patientplatypus

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by patientplatypus 7y ago
That's OK, guillotines are cheap.
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Wait, really?
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Can the IRS be sued for violating equal protection under the law? They have admitted that they don't have the budget to go after high net worth individuals who can pay tax attorneys to hide their income in tax loopholes, so isn't
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Unless of course your job was automated out of existence by a robot...Seems like a bit of an oversight in your calculations hmm?
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Hmmm...well unfortunately a lot of scammers and thieves on the internet come out of third world countries. Like, it's crazy, but the economics of scam artistry make this worth while as a career in certain countries - for example Romani
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
If movie stars want to get paid and I can get their products for free then I will. Maybe they should fight for a society where not only the rich can get by.
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Thanks! I've been taking guafesin and claritin (helps prevent immune system over reaction). Also on a "tea break" as that's probably not helping. Any other advice would be very much appreciated.
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
NYC checking in. I've had this thing for long enough that it owes me rent. Fever for 3-4 days and now like 2-3 weeks of hacking crap up. Worst sick I've had in years.
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Fuck'em. Just torrent whatever you want to watch.
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Because moderation doesn't scale. Case in point - youtube. They changed their demonitization algo in response to complaints and now they have complaints from other users that the algo is producing false positives. For example, the &quo
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
The problem with Haskell is that it's smarter than most developers. You can study really hard and maybe you'll be good at Haskell. And then you'll find that there are no common libraries for the things you want to do because
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Don't get an electrified tattoo. Get a normal tattoo. Please.
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
THANK YOU
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
The larger larger problem is that those giants are owned lock stock and two smoking barrels by advertisers. You can say anything you want on the internet so long as it doesn't lose Proctor & Gamble or Mars or Pepsi Co any money. O
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
And once all of the political capital and opportunity cost has gone into proving that science is true it will be too late to do anything to save us. Color me unconvinced.
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
What about climate change? Should we continue to give a platform to climate change deniers?
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
No, religions love the idea of an abortion ban, because it makes sex scary and not fun which means they get control over who gets to live and form an intimate relationship with who. Which religions love. Same reason they hate condoms - if a
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
No. Yes, yes. The New Colossus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning,
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Except, in the first case the underlying casual issue to Republicans separating children from their parents is their hatred and racism of asylum seeking immigrants. In the second case, the underlying issue to people who don't believe i
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
It's not a talking point to say I'm scared for my country because my president is literally asking a foreign power to get dirt on his enemies. Like, I'm worried here. This is bad, right? This isn't a simplistic partisan
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Disagree. You can do it with healthcare too. Team "spent 4 years attempting to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with nothing" vs Team "Universal Medical Care for Everyone" Or tax cuts - Team "Gave tri
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
At a guess, are you a foreign student? Most post graduate degrees are being gotten by foreigners, because that’s how the economics works as the education ponzi scheme collapses. The sweet spot, in terms of ROI, is to get a bachelors degree
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
So many healthcare deniers in this thread. This is, what, the second or third presidential election we've had where the central debate is about the skyrocketing cost of healthcare? Government healthcare has been shown to work in mult
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Yeah...this is unhelpful. Creating massive "this is how you do it" template repos to show everyone how smart you are is grating. The assumption that everyone needs everything and the kitchen sink and want to use your architectur
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
I am sorry for your loss.
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Oh...and India is running of water. https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/india/india-water-crisis-intl... You don't know scary until 1.3 billion people all decide they have to leave India at once or they&
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Gross.
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Story Time! So a few weeks ago I was in a bar with a manager/team lead at Comcast and he was telling me one of the fun "don't tell anyone" projects he was working on after I drank him under the table. Basically Comcast h
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Ok fair. Elixir is nothing short of amazing.
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
FP is fun, but there aren't many good languages for it. Haskell is too academic, Clojure is fun but hasn't taken off, Scala is too complicated (Java with FP shoehorned in, who thought this was a good idea?). I like FP but 90% of t

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