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by mwfunk 6y ago
No it's boundary issues and meddling and it's not remotely OK.
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by mwfunk 6y ago
Not only that, but there's often comments about how people moving from CA to TX are fleeing the results of a presumably left wing tax code to enjoy the benefits of a presumably right wing tax code, but it's not that simple. CA is
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by mwfunk 6y ago
If we've learned nothing else the last 4 years (last few decades really, but the last 4 years really hits home), it's that so much of what we take for granted about the US being supposedly safer or having a saner, more hands-off g
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by mwfunk 6y ago
I don't think being more professional/collegial and less dishonest in an interview leads to monocultures. Ideally it would just reflect well on the person for not obviously trying to game the system. If that actually leads to some
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by mwfunk 6y ago
I'm all in favor of people who need them having emotional support animals, but for as long as this has been a thing I have been totally shocked at how many people I personally know (who I thought were better people than this) completel
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by mwfunk 6y ago
I know it's petty but literally the fact that it was named Nikola was reason enough for anyone to think they're shady or uninspired or a straight up scam. I would be equally skeptical about wannabe Apple competitors named Banana o
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by mwfunk 6y ago
Seriously, do people not remember that this statement was first made for the first game, in 2007, at a time when so much of what was in the game could've been a political lightning rod? You're playing someone from an organization
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by mwfunk 6y ago
Seriously. Some major rose-tinted glasses going on here. It's also hard to see anyone see this guy and how he presents himself and think, "wow, what a cool dude! I wish I could be more like him!" Like on a purely personal lev
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by mwfunk 6y ago
Knowledge or intelligence can't ever hurt. The only things that can hurt a situation are when people have a lack of perspective, or a lack of self-awareness, or Dunning-Kruger type situations where they overestimate themselves, underes
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by mwfunk 6y ago
That's not just a popular opinion, it might be the general consensus for the last 20+ years. That's why articles about people still using Tcl or even just people liking Tcl have so much novelty value. Tcl created a language niche
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by mwfunk 6y ago
Same here, my awareness of it comes and goes, but I swear the effect itself varies from time to time. I seem more likely to notice the ringing if there's white noise in the background, like from a fan or AC, but it's just a theory
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by mwfunk 6y ago
It wasn't that long ago that Texas nixed critical thinking from K-12 education. The reason given was, and I wish I was making this up, that teaching children critical thinking might cause kids to question their parents and their church
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by mwfunk 6y ago
Alito/Thomas/Kavanaugh are clearly on the wrong side of this, big freaking surprise there. If Oracle wins this is going to be catastrophic for our whole industry (in the US at least). Things are going to get a lot worse before the
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by mwfunk 6y ago
No, none of this applies to privately owned web sites. If anything, forcing them to act like utilities impinges on the speech of the platform owners. The Ben Shapiros of the world have desperately been trying to spin a different narrative t
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by mwfunk 6y ago
Yeah, there's definitely a cultural aspect. People WANT to get out of the house ASAP. It's not like all of those American 18 year olds are bummed that their parents expect them to go someplace, it's that many/most of the
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by mwfunk 6y ago
Likewise, the Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster were incredibly '50s names (and awesome names, but very in line with '50s branding).
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by mwfunk 6y ago
It is utterly shocking how many bullshitters show up for interviews. I'm sure it varies by company and industry, but a fair chunk of interviewing is weeding out bullshitters.
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by mwfunk 6y ago
I find this is the case pretty much anytime leads with, “As a <whatever>, I believe that...” Like they make it sound like because they identify as an anarchist or a libertarian or a Christian or a mom or whatever <blank> is, th
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by mwfunk 6y ago
One issue with the article: it talks about the DNC hack but not the RNC. Both were hacked by Fancy Bear, but only the DNC info was dumped online. Whatever they got from the RNC stayed secret, almost certainly for kompromat.
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by mwfunk 6y ago
I'm no fan of Palmer Luckey but didn't he do some actual engineering for Oculus though? I know Jaron Lanier had some success in academia in the '80s but I thought the past 30 years for him has almost exclusively been speaking
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by mwfunk 6y ago
Maybe less the Kim Kardashian of VR and more the Ray Kurzweil of VR? I’ve had similar experiences, he’s been talking about this stuff for 25 years but he’s more like a philosopher or creative thinker/talker type of person. AFAIK his ma
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by mwfunk 6y ago
Whenever people talk about meritocracies as being real things or potentially real things that merely require everyone to be on board to implement, I always wonder how old they are and whether or not they think they would benefit from being
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by mwfunk 6y ago
They seem to be specifically talking about the case where you're on a web page, you click a link to go to what ought to be another web page, but instead you're in a PDF in your browser. I get it, PDFs are documents and not web pag
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by mwfunk 6y ago
Absolutely nobody hates meritocracies, and it's intellectually dishonest to claim they do. If you're referring to things like encouraging diversity or CoC's or the other usual things that some personality types REALLY enjoy g
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by mwfunk 6y ago
Since this is like an inverse Karen move, perhaps anti-Karens should formally be known as Julies.
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by mwfunk 6y ago
Have they been printing money? Has more USD been created, physically or virtually? This is something I don't understand, I'm hoping someone here can explain it. I was under the impression the last 40 years of US deficit spending h
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by mwfunk 6y ago
The crazy thing is some people will use this passage to justify not having regulations at all, because "regulating them will only make them conspire together against everyone!", when in fact the main reason Smith connects the two
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by mwfunk 6y ago
I'm not a historian but my understanding is that Goldwater was the first major Republican candidate to go big on the whole "the government can't solve problems, the government is the problem" political meme, when he ran
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by mwfunk 6y ago
If being the 5th largest economy in the world and contributing more tax dollars to the Federal government than it receives is largely dysfunctional, that sounds pretty awesome. California has tons of problems but I can't think of many
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by mwfunk 6y ago
That's why education has to try to be as objective and apolitical as possible, and when the two are at odds, choose objectivity. And accept that it's never going to be perfect. Nobody is ever going to agree on where that sweet spo

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