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by jmagoon 13y ago
This was my experience when traveling in India: "Is this train XXXX going to XXXX?" "Yes." Four hours later--no, definitely not the right train.
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by jmagoon 13y ago
Some of the insanely pretentious people on here drive me crazy. It's like the guy who sat next to you in class and always derailed class with someone inane humblebrag or argument with a professor or classmate. It's like a lifelong
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by jmagoon 13y ago
maybe it's a language issue, but the weird paternalism in this post is making me queasy
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by jmagoon 13y ago
If 75% of the polled public believes that linking minimum wage to the cost of living is a good and correct thing, and legislation continues to be passed attempting to lower or inhibit raising minimum wage, who would you suggest controls the
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by jmagoon 13y ago
A general attitude that I've seen as a new user on HN (and a new developer): "If you don't learn something you enjoy (messing with computers) in exactly the same way that I did, you're wrong!" For some, there's
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by jmagoon 13y ago
This is the oddest thing I've ever read on this website.
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by jmagoon 13y ago
Third for meditation practice. On a subtle level, the mind when distracted is attempting to be somewhere else, and training in coming back to exactly where it is now is a good way to work with your habitual behaviors (procrastination). Medi
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by jmagoon 13y ago
Is it odd that this sounds like normal human behavior to me?
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by jmagoon 13y ago
IF there's a fixed cost for employee wages, then $2 more to one person would come at $2 less from another. As he states, "Theoretically, it seems like there would be ways to free up more money for labor, and there are some methods
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by jmagoon 13y ago
Here's a nice response to all the millenial baiting out there: http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2013/images/07/09/bors-millenni...
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by jmagoon 13y ago
Do you have examples of that? Because he has several examples of the opposite in his talk.
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Because it might cause them to take themselves less seriously.
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by jmagoon 13y ago
What's wrong with reusing code? Isn't that exactly what libraries (and frameworks) are for? Isn't that a fundamental programming principle (code reuse)?
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by jmagoon 13y ago
I'm not sure if this applies to artistic theory, but in film theory there's an entire discipline based around formalist, or stylistic critique. Briefly, they would say that an effective ideological argument stems from style--two f
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by jmagoon 13y ago
The oddest thing about this is that people seem totally fine that corporations control all of their personal data (and use it to develop new revenue streams), but if the government gets that data (that already exists), then there's a s
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by jmagoon 14y ago
Hmmm...'colorblindness' by a privileged group is a refusal to acknowledge the real inadequacies between social groups. Basically, "I treat everyone the same--I don't see color" (or gender, or sexual orientation, etc.) is a luxury that only
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by jmagoon 14y ago
Logically following that "tame" sexual jokes (to you) should be acceptable to everyone, because it's "less bad" than other things you've heard. Huh?
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This is what's commonly known as the ignorance of privilege. It's white people saying, "Why can't I make jokes about black people, when black people can make jokes about me?" It demonstrates a total ignorance of what it means to be a discri
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by jmagoon 14y ago
Agreed. It always strikes me as so odd when men say things like, "I have to walk on eggshells around that person, because they're constantly getting offended." News flash, it's not that hard to not offend people, and men aren't suddenly for