gunfighthacksaw

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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
> While you can get some benefits from simply practicing meditation, it can feel a bit aimless Isn’t that… the point of meditation?
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
> take care of them there Which clearly isn’t happening, so IMO it makes sense to store them in a stable society with enforced property rights. Doesn’t have to be UK or France.
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
Once between jobs I considered putting my physics undergrad to use tutoring. I remember the Ontario math curriculum was something like a 120 page pdf, comprehensive but nothing alien to anyone with mathematical training. As a software dev I
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
> Why is this a surprise that cities are dangerous places? US cities. Toronto, for its faults, is a large city which is very safe. Unless you’re a gangster. I bet I could walk around Jane/Finch on my phone and have better personal s
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
Hah I read progress as postgres…TGIF
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
And drowns those treading water.
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
This is somewhat of an anecdatapoint, but I remember growing up in the early 00s, an overdose was a big deal and treated with a lot of gravity. Us kids got a lot of talking to about drugs etc. Now overdoses are just statistics, and the tent
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
I’m glad it does not apply to foreign workers or PRs because I’ve met awesome people over my academic career that I 100% want to be my neighbours and fellow Canadians. Unfortunately none of them are loaded enough to buy a place, so…
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
Nah, it’s the animal sprits
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
Reality does surprise me now and then by reifying a meme I laughed at a few years ago. Usually the physical manifestation is less funny than the original meme though. I think it was all related to the 2016 US election which is when those 4c
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
> Americans adore the idea that just because it wasnt written down, it somehow holds no value to the parties involved This is actually a point of friction between settlers and North American Indigenous communities. As predominantly oral
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
I’m cis and mostly straight. Definitely comfortable in my skin. Recently though, I was thinking that if I was hotter/skinnier it would be fun to present as androgynous. Not that I need to affirm my true identity or whatever, but a kind
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
It was a sad day when I started being able to play this in Toronto.
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
I’ve heard a rule of thumb that a break-up will sting for twice the length of the relationship. Assuming you were not the instigator.
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
There is no good source, only old tumblr posts directed towards the drama and some pages written by people who document this stuff. Nothing extra decent I can link you that you won’t find from a search engine.
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
This. Dominance hierarchies exist, but aren’t alpha, beta whatever. We aren't wolves, we’re more like bonobos.
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
> Tumblr was often criticized for its purity culture—conversations could go nuclear as soon as someone was deemed “problematic,” I remember reading about a user called Vade (since inactive) while catching up on internet drama. They succe
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
Ya the startup I work at did some crazy shit in the founder days or so I’ve heard from the seniors. Competitive intelligence they called it. We have had malicious litigation too and now I’m ramping up on security (cybersecurity or corposec
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
Germany and most of Central Europe are quite culturally conservative. They spend a lot of effort ensuring a stable and orderly society, up to and including prosecuting inflammatory speech and support for causes against the national/pub
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
> Every location has to have a custom minimum wage I think the federal structure of the USA lends itself nicely to that problem. There would be an issue in extremely heterogeneous states like Washington or California, where the big citie
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
I’m sure with 15 minutes of whittling and chopping you could get two, maybe three baby carrots out of a DD cultivar.
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
Using the term ‘virtue signalling’ is itself virtue signalling. The virtue in this case being an implied rejection of groupthink.
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
I wish there was something like this for resolving merge conflicts. Every mergetool I use frustrates me. I managed to crack emerge a few months ago, but when I needed to use it again yesterday, it was completely opaque again so I resorted t
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
Dear Gods of OPSEC, I hope your username isn’t your real name.
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
Fair, but the modern equivalent exists which is plugging a slow cooker into an outlet that you don’t pay for. If you’re in a tower block, I’m sure a neighbour would oblige you, or if they were also needy, you could boil their potatoes in ex
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
Potato cooked over an open flame. You eliminate the middle man of the water bath.
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
Something smells off to me, and I don’t think it’s a gas leak. People have been eating potatoes in much worse economic conditions and with much lower technological sophistication than we have now. Indeed, it’s probably cheaper to boil a pot
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
That said (and this goes counter to my previous comment) I think HELOCs are probably the safest credit source, purely because if the banks started calling them there would be an economic meltdown. Obviously if you’re going to overleverage y
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
What happens when the crash occurs and your bank nixes your line of credit? They are well within their right to, at least it says so in the fine print. Then you’re broke, and left holding a very baggy looking portfolio.
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by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
That small part is also a breadbasket and, together with the larger, makes up 1/3 of the worlds grain. That 1/3 is closer to 100% in some countries in the ME and Africa.

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