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by noirbot 2y ago
I appreciate your honesty here, but you really should probably read into this a little more before coming in this hot about how justified Matt is. Maybe in principle, what WPE is doing is questionable, but it's certainly looking like M
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by noirbot 2y ago
Has the US fallen much in education quality in absolute terms? Or just relative to other countries? And how does that map relative to the percentage of the population being educated at that level? A world where underperforming people are ju
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by noirbot 2y ago
Sure, but that number has been pretty consistent for almost 100 years. Almost every US Presidential election sees turnout in the mid-to-high 50% range. I'm not contesting that people should be more engaged, but the "back in the ol
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by noirbot 2y ago
Sure, but 100 years ago, most cities barely had more than 1 source of news, which was usually controlled by some reach oligarch in their town/the US at large. Most people weren't "thinking critically" about our involveme
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by noirbot 2y ago
Citation on that last point? The amount of people I know who were the first in their family to attend college, and sometimes even graduate high school, makes me question that people are measurably less educated.
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by noirbot 2y ago
Twitch VODs aren't really any worse than any other way to watch video? I'll regularly use them when I see some stream I'm interested in while I'm busy with something else, or if I jump into something halfway and want to
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by noirbot 2y ago
China feels like an important difference here though. Google leaving China doesn't protect Chinese citizen's data any more than Apple turning off ADP in the UK does. As far as I know, Apple isn't pretending that the data of
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by noirbot 2y ago
And, additionally, it encourages your candidates to still be interviewing while they're on their probationary period with you, since they may be back to unemployed after 4 weeks or whatever. Which creates even more potential issues if
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by noirbot 2y ago
I'd argue the bigger expense is on the team having to onboard what could potentially be a revolving door of temporary hires. Getting a new engineer to the point where they understand how things work and the specific weirdness of the co
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by noirbot 2y ago
This points to another issue - when I do code outside of work, it's often specifically to try out things I don't do at work. After a day of doing backend work, I'll maybe put together a basic web UI for something. That code i
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by noirbot 2y ago
I don't know much, but my guess would be that smaller planes are more prone to both of these issues? The DC problem was a collision between pilots who didn't see each other in time, which seems more likely with a smaller plane, an
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by noirbot 2y ago
> But if you're going to claim that most of Texas only drops below 100 for winter, you're going to need a citation. I didn't intend to imply that. I'm not insane, I literally live in Texas. I know it gets under 100 du
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by noirbot 2y ago
I mean, that table says the average high for almost all of is in the mid to high 90s. That's not that far off from what I said. Additionally, sure, California has plenty of desert that's as hot as Texas, but most of the populati
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by noirbot 2y ago
I have to assume most of the electricity use in TX is cause it's over 100 degrees in most of the state for most of 9 months every year, and a lot of California barely gets over 75 for more than a few weeks. Texas lives and dies on air
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by noirbot 2y ago
Yea. It's trite, but a lot of things are literally bigger in Texas. It's easy to do really misleading stats around Texas because it just does more of everything than the rest of the US. It can both build more green energy and st
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by noirbot 2y ago
It's somewhat different to not enforce a general law against a multitude of possible targets and enforcing a law literally imposed against a single target. A lot of people don't get fined for jaywalking and it's not a big dea
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by noirbot 2y ago
It's not any more random than where you happen to be standing in relation to the clouds at sunset. There's plenty of days that doesn't have any emotional resonance to me, but some days it does. I wouldn't dwell on it, an
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by noirbot 2y ago
This feels unnecessarily harsh - I can understand thinking Pollock shouldn't be as decorated or recognized, but "not worth doing to begin with" seems to cast a judgement on him having created something that feels mean-sprited
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by noirbot 2y ago
Also, that page seems to be talking about like... financial advisor services. Most of the time I was just calling in to ask for help rolling over a 401k or something. I don't think I've ever called for actual investment advice of
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by noirbot 2y ago
I'm wondering if I'm on some very different account/plan than everyone else. Any time I've ever called Vanguard, I've gotten a super well trained rep without much of a wait or a call tree. I also had good interactio
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by noirbot 2y ago
It's interesting everyone's saying the UX is bad. I've had consistently good interactions with Vanguard's support over the years. I regularly get to talk to an actual human without waiting more than 10-20 minutes, and th
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by noirbot 2y ago
Then maybe you should explain the point you're trying to make instead of just hinting at it? I didn't even specify if I thought you were pro or anti crypto - I just find that most conversations around crypto are dominated by state
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by noirbot 2y ago
Gotta love crypto people putting "looking smarter than you" over actually explaining what it is they mean. If you've got a point to make, don't just hint at it, say something and then we can have a discussion. This just
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by noirbot 2y ago
And Bernie last week was out there going "I'm ready to work with Elon Musk to help working families as he cuts government spending". Legitimately, pitching Republicans on how they're ceding all their power and ruining th
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by noirbot 2y ago
Not sure, but when they have various political candidates getting millions from the crypto PACs and all of them in unison talking about how Ross Ulbricht needs a pardon, I'm not sure what else to tell you. Maybe someone just knew Ulbri
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by noirbot 2y ago
And more importantly, among the crypto crowd that dumped millions into his campaign. Libertarians have essentially no clout or money on their own. This was a pardon bought by Coinbase and Gemini and A16z.
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by noirbot 2y ago
Yea, and most public discourse is at the level of "I saw a post online about it once". Most people aren't doing deep research before their opinions about things that aren't actually that relevant to their day to day live
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by noirbot 2y ago
Pretty sure I had a meltdown when my parents took away a copy of Lord of The Rings I was reading for the 4th time that week instead of doing my homework. Kids freak out about all kinds of stuff. Maybe it's more that 12 year olds are ki
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by noirbot 2y ago
Because the drafters knew they wouldn't/couldn't/aren't allowed to/would only be able to do so to someone more under the thumb of the US government? The actual purpose of a law or system is the actual outcome o
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by noirbot 2y ago
The best versions of these games are set up to provide more contextual information than just "Player B Died Last Night". Classic Werewolf or Mafia, all information is public information, outside of people just talking to each othe

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