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by juniper_strong 6y ago
You asked people to read section 230 and you claimed that section 230 says absolutely nothing about impartiality. I read section 230 and mentioned parts of it that I think are relevant to impartiality. In particular, I don't see how yo
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
To me, "It is the policy of the United States ... to encourage the development of technologies which maximize user control over what information is received by individuals, families, and schools who use the Internet and other interacti
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Well my parents didn't do that and I still got a skateboard.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
At what age should a kid be allowed to buy a skateboard?
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
"only 40%" Step out of your bubble and think about what it would mean if 40% of Americans worked from home full time. It can be done, we've seen that, now people are running the numbers and seeing what that means. Pre-covid i
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
I think the last friend I made by first meeting them in person was in the early 90's - people I knew from my home town. Every one since then was someone I knew online for many years first.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
For me, plugging it in worked flawlessly, getting it to work with Bluetooth took some fiddling. Got it to work but it was one of those Linux things where I don't know what I did to get it to work, but it works now, and the next time I
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Have you made your last friend or could you make different ones if you moved somewhere else?
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
The comment mentioned Facebook but that doesn't mean you should compare Facebook salaries in San Jose to non-Facebook salaries in Dallas. Compare Facebook salaries in San Jose to Facebook salaries in Dallas, that would be a fair compar
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
According to the resource that was used for Dallas salaries, 150K is the average San Jose salary.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
That's hilarious. They make the battery impossible to replace for consumers and then you need a new phone every two years and you see that as a feature. AAPL is a strong buy.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
>> L4 total comp at Google, or E4 salaries at Facebook, is about $260K/year ... Average total comp for a software engineer in Dallas is $110K/year You're using average (median I hope) salary for Dallas vs. high end sala
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Who gets to decide what is a political search and what isn't? And why do they get to decide that?
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
> the prefrontal cortex doesn't finish developing in healthy adult humans until around the age of 25 Another way to look at this is that if you are young, you only have until the age of 25 until your brain deteriorates to the point
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
> Google search is barely political Search for "american mathematician" on Google and the first six images that come back with the search results are of black mathematicians, 3 of them women. That is political. Nothing wrong wi
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
> In the US, over 3 million Puerto Ricans are now allowed to migrate to the mainland US (say to DC). The borders are completely open to them. In Europe, similarly, around 20M Romanians are allowed to Sweden. But they don’t According to W
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
OK, I see what you're saying, thanks for the clarification. I guess there is a tendency to overreact and think, "I want the exact opposite of the Bay Area", when what you really want is cheaper rent and a tad less shit on the
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
This is a false dichotomy. There are hundreds of millions of Americans that live in places that are neither the Bay Area nor the boonies. In any of the 50 biggest metro areas in the US, there are employment choices for programmers.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
"The median 1-bed price in San Francisco last month was $2830, a 20.3% decrease from a year ago. Not only is this drop among the largest yearly decreases Zumper has ever recorded in our history of tracking rental prices, but it was als
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
>> In most cases coding is mentally exhausting I have the opposite experience. Every thing in software development other than the coding is mentally exhausting. When I'm all-in writing code time stands still, it's just brill
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
> Ecclesiastes is one of the finest existential works ever Absolutely agree with that. Ever by Flipper is up there too.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Best coffee you can get for $1.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
It still does. Several of them.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
I don't know. If I ended up out of the whole deal with two guitars and some golf clubs, maybe time to get a real amp.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Well now you need a guitar amp.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
There are places where it is allowed to eat dogs and forbidden to eat pigs. And I'm pretty sure the arctic explorers both loved and ate their dogs.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
I don't agree with you. I've gone from 0K to 200K in my life and more money is always better, it's more freedom and it's more happiness and there has never been any downside. Making more money has always made me happier
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
> The second crash this year has already started It was what, a little over 30% drawdown, that's a crash now? I've lived through 5 crashes then, hope to live through a few more. > with worse unemployment than the great reces
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
I agree. We're at 412 ppm outside and there is a long way to go before indoor levels are an environmental issue rather than an HVAC one.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
I think I've used it twice in production code over the last 20 years. The first was to traverse a directory tree. I wouldn't write it that way now since there is now a standard library to do what I was doing then. The second was t

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