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by bendbro 5y ago
Whatever the cause, I'm absolutely sure it has nothing to do with our central bank conjuring 120 billion new dollars per month to buy up mortgage backed securities.
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by bendbro 5y ago
Everyone who has treated me unfairly has either been an activist or a ne'er-do-well.
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by bendbro 5y ago
> I'm surprised there isn't more shame in admitting that one doesn't like activists. I'm sure most hope it will be a cancellable offense in the near future. My opposing goal is to inject skepticism into people's
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by bendbro 5y ago
> And if some future ruler decided that meat is to be banned, what would you think of activists opposing that? I'd become an emigrant, activist, or terrorist. > Or is it the idea of the stereotyped hippy/conspiracy theorist
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by bendbro 5y ago
I also don't really care for activists. Talking to an activist about absolutely anything is like having to tell a vegan you eat meat. It's not worth the bother unless you're already neck deep in that world.
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by bendbro 5y ago
Totally agree, 100% team Apple. In the immortal words of Apple PR: "what's a computer?" Like its 2021, do you really want to associate with people that call themselves the "PC m*ster r*ce"? Ummm gross, no, f*scist v
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by bendbro 5y ago
Lol, I'm going to miss these 2016-2020 outbursts.
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by bendbro 5y ago
I suspect the OOP industrial complex like "Big Pharma".
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by bendbro 5y ago
I haven't seen this syntax before and I just knew it would be c++.
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by bendbro 5y ago
You're still cool and hip. jjcon is the commenter I responded to
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by bendbro 5y ago
They hated jjcon because he told the truth.
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by bendbro 5y ago
Hi guys, Chief Accessibility Editor at Vice News here... feel like I need to call out why this title is a tad problematic. Nothing against the journalist that created it (we're all in this together) but it's important to stand up
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by bendbro 5y ago
tl;dr FILL YOUR EMPTY FUNGIBLE DEVELOPER SEATS WITH OUR FRESHLY TRAINED DEVELOPER CATTLE FROM SCHOOL OF PROGRAMMERS #36. CERTIFIED IN AGILE BEST PRACTICES AND ADVANCED JAVA BEANS. 2 YEAR SERVICE LIFE. PRODUCT OF DJIBOUTI.
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by bendbro 5y ago
It did: "Blood samples were collected from N=10,952 consenting, symptomatic individuals." From https://www.poverty-action.org/sites/default/files/publicati... , pg 2, Abstract section, para 2
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by bendbro 5y ago
Does the paper reveal the seroprevalence by control village and intervention village? I just scanned it and can find no such information. EDIT: Table A14 is the closest I can find but it is only coefficients, not the underlying counts.
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by bendbro 5y ago
> It took the Air Force Special Weapons Center three years and $1.5 million (roughly $15 million in 2021) to build this This price seems very low compared to other government projects.
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by bendbro 5y ago
> It is beyond me how people intelligent enough to hang around HN can pretend to have no understanding of how systems work I think this is my largest hatred. People's first action after something bad happens is not to discover why i
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by bendbro 5y ago
Insightful, thanks. Great moderating!
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by bendbro 5y ago
I'm sure there are contingencies that can make contingent advice worse than universal advice.
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by bendbro 5y ago
Ah, your original comment said "boonies" which denotes rural areas far outside of a city.
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by bendbro 5y ago
When you live in the boonies, utilities are provided for by the local municipality. Water is usually well water. Waste goes to a septic tank. There is no additional infrastructure cost placed on cities. You are just plain wrong.
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by bendbro 5y ago
There is no extra infrastructure cost.
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by bendbro 5y ago
> So what if we found a way to make a rule that using unrealized gains as collateral for a loan was, for tax purposes, the same as realizing the gains? (You might need to tweak the rule for fairness but the basic point remains.) Lenders
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by bendbro 5y ago
They don't "avoid selling," at least in the way you and others are implying. They only delay selling. At some point the loan must be paid back, and at that point they will have to sell something or take income, which incurs e
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by bendbro 5y ago
That has zero relevance here
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by bendbro 5y ago
You can laugh either way!
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by bendbro 5y ago
Diversity of culture between workplaces is collateral damage of diversity and inclusion efforts. All cultures are not compatible. Not everyone will not be comfortable in a particular culture. Not everyone will not be wanted in a particular
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by bendbro 5y ago
I'm fine with both models existing. I'm happy the "old" model is seemingly gaining popularity. It seemed like every organization I have been a part of has been going the "woke" route, and it worried me.
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by bendbro 5y ago
Yeah, its pretty repugnant. If I take a moment to unpack the dissonance here, it reminds me if a quote from a man smarter than I, Trevor Noah: "In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony poke at another's expense. But
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by bendbro 5y ago
Yes, I totally agree that the argument should be about "... what speech should be considered 'purely disagreeable' (which is a purely subjective term) and what consequences are valid". As I said in my very first comment,

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