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by jbob2000 6y ago
The film industry has participants that are willingly abiding by strict safety protocols. You couldn’t get the shopping crowds that serve small businesses to do the same.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Science doesn't have all the answers. My partner recently got into a heated debate with a pharmaceutical company she was working for because they wanted something added to their standards of care document for a rare genetic disorder th
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by jbob2000 6y ago
My partner recently finished her PhD and has started working as a medical writer. During her academic career, it was beat into her head don’t plagiarize, everything must be yours . In her first review after a few weeks on the job, her mana
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by jbob2000 6y ago
This reminds me of a debate I had in high school, where the topic was (and I quote verbatim) "A country that does not provide universal healthcare to its residents is evil". I was assigned the side that argued that it's not e
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Most subs don't allow you to promote your own blog posts. Because why not just make the post right on the subreddit? That's what reddit is for. The whole premise of trying to drag users away from reddit to your own domain is total
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by jbob2000 6y ago
There is a campaign mission where you have to hobble a broken Panzer through a bunch of Allied territory. The voiceovers for the infantry can be heard sarcastically commenting about the quality of German engineering.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
It'll be interesting to read his thoughts about Company of Heroes, should he ever get to that game. The developers naively implemented the Nazis, Allies, and the Soviets as historically faithful as they could - which made the Nazis inc
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by jbob2000 6y ago
It's an online dollar store, meant to give the experience of consumerism to poor people, who otherwise wouldn't have enough money to participate.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Are you happy? I missed so many experiences sitting in front of the computer all day, it didn’t really get me any further than if I had taken a more modest interest. YouTube and Minecraft and these digital realities are fake realities. What
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by jbob2000 6y ago
For the monthly cost of your Tesla, you could probably take a taxi/uber everywhere you needed to go. You can afford 20 cab rides at $40/ride per month, totaling $800/month. Do you take your car out more than 20 times a month?
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by jbob2000 6y ago
That’s a 40% increase in GDP. Would you take a 40% raise at your current job?
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by jbob2000 6y ago
There are healthy ways to engage with science, but magnifying disagreements ("No wonder that among the serious and dedicated Scientists..."), appealing to personal freedom ("...As a person who loves his personal and indvidual
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by jbob2000 6y ago
For hobbyist traffic, you don’t need a standard 2X though.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
It blows my mind that people set up personal stuff like this when something like "git push heroku master" does the same thing.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I’ve had psychedelic experiences; they really just inflate your ego, and I’m sure it’s easy to conflate ego with god.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Mailers can’t risk getting blocked. Misinformation often looks like spam and needs to spread quickly in order to work. The people behind this type of media don’t care if they get blocked after the messages go out, they’ve already done their
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by jbob2000 6y ago
You’re conflating software with “the physical medium used to store and run software”. Computers, like the paper that books are printed on, are scarce, but the software or story, is not. I can recite Harry Potter without the book, the story
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by jbob2000 6y ago
My father is a 65 year old professor and he now loves digital teaching. He’s terrible with computers, he single-finger types (despite all my attempts to help him improve over the years), and still loves it. His college has him pre-recording
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I really like the idea about using a smartphone and bluetooth speaker for the dash system. I'm wondering how big of a cost savings it could be for other budget cars, where you just have an app for climate control and Bring-Your-Own-Spe
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I hate these types of certifications if only for the fact that I get asked by people outside the development community if getting the cert will help them enter the community and get a job. I always have to give them a deflationary speech ab
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by jbob2000 6y ago
The thing I struggle with is knowing whether or not the solution I designed was biased towards SQL (because that's what I learned years ago) and therefore would be better suited for SQL. OR maybe if I learned more about ORMs I could
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I'm just noting the dichotomy between a non-english speaker saying "just use the english IT terms!" and other non-english speakers essentially saying "don't erase my language!".
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by jbob2000 6y ago
In Canada, we have laws that penalize our companies for not having "accurate" French translations. At my company, I notice this makes the managers very concerned, so they don't take any chances on translations. We also get a
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by jbob2000 6y ago
My take is that the western world pursued the lockdown purely out of the will of its people, rather than that of its governments. There's a great post (which I'll look for) that highlights that, no matter which US state you were i
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by jbob2000 6y ago
You’re at a disadvantage today if you prefer reading on paper, it’s too slow. I’ve tried to go back to paper and I can’t. The information density is low and it’s too hard to maneuver paper quick enough to make up for that. Computers create
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Your assumption that wage should align to productivity is false. It’s pretty hard to justify some athlete and artist wages this way, you have to really stretch what it means to be “productive” Wage aligns with replaceability - how easy is i
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Your additions still fit my premise; that we should all be contributing to the “spaceship”. As it relates to one of the other comments - the homeless people outside his apartment do not, in any way, contribute to the spaceship. They must be
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I like to imagine this in my head: What if we were stuck on a spaceship with 100 other humans? There’s a lot to maintain on a spaceship to keep it operating so we all don’t die. What if there was a contingent of 10 people on this ship who r
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by jbob2000 6y ago
My cousin works for the government and talks about how overtime is very easy to abuse if you want to. In his case, he manages water works, which involves testing water regularly and inspecting equipment. At any point during the weekend or h
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by jbob2000 6y ago
No they don't. If you want that, you can use Android. You can develop Android apps and buy devices that use it. There is no reason to force Apple to change when there is an equal competitor in the market that allows what you want.

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