castlecrasher2

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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
I imagine most would agree that the phrase "live through their kids" has a negative connotation and "caring about someone" does not.
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
Kate Bush and Oingo Boingo
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
>but it's frustrating how almost every build requires a few critical pieces that we don't have This is to add exclusive value to each set. Look at bricklink.com and find an expensive set, and you'll always find one or two
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
>why didn’t they tell us it was this simple? Say what you want about the ills that come with it, but religion has been telling us this since the dawn of time.
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
I imagine that AI like this will certainly speed up development, but I suspect you will almost always need someone in the middle putting the pieces together.
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
>I think the idea that work should always be engaging and meaningful is a harmful fallacy that is setting young people up for failure. I agree. I used to think exactly this, until I eventually realized that work should be engaging becaus
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
"Overweight" is not a terribly high bar to reach. The CDC defines it as "BMI is 25.0 to <30", which for an individual like myself at 6'1" is just 179 lbs, a weight at which I was rail thin and low-muscle mas
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
Mine was their video of how they decided to spend months building their own headview algorithm instead of using the industry standard. The best part was that their end result is comparable and wasted months of effort getting it.
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
Cruel as it may sound, you could try establishing dominance. We have a male cat who would meow EVERY MORNING sometime between 2 and 4 am. We tried many kinds of discipline, but it didn't stop until one morning I chased him into hiding
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
>If performance is subjective (# of tickets, "impact", cut of your jib, etc) and at times applied arbitrarily by a manager, would applying such a flawed assessment to the detriment of someone's career, livelihood, and pers
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
It's a terrible title for sure, I imagine most would interpret it the same way you and I initially did.
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
It's both the hospital and insurance provider's fault. In my opinion it's absurd that non-emergency care costs can be adjusted after the fact. Imagine if a car repair shop could quote you $500 for a fix, then after the repair
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
Is there an option in Word to change the default paste? I think that's what many of these opinions boil down to, and while I imagine there's hundreds of opinions on even the smallest thing I suspect many of these large pain points
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
>Google apologized for his comments and said he was being reassigned to a role on the company's STEM team. He wasn't fired, just reassigned.
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
I disagree, if only because those who take heed to your advice will find themselves worse off than if they treat themselves as the master of their own success. Clearly work alone isn't the only reason and you need to be smart about it,
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
WFH absolutely screws over younger people joining an industry. There's nothing like face-to-face learning, and I don't envy anyone who's had to start their career recently.
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
>It’s about time that as society we open up about mental health and how to deal with our issues, instead of blaming the people with the issues and calling them weak or snowflakes I imagine the parent poster you're responding to woul
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
Some people don't have their own drive and rely entirely on expectations set by leaders. Specifically, they will say they're working on something and might even get it done but they could have gotten it done faster and possibly be
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
>but as much of a monopoly/monopsony as Walmart is, it's far less than what Amazon is I don't believe this to be the case. How is Amazon a monopoly, given the large number of online retailers that continue to be successful
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
Agreed, and I'm stunned this is even in question.
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
>COVID-19:5 new human truths that experiences need to address >How organizations should respond to the never normal This reads like those AI-generated documents.
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
No, it would have its own bullshit to deal with, we just haven't seen it yet.
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
I've put a lot of thought into it and have come to the conclusion that I and I'd guess many others would prefer a system that can be adjusted as needed by people and the legal system. For context, I don't have a very high opi
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
>How do you see a system that automatically distributes royalties to authors without having to go through Disney as being worse for the authors or better for Disney? Would that such a system worked exactly as intended on paper, I've
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
>The problem that's trying to get solved is a major corporation using its power to unilaterally perform an adverse action against an individual that may or may not be legal. I may be wrong here but if power is the problem and it bec
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
>If the whole series of payments and services are on the blockchain, you could build a system that is reasonably secured against these types of situations. I'm not intending to be snarky here, but statements like these remind me of
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
>I was charging $850/mo for a detached 3BR/2BA house in 2010. Out of curiosity, what was the comparable rent in 2005/before the crash in 2008?
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
If by "it does make a massive difference" you mean it implicates the university as an organization rather than these individuals then you're right.
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
To be frank, it doesn't matter how much sense it makes in theory when in practice it has obvious downsides.
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by castlecrasher2 5y ago
You're advocating taking money from those who don't participate in these health-risking activities to subsidize those who do, and you're chastising the parent post for moralizing? How absurd.

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