drewrv

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by drewrv 10y ago
> My hope is that Trump Twitter fatigue sets in very early. I've been hoping that for a year now :(
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by drewrv 10y ago
The US has a long and nasty history of racism. We need to collect racial data in order to see if we're fixing it or not. To refuse on principal to collect race data in education or criminal justice would obscure real problems and be ak
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by drewrv 10y ago
I doubt the reason is that those traits make a good leader. More likely its's because we're all 96% chimpanzee.
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by drewrv 10y ago
Tilt brush and google earth are also up there. The best experiences don't always make for the best youtube videos.
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by drewrv 10y ago
Depends how often you're underworked.
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by drewrv 10y ago
Check out the mobile Rayman game if you liked this one. Same concept, same level of polish. I haven't played all of Mario yet but Rayman has a surprising amount of depth in the later levels, as they slowly add concepts and mechanics wh
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by drewrv 10y ago
> the Hitler comparisons grow old very quickly I agree in general. But when Auschwitz survivors make the Hitler comparison up we should listen. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-the-age-of-trump-...
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by drewrv 10y ago
The thing is, the government is not a business. Even if the motives of the Exon CEO were pure, why should I think he'd make a good diplomat. I wouldn't want an astronaut performing surgery.
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by drewrv 10y ago
> they're used to more diversity than will ever be found in SV/Tech or stereotypical business in general He literally started his career by refusing to rent to black people. Richard Nixon's justice department went after hi
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by drewrv 10y ago
It's hard to pin Musk down as a libertarian when his companies rely on fat government subsidies and contracts. There probably isn't a real label for someone like him other than pragmatist or opportunist.
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by drewrv 10y ago
This is a nice symbolic gesture I suppose, but there already is a muslim registry, and a prominent member of team trump sits on its board.
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by drewrv 10y ago
Metafilter is still around and has a great community. http://www.metafilter.com/
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by drewrv 10y ago
You don't "choose" to give someone your wallet because you weighed the options and decided against getting shot. You were robbed. Similarly, poverty in the US is brutal. To choose between spending time with your newborn durin
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by drewrv 10y ago
At this point, if a library I wanted to use didn't support 3.X, I would take that as a giant red flag not to use said library.
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by drewrv 10y ago
People know they're statistically safe when they go to a scary movie or a haunted house too. Fear is a primal emotion, not weighed to meaningful statistics. Airline passengers are trapped in a cramped, shaking metal tube 30,000 feet in
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by drewrv 10y ago
Following absurd rules to the letter is a form of protest. That's what I understand "hold him to it" means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M
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by drewrv 10y ago
What's considered political and what's considered non-political? Can we discuss ethics? Is saying "racism is bad" political? What about facts? "Torture is ineffective" or "carbon emissions harm the planet&
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by drewrv 10y ago
Is it really that difficult to address people how they wish to be addressed? If someone said to you, "Please call me Matt" do you respond with "But your birth certificate says Matthew! How am I supposed to handle this cogniti
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by drewrv 10y ago
Also a great phishing scheme! Seriously though I used a site like this to find out my IPD for playing VR and it came out slightly different each time, though always in the same ballpark.
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by drewrv 10y ago
Not quite what you're looking for, but the vive is actually quite modular and the headstrap can be replaced/hacked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uDf6ayUQtk
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by drewrv 10y ago
I agree that hackers and techies should be more civic minded, it's really a disgrace how ill informed we are on something so important. Unfortunately the site guidlines pretty explicitly declare politics off topic. https://n
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by drewrv 10y ago
I think the recent election demonstrated that money doesn't matter that much. Voters actually have power. That's the silver lining to the depressing reality that voters don't care if industry writes regulations, the executive
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by drewrv 10y ago
Some people spend a few years in some enterprise java job going nowhere and attend a bootcamp to learn iOS development, github, data science, etc. In other words it's a career change within the industry. Not everyone likes to learn alo
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by drewrv 10y ago
I'm gonna put on my tin foil hat and say: maybe companies interview like this in order to filter out the people who are too old for this kinda crap.
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by drewrv 10y ago
It's not that most of these questions are assumed, or that they're forbidden to talk about, it's that they're so obvious it's not even interesting to discuss. > Why is diversity good? If I need heart surgery, I w
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by drewrv 10y ago
I've come to hate the term elite. The fact that I enjoy imported goods and benefit from immigrant labor does not make me some sort of snob or powerful tycoon laughing at the devastation in the rust belt. It makes me a dude who eats at
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by drewrv 10y ago
If one truly believed "all lives matter" then one would not object to the statement "black lives matter".
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by drewrv 10y ago
What annoys me is how people treat ideology as the only type of bias. People will accuse a news source of being biased in favor of the left or right and that's it. The reality is that ideology is not even the most interesting or influe
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by drewrv 10y ago
There's a lot of things that economists agree on, the gold standard being a prime example. http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/gold-standard Planet Money has done a couple episodes where they get economists from a b
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by drewrv 10y ago
So you think, by definition, no democracy could ever elect an extremist?

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