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by jimmy1 8y ago
> Because I don’t really care about someone’s moral belief in what’s right or wrong as long as it doesn’t effect anyone else. Moral beliefs tend to eventually end up externalized in some form or fashion. What then? What if I told you th
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Not meaning this in a combative fashion, but why is only what you think right in this case? I think there are plenty of people that were actually OK with the 3 strike penalty, and more that would be OK with 25 years. Why set the bar for the
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;) He is the father of multitasking! Definitely an important figure in computing history -- he created the Amiga Computer operating system kernel and also was a pivotal figure in HP's early successes as well. I think he works at Roku
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That is very fair. I think it would be more stomachable to people if Zuckerberg wasn't making billions off of it in the process.
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I am not saying that to belittle the man in any sort of way, or diminish his accomplishments, I am just simply saying it shouldn't be surprising that people haven't heard of some other people, despite how famous others think he or
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> There are deep sociological and psychological issues that have been uncovered over the last couple years, that have always existed beneath the surface in society. At a time of hyperconnection, if it wasn't Facebook surfacing them,
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Having worked in tech my whole life and been a frequent visitor of the site, I have never heard of him. Regardless, this is still fair criticism. This would be like seeing in the scrolling banner of "Breaking News" on CNN "&l
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by jimmy1 8y ago
From WebMD on Naegleria Fowleri (the brain eating amoeba) > Naegleria can't live in salt water. It can't survive in properly treated swimming pools or in properly treated municipal water. > Most cases of N. fowleri disease o
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by jimmy1 8y ago
I still cannot to this day get pip working correctly on my mac -- it is eternally damned to never run python correctly, and if it wasn't for rvm and shell magic, the same would be true for ruby.
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I have a variation of your claim since I think "true AI" is unfeasible: we will never have fully driverless cars until we build the infrastructure to support them, and in that case, we would have been 100 times better off building
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You can make a ton of money by sitting in a bar and listening to a group of women express their grievances to each other, and the extents they would be willing to go to remedy said grievances and then solving that problem -- uncomfortable b
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> Brains aren't so different from muscle fibers ... they can grow and learn anything with enough activation. While this line of thinking has become en vogue, especially to dismiss the notion of IQ entirely, I think doing so causes m
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> Also regardless of the topic, double standards are rampant in this community. Most of us speak out against against Google because we like most of Google and want to continue to use their services, just not to thrilled about some thin
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You have highlighted a key distinction here, but proceeded to go back to "kids" but I wanted to highlight something that the US HHS found when studying the gender differences between bullying and that is girls tend to experience v
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Think of olympic lifters. Pyyros Dimas, a guy who isn't "huge" (compared to say football players or body builders) won a Gold for the clean and jerk at 215 kgs (474 lbs) in the 85kg weight class (187 lbs). There is something
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by jimmy1 8y ago
You hit the nail on the head. They cater to their voting blocks with blue meat issues or red meat issues depending on what they think is most popular. That's it. Point blank. It's about staying in power as long as you can until yo
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I am not speaking optimized in terms of perfection I am talking about optimized in terms of revenue generation. At a certain point your offering is it's offering, people found the maximum value out of it, and making it easier to use or
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I certainly agree older folk yelling at younger whippersnappers is a constant, but turn it on it's head for a moment: when it happens the other way around, no one questions it. "It's the Boomer's fault!" Millennial&
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What if you have done 1, 2 and 3, and now small tweaks are all you have left? At what point do you consider an experience "optimized" and say we just can't squeeze anything else out of this?
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c) "yoloculture" (as I like to call it) greatly emphasis the self as the key virtue, hence the millennial and younger can't be bothered sacrificing "Sunday Funday" to attend an inconvenient service at 9 in the morni
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/r/LateStageCapitalism/ But if you are being serious... Because $300 dollars for a drug that people rely on to live is too high, and it makes more economical sense to continue to sell alive people a drug at a price they can a
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> The home prices are the data to support my hypothesis. If there wasn't demand for houses then prices would fall. Demand for houses means people want to move there. If there were a net migration out of the state, prices would be dr
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To me it indicates much more than that: high taxes, high regulatory fees, high cost of labor. The median cost per square foot for a home in California is $319 dollars, the median cost per square foot for the entire U.S is $151. The median h
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Call me crazy, but as an outsider looking in with attachment to California (many friends moved from there, brother's wife from there, I visit often), isn't part of their empowerment of NIMBY's out of fear that if they don&#x2
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These types of comments are generally shunned here, but I have to say, this is very well said and exactly how I feel about this.
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40 hours is the target. In practice, most salaried employees work around 50-60 hours a week -- more if you count checking and responding to email after work / pager duty / etc
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The same thing that happens when they watch other people play sports or chess or ping pong, or when I watch other people complete home improvement projects that I have been putting off for years (I swear honey, I am going to build us the ra
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by jimmy1 8y ago
There are few things I get more enjoyment out of than driving a car that corners well through a beautiful mountainous road like the Blue Ridge Parkway through the Appalachian, or up through Yosemite from Fresno. When I need to clear my head
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Disclaimer: This is my own personal advice. It is different from what has been commented so far, but hope it might offer a different perspective or angle. Don't believe your labels, even one's you give yourself. Why do you think y
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It definitely is over-hyped, but it really gives you the knowledge of what type of tools and communication styles and techniques that other people in your organization are drawing upon since it contains all the pseudo-intellectual bullshi

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