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by ericmcer 2y ago
You can sue over literally anything, the parent comment could sue you if they could demonstrate your reply damaged them in some way.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Did Costco ever have a diversity issue? I don't think people are worried about getting more representation among grocery store cashiers.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Yeah this is the biggest difference imo. You have to play the game at the senior+ level, that means no more just doing tasks and then sitting back. You have to reach out to people and schedule meeting, you have to be speak up during team me
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I love this take, and it is something that can be seen in real life as well. It is particularly apparent on a show like "Alone" where people try to survive in the wilderness for $500k. Most of the contestants are professional surv
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The simplest predictor I heard is the lower your resting heart rate, the better you sleep. It is way easier to target that then a jumble of diet, exercise, caffeine, light, etc. Try to lower your resting heart rate as you wind your day up,
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Are those numbers a sum of the total benefits or something? It seems insane that a campus security guard is making 170k.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
That is true but I think emphasizing liquid sugar is particularly important. When I was young I tried to bulk (for sports) several times and ate an obscene amount of carbohydrates and protein, think like 8 hot dogs and half a gallon of milk
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by ericmcer 2y ago
This is almost identical to the US economy, we have decent job growth... until you remove government jobs. It's really insidious how the current setup kills small businesses and drives everyone to government work, if this trend continu
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Engineers have lost almost all our leverage. Even if you are a top 20% engineer (which would make you very talented by 1990s standards) you have limited employment opportunities. The education system completely revamped itself and has been
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Computers have inundated life so thoroughly now that it feels less clean to be writing software. If people enjoy a 30 min TV show you made that feels great, but if they are watching 10 hours of tv a day then it feels more problematic. My pe
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by ericmcer 2y ago
At a certain point a tool can coddle you too much and start to impede your... humanity. If I am trying to learn woodworking a robot that will build whatever I tell it to is not a great tool. There is some perfect middle point where tools a
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Just invest in the market or you get your savings chewed up. I think it unlikely that the government, the Fed and huge corps are going to stop printing money because it has been working great (for them). Almost 100% of my money is in VOO an
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Sure hope so. Staying mentally sharp into old age is one of the things I comfort myself with when I am putting in long hours and just want to go outside.
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The article frames this issue with an older person looking back on their life and being glad they maintained lifelong friendships. From a practicality standpoint making a new friend can be easier but it won't have the same spiritual an
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by ericmcer 2y ago
You are about 4 years behind the curve, everyone uses JS Frameworks that bundle most of the libraries you will need for general dev together now. I don't understand why people get so up in arms over npm modules, as if you could stand u
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I agree that many Frontend libraries are pretty intimidating to step into if you don't have a background in it. Don't agree that JS community is bad, it is the largest community of any language by far, and it has the most money in
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I wouldn't mind paying into it if there was some kind of balance. If we broke healthcare spending down by person a small percentage of the population is probably consuming a huge percentage of healthcare. The average person just goes t
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by ericmcer 2y ago
It would be weird to find such success at such a young age. Same thing with young athletes/musicians. It must be bizarre to be so celebrated when you have so little autonomy and your consciousness is barely online.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I did always wonder how much of getting to a very old age is just luck. Like you have two 85 year olds. Number 1 is healthy and has a .01% chance of having a stroke, number 2 is unhealthy and has a .05% chance, but 1 still has a stroke firs
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Some people say higher education is a privilege, but a few times during college while grinding out difficult classes it felt more like a huge burden. Being part of a highly educated elite group like that has some huge benefits, but they hav
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I always thought Arrival was built off of Babel-17 by Samuel Delaney, it predates Chiangs work by a few decades. Different plot, but same underlying concept, the characters learn an alien language that alters their perceptions and they star
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I have always wondered about that, there was this phrase that floated around in the Bay Area of "it can happen to anyone" so I always thought about the steps it would take for me to become homeless. I would have to: Lose my job Lo
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by ericmcer 2y ago
It is the same people unfortunately. People who want to reduce the global carbon footprint should be rejoicing about tariffs and returning manufacturing to America. The two party system forces people to hold conflicting values though. Both
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by ericmcer 2y ago
That reminds me of the many times it has made up an SDK function that matches my question. "how do you bulk delete files"? "just call bulkDeleteFiles()"
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I did a year of landscaping and did 6ish years at grocery stores. Those jobs are 100% less stress and much more enjoyable imo. If they paid the same I would switch in a heartbeat. When you get to the Senior+ level in software, the buck ofte
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I think old peoples inward focus is more a result of their physical condition than the amount of time they have been alive. If you could put an 80 year olds mind in a 20 year old body they would probably approach life with the same optimism
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by ericmcer 2y ago
"He said that he would not let himself be a patient to over 85% or 90% of the doctors" This definitely resonates, for every health condition the final recommendation is always "consult with a doctor", but if you get mult
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Well you would need to know what the test looks like. If the bar is to understand the passage "The dog runs fast", You don't need to be a genius to comprehend it.
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NextJS isn't ideal if you just want a SPA, just stick any frontend router in if you want that. If you aren't using it for SSR/SSG then you probably don't need it. If you are writing a really dynamic app with a few thousa
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Why? We have already decimated any semblance of natural selection so death is no longer a necessity from an evolutionary standpoint. Maybe immortal humans would be more beneficent because they wouldn't be scrambling to get ahead in the

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