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by babygoat 11y ago
> First it was a ban on plastic bags. Then came the workplace prohibition on e-cigarettes. And now they're adding bus and bike lanes? God, what a repressive shithole.
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by babygoat 11y ago
> Also, the CDC has better epidemics to worry about than the obesity one. They can worry about more than one thing. > I frankly don't care if people want to be fat. No one cares that you don't care.
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by babygoat 11y ago
> These people should be ridiculed, like Jenny McCarthy is, since there's no reputable scientific or epidemiological basis for their beliefs. You think that is why Jenny McCarthy is ridiculed?
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by babygoat 11y ago
What pc bullshit?
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by babygoat 11y ago
> ...more broad and nuanced perspective on the value we provide ... This sounds like "leveraging synergies". If it was possible to explain any tangible benefit to such an environment, the conversation would move forward. Reall
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by babygoat 11y ago
Of course, but engineers are expensive. When is it ever in the employer's interest to get less output from them? Meet with them in person, do code reviews and such as often as you'd like, but once you've defined a problem f
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by babygoat 11y ago
It's delicious how many who can't or won't understand the concept of being offended are now worrying aloud about being shamed.
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by babygoat 11y ago
It sounds like you're saying that if you let engineers concentrate at work, they'll start working on the wrong projects.
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by babygoat 11y ago
> The danger is that you seem to be choosing to not recognize the growing trend towards what are seen as appropriate responses to being offended: shaming, ostracizing, and the forced silence of the "offender". So wait, do you h
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by babygoat 11y ago
> saying "but the first doesn't apply" is both willfully obtuse and missing the point. It's almost always a response to a person who seems to think that freedom of speech means they shouldn't have to face any con
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by babygoat 11y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that since you didn't understand the reasons some of your ideas have been rejected, that it's fine to reject other people's ideas for any reason you like?
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by babygoat 11y ago
What are you suggesting?
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by babygoat 11y ago
Amazon has a competent legal department.
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by babygoat 11y ago
Do you really believe that's how higher education works?
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by babygoat 11y ago
> Imagine if the door in Ubik were a refrigerator door that refused to open? What then? What a silly way to make this real to people. What if, indeed.
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by babygoat 11y ago
Do you think you could gain knowledge without using slurs and ad hominems? The only reason to do that is to provoke and hurt feelings.
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by babygoat 11y ago
> Reddit was born on the spirit of freedom of speech Was it though? "back when I was running things, if there was anything racist, sexist, or homophobic I'd ban it right away. I don't think there's a place for such th
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by babygoat 11y ago
Reddit does not owe you free speech. You can say whatever you want, and they can choose not to broadcast it to millions of people.
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by babygoat 11y ago
What is the point of interacting with other people if you don't feel anything?
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by babygoat 11y ago
"Hone your craft"
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by babygoat 11y ago
Some are in it to kill the competitors, and for some others, "beautiful internal mathematical consistency" is its own reward. But surely a certain essay about Viaweb is not obscure?
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by babygoat 11y ago
Because many people think of it and define it in terms of how it differs from the paradigm that they're familiar with, and because people often incorporate functional programming concepts into imperative program designs.
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by babygoat 11y ago
Nor does the linked article explicitly talk about so-called "mostly functional" programming, but lostcolony's comment is on point either way. Is there some context around your linked meme that implies mutable state or pointin
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by babygoat 11y ago
-Forward landline to cell -Hire a receptionist -Use voicemail -Ignore the call I think voicemail would work for most situations.
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by babygoat 11y ago
What service do you provide for the moron betting the table minimum that entitles you to play his/her hand?
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by babygoat 12y ago
Sounds good!
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by babygoat 12y ago
Incredible.
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by babygoat 12y ago
It's shocking that a place like Whole Foods is too bourgeois for a person who eats candy bars before they get to the checkout.
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by babygoat 12y ago
Are you talking about memorizing what a linked list is, or someone else's code? I don't understand what is imaginary about such a ubiquitous construct.
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by babygoat 12y ago
Who doesn't?

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