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by aphextron 5y ago
>Some can manage it, but for some it gets to be too much.. simple things, such simple things... most can do it, their whole lives, they just do it, why can't we? Because there's more to life than personal happiness. Struggle is
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>"What they essentially managed was collective emotions of the masses." i.e. economics
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Why not? It's fascinating the philosophical hoops we jump through to justify what is a disgusting, barbaric act however you actually do it. Anyone who supports the death penalty should be required by law to watch it carried out.
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by aphextron 5y ago
This is why all modern navy ships still carry sextants and train extensively in celestial navigation. It's pretty much a forgone conclusion that GPS will become immediately useless in any large scale nation state war of the future.
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by aphextron 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46mO7jx3JEw Some things never change
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by aphextron 5y ago
California is just at saturation level. There's just too many people for the small strip of coastal land that is inhabitable. All I could think while living there for 5 years was how damn cool it must have been in the 60's/70
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by aphextron 5y ago
>But it is a reason to leave the company because you can easily get 10% or more switching jobs. Depends on the company. Mine is 100% remote since COVID, has generous benefits, a strict 9-5 M-F culture, and plenty of interesting work to d
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by aphextron 5y ago
There's nothing wrong with ads. But the only adtech we need is <img src="ad.jpg" />. Anything else is indefensibly unethical and anti-user.
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by aphextron 5y ago
My guess is that the other 59.8% simply don't know what it is
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by aphextron 5y ago
>"Why is it that we have been able to eliminate things like Polio and Smallpox, yet there's doubt about COVID?" COVID is incredibly more contagious, but also far less deadly than those. The real sinister thing about this v
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by aphextron 5y ago
There's a fine line between bravery and stupidity. Stupidity was going about your normal life, and getting mad about the new reality we were faced with when this whole thing started. The balance of risking your life for the sake of hav
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by aphextron 5y ago
>People are losing faith in the scientists because of their ever changing statements. I'd say this perfectly illustrates the complete lack of understanding of how science works among the public. There is never one specific stance th
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by aphextron 5y ago
Like it or not this is now an endemic threat. Living a normal life was absolutely reckless in the beginning because we didn't have the vaccines, and it was a novel virus with totally unknown characteristics. But with it, your risk of d
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by aphextron 5y ago
If I need to wear a mask, I don't need to be in an office. This is horrifying.
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It's a canary in the coalmine for the entire US economy. We're going full Zimbabwe at this rate.
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by aphextron 5y ago
>"Meanwhile we still don't have a minimum wage that is anything like livable. " This is because the Fed, as well as the entire US legislature, knows deep down that wages are the final "finger in the dyke" of the
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by aphextron 5y ago
It's also generally useless. If you're building an open source general purpose tool, or something else meant to be reusable and consumed by the general public then sure. But the vast majority of software we write has a very defini
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by aphextron 5y ago
I'm convinced he will live forever. My mental health depends on it.
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by aphextron 5y ago
>You absolutely can be told you consented, and trust that person's word, and realize later that no, actually you had not. It's just convenient for the abuser for you to believe you had. There has to be a line drawn somewhere wh
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by aphextron 5y ago
>"Corollary: With the interest rates so low, I don’t understand how wages are so low that collecting unemployment is more attractive than working." Greed, really. Corporations are unwilling to admit the new reality of the labor
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by aphextron 5y ago
>Can confirm that mechanical wristwatches have experienced the same. Yep. I'd been wanting to get a used Submariner for years now. Looked up prices the other day and they are literally double this time last year.
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Oh boy
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by aphextron 5y ago
>Was the original Tamagotchi only marketed towards girls? Pretty much. Girls had Tamagotchi and boys had Digimon.
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by aphextron 5y ago
People are going to have to learn the hard way about bid/ask spreads.
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by aphextron 5y ago
>People who are not ready to invest now should be able to save their earnings without having to worry about their savings losing value. You can. It's called a CD. They currently return about 0.8%, which is the max you're ever g
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by aphextron 5y ago
>But then you need to research and understand the companies you're investing in. If you're busy with your daytime job, you might not have as much time for this research. Then just invest in a Vanguard ETF. There's no such
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by aphextron 5y ago
>"Yes, it's like that, but with the completely unregulated trading environment reminiscent of the Roaring 20s." If you think the modern day SEC is doing anything about the current levels of market manipulation and wild spe
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by aphextron 5y ago
You can also do this with the stock market by investing in revenue generating companies that are innovative and creating value. This is literally no different than investing in gold.
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by aphextron 5y ago
What is the state of the world with wasm at this point? It seems like it's been this huge tease for 10 years now, promising that we'll be able to build web apps in any language. But as far as I'm aware, garbage collection and
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by aphextron 5y ago
I'm not sure yaml and ruby have anything to do with it. This is a common risk with all centralized package management systems. It's ultimately a tradeoff of trusting a third party for the speed and simplicity. The alternative is b

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