meowfly

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by meowfly 3y ago
I agree. If we want harsh sentences to act as deterrents, I struggle to believe 30-40 years isn't viscerally similar to 100 years. We don't want people thinking, I can steal a billion and if I'm caught get out in my 30s. When
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by meowfly 3y ago
Wendy's doing this almost seems predatory. They know people will show up and not pay attention to the prices. I do, however, like the idea of surge pricing for sit-down restaurants. If restaurant prices raised to guarantee available se
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by meowfly 3y ago
Sorry. I wasn't claiming Elon made Twitter more appealing, but rather was trying to point out that when management changed so did the bias. I realize my poor grammar made it difficult to fully capture what I was trying to say. My core
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by meowfly 3y ago
Yishan did this same sleight of hand trick with twitter before Elon bought it[1]. Then his point was that twitter doesn't have a bias, it's simply a normal moderation problem (noise-signal ratio). Now that twitter is owned by Elon
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by meowfly 3y ago
I think this is generally good advice. I'd be a bit careful though and add that some people who will make fine parents are poor dog owners. They don't think of the dog as part of the family/pack and the dog ends up in the bac
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by meowfly 3y ago
I agree with you, but it's also worth noting that Boeing is one of the "too big to fail" industries tightly coupled to the government. It's too valuable to the DoD to let fail. There are several industries (microchips ha
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by meowfly 3y ago
"Ruined" is a bit clickbait. It doesn't sound like she suffers any long term consequences aside from having to cut out sugar alcohols.
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by meowfly 3y ago
JiaYou doesn't translate well. When I was learning Chinese, sometimes it sounds sarcastic when translated directly. Like you are joking about how you are going to die from being too busy 忙死 and the speaker responds "add oil".
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by meowfly 3y ago
Quality is obviously a thing your team should care about, but quality is also a process problem. If an individual continually produces poor quality than the "process" should fix it via not merging their code or pip or something el
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by meowfly 3y ago
> So it sorta seems like they both agree on 'One China', but not who should be running it. "ROC claims the mainland" only exists because any change from the status quo would look like declaring independence. It's
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by meowfly 3y ago
I think you make a good point. Purely from the public trust perspective, paper and pencil seems so simple it makes people trust the system is secure. If the claim is it's cryptographically impossible for this system to be cheated, most
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by meowfly 3y ago
My hunch is that all your moving doesn't help. I'm a similar age and it feels impossible to make new friends. Virtually all my current inner circle are friends from ~20 years from High School and College. It's much easier to
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by meowfly 3y ago
The rates don't matter here because the overhanging threat of divorce is what sways someone from having children. I'm a DINK myself; I've watched the complexity of my friend's divorce with children and I perceive it as m
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by meowfly 3y ago
I was never claiming pets should come to the office. I am saying it's not signaling wealth or virtue to take care of your pet. Some people really love their animals, and are willing to part with their money for them. Using your example
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by meowfly 3y ago
Or... Perhaps people love and feel responsible for their pets? This problem doesn't seem new to me. Startups letting people bring their dogs to work was a benefit before remote.
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by meowfly 4y ago
This article was very click baity. Supposedly tech workers are getting invasive cosmetic surgery because they look at themselves all day on Zoom. The author highlights an insecure man who says he was border line suicidal. The reader is left
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by meowfly 4y ago
I agree with the conclusion but Thom Hartmann is a regular contributor for Common Dreams. This article isn't particularly enlightening or interesting. I'm struggling to see what makes it worth posting here. It kind of feels like R
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by meowfly 4y ago
I've been pretty skeptical of an invasion scenario. It's never made sense to me, because Taiwan is so close to the Mainland. If Taiwan wanted to, they could do an immense amount of damage to valuable infrastructure. When this is p
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by meowfly 4y ago
My brother works for a non-profit that distributes HIV drugs to the homeless. The biggest issue he has is that people will stop taking meds and disappear. They try to bribe them to come back with gift cards. He's expressed how valuable
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by meowfly 4y ago
This is often referred to as the tea shop scam. The girl doesn't have to be "too good to be true". It's often just someone who appears friendly and speaks English. They might tell you they are a student looking to practi
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by meowfly 4y ago
You could say the same thing about coffee. There is a reason nicotine is addictive and popular. It's mildly enjoyable. UK's old drug czar, David Nutt, got in trouble for calling alcohol Britain's most dangerous drug. https:&
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by meowfly 4y ago
For sure. I sort of get the company not wanting spend money to sign me and then I immediately quit. The relocation management company racked up a bill I would have never incurred if I allocated the money myself.
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by meowfly 4y ago
The only time I've been burned by my contract is from relocation expenses. I went to a company to take a job and not long into it a reorg moved me to a different team. I left the company and they demanded I pay back my relocation expen
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by meowfly 4y ago
I share a bit of that experience when trying to make Chinese friends. The first place I lived was with a family who had a son around my age. He was solely interested in practicing English but he had virtually no life outside of school. I mo
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by meowfly 4y ago
Going to China for that long and not trying to learn Mandarin is a misstep. Chinese is spoken by a lot of people, but spoken fluency isn't that high. Moreover, outside of the major cities, you will meet very few English speakers. Where
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by meowfly 4y ago
I'm not a Catholic, but I thought Jesus was pretty explicit that the [state and the religion are separate. ]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_unto_Caesar ) The interesting part of this article, IMO, is that Pop
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by meowfly 4y ago
Banks still occasionally shutdown customers who follow the rules but are grossly unprofitable. My point is, I think the banks actually want churners for the reasons I mentioned.
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by meowfly 4y ago
Banks seem to be OK giving cards to known churners. It should be trivial to figure out. My theory is it's either because the marketing department is happy to show off the success of their campaign, or that the banks are leveraging the
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by meowfly 4y ago
I think you are right. The WSB crowd mocks r/investing because a 50 year timeline optimally turns 10k into 220k (not enough to be rich). With options you can do half that overnight. However, options lose in most cases. With options pre
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by meowfly 4y ago
It does seem to me a lawyer's pedigree is as important as the types of arguments they bring to the case. I imagine this bias exists because law schools are a dime a dozen, and lawyers have created another form of gatekeeping to augment

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