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by etchalon 4y ago
I just don't loan money. If someone asks for a loan, I either give it to them outright, or I say no. Money I can't afford to give away is money I probably shouldn't be loaning out. Usually, people pay me back, and it's a
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by etchalon 4y ago
It's best not to think of it as a Programming Language, and more a grand social experiment in YOU GET A CAR! AND YOU GET A CAR!
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by etchalon 4y ago
Because there is no incentive for JavaScript to stabilize, there are no standard libraries, and there's a billion ways to do everything.
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by etchalon 4y ago
"Everyone" is doing a lot of work in that sentence, but I think the fact the gap lessens significantly for unmarried, childless women speaks to that. When given a choice, many women do chose to work more hours.
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by etchalon 4y ago
It's almost like it's more complicated than just "regulation".
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by etchalon 4y ago
I've noticed an absolutely fantastic increase in the number of my employees who just refuse to work beyond 40 hours without compensation. Many refuse to do it even with compensation. It used to be I had like 1 dev who was that way. He
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by etchalon 4y ago
> You could just as well say that men shoulder an unequal amount of wage earning responsibilities. You could say that, but I think most people would raise their eyebrow at you.
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by etchalon 4y ago
This is part of the problem with this topic: neither side talks honestly about the effect, and both sides collapse the nuances down to easily defeated straw men. The "wage gap" has never been attributed, by any study, soley to the
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by etchalon 4y ago
There's no good reason beyond, "Apple doesn't do that, and never has."
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by etchalon 4y ago
Linux is a great environment if you just write code and use web apps. It quickly becomes subpar once you have to use commercial applications, and can be a massive productivity drain after an update breaks some core feature of your hardware.
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by etchalon 4y ago
I forget where I read it, but whenever I think of lenders in this situation I remember the quote, "When you owe the bank 10$, that's your problem. When you owe the bank a million dollars, that's the bank's problem."
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by etchalon 4y ago
It's a threaded discussion. I wasn't replying to you.
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by etchalon 4y ago
It's unreasonable, in that it's a standard that can (likely) ever be met. When it comes to the state, I believe the reason we require such broad free speech protections is precisely because perfection can never be attained, and th
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by etchalon 4y ago
I'd wager yes, based on the promises Tesla has made about the feature compared to how Ford talks about theirs.
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by etchalon 4y ago
I generally agree. A lot of outrage, especially online outrage, reads to me like people finding things for the first time and being shocked by it. Even when those things are incredibly routine, or dictated by a well-intentioned law.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Southwest is one of the few airlines that has non-stops from AUS and Chicago and Kansas City, so I fly them almost exclusively. In general, I'm always impressed with how well everything is run, and how professional and friendly their c
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by etchalon 4y ago
Exactly. Contrarians have this utterly weird propensity to demand the "official" or "mainstream" opinion be perfectly accurate, while holding absolutely no standards for the other side of the debate. "Just asking qu
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by etchalon 4y ago
There's evidence, posted in the threads, of Twitter doing exactly that about numerous specific points. Twitter has, on multiple occasions, fought against states and government interests to unmask its users. So, there exists evidence, a
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by etchalon 4y ago
"The Feds putting pressure on the scales" is a fairly broad term for something every level of the state does in multiple, almost incalculable ways.
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by etchalon 4y ago
I worry, but also remember that much of the pandemic was just a replay of the Spanish Flu. Distrust in masking, distrust in vaccines, a complaint about the "media" keeping "the truth" from the public.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Completely agree. The marketplaces seem resigned to the trade-off between scale and fraud.
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by etchalon 4y ago
The high-volume requirements sort of kill the intent of the bill, since scammers will just jump to new profiles once they've hit certain thresholds. I assume 3P "mule" accounts will become a thing too, with individuals recrui
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by etchalon 4y ago
Reading the piece it seems like the author is upset they weren’t able to guess the suspect, and blamed the movie for it. I watched it twice over the weekend, and the second viewing showed how many details were in plain view the whole time.
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by etchalon 4y ago
The phrasing "terms of their own existence" is just a polite way to say, "You don't get to tell me I have to keep being alive." Obviously, you can't dictate what things happen to you, only how you respond to th
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by etchalon 4y ago
We can regulate the behaviors of doctors and staff in hospital to ensure they aren't pressuring people to make the choice due to costs. We can fire people who do so. Anecdotal tales of incompetence do not justify the removal of a perso
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by etchalon 4y ago
Incredibly detailed and interesting, but seems like it wasn't all that secret, just not widely known?
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by etchalon 4y ago
Whether you believe a person has a "right" to choose to die or not, people are fully capable of making the choice, and whether you believe they have to right to or not, people are going to do it. But the harder you make it to do s
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by etchalon 4y ago
I'd argue both are horrible trade-offs and can be somewhat lessened with better regulations. A person must have the right to chose the terms of their own existence. A person shouldn't be pressured into that choice due to costs.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Sentence 1 and sentence 2 seem to be in a fight. You’ll need to pick one.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Never mind that the paper specifically calls attention to profitability, you seem to believe businesses have access to unlimited capital, provided they can show a profit?

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