jonfromsf

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by jonfromsf 3y ago
police freely use "human trafficking" to refer to all prostitution. Which is absurd.
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by jonfromsf 3y ago
Just buy quality used stuff, it is almost free. Facebook marketplace is your friend. That guy with a truck is your other friend.
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by jonfromsf 3y ago
What show is this?
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by jonfromsf 3y ago
Definitely written by chatGPT or similar.
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by jonfromsf 3y ago
Agreed. The internet is full of sad men who didn't successfully figure out how to talk to girls in high school / college. There's a critical window for learning how to be social that if missed is difficult to recover from, be
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by jonfromsf 3y ago
Those high-powered electric unicycles are next.
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by jonfromsf 3y ago
I don't tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I'll give them something a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it's for the birds.
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by jonfromsf 3y ago
What are you going on about?
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by jonfromsf 3y ago
Everyone needs to understand probability and statistics maybe 10X better than they currently do. That should be the focus!
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by jonfromsf 3y ago
What is PG?
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by jonfromsf 3y ago
Wow I always thought AWS was crazy complicated just like .. because stuff is hard. But you're right, if it's complex enough people define their career identity as an "AWS expert" and at that point you have lock-in for li
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by jonfromsf 3y ago
Herzner is way cheaper. But it doesn't have a database service or an S3 analog. Both of those are needed if you want to avoid spending a lot of money on operations staff.
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by jonfromsf 4y ago
The top four banks are too big to fail and WILL be rescued, as happened in 2008. Bank of America or Citi failing would be the end of America as we know it. That's why everyone will move to the bigger banks. Which is obviously not what
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by jonfromsf 4y ago
Because the best sex toys for men are prostate vibrators.
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by jonfromsf 4y ago
Yes, a smaller pool of donors. Worst still for finding matches is multi-racial people.
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by jonfromsf 4y ago
This is risky advice. Many (most?) people need social context to create meaning and will get depressed if they don't have a job to do and people relying on them. Look at what happens to people when they retire.
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by jonfromsf 4y ago
Is it true that Java isn't slower than Python/Ruby/.Net? What are the fast ORMs and MVC frameworks for it that let you build a web app quickly the way ROR / Django / whatever .net people use?
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by jonfromsf 4y ago
It seems likely.
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by jonfromsf 4y ago
My parents used to have a simple approach to traveling on the Greek Islands. They would buy a Lonely Planet Greece guidebook, then go to the dock in Athens and look at the signs for the ferries. They would only go to an island that wasn&#x2
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by jonfromsf 4y ago
These are "pig butchering scams" run out of China. https://www.rrstar.com/story/business/2022/04/30/new-pig-but... They befriend lonely people (usually men) and slowly draw them into a cry
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by jonfromsf 4y ago
Isn't this exactly what crypto is for?
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by jonfromsf 5y ago
which competitor are you thinking of?
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by jonfromsf 5y ago
How do you watch TV? I tried and just couldn't hear it / watch it comfortably.
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by jonfromsf 5y ago
Thats the easy part of self driving.
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by jonfromsf 5y ago
Check out the big brain on Brad over here!
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by jonfromsf 5y ago
This is almost certainly true. Professional wine reviewers fail taste tests all the time.
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by jonfromsf 5y ago
Haven't the Taliban just taught us a 20-year lesson on how some guys with rifles and pickup trucks can humiliate a superpower? Low intensity warfare isn't about winning battles but disrupting governance. The guns in US citizens ha
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by jonfromsf 5y ago
He's talking about public stock which is liquid (hence the reference to FAANG). Obviously private equity is very hard to sell and not comparable.
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by jonfromsf 5y ago
Githubs new project management tool is essentially a github-aware spreadsheet. It's surprisingly awesome.
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by jonfromsf 5y ago
There isn't one anymore. It's one of the great tragedies of the last several years of hyper-polarization.

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