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by el_cujo 7y ago
Seriously, I get the sense that the take-away is intended to be "you can be an older woman and still have a career AND a child if you just work hard!" when really material wealth seems to be a bigger factor. She even mentions havi
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I could see how having a personal website that is basically just your resume could be helpful. If you're a web dev in particular, this kind of thing is essential. However, I don't think having a personal blog is a good idea for ev
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by el_cujo 8y ago
I'm hourly at a place that basically doesn't care how you get your 40 hours. I know people who routinely work six days for six or seven hours, but I don't think I know anyone who regularly works seven days a week outside of s
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by el_cujo 8y ago
I think the author didn't go far enough, I'd like to see more serious discussion of a 4 day/30 hour work week being widely implemented.
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by el_cujo 8y ago
I agree that there is definitely a barrier to entry for making wikipedia articles, it definitely takes a little bit of time and effort. What bothers me is in a situation like the person you're replying to described, its hard to feel li
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by el_cujo 8y ago
This really sounds like a non-issue. As a consumer, I'd much rather have them over estimate the flight schedule and arrive early than the reverse. I live near a smaller regional airport and end up having layovers basically anytime I fl
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by el_cujo 8y ago
I guess I've never seen the BBC series, but from the description I don't think it really has the same target audience or goals as Codeacademy. Codeacademy is (mostly) targeted to giving people practical skills to get a job with, w
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by el_cujo 8y ago
He's right about the scummy advertising, but I think he goes a little too hard-core contrarian in the end by basically suggesting the only reason to have a VPN is for airport/starbucks wifi.
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by el_cujo 8y ago
I'm surprised he doesn't mention torrenting directly. I have no stats to back this up, but I would assume the vast majority of people who get VPNs do so for torrenting. I agree that the current advertising riding the wave of the f
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by el_cujo 8y ago
The video game industry has the same problem a lot of creative jobs have: the work force is large. Companies can afford to treat employees like shit because there are so many fresh grads who want to be game devs lined up to take the place o
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by el_cujo 8y ago
Transgenes can affect the fertility of mice or mess with their sexual behavior, it's not uncommon for transgenic lines to have erratic breeding schedules and reduced litter sizes compared to wild-type. Then if you get a litter, materna
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by el_cujo 8y ago
>i'm pretty sure an addition/modification of one trait to an existing genetic line doesn't immediately render null-and-void all existing fitness of that line That's true, but these lab lines generally are inbred for g
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by el_cujo 8y ago
>What would happen if the mice escaped the facility, and bite other animals or humans Genes don't typically transfer that way. Except for extraordinary circumstances where the disease is caused by some sort of virus, getting bit by
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by el_cujo 8y ago
>What income bracket is your circle? High enough that they can afford an iPhone but low enough that they treat it like a treasure they don't want to have to replace unless they've had it at least five years. I'm surprised
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by el_cujo 8y ago
"How often do resets happen? Answer: if you're using WhatsApp or Signal, all the freaking time. With those apps, you throw away the crypto and just start trusting the server: (1) whenever you switch to a new phone; (2) whenever an
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by el_cujo 8y ago
The article has the example: >Thought: ‘I feel that you aren’t taking this seriously.’ >Emotion: ‘I feel frustrated.’ I definitely agree that the "emotional" way of looking at this statement is better. The "thought&quot
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by el_cujo 8y ago
I know I'm being pedantic here, but in psychology, negative motivation is when you take away something averse as a reward for a certain behavior. Negative here relates to the fact you're negating or removing something to act as mo
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by el_cujo 8y ago
I agree with what the article says about needing a concise opener for a difficult conversation, and for that the madlibs-style script may be useful, but beyond that opener I think more natural language will come off as more genuine. I think
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by el_cujo 8y ago
I think it's great, but the show changes a lot from how it starts off in the beginning, which understandably puts off a lot of people who were in love with the early bits.
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by el_cujo 8y ago
It seems really counter-intuitive to me that you'd pay $1200 for a Thinkpad. Isn't their popularity largely because old models are widely-available, reliable, and most importantly, dirt cheap? I don't do anything on my T420 b
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by el_cujo 8y ago
I listened to him talk a little bit on Joe Rogan's podcast, and it seemed to him that the UBI/Freedom Dividend is his plan explicitly because stuff like retraining these fifty year old guys who have been truck drivers or coal mine
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by el_cujo 8y ago
I'd be much more willing to pay $10 for something that resembles an actual game than get some branded gacha crap that's free to download but really has no gameplay beyond being a slot machine that doesn't put out money. Its h
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by el_cujo 8y ago
>a gallon or so of black coffee Is this hyperbole or do you actually drink a gallon of coffee every day?
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by el_cujo 8y ago
At this point in the campaign, I think people are just throwing out ideas to see what sticks. If this idea becomes super popular on, say, twitter, then it will probably enter into the rotation of things she talks about at rallies and become
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by el_cujo 8y ago
Even if you take out the racial view (which is totally valid), it just doesn't seem right that you can walk in somewhere in the US with US Dollars in your pocket but be turned down, and I say that as someone who very rarely makes purch
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by el_cujo 8y ago
He's got an entourage that looks out for him, runs his company from a contraband phone that he also posts on twitter from, lifts weights to keep from getting too scrawny, pays off inmate's poker debts, takes care of cats, helps in
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by el_cujo 8y ago
I'm having a hard time deciphering how many levels of irony this article was written under.
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by el_cujo 8y ago
I use a pour-over Chemex and manual bean grinder at home. I enjoy the process, but I really don't drink coffee that often, maybe once a week on a lazy sunday morning. I would definitely need a side by side taste test if I was to tell a
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by el_cujo 8y ago
I don't think there's any point to that since people could lie about that info if its up to them to put it up themselves. Even worse if it requires some sort of proof, I don't see people using an app that requires them to sub
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by el_cujo 8y ago
I know this is anecdotal, but a lot of PhD students I know who have depression struggled with it in undergrad as well, the stresses of pursuing a PhD just made it worse/caused a relapse. To be fair though, the article does acknowledge

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