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by jimbokun 5mo ago
If those who sat out were forced to vote for one of the two major party candidates, Trump’s margin may have been larger. I think liberals and progressives have a higher propensity to vote, so you can’t assume the non voters are less likely
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Manned aircraft are largely a waste of money in the era of drone warfare.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
But would be even harder to wrap your head around if you tried to implement similar capabilities in Java.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Comments like this always confuse me as object oriented programs riddled with state are much harder to reason about to me.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Yes, once it’s called gelato it becomes much more expensive.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Yeah the author is annoyed by tourists trying to learn and asking questions and by those expecting everything to be the same as back home. I bet the ones who never travel or leave their own country annoy him, too. Of course at the end he co
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
This is just wrong. The Marshall Plan was the smartest foreign policy decision the US ever made. Turned enemies into allies and got the world acting in our interests without the overhead of running actual colonies.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
The Americans traveling to Europe are usually not the Trump voters. There are exceptions of course.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Seems to me most Europeans are sincerely torn between the flood of dollars Americans bring into their economies and the staggering crowds making it difficult to enjoy their own cities and vacation spots. Which is the feeling this article is
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
The Italians are some of the very best at preserving those traditions. They have strict regulations around what can be labeled prosciutto or parmigiano reggiano and many other products. Which ironically is why they are being inundated by t
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Yes, the big reveal is that he understands perfectly well he’s one of the asshole tourists in another context, too.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
“No one goes to those hipster burger places making smash burgers now, they’re too crowded.” - Yogi Berra
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
What if your theory about how you reason turns out to be different from how you actually reason?
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Functional is far more comfortable to me. Trying to model all that state spread through out your program with no way to really isolate it or just reason about a small part of the program at a time, I find very stressful.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
If that’s your concern you don’t need to be concerned with any technical quality of any language. Just count job postings by language and learn the one with the highest value.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Mohenjo-Daro, the Norway of the Ancient World!
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I KNEW IT!
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
> nobody can read a bill Especially not our politicians.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Who the hell can go 10s of thousands of dollars in debt to have Socratic discussions without gaining a credential valued by employers at the end of it?
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
More like being mad at social media in my mind.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
In an advanced economy everyone’s the middle man for something. We’re not self sustaining agrarian farmers anymore.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Society would be better served if AI was eradicated tomorrow. But since that’s not going to happen it’s in everyone’s self interest to use AI as effectively as possible. It’s the world’s biggest Prisoner’s Dilemma.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Yes, that describes most of us right now.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Well seems like this is de facto the way companies are hiring right now. Unemployment for new grads is much higher than for people who have been in the industry for a while.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Maybe they can open a campus in Texas where all their residents are moving to.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
They have very little to gain and a hell of a lot to lose.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
-> Microsoft -> AWS.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Then start with one of the pre-req courses.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
They use it and hate it at the same time.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
My understanding is that research shows more learning happens when the student has to struggle with the material to solve problems and answer questions.

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