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by mcguire 4y ago
I'm a little unclear about how "*One day someone came to visit and used the word “gay” as a pejorative, as was common in the early 2000s" is unclear? perjorative: (n) a word expressing contempt or disapproval.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Do you consider it trivial and common to use the word "gay" as a pejorative? (If so, that may say something.) Not "gay" as in "Fred is gay." From the article: " The college I attended was small and very
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by mcguire 4y ago
"Said 'gay' as a pejorative, as was common in the early 2000s." In the HN guidelines, "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.
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by mcguire 4y ago
How do you consider it threatening? As ineptech wrote, " This (and a lot of other related arguments in this thread) would probably be a lot clearer with less contentious examples, like "don't push a deploy after 4pm," th
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by mcguire 4y ago
It hardly needs to be someone who can "make your life really unpleasant". There's no implied threat. If I were told "We don't do that here" at a new job, I would learn that I stepped across a line and likely a
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by mcguire 4y ago
Would it read differently if instead of a manager, it was said by a more experienced co-worker?
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by mcguire 4y ago
Have you ever run across dang's moderation messages here? Do you also feel those "sound like a boss who hasn’t learned how to deal with conflicts gracefully and instead uses a pre-written script that gives them unquestionable auth
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by mcguire 4y ago
I am suddenly reminded of the sealion Wondermark ( http://wondermark.com/1k62/ ). Anyway, "tech" was absolutely not built with group conversations, discussions, and debates. Debates are just ways to show off ho
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by mcguire 4y ago
"It is hurtful when you do X" doesn't single out the recipient?
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by mcguire 4y ago
" "It is hurtful when you do X, please don't do that again." " "I didn't mean to be hurtful. Why would someone be hurt by that? I was just trying to be funny. Some people are too sensitive. Besides, it&#x2
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by mcguire 4y ago
For practice, most welding suppliers/metal shops have a bin full of mild steel scraps and cut-offs that they may even let you have for free. (The one I went to even gave me a box for them.)
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by mcguire 4y ago
It kinda sounds like the Tesla after-purchase support is less than a joy, though.
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by mcguire 4y ago
What's your ETA? I remember when everyone was excited to pre-order Teslas when their actual production was several years out...
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by mcguire 4y ago
I do take Kissinger and Mearsheimer's views seriously, and I did not call Kissinger or Mearsheimer "biased". Instead, I attempted to address my understanding of the reasoning behind their statements (Mearsheimer certainly; I
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by mcguire 4y ago
I would say that Henry Kissinger and John Mearsheimer have strong biases in favor of "Great Power" theory, which at its basis denies smaller, weaker countries in the "area of influence" of a great power any kind of auton
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by mcguire 4y ago
I believe they were specifically referring to the behavior of Russian soldiers who were reportedly sending valuable objects from Ukraine back to their relatives as well as executing civilians.
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by mcguire 4y ago
I recently saw some discussion of the various bits of news out of Hungary to the effect that political leaders there want to go beyond Hungarian nationalism towards Hungarian racialism.
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by mcguire 4y ago
18 Nov 2020 " Research early in the pandemic suggested that the rate of asymptomatic infections could be as high as 81%. But a meta-analysis published last month1, which included 13 studies involving 21,708 people, calculated the rate
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by mcguire 4y ago
Chicago has a firearm homicide rate of 29 per 100,000 ( https://oneaimil.org/the-issue/impact-of-gun-violence/ ). Illinois overall has a "firearm injury death rate" of 14.1 per 100,000 ( https://
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by mcguire 4y ago
When? According to the article, it hasn't been used here since 2000. Edit: I believe I did, too, but that would have been back in the 1970s.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Hating Game of Thrones is perfectly justified. :-)
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by mcguire 4y ago
This whole thing is very concerning. " According to the New York State Health Department, a person was found to be infected by a vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2), aka revertant polio Sabin type 2 virus. " "Vaccine-as
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by mcguire 4y ago
Several years ago there was a kerfuffle in Texas: The Nature Conservancy had traded a piece of land, that had been donated to it, to the state parks and wildlife department with the understanding that the land was going to be under their co
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by mcguire 4y ago
Formatting. Sigh.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Back of the envelope calculation: Yuma International (discussed above) has 540,000m^2 of runways. Assume a depth of 0.1m of cooling, that is 54,000m^3. The density of asphalt is 2322kg/m^3, so we have 3 10^9kg. The specific heat of asp
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by mcguire 4y ago
Mmm, density altitude... ( https://www.faasafety.gov/files/gslac/library/documents/2011... )
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by mcguire 4y ago
Nope! It's still the cheapest way to resurface a road.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Hm. An Olympic ice rink is 30mx60m, or 1800m^2. The "largest ice arena complex in the world" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwan_Super_Rink ) is 28,000m^2 but has 8 Olympic ice rink, sort of. Yuma Internatio
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by mcguire 4y ago
Well, there we go, then. Nobody wants to do the work.
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by mcguire 4y ago
The downside is that the "revisit the failure modes" step never happens. I've worked on C++ projects with a programmer who commented out "-Wall" with the comment "No one has time for that" (and then I en

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