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by jimt1234 5y ago
My mother spent much of her career as a COBOL programmer, dating back to the early 80s. She retired in 2015 and quickly got bored. I talked her into accepting part-time contract work, something to keep her busy. She got flooded by recruiter
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by jimt1234 5y ago
This ^^^!!! People are, or can be, total garbage, especially when they're behind a keyboard and not face-to-face.
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by jimt1234 5y ago
This is a really good point. Intuit profits off the complex tax laws, but the real beneficiaries are the wealthy. Any proposal to significantly simplify the tax laws are gonna be met with huge resistance from the rich and powerful, primaril
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by jimt1234 5y ago
The ease at which misinformation flows these days reminds me of a scene in "The Big Short", where Steve Carell's character says to a group of Wall Street investors, expressing his discontent for the profession, "I though
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by jimt1234 5y ago
> It doesn’t take much to convince “professional journalists” of things, as long as the things confirm their priors. It doesn’t take much to convince “professional journalists” of things, as long as they know it will get clicks. FTFY ;)
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by jimt1234 5y ago
Funny, back in my powerlifting days, I used to get asked a lot about "plateauing". My advice was almost always the same: do squats. The conversation usually went like this: - I'm benching all the time, but I can't get p
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by jimt1234 5y ago
toot?
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by jimt1234 5y ago
Good point (extreme case). However, the "nothing to hide" argument isn't relevant because nothing is hidden; this is all public data. The quick counter-argument seems to be, "You're not trying to hide, so you'v
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by jimt1234 5y ago
Playing devil's advocate: Social media data is public, and morons brag about their crimes on Facebook all the time. Law enforcement should use it to help catch crooks or prevent crimes. This is obviously ripe for abuse, as in OP's
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by jimt1234 5y ago
IMHO, the Commodore 64 was built and marketed around video games, which distinguished it from the other "serious" computers, like the TRS-80 or the IBM-PC. It even used the same joysticks from the old Atari 2600. Back then, video
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by jimt1234 5y ago
> I think there should be a re-evaluation of whether or not to let people build or rebuild in especially fire-prone areas. This is already happening, not by government, but rather by the insurance markets. My friend has lived in a fire-p
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by jimt1234 5y ago
Rejecting people that promote the "Sandy Hook was fake!" conspiracy theory and even harassing the parents of murdered children isn't a way to avoid offending the "progressive attitudes of Silicon Valley". It's
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by jimt1234 5y ago
THIS ^^^. My two-cents: 90% of recent "bike lane" implementations in my area and the whole "share the road" concept is bullshit. This is just aggravating drivers and giving a false sense of safety to bicyclists. Cars and
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by jimt1234 5y ago
My guess is all the military contractors in Afghanistan are pivoting to "cybersecurity", and this is just marketing toward that. As one door closes, another one opens.
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by jimt1234 5y ago
I took out a loan and bought a fancy sports car right after I got my first job. I was proudly showing it off to colleagues in the parking lot, when my manager walked by, stopped and smugly said, "I've got you now!" That snide
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by jimt1234 5y ago
A friend of mine "retired" from the military at 38. She joined right out of high school. The Navy put her through med school, then she served as a ship doctor for over 10 years, traveling to dozens of countries. She "retired&
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by jimt1234 5y ago
> ... a thoroughly documented, carefully thought-out, and narrowly-scoped backdoor is still a backdoor.
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by jimt1234 5y ago
IMHO, two things: (1) The gradual destruction of labor unions. When I was a kid, labor unions were strong, seemed like every adult was part of one. And there existed a "brotherhood" amongst the various unions. When one union went
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by jimt1234 5y ago
When I was a kid growing up in Middle America (I'm in my 50s now), it seemed like people really cared about these types of labor issues. I remember most adults took interest in the working conditions at the local auto plant, even if th
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by jimt1234 6y ago
Similar situation happened to me back in the 80's when I was just a nerdy kid with a Commodore 64. I used to meet up weekly with a handful of other C64 nerds that all came together through a popular, local BBS. (I think one of the guys
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by jimt1234 8y ago
Sorry for the long post, but I have to tell this story, as I saw 'civil forfeiture' up-front-and-center 25 years ago. My college girlfriend and her family migrated from Mexico in the early 70's, worked their asses off and all
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by jimt1234 9y ago
Feature request: Search. If I don't have the ability to search search through all my Notes/Todos/Code/Links, then it's kinda useless to me. I like it a lot, though. Thumbs up.