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by galdosdi 4y ago
> At a quick glance, a lot of the intersectional feminist/activist modes of thought seem to be the polar opposites of what eg. cognitive behavioral therapy What a non sequitur. Why would feminism and stoicism have any incompatibilit
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> I'm not actually sure this is correct. Consider: every democracy in the world used to be an authoritarian state. But not every authoritarian state used to be democratic. This is a very good question, but I think the real answer li
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I know it's mostly nostalgia, but the ads also are very qualitatively different from today's. Look how much text and detailed discussion there is compared to today's ads. These ads just seem to respect the reader's intel
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I felt the same way until I learned that in much of the world, super long (eg 30 year) fixed rate (no penalty for early payment) mortgages just aren't available This is apparently a weird mostly unique to the USA thing, probably driven
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> 1. everyone writes their own function to left-pad. As well as being wasteful, most of these implementations are incorrect or perform badly or have their own security issues. You sure? You can write it, with no security issues, with acc
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> Families have different needs, size, ideas, money Lol no. Most people will take what is available that they can afford, or at least pick what they most like from what is available (you have to live somewhere!) The share of people who c
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by galdosdi 4y ago
You mention PEX, which along with PVC has made plumbing easier than in the days of copper and cast iron. Pink insulation board is also extremely easy to work with. Better insulation has created long run cost savings, even if they don't
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Well, maybe. Thing is, political/economical systems are kind of path dependent. It's easier to go from democratic to authoritarian than the other way around, for reasons that I should hope are obvious[1] The reality is that 70 yea
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Yeah, that is probably a factor to some degree. I don't doubt it. But the more salient one probably is the social climate of rapidly increasing public distrust, desperation, not giving a shit about each other in society, the zeitgeist
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> allow retakes This is a nitpick but if done right (eg, avoid cheating, such as by making up a slightly different exam for each retake) retakes not only don't hurt mastery-based learning, but improve it dramatically. Since the whol
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> Presumably because they think it's necessary. For people who have studied the history of how countries and their leadership make decisions, even just superficially (eg, you've followed the news for 20 years), this is actually
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Bizarre study that does not shed much light on anything. Programming is most similar to algebra; anyone studying both at the same time can't help but see the obvious connection. At least in the USA, algebra is typically taught in 7th,
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Source? I've heard this, and I've heard it's a common myth / urban legend. There's a lot of similar myths, like that "interstates have a lot of straight sections to allow for an airplane to land in an emergency
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> But pragmatically, the people who write These alleged people aren't here though. This is the definition of strawman arguing. Sorry, but you need to engage with the actual positions of the people who you are actually responding to,
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Originally it was created to make the Bush administration look good for "doing something" This is a really common effect in government and even companies. If it's important to be seen as doing something, something will be don
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by galdosdi 4y ago
A nitpick about country names, really? These are really low-effort comments. And you keep trying to derail the conversation back to communism even though you're the only one fascinated by it here. Do you also refuse to learn basic phys
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by galdosdi 4y ago
If you're good at legal research you might find you're unusually good at software (far down the line, once you've invested enough effort to get past the large initial hump) I always suspected that exploring API documentation
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Schoolteacher. I'd be doing it already if the pay and respect gap to software wasn't so huge. I still might switch eventually after reaching some reasonable savings goal. A little concerning how politics in the US seem to be targe
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> Another theory: that for some people, hitting a problem is an excuse to stop working entirely and claim to be waiting on another team for support. You can move this one out of the theory column and into the fact column. It is very real
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Those kinds of shoes you mention tend not to last very long at all and are not resoleable. If you walk a lot, you find yourself throwing away the $80 shoe after just 6 months. These kinds of shoes are most of the market because most people
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by galdosdi 4y ago
You know, there's an alternate history slightly plausible where the 1789 Constitutional Convention decided we needed a monarchy, not a republic. I'm not sure how likely that would have seemed at the time, but if so, they might hav
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Ah, this is rare, but here in the USA, I used to get drunk with my coworkers back in my 20s at a bar older than the USA. Before reading on, you can probably guess what region of the USA I was in-- the northeast, which relates to the rest o
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Not sure what your point is or what your interpretation of my comment was. So just to clarify, I think the location data sales market is a bad thing and that is why I advocate a solution that would destroy that market and give us back locat
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> Zenly is (was?) popular in Japan, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and the Nordics. Would you clarify which of the above regions you're in? Personally I'm in the USA so I would not expect my not having heard of it to be in any
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by galdosdi 4y ago
The smartest people I met in my career were at Google, and their main concern, institutionally, ultimately, was increasing ad click thru rates. (their main concern, individually, was doing whatever the institution required for getting promo
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Irrelevant. Many who have read Marx (and peers like Ricardo, Smith) would agree his description of the problem was a lot better than his guess at a possible solution, and that's okay. Considering Marx was describing a very new phenomen
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> I think the question is applicable to more than just engineers. Our economy is a paperclip maximizer of sorts - in the sense that its maximization target is far removed from the target of building the best possible world that we can im
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by galdosdi 4y ago
It's a nitpick, but a little bigger than that. It's as bad as including "bus driver" in the list. Cobblers just shouldn't be included in the category at all. Cobblers are in just as much demand in most of the world
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I grew up in a car dependent area and moved to a walkable big city in my teenage years, and only then became aware that cobblers were still a thing -- in fact, in NYC, they're not an obscure thing, but as common as bank branches. I thi
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Can I ask what kind of programming you do for it to be so helpful? I mostly do maintenance of legacy codebases (also known as codebases, lol) where a lot of the work is figuring out where the changes need to be made and actually making the

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