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by billjings 4y ago
I worked at FB, too, and I can confirm you speak the truth. This process is problematic, though. The "special case" is the standard process at FB: to make external contributors second class citizens. They have their reasons, but d
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by billjings 4y ago
> A few years later, it was one of the three major influences we used when making the original Fallout Really burying the lede here! :) I loved that game, and I'm not completely surprised to hear that A Canticle For Leibowitz had th
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by billjings 4y ago
Thanks! I'm not completely sold on the lithium hypothesis, either. But I find their arguments for some kind of environmental contaminant compelling, especially for the ways in which they refute some of the other major hypotheses for th
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by billjings 4y ago
The only reason the potato diet is interesting to me (and presumably the reason it's interesting to the https://slimemoldtimemold.com/ folks) is the likely relationship to their environmental contaminant hypothesis for
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by billjings 4y ago
This article explains the terrible experiences I've had with my Experian credit report. I recently acquired a loan, and in the process found multiple fraudulent hard credit checks against my frozen (?) account. Now I know why. My only
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by billjings 4y ago
Sure, but also: who cares? If you think it's worth lying about having 10 years, then why bother lying about having 10 years? In practice, milestones are more for sharing one's experience than for attaining an award. And if you sli
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by billjings 4y ago
Durable "streaks" are built on worthwhile days. Focus on the days, and the streak will take care of itself. Focus on the streak, and one day you might realize that it hasn't been worth keeping for a long, long time.
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by billjings 4y ago
That's kind of the work of life, isn't it? So it's a long story. It probably started with reading _Delivered From Distraction_ years ago. I tried a bunch of stuff in that book. Nothing was a silver bullet (because there is no
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by billjings 4y ago
My personal view is that this worldview, the one that that views my inability to "function" in school, work, etc. as attributable to a clinical disorder treatable by medication, was incorrect. ADHD is defined as a disorder of exec
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by billjings 4y ago
I did the same thing as you. I wasn't on Concerta for as long; I started on Ritalin in 3rd grade, and switched to Concerta my senior year of high school. I dropped all meds in college. I actually tried TWICE to drop my meds. Each time
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by billjings 4y ago
Per the article, companies like Tyson upstream in the supply chain are taking record profits. So high wholesale prices due to concentration of suppliers is indeed a major part of the equation.
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by billjings 4y ago
IIRC from his recent interview with Rick Beato, Ted Gioia listens to something like 1000 albums of new music a year. His point is the same as yours: it is impossible to find this music without putting in a lot of effort. This was not the ca
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by billjings 4y ago
> I didn’t misread it, I read it correctly. Others put meaning into the slave debate, at the time this wasn’t as big as we make it today - it was propaganda and the rewriting of history that made it larger. The first two paragraphs of So
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by billjings 4y ago
Look, all I can speak to is the quality of your engagement with me here. You misread a primary source which plainly states that slave labor was the precipitating issue in the conflict over state's rights which blossomed into open rebel
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by billjings 4y ago
Lettergram, the "constitutional obligations" the first paragraph takes issue with are stipulated in the second paragraph: The obligation to return escaped slaves to their owners. You ought to be ashamed of yourself for your conduc
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by billjings 4y ago
It took me about five minutes to find South Carolina's declaration of secession. And the first thing that document mentions is slavery: "In the present case, that fact is established with certainty. We assert that fourteen of the
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by billjings 5y ago
> Eventually, something really bad will happen. The US will get spanked in a war, a regional natural disaster will trigger a famine, etc. At that point, maybe you’ll see some change. But change is slow - the US House passed anti-lynching
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by billjings 5y ago
Peer comments are correct, but also: Doom is FAST. Doom 2016 is known for feeling pretty fast and chaotic compared to other modern FPSes. Here's some gameplay footage: https://youtu.be/Fy0AoehoYb4?t=81 Compare that to
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by billjings 5y ago
> This thread is really interesting to read because if the same thread had been made a couple of years ago, before Apple released its M1 laptops, it would have been filled with Apple fans who would be saying that the Intel MBPs were the
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by billjings 5y ago
Yep. Same as a regular Ritalin or Adderall habit: when you stop taking them, you have a withdrawal effect. That convinces many that the drugs work. ("Look at what a mess I am without it!") The withdrawal from a serious coke addict
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by billjings 5y ago
USDC only has value because it's pegged to a non crypto asset. Is there a crypto asset with its own clear valuation? And Eth - it is easy to say that it should have value. But what value should it have? What's my investment model
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by billjings 5y ago
> This is the core tenet that these skeptics get lost with - the premise that there is no real central value to blockchain technology. It is a lost and shallow view made by people who have chosen not to engage or understand what they esp
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by billjings 5y ago
If not all the employees are represented by the union, the employers will refuse to negotiate with the union, give more favorable terms to the employees who do not join the union, and refuse to hire employees who choose to choin the union.
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by billjings 5y ago
"In other posts he mentions the record breaking event would have taken place even without climate change, but that climate change contributed a few degrees to the peak temperatures." The reason that we refer to this phenomenon as
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by billjings 5y ago
If you are working in a shop that considers EventBus a best practice, my advice to you is to level up your peers if you can, or investigate and advocate for new and better architectural tools like coroutines if you cannot. I expect that you
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by billjings 5y ago
1. I'm happy to see that EventBus has made this change. Let's hope the long overdue AndroidX migration (we're three years into AndroidX, folks) follows close on its heels. 2. Event buses are really, really bad. (At least, thi
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by billjings 5y ago
Well, there's this whole idea of a good bad movie. Movies like this one: https://youtu.be/aFgQ34b96_U It's a really, really bad movie. But the director's choices are captivating in how bizarre and wrongheaded
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by billjings 5y ago
Then you disagree with the folks advancing these policies! :) Their perspective is that Amazon, Kroger, Wal-Mart, and a whole host of other businesses (including things as seemingly boring as cheerleading supply companies) are engaging in a
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by billjings 5y ago
"What makes Amazon different in this regard? Is Amazon doing it differently?" Nothing, and they aren't. Except they're maybe the biggest. The intellectual foundation of this new movement isn't specifically anti big
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by billjings 5y ago
It's worse than even that. The cartel arrangement is as described, but it's increasingly not even a great deal for the radiologists. The business of radiology is increasingly centralized into teleradiography farms. That means that

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