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by mathgeek 3y ago
There's no definitive study that I'm aware of, but anecdotally many people have trouble getting to sleep if they consume caffeine too late in the day, and/or struggle to get out of bed before regularly consuming caffeine in t
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I was only commenting on the quoted section above. No thoughts on kids doing gig deliveries.
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> I'm not sure why teenagers need to do anything other than learning about the world and going to school. A couple of thoughts: 1. Working is a way to learn about the world in a low risk way (losing a job as a teenager is often more
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In my mind, we need more folks who have both the ability to code and the ability to translate business needs into business logic. That’s not a new problem though.
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I assume the answer is pretty simple: many people shop on a budget, and spending more on better tomatoes isn’t often included. Thus we end up with producers lowering cost instead of raising quality. The consumers who do spend more are alrea
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Many use both in order to capture multiple types of buyers.
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> I find it hilarious the notion that the "middle class" would have "hundreds of thousands of dollars" of disposable income to splurge on gambling. Don’t forget that there’s also an entire industry looking to loan mon
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by mathgeek 3y ago
I am not a lawyer, but I would be careful with saying “you will get… forever” on a public forum as a representative of your company. That doesn’t seem to be what your site terms specify: > As a default, StoryBee and/or its licensors
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Not the GP, but I read it as they prefer to be told the reason in addition to the request.
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Twitter isn’t the breadth of social media.
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> I see myself in it, but it could be in a horoscope / med student way. Thank you for saying this. Anecdotally, I jump to self identifying as someone who uses humor to deal with trauma, but it’s good to be reminded that everyone has
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The best parodies are ones where those on both sides of an issue think to themselves, “yes, this exemplifies my argument”.
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> You would let a small child just run around in the forest? Plenty of us did as children as recently as the 90s, and even at that point it was less common than previous generations. I wouldn't do it today either, but the reasons ar
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> But growing grass can be just as rewarding as growing anything else. This is true in the general sense, but it's also mostly subjective. There are plenty of divisive yet enjoyable pursuits in the world.
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> Not sure you can consider yourself to be world class and also be humble. A good example of such a union is Newton’s letter to Hooke (1675). Most folks will recognize the “standing on the shoulders of giants” quote.
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Did not expect a philosophical comparison of happy meals coming with toys versus having to wash your own dishes, but here we are.
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No one mentioned income. These “tax rates on wealth” callouts are part of the larger movement to promote taxing wealth instead of just income.
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Refactoring is analogous to changing the composition of the plane, rather than repairing newly broken parts with identical ones.
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No idea, but if it was available back then, we’d have been looking for whether you are critical about what it tells you and how you verified it was correct. That was a main idea behind the interview.
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When I was at Fog Creek, we still had that as an interview question (with googling allowed). It was a good judge of how most folks approached something they used but didn’t necessarily understand. If the applicant already knew how to do it,
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It can happen during a partial acquisition where the relevant employees are likely to cause damage to or steal the product/property before the acquiring company has finished the acquisition (e.g. software with wide access that needs to
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Sometimes it's the goal from the start, and sometimes it’s a result of time changing interests and priorities (not everyone wants the same thing 5-10 years later). Many folks also want to maximize the amount of their life spent not wor
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by mathgeek 3y ago
I'm no economist, but it seems like such a flat tax would result in a lot of defaults on land the further you get from popular areas.
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I like to compare it to releasing films in theaters vs streaming. The former has a large industry that has relied on it for decades, as well a subset of consumers that love it. The latter is more convenient for other consumers, as well as b
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Could be any of a number of factors. No way to know.
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While this is certainly an argument for “how do I lose weight” the relevant part here is that the asker wondered why they started gaining weight, which makes a reduction in daily calorie burn relevant if caloric intake remained roughly cons
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by mathgeek 3y ago
Apologies, but can you clarify what “this” is when you say something isn’t logical? Unclear to me if you mean taking a lower paying job, choosing to stay unemployed, using savings to cover income while unemployed, something around contracti
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> It’s a tough pill to swallow but it is possible to get offers, but they might not be at the salary levels from 2-3 years ago. This goes both ways. People teams will prefer to pay less than they have before, and engineers should usually
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> I am not remembering any exclusive games from Rare before being bought by Microsoft? Although not universally, most Rare games were exclusive to Nintendo consoles from 1986-2002.
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by mathgeek 3y ago
The marketplaces rather than the products.

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