abootstrapper

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by abootstrapper 5y ago
I worked a programming job out of college for 4 years. Then I quit and did some of this and that for 14 years. Just got my 2nd full time programming job at 40 years old. I’m sharing this to let you know it’s possible and you’re still young.
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by abootstrapper 5y ago
I’m not the only one who’s seen Demolition Man, right? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RnyhkBU1yaw
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by abootstrapper 5y ago
Woof. I hadn’t even considered, what if the whale dove while you were in it’s mouth before spitting you out! Rapid descent, the bends, oxygen narcosis. Not good! That guys is lucky he was spat out on the surface!
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by abootstrapper 5y ago
Pseudo intellectual garbage, and the tweets read like if Ayn Rand wrote fortune cookies.
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by abootstrapper 5y ago
“Oregon Trail” generation here. I’m more tech literate than my older and younger family members. But I also made tech my career so I’m not sure if this is a fair anecdote.
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by abootstrapper 5y ago
It’s been over a year of explaining this to people. OP is a lost cause.
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by abootstrapper 5y ago
Presumably most buildings are painted. My house for example. If painting it white saves %10 of my energy costs in the summer, how is that anything but a net positive? BTW, I’m in the market for a new roof. I’m going white painted metal. Are
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by abootstrapper 5y ago
I don’t agree with your cynicism. This is a very practical, potentially accessible, inexpensive solution to save literally tons of power. It’s an easy win. Let’s take it and move on to the next area we can make gains in the fight against c
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
Me too! Now what do we do?
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
I guess this makes sense if you define “atheism” as “not obsessing over something” and “worship” as a synonym for “unhealthy obsession.” I take issue with those definitions, and also with the premise that an adult must have an unhealthy obs
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
I have 100 hours in Factorio. I’m looking for a job. Where do I apply?
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
I enjoyed it, but damn that dude is hella privileged.
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
Nearly all of the electronics in my home are protected by a surge protector. We even installed a whole house surge protector. I lost a cable modem and router once from a surge through the cable line. So I now have a surge protector on the i
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
> When you look at who is having kids in the US and Canada, the families, (or specifically, women) who have 2 or more children are either exceptionally wealthy (90th+ pc) or exceptionally poor Source?
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
ELI5 why we can't make a perpetual motion machine out of this?
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Leading baby food makers are selling products with high levels of toxic metals(cnn.com)
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
It’s more like: First they came for the fascist but I didn’t speak up because fuck those guys. Then they came for the meme stock traders, and what the fuck even is this timeline. Bottom line is corporations are self serving, and the poem do
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
Eh, I’ve seen enough viral memes in my day to believe this happened without an orchestrator.
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
Allowing only buying OR selling seems like a good lever to manipulate a stock price.
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
That’s the absurd thing about Trump. His words are interpreted like a horoscope by his supporters. They mean whatever you need them to mean.
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
The hell he’s been tweeting them to calm down.
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
Oof. I don’t know how sad it is. Slap some guns on them and they’ll start selling. I kind of hope they stick to dancing and novelty tricks.
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
Mine was my freshman year in college. I had a craving for chocolate cake one evening. My epiphany was that I could just hop in my car and go buy one. I didn’t have to answer to or explain myself to anyone. So off I went and bought a cake! M
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
“The free market will solve everything” is a seductive idea because of its simplicity. “Just let the free market solve it. Oh, there’s a problem? It’s because the market is not ‘free’ enough.” The reality is more complicated. We need a bala
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
I agree. The good old days were terrible. No doubt many suffered through considerable mental anguish. Unfortunately, this knowledge does not usually help people currently living with depression or similar mental illness. It’s like, “I can’t
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
I mean, given the demands of modern society, I wouldn’t be surprised if every other person was honestly battling some kind of mental health issues at some point. I mean hell, it’s tough enough being sentient and dealing with mortality, thro
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
Honest question. How would you have to dispose of the tree to capture the carbon? Burry it? Wouldn’t composting release the carbon?
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
Risk of long term covid side effects seems greater to me than long term vaccine side effects.
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
Gonna need a citation on that all caps “proven.”
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by abootstrapper 6y ago
I don’t know about the downvotes, perhaps because it’s only tangentially related to the post? But I appreciated the thought. Talk about an unsung hero. Whoever died on the placebo died so that the rest of us can have the knowledge that we h

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