ejb999

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by ejb999 5y ago
>>We can't go around claiming BTC is green Has anyone, anywhere, actually convinced someone that BTC is green?
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by ejb999 5y ago
bigoted much?
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>Clearly tax laws should focus on frontage, That really doesn't make any sense at all imo; if you have a flag lot, i.e. a small amount of frontage with a 100 acres behind it accessed by the 200'ft of road frontage, shouldn&
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>My money's on a hodge podge that doesn't make anyone happy. My guess is on whichever makes them the most money; seems a pretty safe bet to me.
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by ejb999 5y ago
because invention of agriculture or human-made shelter and 'just like' reading tweets online....
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by ejb999 5y ago
If people hate each other enough, they feel a need to prove the other one wrong - so they do that on twitter and facebook, i.e. some 'red' person posts something, 20 blue people attach them back, a 'blue' person posts so
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>The problem is that ultimately the business' incentives aren't aligned with their users' Twitter and facebook's business model is to amplify hate between groups of people with varying viewpoints and they got rich
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by ejb999 5y ago
exactly - somehow we managed to survive a long time without needing to know 'instantly' that 'something' is happening 'someplace'. Most of the instant reports are just plain lies anyway - watch any of big news
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>The algorithms are optimised to crank up the engagement metrics. In other words, making sure you see a bunch of people that you agree with politically, and also throw in a handful of extremists on the other side (whichever 'oth
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by ejb999 5y ago
twitter's time and place has passed. Was clever and even a bit useful for a while, and like facebook, has been taken over by fake accounts, bots, scammer, shameless self-promoters and partisan hate on both sides yelling at each other T
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by ejb999 5y ago
couldn't agree more - have STEM groups and encourage everyone that wants in, to join, but don't make them sit in the 'special class' separate from everyone else.
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by ejb999 5y ago
thought it just me! - cool looking graphic, but couldn't make heads or tails out of what I would use it for.
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by ejb999 5y ago
in case you don't think you have time to read it all, buy 3 or 4 copies of it to speed things up (there, I summarized it for you :>) ).
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>partly responsible for why so many devs stay in the same position That is why I am staying put for the time being; hate the interview process, hate being asked stupid questions about solving problems that I will never have to solve
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by ejb999 5y ago
Not a story at all - check for yourself what the median student debt is - people who owe $250K are outliers, not the average college graduate. Pushing these $250K horror stories, is self serving to people who want all loans forgiven - even
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by ejb999 5y ago
Can't speak of all schools, but at my local state school (which I attended) - which as far as sports teams is way down on the list of being considered important (i.e. you'll never see them on TV), they constantly bringing in coach
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>What's predatory about public loans. To some folks, having to pay off their loan, is considered predatory.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>IMO 30k in student debt is very manageable, currently have the thing paid down to like $12k and I like knowing I can reach into savings at any time and wipe out this debt if need be. Absolutely - $30K in debt is completely reasonabl
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>Even better: Learn to write boring code, fast. Under-rated comment of the day.
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by ejb999 5y ago
poor analogy - physical things wear out over time, running code doesn't suffer from fatigue.
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by ejb999 5y ago
I'd take 'shitty code' than runs flawlessly for years on end, over non-shitty code that doesn't. I've worked with too many 'architecture astronauts' over the years who over-design everything based on the l
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by ejb999 5y ago
why do you feel entitled to good public transportation? If everyone in the US preferred/valued high quality public transportation, that is what we would have. Its clearly not what most people want, and honestly, I don't see that c
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by ejb999 5y ago
I also like plausible - low cost for a low traffic site, but without all the more intrusive tracking/features that google has. I use it on about a dozen sites I develop/maintain. Also has a self-hosted option which is 'free&#
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by ejb999 5y ago
I actually sat in a meeting a few years back as a consultant - with 6-7 other consultants and 1 or 2 employees of the company we were assigned to - all billing $150 to $500/hr - as we discussed which cost center we could bill the $35&#
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>I can do my job in about 2 hours a day most days. I often wonder how many people I work with that have 1 or 2 additional full-time jobs that they are just faking busy at. People that are 100% dedicated to the project you are on, but
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by ejb999 5y ago
given the job market, while it may 'suck', clearly nobody is making them stay. i.e. may suck on a day-to-day basis, but get rewarded richly after x amount of time Almost anybody can complain about their job, but in this industry,
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>The next 40 is going to be interesting. The next 20-25 will be interesting for you - after that you will just be telling people to get off your lawn, and making doctors appointments. ;>)
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by ejb999 5y ago
Quick tip: clicking on the year gets you to pick the year at least - no way I was going to click all the way back one month at a time.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>If anything on the page doesn't matter, the claim is wrong. Define 'matters' and 'matters to who'. May not matter to you, but if research shows that people interested in the reading about the product stay&#x
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by ejb999 5y ago
Not really sure that you need a 'silicon valley salary' to afford $10/month. Netflix charges almost double this and they have 100's of millions of subscribers worldwide; my guess is that a premium search engine only need

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