blindmute

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by blindmute 4y ago
>You have a duty to know what is happening on the other side of the world when you're American, because the federal politicians you elect decide policy affecting the whole globe Nope, not my duty. My duty is to elect politicians who
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by blindmute 4y ago
It is one of those things that gets "proven" by one or two politically funded studies that shows a mild effect size with tiny sample, then magnified 100x in headlines until it is "common knowledge". There is no such prov
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by blindmute 4y ago
You know people like that; they just don't say it because it's career suicide. I am opposed to the goal, in principle, of seeking a diverse team. One, it has not been proven or even shown somewhat that a diverse team is more succe
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by blindmute 4y ago
A tremendous amount of coping going on in here from presumably frail men. Somehow I doubt the same overwhelming skepticism would be observed about a trait they related more to than muscularity.
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by blindmute 4y ago
Yes, because they are (on this subreddit, at least)
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by blindmute 4y ago
Yes, it is. Nutrition is more than calories. Just as you can become obese with nutrient deficiencies, you can also become muscular with them.
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by blindmute 4y ago
Yes, I am. Because I am active in the weightlifting community, I'm aware that muscle size has absolutely no correlation with nutrition or micronutrients beyond protein intake. This is extremely obvious if you ever took steroids, becaus
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by blindmute 4y ago
It's surprising that there doesn't seem to be supply meeting the demand for flavorful and nutritious food, or any attempt to manufacture demand. Organic food is similar, but not really the same thing, because organic generally has
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by blindmute 4y ago
Are you implying that malnutrition or a nutrient deficiency results in immediate death? Death quicker than the 50 days it takes to butcher the chicken?
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by blindmute 4y ago
It doesn't save lives, it just allows more breeding. As long as the population is growing, we are in a food surplus. More expensive food would just result in people having ~2 kids instead of 3, and the excess famine would resolve itsel
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by blindmute 4y ago
Honestly, no. Your type of attitude is how bad products get made: products that cater to the absolute lowest tech illiterate user. Products that hide and simplify every useful tool to the point of annoyance and disfunction. Github's wa
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by blindmute 4y ago
This attitude dissolves when the opposing army comes to your city. It's kill or be killed, and there are many people who do not share your pacifism. How detached from reality must you be to write this comment and the ones following? Fr
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by blindmute 5y ago
Nice try, but unfortunately I'm one of those people who reads books about topics they disagree with. I've read that book already, and it's disingenuous bordering on a lie to imply that what was happening decades ago to childr
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by blindmute 5y ago
Overall, red side wants things to stay the same or go back, and blue side wants things to change. If the gap between them is widening, it's because blue side is trying to change things too rapidly. Red side seems to want to go back to
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by blindmute 5y ago
You need to learn to separate the ideas from the author. A work either has ideological merit or it does not. If he wrote the paper, it had merit, and then he murdered people, that does not change the writing at all. It has the same merit th
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by blindmute 5y ago
"Despite making up only 13% of the population, blacks make up 52% of crimes."
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by blindmute 5y ago
As an aside, I was in your precise situation, but I ended up telling my SF company the truth. I'm sure they do view me differently now, but it's worth the feeling of value congruence to tell the truth and normalize such things.
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by blindmute 5y ago
I attribute the desire to go out of their way to spend more money just to live in a cramped box among strangers to be overdeveloped social neurosis. Humans lived for millions of years in large open spaces, owned land de facto, and had ample
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by blindmute 5y ago
Yeah I'm sure the academics with a preconceived agenda against hierarchy of all forms have figured out how every successful business is doing it wrong
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by blindmute 5y ago
You have a strange bias against Linux. I've convinced many non tech people to install Ubuntu and Mint without trouble. My grandma literally uses Fedora that I installed for her. During all these installations, it just worked; there was
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by blindmute 5y ago
Why is learning physics and chemistry a better use of time than learning chess?
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by blindmute 5y ago
Then what is the point of these threads? > Product I use is bad > Use other product > No >:( These threads are pretty pointless as it is, but if we avoid mentioning the only solution that exists and how to do that, switching to
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by blindmute 5y ago
The only companies that can afford to diversity hire are already having great financial results
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by blindmute 5y ago
Merriam-Webster chose "they" as its 2019 Word of the Year based on the number of dictionary lookups, and the singular "they" was added to its online dictionary in September. In other words, the dictionary added it 3 year
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by blindmute 5y ago
"They" is not a gender neutral singular pronoun to begin with, so the entire concept is wrong
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by blindmute 5y ago
Seattle and Portland will find themselves in a Detroit situation in the coming decades. Remote work means people start to realize they don't need to step over human feces in their city to earn a wage. I don't foresee this decay be
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by blindmute 5y ago
Yes, among others. Not golang though. I've used it and it feels lower level than those and less productive
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by blindmute 5y ago
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by blindmute 5y ago
Honest question, what is golang a good choice for? It seems to inhabit the nether realm between high level productivity and low level performance, not being good at either.
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by blindmute 5y ago
It obviously is. First and second generation immigrants from Asia don't get fat, despite eating much the same Western food. It's extremely shameful for them.

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