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by nineplay 5y ago
> I doubt an article like this will survive on HN. Do you seriously? You think that HN is the home of black-and-white thinking and mindless, uncritical acceptance of main-stream media? You may want to examine your own built-in biases if
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by nineplay 5y ago
There's something very 'woke' - or maybe 'concern trolling' - about the various attempts to chastise the West for caring about Ukraine more than <name your international conflict>. Look I'm not afraid to
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by nineplay 5y ago
In the US, at least, people's thoughts on classes seem all over the map. Some people think of 'working class' or 'blue collar' as people without degrees but if a teacher makes less than a plumber than who is in wha
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by nineplay 5y ago
I loved the book but the humor may have gotten stale in the last 30 years. I hope it picks up for you!
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by nineplay 5y ago
> the kind of caustic humor these folks espoused (often thumbing their noses at any number of conventions) that today would get them promptly dragged I think it's the opposite actually. I think 'satirists' now are expecte
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by nineplay 5y ago
When I was a young lass I read "Holidays in Hell" over and over again. His complaint that Europe had no real ice cubes and if you asked for Scotch on the Rocks they gave you "the crumbling leftover from some Lilliputian puddl
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by nineplay 5y ago
Companies would also quickly find the cheapest country to do trials in - and we can only wonder what would make it cheaper to run trials in one country vs. another. Less infrastructure, less government red tape, fewer regulations? Somepla
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by nineplay 5y ago
Crotchety Alert I am progressive and I'm getting weary of the degree to which we've pushed inclusive language. Can we just acknowledge, at some point, that there are some, minimal, practical distinctions between XX and XY chromo
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by nineplay 5y ago
Our ~200 member group is fine. There are controversies of course, but they rarely derail anything. It is private, of course, and there's no up/down arrows which helps enormously. It is also no longer anonymous of course since i
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by nineplay 5y ago
r/shitmomsgroupsay. 284k members. A charming mix of entitledparents, antivax, and facepalm.
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by nineplay 5y ago
It has always saddened me that the term "mom's group" on the internet has become a shorthand for "anti-vax propaganda with a mix of flame wars over breast feeding, working moms, and attachment parenting" I've b
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by nineplay 5y ago
> Unfortunately you can't really fix students not caring about their education You absolutly can, it should be the easiest thing in the world. From birth give them caregivers with the time and ability to start learning early. Give
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by nineplay 5y ago
It entertains me that every time someone talks about the shitshow going on at one of the FAANGs the response is "other than that, how are things going at Amazon?". A couple of months ago I talked with a hiring manager there and it
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by nineplay 5y ago
A few of them are clearly 'live', and the concentration camp survivor holding a human bone may be "set up" but I can't see how that takes away from the impact.
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I find them surprisingly chilling and not just the ones taken at the concentration camp. The US troops preparing for D-Day, the bombs lined up on the battleship. The solder writing the name of his fallen friend on a bomb. The flamethrower
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by nineplay 5y ago
My pet theory is that it was the Matt Damon commercial. Not because the commercial was bad ( though it was ) but because the 'mainstreaming' of crypto took away a lot of the appeal. When it was a cool coin that only the the tech
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by nineplay 5y ago
You don't think people on the street could name "Golddigger"? It was in the first episode of "Glee" for Pete's sake. I think you'd have more luck getting people to name a Kanye West song than whole lot of
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by nineplay 5y ago
I suppose it could be argued that the streaming services don't count as "American TV". They aren't exclusivly American and the bulk of their content doesn't follow any sort of TV format. So if we were looking speci
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by nineplay 5y ago
Alexander did not 'conquer' India, and it's a pity this gets repeated so often. > His army, exhausted, homesick, and anxious by the prospects of having to further face large Indian armies throughout the Indo-Gangetic Plain
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by nineplay 5y ago
20% said it bothered them, somewhat or a little. I find "bothered" much milder than "offensive"
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by nineplay 5y ago
The author's numbers are questionable. The study is linked - 800 participants, the actual question > Does the use of the term LatinX to describe the Hispanic or Latina(o) community bother or offend you? I'd say there's a
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by nineplay 5y ago
I completely agree with you, with the qualifier that the article is very much part of the problem. These sort of issues always start small and then the media picks them up and splashes them on the front page purely as outrage bait. I have
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by nineplay 5y ago
That's pretty presuptuous. Do you truely believe that working at a FAANG company requires the same amount of 'edurance and focus' as working at a non FAANG company _and_ spending several hours every week practicing coding sk
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by nineplay 5y ago
> Consider the ratio of R to E on the team when hiring Even accepting his premise of Rs vs Es, this seems absurdly short-sighed. Engineers come and go, engineers can change their R/E approach over time or based on project. If you
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by nineplay 5y ago
I personally am happy that many people are eager to leave California and many more are actively discouraged from moving here. We've got plenty, thank you, and all are welcome to believe that this is a terrible state covered in syringe
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by nineplay 5y ago
> Why is this happening? Well if you can explain it, then you’ve got a good shot for at least a Ph.D. in sociology. The global pandemic obviously doesn’t help, but I think it just exacerbated a mood that was already there. I blame click
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You are right, I'm referring to leet code as something every job hunter needs to solve if all the books, websites, and online courses are to be believed. min-heaps usually show up on the List Of Data Structures To Understand. Probably
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by nineplay 5y ago
I love Advent of Code. As I sit here trying to prepare for my next set of 'leet' interviews, I wish employers could switch over to this style of tech questions. Advent of Code requires good coding and problem solving skills. L
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by nineplay 5y ago
I can't speak for Indiana, in my circumstances it wasn't that the benefits were 'means-tested' but more that they had a single application for any number of qualifiers. There were multiple ways to qualify for Medicaid an
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by nineplay 5y ago
> My assumption is that it keeps people employed, even if they aren't necessarily needed. I'd say more that they keep people relevant, particularly architects and CTOs. You can't go in front of the board and say "Ev

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