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by cgag 9y ago
I notice that domestic production seems to be implicitly valued at zero which seems likely to be wrong to me.
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by cgag 9y ago
Yeah, one way I like to think about is if you could trade your current life for being a billionaire 100, 200, etc years ago, would you?
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by cgag 9y ago
I'm fairly certain I have gerd and bad sleep and will have to try these things, thanks.
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by cgag 9y ago
Either you're not using vim right or I don't know how to copy and paste correctly. and
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by cgag 9y ago
Things may have changed but when I did it I think ~2 years ago the projects and in person bit were much harder than the initial quiz, I'd expect the drop off to be higher. Edit: I admit didn't pass the in person part and I have so
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by cgag 9y ago
For shy lazy people there's not much I'd recommend more strongly than lifting anyway.
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by cgag 9y ago
It's funny in the fact that it's so obviously absurd but the people doing it don't see it. It's both funny and scary depending on how much I think about it.
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by cgag 9y ago
Lmao at people acting like people are insane for feeling right wing people are alienated and there being not one but two comments in this thread saying being a republican makes you a racist.
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by cgag 9y ago
The people I'm honest with about my politics are people I've sort of slowly sussed out as cool, we're all pretty afraid to state many of our actual opinions because we're not rich. I don't care very much but there
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by cgag 9y ago
Was it a hoax though? https://youtu.be/QWhUvm8SunY
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by cgag 9y ago
Like what? Cigarettes may have lots of side effects but nicotine seems very mild in terms of side effects. Like caffeine level. Even the addictiveness seems to be heavily influenced by the other ingredients in tobacco/cigarettes.
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by cgag 9y ago
Feels good, relieves stress, is social, is an excuse to step outside, and also with the social aspect there's a selection effect for a certain type of person. Also someone mentioned the antipsychotic treatment, irrelevant to most but p
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by cgag 9y ago
Part of my leaving the bay is being unable to handle the idea of having to ride Bart again.
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by cgag 9y ago
ricky explains legacy software https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6rGMNtXHgs
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by cgag 9y ago
yeah but doing gifs is brutal
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by cgag 9y ago
emojis
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by cgag 9y ago
It's commonplace for long form stuff, which I never read because of it. Title got me, but the answer to "How does the flu actually kill people" isn't going to start with "one sunday in november". I was interes
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by cgag 9y ago
I already have a static blog and like 8 non static apps on my server. If I were to add comments I'd rather host a comment server than convert my blog to something other than static files.
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by cgag 9y ago
I still used it pretty regularly until today. I only had like 2 people I talked to on it, but I like that we were all on it all the time and I was on it when I was otherwise unavailable online to everyone but those couple close friends.
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by cgag 9y ago
I like go for most things more than all of those, though F# would be promising if I felt better about .net stuff and Linux.
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by cgag 9y ago
If it's not actually re-used then it's just making me jump around to see what's actually happening rather than reading straight through the code.
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by cgag 9y ago
sometimes read it all and intend to go back and do exercises, sometimes read it all and actually do them on the way. Probably not all of them.
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by cgag 9y ago
That doing all of this stuff via rpcs vs function calls is crazy I believe.
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by cgag 9y ago
Aren't there a ton of those multinational corporations making products and software? Some of those companies have produced far more than some nations. What of it?
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by cgag 9y ago
Not going to get anywhere assuming you're in the bottom 80% and not trying.
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by cgag 9y ago
To convince me otherwise? Seemed grand to me.
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by cgag 9y ago
I get the occasional thank you email for a site I run and it always makes my day and I always try to make that clear. I've only sent two such emails and got a nice response on one and like a single word "thanks" or something
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by cgag 9y ago
it doesn't seem that arrogant to me to imagine yourself being able to turn a profit at a tech company bringing in 2+ billion dollars a year
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by cgag 9y ago
I'd say it's pretty high on everyone's list and we have almost no good places to live in the US, so only top talent and homeless people can live in them.
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by cgag 9y ago
Everyone seems to say this and also to write really slow websites.

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