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> I feel the weight of an invisible black committee that I represent and speak on behalf of. I am sorry that we do this, as I now know how it makes you feel. For some perspective, many white people do this because they don't see the
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I see it a little differently, Angular 1 lost momentum because it was a bad framework. It was clearly written by people that did not have a lot of experience productionalizing code. Further they choose new and convoluted naming for concepts
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It gets worse as a freelancer, due to the fact that for 6 months you may be doing React, then back to Angular then you are on a legacy JSP or ASP project. You really can't blame people for wanting to optimize for future market demand a
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You have to back flush them and (at least for the two I have had in my life) tend to break a lot needing plumbing and electrical repair. Also the salt is corrosive so you need to be diligent as to where it is installed. The installers insta
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The point is not that I am hurting Sony with my protest of their actions. The point is I am not compromising my values on what I think is right and wrong. The difference between them and anti-cheats in games are that they installed it witho
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pretty much, they just use a lot of petroleum distillates and alkalies to accomplish the same task, in the newer stuff.
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Wood dye and wood stain are different in the US, here is a good article on the differences: https://www.woodcraft.com/blog_entries/stain-or-dye#:~:text=... . You can make your own wood conditioner by mixing 70% varnish
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Yes in some municipalities, they do not create a security out of the debt, but I believe the majority of municipalities do.
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Relax and don't take all advice and catch sayings a gospel. I have risen thru the ranks to the CTO position several times in my career and I brought my friends along with me. If he is a good worker, he will remain a good worker most li
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Sadly, as much as, I too would like to pin every bad thing on communism, I have to agree with you. If anything the economic realities of communism created a mindset of creating things as simple and reliable as possible. The AK 47 probably b
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If you do not have a well you most likely do not need a softener and it will just be another maintenance item and expense. If you have city water you would be better off with an activated charcoal filter or a RO unit.
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Not for land taxes at least not in the US, if you do not pay your land taxes, the bill goes up for auction, someone pays it and you owe that person interest and principle. If you do not pay it for a certain amount of years, they can call fo
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I will throw my hat in with you, I have never, ever, ever bought a Sony product after that incident. Had you or I done the same thing (hacking and exploiting that many computers) we would probably just be seeing the light of day now from ou
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The thing about learning Latin (not that I am great at it), at least for an English native speaker, and the epiphany English language speakers have, is the realization that language can have structure and can be discover-able, if I know a r
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Probably a better explanation is everything is whole. The problem is you are trying to envision it from the perspective of analysis, when what they are describing is a visualization of their feelings, emotions, and perceptions sometimes we
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Careful what you wish for development in the 70's, 80's and the beginning of the 90's was fragmented and we had a wealth of systems and languages to dive into and explore. Then Windows dominated the desktop, Linux ate the ser
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I try to explain this to people all the time. People discount tribal knowledge. I always use the analogy what if we where hired to build an app for Islamic banking, and ask them do you know anything about Islamic banking usually the answer
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Well being a cannibal is a self limiting demographic, I mean you peer group is bound to shrink. It has to be a pretty lonely.
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I was once in 10-15 ft seas, not really a big deal but we got hit by a three sisters event and I will say that was the scariest event I have ever seen. Basically it's a set of 3 rouge waves these where about 20-30 ft. We where in a sma
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I can second that, it really turned me off to Dell's I switched from a high end Dell to a Sager for this exact issue.
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I don't know about depression, as I do not suffer from it, but I do know getting drunk during a PTSD episode is a sure fire path to suicide. PTSD suffers actually have a higher suicide rate than depression and alcohol pours flames on t
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I don't want to minimize it, but the cardiovascular risks are minimal if you don't have a serious underlining condition. They increase BP a little over what caffeine does and less than Nicotine does. The lack of cravings is a weir
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Funny enough those of us with ADD/ADHD don't have a high dependancy profile for stimulants we just don't get the euphoria that others describe from using them. Now I have never abused mine I am sure you can get there if you t
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Funny you mentioned the dishes, because that is one of those really simple tasks that I would ignore to focus on whatever I was focused on. Now I do the dishes to take a break, almost subconsciously. Any cleaning used to require it's o
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Yes obscure might not have been the best fit. But it is a really old treatment for ADHD and is not used much now days. A lot of that has to do with patents and no pharmaceutical companies pushing it. Others have to do with the fact that it
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I have been on them for several years, had to go up in dose in the first 6 months but after that they have worked ever since. I take an obscure and old ADHD medicine called Desoxen and my dosage is 15 MG twice a day, it has been the same do
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I would second this having hard fast rules works, but for me, meds where the real night and day difference. It's literally like someone flips a switch in my brain when I am on, or off ADHD medication. I get so single task focused off t
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So one of the remote contracts I worked used this tool, when I first saw and used it, I thought it was the dumbest idea ever. After using it for a while, I think it is one of the most brilliant remote collaboration tools out there. My only
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> I was with you until the "cast (sic) system" You will have to take this as second hand information as I am not familiar with the relics of the cast system. But as he relayed it to me. When you go on a date with a girl that wo
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Thank you, it is good to hear. You know you put words out there and you don't really know if it contributes any value to anyone or not. I just try to relay my life lessons.
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