kylebyproxy

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by kylebyproxy 5y ago
Sic aside, I don't follow your line of reasoning. Care to elaborate?
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by kylebyproxy 5y ago
Compulsory voting in an unengaged populace can only serve to lower signal-to-noise ratio. How many times do we need to relearn "garbage in, garbage out"? The responsible ballot choice when uninformed is "abstain". AFAIA,
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by kylebyproxy 5y ago
Ehh, not _that_ carefully. Real inflation is notoriously difficult to track, as you need to take into consideration things like decreases in manufacturing quality, ingredient substitutions, planned obsolescence, etc.
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by kylebyproxy 5y ago
I'd love to see companies warm up to nontraditional employment arrangements. I've always wanted to be able to split my time between different jobs; e.g., half the year in an office environment, then half the year doing something o
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by kylebyproxy 5y ago
Obligatory The Onion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
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by kylebyproxy 5y ago
Check your ingredient labels. Over the past decade, we've shifted away from HFCS to use more refined sugar. Sauce: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/sugar-sweeteners/backg...
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by kylebyproxy 5y ago
But then you'd have unilateral coercive power over me. It needs to be a two-way street for either of us to be sure the other isn't a bad actor. I'll happily broadcast my entire (boring) existence so long as everyone else does
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by kylebyproxy 5y ago
Ehh, I look at it more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%E2%80%93time_tradeoff Either we can have more stuff and larger material/waste/energy/emissions footprint to save us some time/effort o
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by kylebyproxy 5y ago
> contains swearwords Grow up.
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by kylebyproxy 5y ago
The obvious boss move here would be for all the ladies to choregraph excerpts from 4'33" this year.
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by kylebyproxy 5y ago
It's a 4:20 reeference
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by kylebyproxy 5y ago
> The belief that every employee wants there to be open sharing of salary data is not universal. I would have thought that the desire to know if you're being treated fairly is universal. You really wouldn't mind making a fracti
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by kylebyproxy 5y ago
> So why would you inflict your morality on others just because they belong to another species? I don't. I'm indifferent to any sort of value judgment in the matter. I simply acknowledge and accept that my biology requires the
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by kylebyproxy 5y ago
Morality is relative; please don't inflict yours on others. Animal consumption can be made sustainable. The main offenders are beef, lamb, and mutton, and their associated dairy[1]. Cutting just those out would put us back in the ballp
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by kylebyproxy 6y ago
IMO, that's the most insidious aspect of organized religion. Rather than acknowledging death as an engineering problem to be solved and overcome, it teaches people to embrace death and conditions followers to not even consider fighting
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by kylebyproxy 6y ago
I hate that you're getting downvoted for this. The original paper[1] isn't even 4 pages long, yet most haven't bothered to read it. If they would, they'd see he was speaking about fabrication costs. In particular, it&#x2
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by kylebyproxy 6y ago
This hits close to home. Working front desk at a hotel currently. Just the latest in a string of crummy jobs, stuck climbing up and falling down the bottom rungs of society. Had a couple programming jobs after college. One was a startup tha
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by kylebyproxy 6y ago
Totally agree with the sentiment, but why wouldn't you also expect politicians to act in _their_ self-interest? Favorable legislation in exchange for contributions and future employment opportunities has been par for the course for dec
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by kylebyproxy 6y ago
I always assumed Git chose "master" as an analogy to audio mastering, thus a hint that the master branch should be the final result of "mixing" other branches. Maybe that's reading too much into it though.
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by kylebyproxy 6y ago
> that people basically can't avoid This is the coddling referred to in a sibling comment. What basis do you have for thinking such misconceptions are unavoidable? This is tantamount to saying "people can never change", wh
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by kylebyproxy 6y ago
> But within two minutes of administering the drug, the brain activity of five of these six sheep stopped completely, one of them for several minutes - a phenomenon that has never been seen before. ... > “A few minutes later their bra
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by kylebyproxy 6y ago
> Or simply ask any woman about an instance where a man pressured her for some sexual act. Or made them feel unsafe or uncomfortable. Or where a male boss of theirs made sexually discriminatory or otherwise hostile remarks against them i
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by kylebyproxy 7y ago
I've only noticed it enter common usage recently, but I cringe whenever someone fails at using the word "devoid".
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by kylebyproxy 7y ago
You are Jubal, a peasant living in the kingdom of Larion. You have a pitchfork and a nothing else. You wake up and begin working in the fields. You see a woman with long blonde hair walking towards you. She is beautiful, but also very str
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by kylebyproxy 7y ago
That's all fine in theory, but do some shopping-around and you'll see it's simply untrue. Personal anecdata: 2018, my employer didn't offer insurance. I signed up for a "silver" tier individual plan ($1250 dedu