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by modells 8y ago
This story is a duplicate of Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. -Groucho Marx sometime between the 19th and 20th centuries. I hope not everybody has a book in them, that sounds mildly annoying and
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by modells 8y ago
Each fall of civilization is a tale of N cities... there’s rarely “the one magic” factor. US has: - situations leadership cannot (ie no immediate benefit for them) or will not (ie blind tradition) correct the rules of the current system in
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Nerd disease: thoracic outlet syndrome(en.wikipedia.org)
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by modells 8y ago
It depends. I had a sysadmin consulting co. in high school that serviced nuclear, mech and thermo engineering companies. ML/AI, scientific and other specialized software eng are rarely picky in anything but pedigree and experience. For
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by modells 8y ago
Nice. Rent was $300/mo in my time, 15 yrs ago. I still have $8k in student loan debt held by Edu secretary Betsy DeVos’ Navient (aka Mom Corp).
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by modells 8y ago
It might cover rent. Very low-income people typically have Section 8 housing, which is subsidized.
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by modells 8y ago
$1500/mo would cover most basics besides rent.
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by modells 8y ago
Sold out, practical joke or shopping site broken on iOS?
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by modells 8y ago
I assume you were being facetious. ?
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by modells 8y ago
Collective punishment because non-tech people are envious? That’s the least cool thing I’ve heard in a while. Mandating purchases from local restaurants would be totalitarianism. I might lean democratic Marxist, but this proposal goes way t
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by modells 8y ago
Spotify needs a location-based check-in system where an users’ tastes vote for piped music play, and/or some way to vote on the next song: like a distributed, semi/automated what was turntable.fm.
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by modells 8y ago
Orwellian and insane as fuck. Who decides what is a “credit” and what is a “debt?” What recourse or due-process do people have to challenge this evidence-free, glorified thought-policing? Those were rhetorical questions because this sort of
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by modells 8y ago
Boiling frog is the better analogy. Rome wasn’t built in a day and didn’t decline in a day either. It’s the slow death-march, “water drops to the forehead” of civilization that so weakens it such that criminal mobs and/or religious lun
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by modells 8y ago
More Vanagons (T3) than Burning Man, Oregon, Santa Rosa and Turo app combined. Just let it sink in that those go for $8k USD each in the US and parts are scarce. Also, flattening of the world, resurgence of populist pedagogues, crises of th
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by modells 8y ago
Zero latency noise, interruptions and distractions. There should be a nonzero-sum cost (ie getting up and walking to another office) for even informal meetings because meetings are time sinks, not getting things done. Better yet is to have
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Popular Culture and Revolutionary Theory: Understanding Punk Rock (1980)(marxists.org)
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by modells 8y ago
Phreakn cool. By coincidence, I could really use this due to an unknown and variable sympathetic NS dysfunction that creates unfathomable general anxiety, essential tremor, vestibular dysfunction. So much so, I cannot, in any way, sleep wit
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by modells 8y ago
I’m sorry, but Tinder and similar swipe-on-photos cargo-cult hookup apps have de facto cannibalized the online dating-scene with its entire focus on appearance (and atrophying genuine communication), promoting a major captological phenomeno