irishloop

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by irishloop 5y ago
That's right. And not for its intrinsic value, but to impress others!
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by irishloop 5y ago
But risk isn't a 1/0 binary. Every moment you are wearing a mask changes your risk. Spending 1 hour in a restaurant vs 10 hours in a restaurant. It all adds up and it all matters. So yeah, taking your mask off while you eat is def
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by irishloop 5y ago
I spent quite a bit of my late adolescence consuming mind-altering substances like LSD and mushrooms. It did expand my mind and made me appreciate certain things. But it did not fix my depression or make me feel less alone. I might feel con
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by irishloop 5y ago
Even if all of this is true, it doesn't disprove the existence of autism as a legitimate disability or diagnosis.
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by irishloop 5y ago
I don't know, if you hear about the accounts of the parents of children killed in Sandy Hook, I don't think inner peace was available. Many had to move or go into hiding. Imagine, after losing a child in such a horrific way, that
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by irishloop 5y ago
But you can build higher density housing which increases the overall number of living units in a region, thus increasing the supply.
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by irishloop 5y ago
At the public university engineering program I attended in 2000ish (UConn), we offered CompSci (mostly software focused), CompEng (mostly hardware focused), and CompSci+Eng (a balance of both). Either Eng program included several courses on
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by irishloop 5y ago
But the IRS needs a mechanism to understand and interpret these ledgers, right? And the IRS enforcement is only as good as the people who are doing the enforcing. I'm an engineer and I barely understand crypto, what hope does an IRS au
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by irishloop 5y ago
I don't know I see a lot of great stuff from comedians and stuff on twitter posting all kind of shit. I enjoy the silliness, but my feed is definitely highly curated and even then I end up seeing toxic takes because people "like&q
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by irishloop 5y ago
Yeah they tend to show stuff that is "liked" by people you know. So it depends on what THEY like as well.
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by irishloop 5y ago
Is it needless? Right now car ownership has a lot of extra costs for your normal, middle-class American * Car payment * Insurance payment * Maintenance costs * Parking costs * Possible tolls * Repairs * Possibly roadside assistance * Proper
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by irishloop 6y ago
Yeah I think your last sentence nails the reverse issue here: The expectation from companies to put in excessive amounts of work which from all candidates when most all of them will get no return on that effort (other than Experience™). My
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by irishloop 6y ago
I have a very difficult time falling asleep if I know I have to wake up shortly.
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by irishloop 6y ago
My guess is that if developers understood the business, they would understand how simplistic a lot of the business models are, and how much of the profit is derived directly from their skilled labor and yet how much of the profit goes direc
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by irishloop 6y ago
Since users are essentially allowed to upload their own videos, and Section 230 prevents online distributors from being held liable for the content produced on their site, they aren't doing anything illegal by hosting these videos depi
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by irishloop 6y ago
Plus you know less destroying the world
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by irishloop 6y ago
I've actually found it quite challenging to purchase books to put on my Kindle that aren't from Amazon, since they use a proprietary format.
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by irishloop 6y ago
It's not a hang up if you can't pay your bills or afford to take a vacation once in a while. Mazlow's Hierarchy of Needs does require us to meet some basic needs regardless of our passions. Even if you are an extraordinary wo
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by irishloop 6y ago
If the system is working for you...
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by irishloop 6y ago
It's only tenfold if they all test negative, right? Otherwise you need to test subgroups to find out which test(s) were positive. So the real speedup is probably something like 2x-4x, depending on infection rates.
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by irishloop 7y ago
While I'm not a fan of reality TV, I know plenty of people who are, and whose lives are enriched because of reality television. There is no accounting for taste. I don't know how much people's lives are enriched by cryptocurr
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by irishloop 7y ago
I don't know if it's me but having dealt with depression most of my life, I find "happy" music irritating and grating. Pharrell's "Happy" has to be one of the worst songs I've ever heard in my life. S
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by irishloop 7y ago
The author's spelling of "NetFlix" bothered me a lot more than it should.
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by irishloop 7y ago
That's all well and good but it seems to me all of these "new" forms of organization are essentially to benefit the ultra-rich at the expense of everyone else. There is nothing here that will help working-class people, and in
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by irishloop 7y ago
Oh for sure. I think the point is, any of these moves is an inherent risk. For every Apple or PayPal there are a thousand startups which fail. Knowing which will succeed and which will fail is sort of the whole caveat. You can't know t
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by irishloop 7y ago
I know it puts me in the minority, but I honestly do not care that much. It's obfuscation by volume. If Google wants to hear me and my roommate argue about Red Dead Redemption online or the new Bill Burr comedy special, good luck with
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by irishloop 7y ago
My guess is Greta focuses on people who can actually be influenced. Americans have access to a free press and information about how we use our energy or pollute. And being the richest nation in the world, we certainly have some responsibili
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by irishloop 7y ago
All of these cars use precious metals and resources which come from (probably) China who pollutes like hell to get them so who knows what the long-term ramifications are.
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by irishloop 8y ago
Intuitively it would make sense to me that they both provide advantages to the mind. Certainly, being able to parse dense technical literature is impressive, but the ability to use the imagination and think creatively would probably use dif
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by irishloop 8y ago
Speech can absolutely be dangerous. Much of the run-up to the Holocaust was in dehumanizing and characterizing the Jews as money-sucking leeches bleeding Germany dry.

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