javert

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by javert 6y ago
It's just a clump of tree roots on a small embankment, very close to the inn where Van Gogh was living, and died.
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by javert 6y ago
In everyday business, when dealing with dates, the month is usually what you care about most, followed by the day, and then the year (which is often redundant or implicit). Thus, month/date/years is more "ergonomic" or &
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by javert 6y ago
edit: I removed my comment that was here. It was confusing in a way that I didn't intend. It was going to merely generate toxic responses. That was not my intention at all. I'm sorry.
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by javert 6y ago
> regurgitating algorithms in a reality-show type setting You're not wrong, but this falls under the genus of "companies that suck at interviewing," and thereby hurt themselves (i.e. the company). In other words, it's
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by javert 6y ago
> If you want a job and good career progression the best advice has to be prioritize making friends with lots of people Getting good at interviewing should also be a priority, and is doable. Getting good at interviewing is largely about
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by javert 6y ago
> if nothing matters, then it doesn't matter what you do That is carrying an enormous amount of baggage that isn't in my suggestion. Things do matter, and it does matter what you do. To say otherwise is both incorrect and too p
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by javert 6y ago
Your comment is the equivalent of a defendant in a criminal trial saying, "I'm not guilty," and then prosecutor saying, "Forgive me, but this sounds awfully like what the last guy said, and he murdered his wife!" In
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by javert 6y ago
> instead of parking it safely while this global crisis plays out Because interest rates will never go back up, or if they do, they will be counterbalanced by inflation. This is the view of Ray Dalio at Bridgewater and (presumably) many
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by javert 6y ago
This is why any argument anybody makes about anything needs to be supported by a causal explanation. If there is at least an attempt at a causal explanation, you can evaluate whether or not the advice is worthwhile and/or applicable to
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by javert 6y ago
Hey there. Not sure if you will see this since I'm late to the conversation, but here's a suggestion. Just do what you want. If you don't want to do anything, keep trying/looking for things. (Don't force yourself to
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by javert 6y ago
> Can you justify it in seconds, with something that's not simply a subjective perception or largely-covert moral construct of your own You are making this way too complicated. It's honesty vs. dishonesty. Those of us playing o
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by javert 6y ago
Yes, but that is an entirely separate phenomenon from the one I was raising. Immigration is not the reason the U.S. is not losing the Lockean "rule of law and property rights" layer. It's losing it because other ideas have co
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by javert 6y ago
I concur, but coming from a more historical/legal perspective. The U.S. has always fundamentally been like the Central and South American countries, just with a thin layer of Lockean rule of law and property rights. That layer is quick
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Courage vs. Cowardice, Action vs. Talk, Knowledge vs. Speculation(medium.com)
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by javert 6y ago
DHS is a far bigger threat to our freedom than terrorism. In "policing" work, there is a line where you become a bigger threat than the bad guys, and you become the bad guys. Many DHS agencies don't care. They are self-perpet
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by javert 6y ago
Needs to be retitled (2010)
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by javert 6y ago
I got a response from "freekisanders" that can only be seen with "showdead" turned on. I am reposting here because he made a legitimate comment and it should be seen by people. Freekisanders---if you see this, you need t
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by javert 6y ago
I don't remember exact dates, but I can confirm this. I heard about bitcoin fairly early on from this site.
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by javert 6y ago
Let people decide for themselves what media to believe and what media to disbelieve. It's the only way to have a free society. It may not work if too many people are too stupid. But it may work if enough people are smart enough. And it
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by javert 6y ago
I get what you are saying about the Bible containing information that couldn't have been known at the time it was written, as a hypothetical way to prove that it was divinely inspired. I'm not convinced, but I think it's an i
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by javert 6y ago
Does anybody know of a powerful calculator model (e.g. multi-line display like a graphing calculator) that has the ability to display commas out of the box? For example, if the result is 1,998,241 it should display that way---not 1992241. I
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by javert 6y ago
When you say a "doubting agnostic," I guess you mean "agnostic but doubting it, i.e., maybe there is a God." a) I really like the Narnia books. I tried once to read one of C.S. Lewis's apologetics books (can't
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by javert 6y ago
That article uses a lot of fluff language to say that, for the author, faith is based on believing accounts of the resurrection. In other words, taking peoples' word for it. Definitely not a novel idea (not that it needs to be). I thin
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by javert 6y ago
This is just a forced wealth transfer to people who have managed to partially capture the government.
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by javert 6y ago
The vast majority of corporations are victims, too. Some of the giant ones are not, though.
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by javert 6y ago
In your favored outcome, the government intervenes in a way that a) prevents people who want to be mods, from being mods b) breaks the way the site works What gives you the right to do that? Seriously, if you want to live in a nanny state,
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by javert 6y ago
Therapy isn't religion. There's an analogy there, but it only goes so far. A good therapist is not going to ask you to buy into an ideology/doctrine that requires faith in the religious sense. The word "faith" in &q
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by javert 6y ago
> I can advocate for the Christian worldview I realize it's off topic, but hopefully that's OK---I think we might be able to have an interesting conversation on this. How can you believe in Christianity when there is no direc
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by javert 6y ago
I had a complicated family situation that made it impossible for me to have any sort of peace of mind. You have to get out of that, first. You said it yourself. You named that as the root cause. If it won't realistically go away easily
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by javert 6y ago
Thanks, that is illuminating.

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