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by ci5er 9y ago
The article's thesis may or may not be correct, but the proponents of the argument do themselves no favors by conflating programmers with data-entry clerks. EDIT: As far as I know - people like Grace Hopper never got out (also US vs UK
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by ci5er 9y ago
No - not trolling. Probably just naive. I've been near the edge of war-zones. Once or twice, in them. But apparently I've missed out on the urban American experience.
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by ci5er 9y ago
> They collected a fine from you and you have no money to buy yourself life saving medicine and you die. They killed you by taking away you last money at the moment your life depended on it. I am probably more aware of this than most. In
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by ci5er 9y ago
1) Where did you live in the US? I'm in a medium-ish sized metroplex (whatever that means) of about a million people, and I never hear live fire. 2) Why would you worry about a (remote) gun-shot that you heard? By the time you hear it,
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by ci5er 9y ago
The NRA is responsible for militarization of domestic police?
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by ci5er 9y ago
> That's not what happens in most countries ... with American ... Fair point. In the process of resisting, USians are a risk of shooting back. But I can't say whether I agree or disagree with your election of the qualifier &quo
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by ci5er 9y ago
> I don't think resisting arrest qualifies This pull quote isn't related to your main point, but to digress a bit on it... The state, having a presumed monopoly on the legitimate use of pre-emptive force, reacts this way to app
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by ci5er 9y ago
I find this analysis strangely comforting: it makes me even less afraid of walking around strange neighborhoods or going into new places.
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by ci5er 9y ago
> The better analogy in this case would be to an AmazonBasics USB cable What's the story here? I purchased on (that failed quickly) and then another - which also failed - and gave up on those. I've actually never found a USB ca
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by ci5er 9y ago
Learn to read? EDIT: I try to not degrinitgrate the illiterate, but as the first commenter on this thread (you), I've gotta go "gosh!" Please tell me how I am wrong. (It's possible that I am both wrong and having a bad d
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by ci5er 9y ago
LISP was created a long time ago. Assembly was the weapon of choice. Thinking Machines, Symbolics and Macsyma might already say: We did that. But, uh, no.
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by ci5er 9y ago
How else would they do it?
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by ci5er 9y ago
Compared to a rock on the moon?
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by ci5er 9y ago
> If you do it at a large enough scale it will be impossible to collect it all and it will completely destroy the North Korean military's morale. Again - do we have any evidence that this might be true? From what I understand, the N
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by ci5er 9y ago
> So much more effective than just propaganda or bombs. Do we have any evidence that this is true? (Of course, we'd have to agree on what our objectives are) > Although you could drop small video players with some relevant materi
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by ci5er 9y ago
Yeah. Sorry. I'm not going to correct it, so that your comment standing here continues making sense. (I don't know what is wrong with me... I found myself typing 're-novate' the other day... At least that makes more sens
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by ci5er 9y ago
While I would not argue that a "good upbringing" (hence ability to do all the tribal signaling) is a major contributor to success, I would contend that claiming that most founders have these advantages is over-reaching. (Esp. gi
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by ci5er 9y ago
I read OP as the inverse of how you read it (I think). But, regardless, good! Before coffee (AM, where I am), I like to keep all my noun-verb-object clusters straight. Happy Sunday!
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by ci5er 9y ago
> user churn because of bad onboarding I have a stupid question regarding vocabulary, because I've seen this 'inherent' definition of 'churn' used around here more recently. To me, when I do co-hort analyses, fai
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by ci5er 9y ago
Q: Are granting shares not a securities violaion in some states (like Missouri Blue Sky?) I'm old, so I don't need most of this, but in a world where MS Office (which is an unfairly large amount of code!) costs ~$5/month, isn
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by ci5er 9y ago
? Is that not the same side?
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by ci5er 9y ago
The first I heard of it was a translation of a 13th Century Sufi tale. So,... older than Baby Huey.
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by ci5er 9y ago
Thanks!
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by ci5er 9y ago
It's a boundary condition. I expressed myself badly. EDIT: If you are a physicalist. Some people are not. EDIT2: "The Truth" has nothing to do with whether one is a physicalist or not, but the interpretation of some various s
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by ci5er 9y ago
Are you referring to nothingness? I think that most of us can remember being 'nothing' (this might be wrong), and it baffles me why people are afraid to die, which is simply returning to 'nothing'.
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by ci5er 9y ago
I can't disagree. But in the absence of Ben Franklin, I still need to get out of the house to go find a place with "buzz" to work...
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by ci5er 9y ago
Or ... maybe not lonely. But want to feel a lively "buzz" that isn't from music or putting on movies in the background. Maybe weird. But I don't like sitting in my quiet apartment alone working. (I'm not particularl
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by ci5er 9y ago
I get up at 5am every day to go to Starbucks at 6am every day. The "stillness buzz" of my apartment bugs me. I go to Starbucks and ignore everyone - but I still feel part of the mix. I could, you know, go to the office, but everon
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by ci5er 9y ago
This comment may be appreciated or not, but, I find (for myself) that taking Thanksgiving dinners and birthday cakes and pies and (often disasterous) dinners to "old folks homes" to be good for me. I get to meet some people outsid
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by ci5er 9y ago
I'd hate to call them "as impoverished as anywhere", but there are some pretty rough spots in the US to be sure.

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