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by eric_b 6y ago
Is this what passes for "gaming press" these days? Cyberpunk is not supposed to be some watershed philosophical masterwork. It's a game, bro. And from everyone I've talked to it sounds like it's really fun if you
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by eric_b 6y ago
The general thesis of the diversity trainings I've attended is that white men believe they are superior to black men (sometimes consciously, sometimes subconsciously, depending on the fervor of the trainer). White men are racist just
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by eric_b 6y ago
It's cool that this stack works for the author, but if anyone is just starting out on their own one-person journey to build a product, I don't think they should follow the stack in this article. There are too many dependencies and
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by eric_b 6y ago
The .Net Core documentation is indeed a dumpster fire. As a longtime C# guy I can't even find the up-to-date "blessed" way to do things with ASP.NET anymore. They change it every version it seems. The DI/IoC stuff is
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by eric_b 6y ago
This disease will never be "eradicated" and it is not helpful to use that word to discuss policy decisions. Sars CoV-2 has numerous animal reservoirs and an incredible transmission rate. It will never be gone from this Earth. We
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by eric_b 6y ago
Joe Biden won the primary because he was the least divisive. White men have no "cards" to play. They can't play the LGBT card, the race card or the gender card - so they by default have the biggest tent. Until we stop with
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by eric_b 6y ago
You can support people of color without actively denigrating straight white men. Or, you know, we could stop focusing on race, gender and sexuality so fucking much. The most important thing about a person in 2020 is their race it seems. Fol
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by eric_b 6y ago
Ermm, I read parent's comment as an appeal to moderation. I'm not sure how AOC is going to help anything?
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by eric_b 6y ago
Yikes, that certainly does explain the write up. Maybe also explains the incredible decline in quality of writing over the last few years.
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by eric_b 6y ago
I was not surprised when they shut down the City Pages. It had become a shadow of its former self (and its former self was OK, but I can't imagine it deserving a write up in a national paper?). Any kind of credible music journalism h
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by eric_b 6y ago
At the risk of being a jerk: Have you read the book The Mindbody Prescription by Dr. Sarno? [1] I sound like an infomercial pitchman but that book changed my life. I had a massive structural issue that was either going mean a knee replacem
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by eric_b 6y ago
I had chronic, severe, debilitating pain for years until I read the book: The Mindbody Prescription by Dr. Sarno [1] Someone on HN suggested it in a "carpal tunnel" thread. I didn't have carpal tunnel. I had a completely des
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by eric_b 6y ago
He stopped being a credible journalist because he broke ranks and deviated from the liberal orthodoxy?
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by eric_b 6y ago
She attacks him personally without ever refuting any of his points. She hand waves that they will correct the record "in time." Her response is riddled with sensationalist language. I'm gonna go with Greenwald's versio
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by eric_b 6y ago
Lots of people in this thread are dismissive of big cineplexes and seem to be happy they're struggling. Maybe these companies are ruthless and evil, but to all the people who are thinking "yeah I just watch the movies in my baseme
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by eric_b 6y ago
React was always a black box, more or less. To me, what happened was the React team decided boilerplate was worse than cognitive load and the appearance of simplicity, and changed the framework accordingly. Class components are easy to u
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by eric_b 6y ago
> She was in the passenger seat when a state trooper clocked her car at 118 miles per hour on I-94 in St. Paul. So she lets someone else drive her car at felony reckless driving speeds while she sits in the passenger seat? I mean... thi
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by eric_b 6y ago
I've worked in lots of big corps as a consultant. Every one raced to harness the power of "big data" ~7 years ago. They couldn't hire or spend money fast enough. And for their investment they (mostly) got nothing. Th
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by eric_b 6y ago
Why is this flagged? This is a powerful opinion and deserves to be seen.
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by eric_b 6y ago
Yes. A thousand times this. I get so tired of the "stay at home" people ranting from their positions of work-from-home high-income privilege.
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by eric_b 6y ago
Where I live gyms have been open for some time. There's been no outbreaks at fitness facilities thus far in my state. I have friends in various countries in Europe who also lift regularly and their fitness facilities have been open f
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by eric_b 6y ago
Lockdowns are terrible for human mental health. We're not meant to live that way. I mean, we put people in prison as punishment because it sucks. I don't care what these people read in to the data - lockdowns are hurting every
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by eric_b 6y ago
My prediction is COVID will precipitate a decline in major urban areas that will last at least ten years. The bargain urban cities made was that the residents got easy access to their workplace, restaurants, bars, theaters, events etc, in e
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by eric_b 6y ago
What about the gas station workers? Grocery store workers? Millions are working during COVID as they're deemed "essential". Teachers are just as essential.
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by eric_b 6y ago
The "orthodoxy" the author writes about is real. I am a skeptic and cynic by nature. In my experience "common wisdom" is usually anything but. In software and technology I've found when you eschew dogma and "
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Officer's attorney seeks dismissal of charges in George Floyd killing(startribune.com)
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by eric_b 6y ago
The universities knew this was a possibility. They want to charge full tuition (particularly to their international students who account for a disproportionate share of revenue) and go online-only with no consequences. I'm not sure t
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by eric_b 6y ago
I spent 45 minutes this morning trying to get to the bottom of this whole thing - as usual there is more nuance to this than presented. - For as far back as I could find, students that wanted to qualify for a student visa to study in the US
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by eric_b 6y ago
Loans always have delayed payment terms, you're being willfully obtuse.
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by eric_b 6y ago
Eh, I think the way I described it was fine. These are loans. I don't know anyone who's had even a single dollar forgiven yet. As far as I know there has been no official "forgiveness". What do you call a loan that yo

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