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by ineptech 4y ago
> Only a quarter of evangelicals in the United States believe abortion should be illegal in all cases, according to a new poll showing that a majority of self-identified Christians in the U.S. identify as “pro-choice” and less than half
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by ineptech 4y ago
There are lots of issues where there are religious people on both sides. Take immigration for example: there are Christians who support looser immigration laws for religious reasons, and other Christians who have religious reasons to disag
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by ineptech 4y ago
Why isn't it a "science issue" because the pro-choice side is based on science? Or an "age issue" because old people are far more pro-life than young people? I'm not here to argue semantics. The point I'
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by ineptech 4y ago
> Only a quarter of evangelicals in the United States believe abortion should be illegal in all cases, according to a new poll showing that a majority of self-identified Christians in the U.S. identify as “pro-choice” and less than half
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by ineptech 4y ago
> Concentrated hash was widely available in California in the 1980s I don't believe this for a second. I mean, maybe it was "widely available" compared to uranium-238, but not compared to concentrated hash today (which is
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by ineptech 4y ago
edit to add: for all that, if we're asking what's changed in the last twenty years, I don't think the change in potency is as important as the change in cost and convenience. Sure, there were people who stayed high all day
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by ineptech 4y ago
For anyone interested, there's a support community around quitting pot at /r/leaves (that name being a humorous reference to /r/trees, a large subreddit for pot users).
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by ineptech 4y ago
Yeah, I'm calling BS. 1) That line has been trotted out continuously because weed potency has been going up continuously. In the late 90s, good weed was anything above 4-5% THC; the store near my house currently has nothing below 23%.
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by ineptech 4y ago
I was using that term kinda loosely, I didn't mean there's nothing subjective in a decision like that. I used objective to mean the POV of the whole company, and subjective to mean the views from within the departments. A salesp
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by ineptech 4y ago
I am dubious. The whole point of having leaders is that they're supposed to talk to each other and coordinate the different needs of the different teams. Which is more important to accomplish by EOY, to adopt k8s or to ship the new f
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by ineptech 4y ago
Relying on advertising companies to host stuff because server software is hard to self-administer was a good way to bootstrap things, but the shine is wearing off.
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by ineptech 4y ago
This isn't about yachts, it's about sensible policy. Corporations aren't a naturally occurring phenomenon whose autonomy we must respect; we wrote laws to allow them to exist because we thought they would be good for society
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by ineptech 4y ago
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." ― in other words, these are arguments over semantics (i.e. what do "think" and "swim" mea
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by ineptech 4y ago
This doesn't really pass the sniff test; if there were any easy one-gene changes that resulted in unambiguously better results, it's highly likely that we'd all have them already.
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by ineptech 4y ago
The whole ordeal would still be kafkaesque and cruel even if he had been guilty. I'd rather be a dog in a shelter than a prisoner awaiting trial in Texas.
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by ineptech 4y ago
Just ignore the question and tell a story you wanted to tell anyway. "Tell me about a time when you had a conflict with a coworker" == "I know you have some stories about great things you've done in your career. I want
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by ineptech 4y ago
Lot of good advice here. Here's my two cents' worth: Call literally any recruiter, and say "I'm a solid mid-level developer. I'm sick of my current job: the hours are terrible, and there's no support or mento
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by ineptech 4y ago
I recommend 'A Dark Room'.
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by ineptech 4y ago
To explain this more clearly: what I'm trying to say is that the different parts of the software industry seem more like a bimodal distribution than a smooth one. If you think broadly of the extremes in software jobs (say, "fresh
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by ineptech 4y ago
Of course these are generalizations. "All models are wrong, but some are useful." I'm sure there are some laid-back jobs at startups and some stressful jobs at the Minnesota Dept. of Transportation, but I also think it is
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by ineptech 4y ago
If you want to be recession-proof, get a job at a non-software company (or in academia, state/city government, etc). In theory, "programmer" is the same job whether you work for a startup or the Minnesota Dept. of Transportat
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by ineptech 4y ago
> Crash happens, like we have seen, but everyone cashing out their USDT is not a scenario going to happen. This seems wildly optimistic. All it would take is for users to adopt some new FOTM stablecoin faster than Tether backers can liq
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by ineptech 4y ago
It's my understanding that the people behind Tether buy at some price slightly below a dollar, to allow some "play" (slight volatility) in the Tether market and to incentivize others to hold Tethers and provide liquidity in e
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by ineptech 4y ago
Someone help me understand this. All you need for a stable stablecoin is to save every dollar put in to it. The people behind Tether sell tethers for $1, they save all of those dollars, and whenever the price of Tethers drops to $0.99, the
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by ineptech 4y ago
I guess I should've used a more realistic example (one home vs a duplex, or a 16-plex vs four single-family homes) but I really thought the point would be obvious. I guess not, so I'll try again. You recognize that there are occa
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by ineptech 4y ago
That doesn't seem very relevant. Obviously there are places where you can realistically only build one or the other, but there's lots of places where you can build either, and if your goal is to increase housing density, those ar
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by ineptech 4y ago
Doesn't this problem essentially rise and fall with wealth inequality? If you have a plot of land and you can either build a McMansion for one family or an apartment building for 16 families, then (absent heavy-handed regulation) you&#
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by ineptech 4y ago
Your take (that they are driving away donors by giving to causes you think are silly) would seem to be contradicted by the content of the post (that they have raised so much money that they need new models for how to distribute it).
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by ineptech 4y ago
You left out that they were distributing the book to participants in math and science competitions, and that their reasoning was that they think the book is effective at teaching scientific reasoning. Donating science books to promising st
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by ineptech 4y ago
Per the wikipedia article on the topic, the author of the article refused to put his name on that article due to concerns about its veracity, and the main allegation in it (that Biden Sr met with a Burisma board member at his son's req

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