mtowle

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by mtowle 13y ago
Banks must hire among the most inept IT people of any industry. Every time I log into PNC, I literally switch tabs and try and "do something else" for at least a minute, because that's how long it takes their Virtual Wallet bullshit to load
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by mtowle 13y ago
>FIRST
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by mtowle 13y ago
--itself a meme
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by mtowle 13y ago
I just can't see how anyone can possibly take that perspective. Do you mostly frequent the mega subreddits? I mean, r/politics is probably unmoderate-able by literally any method. But the small subs are often very well-run. People who take
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by mtowle 13y ago
Hey, if you know the Path to True Happiness...well, quit hogging.
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by mtowle 13y ago
I don't know, what's "Asian American Psychology"? Must be new. They didn't have it when I was in school.
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by mtowle 13y ago
Hear, hear. > Are they trying to keep people from clamoring for more changes? If the goal is re-election, then from a game-theoretic standpoint, that would indeed be part of a winning strategy. If gay marriage is ever fully legalized at
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by mtowle 13y ago
>Go read the actual study then rather than the article, and find out how she justified her decisions. If you've got $11.95 to spare, I'll take you up on that. Unfortunately all that's available is the abstract. But if you want me to ana
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by mtowle 13y ago
Prior paragraph: >But the cracks beneath the surface begin to show. [...] Lulu becomes rebellious, openly defying her teacher and her mother and bitterly complaining in public about her home life. By the age of 13, writes Chua, "[Lulu]
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by mtowle 13y ago
I never know what to make of these kinds of studies. The author has full license to decide what "categories" will be part of their spectrum and what their definitions will be, and then further to interpret every data point by themselves. Th
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by mtowle 13y ago
Wow, that's a great idea. You're absolutely right, compared to the total cost of hiring, it's practically nothing. Throw in the fact that you're in about 100x as good a position to evaluate talent, and it seems like a no-brainer. Like scout
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by mtowle 13y ago
I don't know, man. I'm 24. For all I know, Harry Truman was a great speaker and we in modern times just aren't as familiar with his material. Nixon v Kennedy was the first GE with televised debates, was it not? And are not modern, TV-viewin
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by mtowle 13y ago
Worst I've had was a chemistry 101 prof. With the knowledge, I'm sure, that chem 101 and bio 101 are far and away the most popular classes that fulfill science gen ed reqs, the professor chose not to write his own textbook but to create a (
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by mtowle 13y ago
>The only difference between Kennedy's speech and the Mars speech would be that Kennedy's was used to win the cold war, and the mars speech would be used to fix internal economic strife. With all due respect, I am continually surprised
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by mtowle 13y ago
I'm not saying you're right or wrong, but I am saying if you're wrong, it's because history tends to treat assassinated persons overly well (provided they were in good standing in the first place).
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by mtowle 13y ago
He doesn't mean it like that. He's referencing the tendency of other nations to grant citizenship to descendents of citizens. E.g., if my father were German, I'd have a better chance of acquiring German citizenship than if my most recently
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by mtowle 13y ago
I appreciate the thoughtful response. You've clearly weighed these issues more than a little, and you appear to have done so with an effort toward intellectual self-honesty. That said, I would submit to you that the above position suffers f
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by mtowle 13y ago
Not everybody believes in rights, per se. He did put scare underscores around the word. Just saying, if you believe your position to be the moral high ground, you shouldn't need to mischaracterize the positions of others.
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by mtowle 13y ago
I apologize for the cynicism, but can you point to an example wherein pushing back accomplished more than mere delayment and/or change of form?
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by mtowle 13y ago
Dude, that click-drag is nasstyy! Great work.
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by mtowle 13y ago
Hey Mahesh, I'm still a bit confused too, but I think it's because I'm American: the terms "language exchange" and "tandem learners" don't mean anything here. So is it like: say I'm fluent in English and conversational in German; I'd meet u
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by mtowle 13y ago
Your snark is much appreciated. Sometimes a question is just a question.
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by mtowle 13y ago
You could also take unused railroad tracks and pave over them. It's been done elsewhere. Nice, long, straight bike paths.
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by mtowle 13y ago
Just a guess: I think they're exactly where they want to be. They're taking the "don't end the party at 11" principle to the extreme and refusing to (openly) monetize until the end of the world. Gold seems intentionally silly, almost like t
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by mtowle 13y ago
Couldn't help but notice the applicants are almost exclusively white people. What do you make of that?
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by mtowle 13y ago
One of those might do something.
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by mtowle 13y ago
>The critical difference is one is a tiger with limited reasoning ability and the other is a human being. No it's not, it's a system of human beings. Systems make "decisions" quite differently than individuals do. In some cases they hav
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by mtowle 13y ago
Labeling is dismissal, not refutation. The latter option is more difficult, but more effective. The former... well, not all dismissal is soapboxing, but all soapboxing is dismissive. "Who cares! Boxes are fun to stand on." Hey, can't argue
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by mtowle 13y ago
Care to comment on whether internet nerds have gotten nicer or meaner since 2011?
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by mtowle 13y ago
"No Such Thing as Elevator Rage" NOSTER. Coined and minted - because nerds are overly acronym-shy, I think

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