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by jmcgough 5y ago
We're talking about more frequent severe weather conditions, heat waves (like the historic one occurring in the PNW), millions displaced from their homes, and a mass extinction event. Sometimes GDP is the wrong metric to optimize for.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
There's "JWT hate" articles on HN because people keep implementing JWT auth without understanding it - they want an easy, cheap way to do auth when talking to different services, but it can be a huge security flaw since you c
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Sometimes drug abuse and alcoholism is just an outcome of other problems. I wouldn't be shocked to hear that he had untreated bipolar or something.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
I mean he certainly could afford some good CPAs to mitigate his tax burden if he wanted to.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
This was my experience too. Tried countless antidepressants starting in middle school. SSRIs/SNRIs never really worked, as an adult they would actually trigger manic episodes (which I misinterpreted as fixing my depression because I wa
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by jmcgough 5y ago
I'd actually agree with you there. If you walk into a psychiatrist's office and tell them you're having depression/anxiety, you'll leave with a script for an SSRI. They exist to write prescriptions and don't ha
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Therapy and a good psychiatrist is a great first step. When you have work issues, anxiety, and other things going on it can really be hard to tease out what's the cause and what's the effect. A good therapist can help you figure t
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by jmcgough 5y ago
I'm more just shocked that they're valued at 1B and are still doing their thing without a clear path to a sellable product. It's great and something I'd like to see more of, but we're long past the days when compani
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Looks like they've just been bleeding money for years: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-17/boston-dy...
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by jmcgough 5y ago
They've gone from Google -> Softbank -> Hyundai in a few years. Does anyone know where their revenue is coming from currently? For all the flashy videos they put out, you so rarely see them that I'm not sure if they're
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by jmcgough 5y ago
How many other SCM tools have you used? In my experience git gets a fair deal of hate, but everyone switched over to it because 1) the alternatives are worse and 2) github revolutionized the way that we write and share software. Before git,
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Probably trying to diversify pronoun usage. Would we be pointing this out if they said 'he'?
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by jmcgough 5y ago
At the same time, I see people leave home in their teens or 20s and work a series of crappy minimum wage jobs and never get a decent one with benefits, because they're busy surviving or don't see a better option. An ideal situatio
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Interesting, thank you.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
The included games seem really creative and interesting, but you're right that it'll be a fun novelty for most people, then get less interesting after a few hours or so. I think the people who will get a lot out of it are people w
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Not trolling, but what case are you referring to? The only ones I'm aware of were where protesters were illegally prevented from gathering. I'm also not sure what they'd be able to do to defend the Jan 6th rioters - it doesn&
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Sadly many people will comment on the headline before they read the article.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Every politician who has attempted or done this has paid a heavy political price. We won't do enough to stop this problem until hundreds of thousands are forced to find new homes, at which point we'll have our hands full with the
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by jmcgough 5y ago
There was a walgreens in downtown oakland that was smashed during the BLM protests. They decided to just never open up again, because theft had cut into their margins so much.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
The cases per capita in SF were about 1/10 those in LA at its peak, so the pandemic in california was really focused in socal.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Most people dying from drug overdoses aren't homeless.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
All of the most affordable places seem pretty horrible to live in, so the information isn't particularly useful.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Friends at blizzard are paid well too, but a lot of them didn't start out in games - they started in devops. Lots of need for that skillset for big MMOs.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Since the comments here are mostly people appalled by the idea of pairing - try it before you knock it. Even the author says there's a lot of benefits to it, but it wore down on them over time. I did pairing for a few year at a company
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by jmcgough 5y ago
A lot of the reason why the curriculum is the way it is (with only allowing graphing calculators) is because TI lobbies aggressively to maintain their monopoly. They sell $15 devices for $150 with many high schoolers required to own one. Fr
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by jmcgough 6y ago
Part of the argument for this is that Menthol actually makes it less harsh on your throat, so it's easier for new smokers to start with Menthols.
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by jmcgough 6y ago
I can empathize with your brother's situation. That kind of thing is horrifying for anyone to imagine. With that said, creeps like this continue to proliferate because the courts only do anything in very rare cases (Cosby or other seri
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by jmcgough 6y ago
They don't have a lot of resources so they only take on cases that are clear injustices. Usually this means that there's good evidence that the person is actually innocent and the trial was completely botched. There are plenty of
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by jmcgough 6y ago
As someone who listens to true crime podcasts, there are loads of people who brag to their friends about committing a crime they didn't do.
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by jmcgough 6y ago
This has been my experience as well. Coaching is part of your job if you want to be a lead or a manager, but it can be very difficult to coach people who aren't receptive to feedback. When I started as a lead I devoted a lot of time an

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