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by acuozzo 3y ago
The entire concept of career networking is rooted in expanding access to nepotism and is a poor substitute for an objective evaluation of merits. With that being said, it obviously has value since nepotism won't be going away anytime s
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Wow. HN is one of the few places I'd expect to encounter someone stuck in Kohlberg Stage 4.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> In a properly managed remote workplace, managers will not focus on how you spend your days and will reward your for the results you produce This kind of pure meritocracy is dystopic without functional social safety nets in place. Ralph
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by acuozzo 3y ago
It amazes me how few of these comments are about neighbors. I'm a Software Engineer as well, but most people are not. The EU system helps ensure you're not surrounded by people made entirely miserable by their wage slavery. Who wo
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by acuozzo 3y ago
We just saddle our children with private student loan debt.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
So you sometimes make $600/mo and, other times, you lose $600/mo?
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Can you elaborate a bit on #20, please?
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by acuozzo 3y ago
What you're claiming is in direct contradiction to main plotline of Office Space. Granted, it's a movie, but given its following, I reckon its existence is sufficient to undermine your guarantee.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> When I meet a new person, one of my first questions is what hobbies they have Same here(!), as a chronic collector of hobbies. With that being said, within the past year I've added body maintenance (i.e., diet/exercise/e
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by acuozzo 3y ago
I'm reminded of this scene from THX 1138: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YkPnwoYyE
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> Basically nothing else in life works that way. Have you never played a song so many times on repeat that, even years later, you're still sick of it? Have you never heard of someone suffering from burnout at work for several years
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Air conditioning existed prior to The Great Depression.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Ever hear of The New Deal? It was necessary because many, many US citizens hit hard by The Great Depression figured out in that time how to live without depending on regular (or any) work. Tent cities; hunting; scavenging; farming; begging;
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by acuozzo 3y ago
I grew up in Brooklyn. The #1 difference I hear is that elsewhere in NY they don't do Yuge, Yuman, Yumor, etc. It seems to be a Brooklyn-only thing.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Perhaps those in power got their hands on those sunglasses that fringe church was distributing and put them on!
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by acuozzo 3y ago
I do work in an office. My wife is a stay-at-home mom. The contract I'm working on at the moment has optional telework which is where my experience with WFH comes from. With that being said, there's no effective way to communicate
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by acuozzo 3y ago
They're not, but it's the summer right now, so they're home.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> That's fair, honestly gives you an advantage that you enjoy it. I probably wouldn't if it were any longer, TBH. 30 minutes one-way is more-or-less my limit. It's also terrible for the environment. IDK, I have mixed feeli
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> I prefer in office but I don’t see how that’s possible with a family. I don't see how WFH is possible with a family. My children (9, 6, and 4) spend nearly the whole day trying to guilt me into playing with them when I telework. &
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> Even if you get it down to just 15 min. (which is hard unless you live right next to work) that's 30 min. a day. Prob adds up to well over 100 hrs a year just commuting. I need my morning commute. It's a kind of forced medi
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> There is no such thing as clean VHS. VHS is roughly youtube's 240p quality. And yet if you IVTC a film telecined for reproduction on VHS using 3:2 pulldown you end up with the full 480 lines at a rate of 24fps. Furthermore, if you
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> Sense of security that you "know" your future after reading your horoscope? No, it's comfort in knowing that some(thing|one) else is controlling your destiny. It's not about knowing your future. It's about know
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> That's an oxymoron because stupidity is never cute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pceDfPLf2hw Note: This is not an endorsement. It is just a pedantic refutation of your claim.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Regulation wouldn't fix the underlying problem anyway. Plenty of food addicted persons get obese from eating gargantuan amounts of "normal" food. When I used to be obese, my weakness was sushi rice. Getting my binge-eating &q
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> I think it’s crazy that the default outcome in our current modern environment if you follow your natural instincts is obesity. Is it a matter of natural instinct(s)? I don't think so. Using food as a drug to cope with your life is
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> The UK keeps trying to throw their weight around only to find out they aren’t that big. Their (former) empire is a part of their cultural identity. It's going to take a few more generations to shed the expectations of what was. Th
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> It’s impossibly easy So, at minimum, it's of medium difficulty?
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> _make healthier decisions and you'll be healthier_ > aside from the microbiome and mental health connections Conjecture: If our microbiome has the ability to impact our mental health, then it most certainly is possible for an u
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Not OP, but I write in C for embedded platforms. I use Vim and I write my build scripts in Python. Of the half-dozen dependencies I'm working with at the moment, half use GNU Autotools and the other half use CMake. I know my targets an
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> I think this is the biggest argument against deplatforming: it actually makes them cool. The thing that mystifies me is that when parents get in on something it usually nukes the coolness factor, but the far right has an overwhelming s

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