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by fpig 10y ago
I agree about Facebook, but surge pricing is exactly what makes Uber reliable.
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by fpig 10y ago
Simply not true in my experience. Most people in my country have children yet react strongly to completely irrelevant events like a team they "support" winning or especially losing a football game. That's way worse than compl
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by fpig 10y ago
Complaining about trivial problems is in no way limited to people without children. In fact, in my experience, people with children take this to an entirely new level when those are things that affect their child.
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by fpig 10y ago
You find such people in software development circles? I haven't met a single one so far. Sure, there are plenty of people who are unaccomplished otherwise so they treat raising a child (something the majority of the population succeeds
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by fpig 10y ago
The meaning of that rule is generally "if you consume less calories than you use, it is physically impossible not to lose weight". Which is definitely true. You can eat more than you use and not gain weight if you are not metabo
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by fpig 10y ago
One more thing (can't edit the other comment), I am talking about the late 80s / early 90s, not the 70s. I am not from the US, so it is possible that the "protect the children" mentality was adopted later here. Kids were
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by fpig 10y ago
I have no real stats, but I can tell you that from the hundreds of kids at my school zero died from getting hit by a car. There was exactly 1 accident-related death and it was while playing sports, and this was a much older kid (like 12-13)
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by fpig 10y ago
It is possible. In fact, we have proof suggesting it's possible (me and millions like me who grew up that way and lived) while we have no proof suggesting otherwise. It's not like children died en masse due to being allowed outsid
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by fpig 10y ago
Seriously, sneering at VB6 in 2017 is elitism? Using it today comes with countless drawbacks, but is actually not any easier than using C#. I used VB6 for all my Windows applications when my alternative was to use C++ + MFC or Win32 which w
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by fpig 10y ago
Parents would be away for 4-5 hours at most while I was at home I guess, but we'd be without parents for more than that because we'd go out and do stuff with friends even when parents were home. Parents were kind of there to fulfi
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by fpig 10y ago
I almost automatically closed the tab because it looked like a paywall. Why do I have to click "Show full article" to see the article on the page for that article? O_O
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by fpig 10y ago
This is a fallacy inherent to the modern mentality of obsessing over your child's safety that is likely counterproductive on average. Children of school age DO NOT need babysitting. When I was a kid, everyone's mom worked and we k
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by fpig 10y ago
This is a double-edged sword, though, as it may hurt you once you try to switch jobs again.
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by fpig 10y ago
Yeah virtue signaling is mostly a Facebook/Twitter thing.
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by fpig 10y ago
Casual copying has become pretty much irrelevant, though. This isn't the 90s any more; now one person releases a torrent and thousands of people end up downloading it. When was the last time you copied some media or a piece of software
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by fpig 10y ago
No it hasn't, absolutely nothing on those pages is an argument against anything I wrote. Not only can the rich easily avoid this system, they don't even need to do anything because today, the rich already hold almost all of their
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by fpig 10y ago
You have an incentive to exchange dollar bills for some other form of assets. This is easier for the rich, and richer people tend to hold a lower percentage of their wealth in cash. So the system you propose is regressive; it is actually le
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by fpig 10y ago
I see this repeated all the time but I consider it to be completely wrong. It is always in my interest to keep $X rather than give it to someone else. Even if they use the $X to buy my product, that's still less favorable for me than t
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by fpig 10y ago
Inequality isn't there because the rich hoard actual dollar bills in their basement. What you suggest would affect the poor and middle class more than the rich.
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by fpig 10y ago
In my opinion, if the people who work with someone consider them incompetent, they likely are. I would even go so far to say that the opinion of coworkers might be the best predictor of someone's competence, better than any "objec
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by fpig 10y ago
I don't understand what your point is, coaches are precisely an example of a boss having deep understanding of the work being done, as opposed to being hired purely for his people-management skills. You don't poach the manager of
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by fpig 10y ago
I just looked at their community guidelines and saw this: Non-U.S. residents and citizens must follow the laws of their domicile pertaining to online conduct, communication and content. Gab AI, Inc. will respect the territorial sovereignty
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by fpig 10y ago
For some reason (as I didn't mention Clojure which I know nothing about) you are making the incorrect assumption that my confusion with certain features comes from trying to apply how another language works to a different language. In
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by fpig 10y ago
In the C language there is no "concept of a stack" either because the stack is not a language-level feature in most languages, it is a mechanic relevant to how your code is compiled / executed. And javascript engines, when
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by fpig 10y ago
The only problem is, I've used C# and JS way more in my life than C, and C wasn't even my first language (QBASIC was). So unless learning C somehow causes permanent disability I will have to respectfully disagree.
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by fpig 10y ago
How is stack allocation less transparent in C than in other languages? I don't understand this idea that the stack has something to do with C. You can mess with the stack in C, you can also mess with the stack in C#. But you don't
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by fpig 10y ago
So you're saying that my problem is having basic computer knowledge? Because stack allocation has nothing to do with C, C is not explicit about doing it (except alloca) just like most other languages, and other languages use it just li
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by fpig 10y ago
C is FAR less obscure than most of the languages you mention, ignoring things newbies generally don't need to worry about like standards, compiler implementations, memory alignment, virtual memory, etc. I was able to learn C reasonably
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by fpig 10y ago
Dude, remove the rape shit from the web site for a mobile app. Why you would think putting that stuff up there was a good idea is beyond me. I am guessing you put a lot of effort into that comic and feel bad discarding it, but just do it. S
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by fpig 10y ago
I wouldn't say this specific problem has anything to do with the free market / capitalism. When my country was socialist, this kind of division of labor was way more extreme, people would literally spend their entire "careers

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