by TheBobinator 6y ago
Can you name a few examples of schools or school districts that are magnet schools? Never heard that term before.
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by TheBobinator 6y ago
You are not your numbers is a rural sensibility and assumption. During the Iraq War veterans were coming back with PTSD and seeing psychologists and psychiatrists. Some of them had multiple comobidities; depression, anxiety, Bipolar, with
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by TheBobinator 6y ago
Question for you. If you were profoundly gifted and had kids who were also profoundly gifted, what kinds of things would you do with them and resources would you provide to them to ensure they were adaquetly challenged? My situation: I&#x2
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
Please name one Amazon Warehouse stock picker or forklift operator who is making 6 figures please. Also, where are all these tech workers making 6 figures at? BLS OES Job wage data shows about 80% of tech workers don't make 6 figures
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
Game development is a rapid prototyping adventure that is fuelled by the fact what you are producing is ultimatly a form of art. Architectures are based on abstraction, and abstraction is ultimately mindful ignorance; in this case of speci
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
If the government wanted to so decree, they could decree banks could not forclose on bankrupt customers and must restructure loans. They've already done that for rent and mortgage agreements in many areas where people are hard hit by
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
What seperates psychological warfare from marketing? If you pay attention to advertising for a week, you will be marginally educated on what the advertiser wants you to know about their products and services; this has some economic utility
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
That works right up until the point someone turns off their cellphone and goes hunting. The problem with leaving all this data around is eventually the proletariat will begin prefering to share it all with each other. When they start doing
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
I've seen sales guys intentionally leak information to the competititon in order to try to push a company they were working for out of business so they could get out of their non-compete contract and go after more lucrative employment
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
I know people who work there out in Chicago. They distribute pamphlets and have it cooked into their health insurance policy. It's mostly a city and urban problem for the company, and done on a community-by-community basis; the store
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
I think you are unbelievably naieve to think refund costs are all that are at stake here. First they sell security systems to people for a big fat chunk of change. Then they turn those security systems off, and then tell those same people t
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2016/employment-population-rati... Pre-2000, 65% of adults 18+ were in the workforce; Today that sits at shy of 60%. You'd expect the cycle of liquidity crisis driven by res
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
Few things to be said here as I think this comment is unbelievably misguided. Much like how first wave feminism was a response to advanced in pressure vessels producing distilled alchohols, and second wave was a response to the obsolescance
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
Assuming it's true the US Did nuke fallout experiments on people 7 years after the end of a war, you need to keep in mind, that's what happens after a war. People who are put into combat situtuations look at human life as a numbe
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
It's fraud. The legal way to do this is to go bankrupt, launch app 2.0, and market it under a similar name. They have a ponzi scheme business model, it failed. There's nothing legal about this; you make promises, you sign contrac

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