krageon

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by krageon 4y ago
> governed through laws passed by the people either directly or indirectly This is so disingenuous it may as well be outright fabrication.
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by krageon 4y ago
> stifle innovation We have plenty of free market examples of why "innovation" in the connector space almost always spawns lemons and makes everything worse in the meantime.
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by krageon 4y ago
Python is a great language, but not if you want to glue together shell commands. It is very verbose and quite obviously not a first-class citizen. That is what you use bash for.
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by krageon 4y ago
A "this is not intuitive" argument can be made about every formalised system and is not interesting: It will always be true for someone, no matter what you do. Get used to it being otherwise, then it will not bother you anymore.
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by krageon 4y ago
Being smart doesn't mean that whatever you're doing is.
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by krageon 4y ago
> Are they still a good use of time to write? No. If someone that matters reviews your resume, they won't care about the letter. It is something people write when they expect they'll be read by HR. In that case, you should writ
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by krageon 4y ago
If your resume is a single page, you send the message that most of what you did isn't relevant, isn't important or doesn't matter. I see this as a red flag.
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by krageon 4y ago
It's braggy and reeks of narcissism. It's also probably not true.
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by krageon 4y ago
Pointing it out / getting people to acknowledge it actually does the opposite: Folks will focus on your perceived shortcoming more and most of them won't turn that into constructive change. In effect you're just making it wor
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by krageon 4y ago
I'm not hand waving it, I literally did it. It is not easy but also not some terrifying abyss. I think in such scenarios it doesn't help people to present this as a really big problem, they are helped with the reality: It is somet
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by krageon 4y ago
As a short person, it is a small disadvantage but not impossible to overcome with significant force of personality and fitness. As disgusting as it is, it is not unreasonable to look at yourself compensating in this way and realising that e
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by krageon 4y ago
If you are more beautiful (or at the very least more trained) than the person next to you, folks will listen to you more. Your natural looks influence that, but focusing on that won't help: You cannot change that. Going to the gym is s
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by krageon 4y ago
It is not worth destroying ecosystems for a little more power, local or otherwise. That kind of thinking is what got us to our current day, with everything going to shit.
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by krageon 4y ago
Isolating your country is a measure that only makes sense when you view problems as something someone else makes, with solutions being something you primarily provide. It is unhealthy and bad for cooperation to think this way, and a "l
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by krageon 4y ago
I was ready to be upset at this, but actually it's not such a bad idea. It's a single shared flight for one person and you get heating for months in return. There is no universe in which this doesn't make sense.
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by krageon 4y ago
They are off-grid. It says so elsewhere in the comments.
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by krageon 4y ago
The reading material is essentially an entire twitter thread saying "nuclear is the beginning and the end of the answer and everyone who is against it is not thinking right. Anti-nuclear sentiment is rampant and the problem". I fo
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by krageon 4y ago
With respect, I think it is reasonable to assume post primary school education. The example given is perhaps a poor one.
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by krageon 4y ago
> Per my knowledge US is the only country which stubbornly (and illogically) considers Sunday to be the first day of the week; In a few EU countries people have started implying Sunday could somehow be the start (even though they are pro
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by krageon 4y ago
I think it is more about a structural change in EU politics: Far, far more right-wing adherence and populist parties at the top. This means poor stewardship and knee-jerk politics, which does tend to lead to war.
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by krageon 4y ago
More weapons in any conflict only lead to less safety, not more. I've been trying for a lot of years to tell US gun proponents this but I have never managed to have it land.
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by krageon 4y ago
As amusing as this is to read (you went to a frankly incredible amount of effort to make this sound disturbing and to my mind you absolutely succeeded), the emotion is somewhat muted by not being able to figure out whether or not you are se
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by krageon 4y ago
They do not just try, they succeed. It's disturbing because you can be sure this is a person who is dead now (and this was the process of them dying), but being able to take a drink is impressive.
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by krageon 4y ago
Nobody cares what changed, and nobody should have to care.
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by krageon 4y ago
The core of what they do needs maybe 2% of what they spend. That they spend more doesn't mean they need money, it means they are frivolous spenders.
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by krageon 4y ago
All large US companies are guilty of this behaviour, almost to the point that you can be certain any project with a large US corporate sponsor is going to have problems.
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by krageon 4y ago
I clicked this thinking "how bad could it be?" and closed it as fast as I could. This is nightmare fuel, probably don't click it.
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by krageon 4y ago
> I used to work in ads The fact that you admit to working in an industry that actively tries to take as much agency away from others as it can without (apparently) feeling bad about it is really terrible.
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by krageon 4y ago
> What other bizarre opinions, internal or external, would they have? From experience: When your government spies on you and locks folks up without due process, this is good because it keeps the children safe. And a host of other convict
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by krageon 4y ago
Even if they absolutely need it to eat or it is "normal" (as I was repeatedly informed in NA), I refuse to tip an asshole. It is not my problem that they go hungry, it is my problem that they made my day worse. Why reward that beh

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