he_is_legend

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by he_is_legend 4y ago
As the article states: earthworms breathe through their skin; require moisture for this process; and do not have lungs that can fill with water.
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by he_is_legend 4y ago
Further proof of the blind insanity of capitalism. They are basically shipping water across the ocean from one desert to another. "The company announced in January 2016 that it paid $31.8 million for 1,790 acres. Some of its fields run
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by he_is_legend 4y ago
> I’ve done over 500 technical interviews ... > This takes hundreds of hours of prep (usually outside of work hours) ... > Don’t schedule more than 3 onsites a week unless you have endurance. I’ve done 6-7 in a week - wouldn’t reco
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by he_is_legend 4y ago
> but at Google's scale it doesn't really make sense, purely financially, the staffing required to support every free user. This seems to get trotted out often whenever Google providing support gets mentioned. But I don't
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by he_is_legend 4y ago
It's not you - it's node.js (I'm thinking of getting tee's printed with that slogan).
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
I've never understood why a new ball in introduced only at the tournament itself - where no players have had any previous experience with using it, and any changes it brings - rather than for the qualifying campaign so that any nuance
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
As he also mentioned he was involved in early React, so maybe Facebook? They are known to use it for spam filtering, amongst other things.
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
I get your point (i think), but people don't need software. Software is great to have and enhances life to no end, but you could live without it. They do need food though. Why does working to make software pay so much? Yet working to m
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
perhaps if agriculture and food generation was priced more in line with its value to humanity, rather than along the lines of cheapest product wins, there would be more feasible careers in homesteading, simpler lives and farming. but in a w
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
I feel more or less the same I think. However, if the income was the same as with a tech job, I'd go back to it in a heartbeat. Sitting on my ass all day in front of a screen is soul destroying in many ways - I'd much rather be ou
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
I'm not disagreeing, but having worked for 20+ years now as a web dev, and also on and off on farms (parents, relations, neighbours, friends, and 30 acres behind my house), I'd move to a farming job that offered the same income in
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
While google use CWV as a part of pagerank (higher scores get higher ranking) most site owners will demand higher scores. They don't care why their site scores bad, or necessarily want any of those useless javascript trackers and anima
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
What you may be missing is just how high of a percentage of the population of most western countries are not classed as healthy by any metric. Overweight, unfit, damaged through nicotine or alcohol abuse or even simple naturally occurring d
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
Unlikely. The rest of their programmers toolset are mostly java based.
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/1574642/lg-zx-88-inch-zwart.... - thats quite the discount
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
Sometimes honesty and truth can hurt. Sometimes you have to accept that and move on. Alternatively you can coddle people so that they think every thing that they do is wonderful and a gift to all of mankind. Or you can take offence at hones
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
When deciding what is fair in tax, we should perhaps consider not how much is paid in tax, but how much remains after tax. If a middle to low income earner pays $10k in tax, but then has trouble paying their bills, or keeping a roof over th
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
As badly as Zillow perhaps: https://vinvashishta.substack.com/p/zillow-just-gave-us-a-lo...
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
1 year old safari. it was added april 2020 - https://caniuse.com/?search=datetime-local
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
You can't grow food and crops in suddenly warmed up permafrost earth. Generating nutrient rich soil takes a long time (decades to centuries for long lasting results). Global temperature rises are happening too fast.
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
Probably just a handful of internet cranks. How many would you estimate?
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
> - doesn't understand yet or doesn't care that being an a$$hole online has consequences What are the consequences? I have never seen any. Trolls continue to be trolls. A$$holes continue to be a$$holes. Isn't that what the
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
> If more people took the concept of don't be a dick just because you're safe behind the keyboard, I don't think we'd be where we are now. Which was the entire gist of the OP, no? Perhaps I misread / misunderstoo
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
Not hard as a rule, but it has one fairly difficult (for many) yet deciding factor: getting that high earning job when you are young, in a FAANG (or comparable company). Working for these type companies is a luxury limited to a very low per
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
Anecdotal (but nevertheless true): I have (at least) two millionaire neighbours (less than 3 doors/gates away). Both won the lottery - one euromillions and one national lotto draw. And if we are talking average income, then everyone on
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
Whats the point in dying a millionaire though? Surely you want to spend some of that money while you are alive (and active - not 80+)?
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
Whoosh
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
California / Silicon Valley is witness to that unusual and under-reported aspect of climate change where it simply rains money.
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
For anyone else who is confused when trying to track down this author - I believe Robert Hamilton should actually be Peter F. Hamilton
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by he_is_legend 5y ago
The problem isn't necessarily web developers, or certainly not all web developers. Thanks to constant penny pinching, very little gets developed from scratch in-house anymore - instead everything is put together using a myriad of third

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