notJim

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   by notJim 6y ago

   Depends on your skills as a gardener and your grocery store, I suppose. Some of my tomatoes were better than the best grocery store tomatoes and some were worse. In any case, the claim was not about flavor, but about nutrition profile, and
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   by notJim 6y ago

   > Anyone that has ever eaten a garden grown anything > can tell you that there is a lot missing in store produce I also enjoy gardening, but from a scientific perspective, I cannot support a statement like this. There is enormous room
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   by notJim 6y ago

   I understand now. The issue basically comes down to pensions not being pre-funded, right? Although one could argue that by paying a substantially lower salary than the private sector, they are sort of funding the plan by saving money now. I
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   by notJim 6y ago

   I'm not sure I see what the problem is with these pensions. Standard retirement advice is that one should save enough money to live in retirement at a similar lifestyle that they lived while working. If the idea of these pensions is th
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   by notJim 6y ago

   This design seems really odd. Why target business and CEOs in particular? Why not just have a straightforward high progressive tax? It also seems like it will reward the practice of outsourcing lower-paid job functions, or discourage employ
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   by notJim 6y ago

   I think Oregon has done better than California in this regard, hasn't it, with the ban on single-family zoning?
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   by notJim 6y ago

   I looked a bit at moving to Bend a couple years ago, and already at that point it was getting a little rich for me (also wanting to be close in town). Can't imagine what it's like now.
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   by notJim 6y ago

   At least at places I've worked, there isn't really that distinction though. There's not one of type of engineer that does "standard crud jobs" (whatever that would mean) and another type that designs/scales sys
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   by notJim 6y ago

   Anecdotally, I'm aware of two companies that do change salaries based on location. One large-ish publicly traded company, and one late-stage startup.
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    by notJim 6y ago

    Rhinehart's blog post [1] is one of the stupidest, unintentionally-funniest things I've ever read. I do hope someone fixes the carbon monoxide leak wherever he wrote it though. [1]: https://www.robrhinehart.com/why
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    by notJim 6y ago

    I'm not sure I agree. The CoC was written down, which means we can critique it and change it, and hold them accountable to following it (which they failed to do.) And as you see, they are responding to feedback about their handling of
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    by notJim 6y ago

    It is happening before our eyes! The organizers have admitted they made mistakes and are working on improvements. I agree a full-on court system would be ridiculous, but what that means is that the CoC needs to better thought out to reduce
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    by notJim 6y ago

    I totally agree, but people don't generally claim we should get rid of the law for these reasons. I am responding to the claim that we should get rid of CoCs, which I disagree with. I am not arguing that CoCs are perfect, or that we do
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    by notJim 6y ago

    Having rules that are written down and apply to everyone is a liberal value, last I checked. It is far more authoritarian for the standards to be unwritten, because then instead of applying them to everyone, the people in charge can do wh
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    by notJim 6y ago

    I think it is, but what alternative is there? CoCs were created for a reason, so simply getting rid of them feels like it would lead us back to where we started.
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    by notJim 6y ago

    As this blog post [1] lays out, this seems like a case where the CoC was poorly authored exactly for this reason. But this isn't a reason to not have a CoC, it just means this particular one was not done well. [1]: https://w
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    by notJim 6y ago

    If you need a system of written laws that apply to everyone what you have is a deeper problem
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    by notJim 6y ago

    I have already seen mutual aid folks talking about what they'll do if abortions become illegal in the US.
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    by notJim 6y ago

    Honestly, who cares? If you're spending $1200 or whatever on a phone, is your life really that much better if you spend $1190 instead?
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    by notJim 6y ago

    I think you may be an outlier in owning only one lightning cable. I just looked in my desk drawer and counted 5, and I can think of 3 more in other areas of my house and car.
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    by notJim 6y ago

    Micro-frameworks have a nasty habit of outgrowing the description, IME.
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    by notJim 6y ago

    Apparently modern housing uses PEX water pipes, but my house has a mix of PEX, iron, and copper pipes. The water flows just fine. I'll probably rip out the iron and copper eventually when I do a major remodel, but I'm not stressin
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    by notJim 6y ago

    > Often a custom micro-framework better suits the needs of a particular project. Fitting the needs of a particular project is frequently a local optimum however. Often, it's much more optimal to focus on the needs of a whole team or
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    by notJim 6y ago

    I'm a photographer, and I used to get annoyed that I'd have little distractions on the edges and corners of the frame, because I was focussed on the subject and overall composition. I trained myself to sort of bounce my eyes aroun
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    by notJim 6y ago

    Charismatic people often can be IME.
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    by notJim 6y ago

    You have more than one civil right. It seems like people in this thread are taking civil rights to mean free speech and nothing else, but in fact you have many civil rights, and they may even come into conflict with each other at times.
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    by notJim 6y ago

    Sure, they make two arguments: 1) Trump is redirecting funds that were intended by congress for totally different purposes [1]. Doing this is anti-democratic and therefore infringes on your right to determine government policy. 2) Trump is
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    by notJim 6y ago

    It seems like people are confused about what non-partisan means. Non-partisan does not mean neutral on political issues. The ACLU has never been neutral on political issues, going back as long as they've existed [1]. Non-partisan means
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    by notJim 6y ago

    > That's a quite controversial message in many circles If you think the ACLU has steered clear of controversy historically, you are not very familiar with their history. > it really has nothing to do with civil liberties How so?
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    by notJim 6y ago

    Can you give an example? As far as I know, they're still defending the free speech rights of the Far Right, famously including in the Unite the Right rally [1]. [1]: https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/t