mercer

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931.
by mercer 7y ago
I thought around 70% of the US wants Medicare for All, and only around 20% outright rejects it?
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by mercer 7y ago
For someone 'rational' and 'cool-headed' you seem awfully hysterical, peppering this entire discussion with your certainty. It's fascinating.
933.
by mercer 7y ago
> I will probably be downvoted for saying this, but... well, for saying that.
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by mercer 7y ago
Similar for me. I was really into Star Wars too, but the Cyan worlds were on par with that. I never felt clever enough to actually finish the games without walkthroughs, but the world was one that I was fully invested in, and in a way equal
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by mercer 7y ago
> What is considered “merit-worthy” is defined by the society implementing it. There is no such thing as objective universal merit across time and culture. I think the point of the comment you're responding to is that it's not
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by mercer 7y ago
I suppose a relatively easy way to get something similar is an app that tracks your movement and causes the phone to vibrate the more directly north you are moving? Or perhaps different 'rhythms' depending on whether you're f
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by mercer 7y ago
Metroid Prime is one of the few games I've played all the way through multiple times. When it became increasingly difficult to do so on a GameCube, I relented and tried the ii U version. Much as I've tried,I can't get comfort
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by mercer 7y ago
While my initial reaction would be in the vein of "it's not THAT bad" I just want to say that my experience is very similar. I have a kind nostalgia for JS because it was my first foray into 'proper' programming (al
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by mercer 7y ago
I have the same feeling, with Elixir as my first choice and Clojure as the mistress, so to speak. It's weird to describe it in these terms, but finding both made me feel like finding a home 'professionally'. I'll happily
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by mercer 7y ago
Same for Elixir. I actually intentionally ask certain questions on the IRC channel if I think they're worth ending up in someone's search request. It's vexing.
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by mercer 7y ago
I find that at least in The Netherlands the vast majority of job offerings are quite conservative in their 'stack'. It's nice that they are now okay with React rather than only Angular, or Python instead of just PHP, but find
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by mercer 7y ago
I went pretty much all-in for Elixir/Erlang, but I do have to admit Clojure has always been a close second, and I envy the amount of interop it has. There's various initiatives in the Elixir ecosystem, and tools such as LiveView m
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by mercer 7y ago
I'm honestly curious how Clojure + spec would fare in that comparison. Is that something you looked into? The reason I'm asking is that while my background the typical webdev stuff, I loved TypeScript. And now while much of my wor
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by mercer 7y ago
I have multiple projects on the cheapest Hetzner.cloud offering and haven't run into any of these issues. might be worth looking into.
945.
by mercer 7y ago
In my case I found it beneficial to just move everything to Hetzner. It offered everything I need at a lower price, and I foresee that for some of my projects I'll need to get 'proper' servers instead of the lowest-tier VPS o
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by mercer 7y ago
> Time Machine helped me quite a lot but unfortunately with a nasty surprise that it doesn't backup dot files. Wow, that's good to know!
947.
by mercer 7y ago
Oops, I does appear I accidentally part of the sentence.
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by mercer 7y ago
Is your name Ay-ayron? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw
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by mercer 7y ago
I could go into the broader problem I have with a single person having that much wealth/power. But really, mostly it's that Bezos is a giant piece of shit. His company has a long history of controversy and anything good he does do
950.
by mercer 7y ago
<cue two investigators working at the same keyboard to do things twice as fast>
951.
by mercer 7y ago
Somehow use most of his filthy amount of wealth, much of it acquired in filthy ways, to things that are not him? I'm perpetually baffled at how one person having this much wealth is somehow considered okay. Sure, we can argue about whe
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by mercer 7y ago
Why wouldn't it be? The salience of the topic, as well as the generally pro-inclusivity point of view in much of the IT world (as far as I can tell) would make it a prime topic of weird conspiracy theories to a brain that is prone to c
953.
by mercer 7y ago
I'll both agree and disagree with you, and to some degree with other people replying to your comment. You're probably correct in thinking this maltreatment extended to men, or generally in ways that weren't specifically sexis
954.
by mercer 7y ago
How do you see that happening? As long as HR is department paid by the organization, how is there any way, structurally, for said department to change? How would said change translate to 'less damaging' in a way that is measurable
955.
by mercer 7y ago
I'd say the very assumption that those who 'own' the output of your labor, especially in larger companies, is hopelessly but understandably naive.
956.
by mercer 7y ago
Ah yes, Magit is still on my list of Emacs things to learn :).
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by mercer 7y ago
What's the price of a Pixel 3A in your part of the world? I got one after having iPhones since the Nexus 3 (I think), and I'm quite happy with it. It cost me 300 euro, and it feels like it can handle everything I need. I specifica
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by mercer 7y ago
I've let go of my addiction to finding the best tool and settled on Emacs+Org-Mode (specifically with Spacemacs so I can use Vim keybindings). Over the years I've tried so many tools, languages, workflows, and the only ones that s
959.
by mercer 7y ago
I'm surprised that you're surprised. As far as I understand it one of the fundamental differences between what we generally call 'leftists' and 'liberals' is that the latter think we should solve problems by ta
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by mercer 7y ago
1) I have a problem, 2) the cause is rare and unusual, 3) the solution is something ill-advised and out-there that just happens to work for me. I've noticed that this way of thinking is very common among those with dependency/addi

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