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by aestra 13y ago
No. I chose to be employed. This has nothing to do with me anyway. I gave an example of a factor preventing someone from publishing code since you claimed "absolutely none exists."
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by aestra 13y ago
Read a story, man's dog ate several hundred dollars, man fished remains out of dog poop, US government printed man new hundred dollar bills.
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by aestra 13y ago
Maria Kang makes no excuses, unlike developers without github profiles. It's pretty ironic you used this picture, since she got a lot of negative press for it, and she mostly used it to promote herself and her blog. Women are already u
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by aestra 13y ago
>There is nothing whatsoever preventing a person of any sort from creating a code portfolio. When I was hired by a former employer as a term of my employment I had to sign a contract saying all the code I wrote why employed for them, the
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by aestra 13y ago
No I didn't, especially as a minority myself. I was commenting at the fact that it was strange that the post was rapidly changing.
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by aestra 13y ago
That's bizarre, when I first looked at it, I skimmed it and at the end there was a picture of who I presumed was the author who was a male with red framed glasses which is now missing.
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by aestra 13y ago
I own an email account that people could put for their email when they don't want to give an email. Something like test@domain.com. I have gotten emails that indicate people (not me) have signed up for services with it. I created it fo
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by aestra 13y ago
Should have explained. Some people find some tasks come natural to them so they think they are inherently easy for everyone. while others find other tasks come naturally to them. Humans are different. Music is more or less impossible for me
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by aestra 13y ago
Calorie wise nuts are not that expensive. A handful of almonds is 200 calories and only costs less than a dollar.
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by aestra 13y ago
Not only is buying an apartment to rent out short term on a full time basis high risk, its probably illegal. This specific post was on HN and we found he was violating his homeowners agreement as well. It's also a bad idea insurance wi
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by aestra 13y ago
Programming is easy to the programmers. Art is easy to the artist. Writing is easy to the writer. Music is easy to the musician.
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by aestra 13y ago
Because you can't broadcast in frequencies that overlap with the actual TV signals, which is what that actually pick up?
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by aestra 13y ago
>I worry that Stallman is ignoring arguments that may inform his own, or even change them. Of course he is! It is called confirmation bias. It is very very strong, especially with people like Stallman who hold strong beliefs. We are all
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by aestra 13y ago
Here's one of the big the reason. Meat requires a lot of space to grow! Europe is small, and there isn't a lot of extra space. Less meat. Enter the United States. WOAH! Lots of land! More space to raise meat! More meat! NPR mentio
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by aestra 13y ago
Yeah, all those building codes do is put a big layer of ineffective bureaucracy between the people who architect and do construction and getting work done. Yeah, all those sanitation codes do is put a big layer of ineffective bureaucracy be
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by aestra 13y ago
It would be next to impossible to track down the majority of users, and I doubt each user would like to fork over more personal info for just $10. Paid money would be very small vs amount of accounts.
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by aestra 13y ago
[citation needed]
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by aestra 13y ago
I often wonder, when there is a massive password breach if anyone outside the tech world even really knows about it, even if they are affected by the breach. I mean most people don't really understand about web security or computers ri
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by aestra 13y ago
No friggin way. I disabled that for a reason. I won't use Facebook login for anything else except Facebook. I don't want my Facebook identity being shared with a third party. Isn't good for the tin foil hats.
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by aestra 13y ago
I once left the burner on for a few hours, it was so scary when I realized it.
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by aestra 13y ago
http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2005/11/69355?cu... 1982 -- Soviet gas pipeline. Operatives working for the Central Intelligence Agency allegedly (.pdf) plant a bug in a Canadian compute
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by aestra 13y ago
Or any automobile software.
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by aestra 13y ago
We are talking about people who have read at least one book in the last year. 40% - That's exclusively print books. 58% of them own an e-book reader, that's including the iPad. The charts are a bit hard to read but.. Now, only a
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by aestra 13y ago
You don't have to sell those all at once. You can do it over a period of time.
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by aestra 13y ago
Except this isn't going to make sense unless my paycheck is in Bitcoin. I'll still have to do the currency conversion in my head because I get paid in USD.
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by aestra 13y ago
Wow! Books surely have not been replaced by Kindles! Not by a long shot. 40% of readers still use only print books. Here's some random data to back that up. https://www.surveymonkey.com/blog/en/blog/2013&
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by aestra 13y ago
Nah. I think it is because New York is our biggest city with 8 million people. There are just too many people to sort through so nobody talks. You can't make a generalization about the entire east coast based on NYC. In smaller places
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by aestra 13y ago
I have had personal success with DBT practiced in a clinical setting. A lot of the skills taught are really great life skills that are applicable to everyone not just those with psychiatric conditions. It seems DBT builds off of CBT.
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by aestra 13y ago
>but unless suicide is an area where you have more potential to cause harm than to do good, it seems like a worthwhile direction to spend resources. Um, yes, you have serious potential to cause serious harm.
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by aestra 13y ago
I can't believe some of the comments here. I admit I haven't read them all yet, but come on... Background, I've been suicidal many times in my life, having spent >3 weeks in the psychiatric hospital. Been in the mental hea

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