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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Unfortunately reality doesn't work that way Because we make sure to keep it from working that way . Rich countries don't seem to have much trouble with destroying 'backward' countries when it suits them[1], maybe V
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I understand this makes a great headline, but it might be because they don't promote women as quickly as men, leaving the women 'overpaid' compared to the other men at their level. A better comparison might be to trace the tr
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I love this kind of reply. To me it's like that rabbit duck optical illusion[1]: when seen one way it seems reasonable, even almost inevitable, and then it suddenly flips and sounds like smarmy weasel words excusing exploitation. Here&
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by gerbilly 8y ago
It's a good thing they dammed (damned?) the Nile then, to keep that rich alluvial soil away. :-)
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Water, lumber (formerly known as trees), open land, furs, fish ...
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Why insist on buying in those hyper inflated areas anyway? Why not go found a millennial utopia in some (as yet) undervalued part of the country, and start creating startups there etc...?
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> when the income of that product is going to large criminal organizations that also create problems But that's just it, they wouldn't be criminal organizations if you didn't criminalize it in the first place. To me, the w
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> I've always wondered why the government sets speed limits but then doesn't enforce them on manufacturers. They hope you will break the speed limit so they can make money, that's why.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Off topic, but neat speedometer trick. Preconditions: * You have an analog speedometer which is in both miles and km/h. [1] * You are on a road trip on a highway, driving at or near 100km/h. In Canada on the 400 class highways, bo
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Or road wear on a guitar: https://www.pinterest.com/sarnoldmusic/anatomy-of-a-road-wor...
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> So then, where does the desire to be an Alpha originate if it is so stressful and destructive? That's just it, it isn't a desire its a drive . That drive serves the troupe, not the individual. Give the prospective alphas tes
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> I assume that's mostly a west coast/SV/startup thing. I guess they feel like they are gathering hard data to back up their hiring decisions—except humans don't choose their allies that way. It's a technocratic
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Wow you have shown a lot of resilience. Good for you! > In my world view you either act to create the change you want or accept that you don't care enough to act. This aligns nicely with a stoic principle I read somewhere, that sai
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Nowhere in the fundamental Buddhism tenets did I see anything about "transforming." That's just it though, you might not have seen it in your readings, but it is part of the practise. Buddhism isn't just a set of be
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> avoiding suffering is not living to the fullest. But that's just it, buddhism does not advocate avoidance of suffering[1] at all. The buddhist 'path' is about using suffering as a raw material and transforming it. You ca
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Don't rush through tasks, use them as an exercise to learn new things. When I was starting out, I deliberately took the time to truly master as many of the UNIX tools as I could. When I would run into a problem like this, I would use i
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by gerbilly 8y ago
This is just pedantry. I this read you other replies and I can't see them adding much value to the discussion. You are just being rigid about semantics. What action are we supposed to take having read your comments? To be careful of no
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Neat. I wasn't sure what awk would do if there was no entry when it first encountered a new word. And yeah, I left the -F in there by mistake. But I don't get overly fussy with pipelines like this. I usually just hack them up as a
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I tried it on the text of the article itself. Here's my cmdline: # cat file | preserve only spaces and letters (remove punctuation) | convert to lowercase and put each word on one line | use awk maps to keep a count for each word and p
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Yes, they are. Just put in roundabouts.[1] No control system costs anymore! [1] Why are there hardly any roundabouts in north america? Because there's no money to be made from them.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> I feel I would still feel shame in failing to keep my word Events conspired to prevent you from keeping your word. There's no reason to pay for it emotionally for the rest of your life. Also, do you think big corporations and CEO
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Sorry, I had an unfortunate typo in my comment which inverted the intended meaning. I was trying to say: Not that [gadgets] has been proven to make people any happier. And the support I would be inclined to give for that is the: https:&#
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Sorry yes, you are right, I had a typo in there. I was trying to say that more gadgets have NOT been proven to make anyone happier.
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Workplace Theft Is on the Rise(theatlantic.com)
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> I wonder if in 5000 years time there will be people making similar observations regarding airports and placing their own idea of what our primitive religion must have been to have created these things Airports today are treated as a
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Real wages haven't increased since 1970. We only feel richer because: * Most households have two wage earners now. * We use lines of credit to borrow for discretionary purchases, we lease cars, pay by subscription for things more. * We
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I wouldn't be so sure. While I agree that the scope of a twelve year old's power is limited, children can be unimaginably cruel.
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I worked at a particular RadioShack store where the manager played the movie "Top Gun" over and over to demo the surround sound system.
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Often the data in a database can outlive the application it was initially designed for. Say you have a legacy application you want to rewrite.[1] If the data is stored in an unstructured way, then the schema is in the code base of the legac
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Which lamp do you use?

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