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by penguindev 13y ago
1/4 of middle aged women in this country are on antidepressants. Is that 'existential' depression or some kind I don't know about, I don't know, but that's a pretty sad stat.
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by penguindev 13y ago
Man's Search for Meaning is about totalitarianism to the extreme; having no freedom except that in how you choose to react. The author was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. And about first world banality - the book of Ecclesias
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by penguindev 13y ago
There's really no feedback loop against doing anything stupid with the current monetary system; quite the opposite - becoming insolvent is apparently subsidized by the federal reserve apparatchiks. The banks cant lose no matter what,
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by penguindev 13y ago
Yep, especially when the unborn who are footing the generational robbery don't vote.
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by penguindev 13y ago
And we totally had a functioning democracy when nixon 'temporarily' turned the US dollar into fiat currency... so we can finance the perpetual wars, and vastly enrich the elite... (Actually, I'm pretty sure democracy WAS func
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by penguindev 13y ago
Yep, and notice where the ctrl is. I just mapped my caps lock to control a few days ago (mac os makes it super easy to do this), and I love it. I should have done it friggin ages ago. I also started using the leader key (\) in vim, anothe
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by penguindev 13y ago
And the real problem was they didn't adopt a two child policy a few doubles ago. (Basically the US is in the same position - we have the same landmass as china, but 1/4 of the population)
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by penguindev 13y ago
choosing module and function names is an acquired art in python. I usually grep my entire code base (and ensure nothing matches) before I add a new public name.
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by penguindev 13y ago
I agree, but in depressions/recessions it goes down quite reliably. It's a strong signal
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by penguindev 13y ago
How would you adjust for # of children per household?
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by penguindev 13y ago
I'd be far more worried about this sending a false prosperity signal that could exacerbate our already insane and unsustainable population levels. What's really depressing is that not a single comment here or on the article even
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by penguindev 13y ago
I disagree with your last line, if you know what http chunked encoding is, it is a 'simple ascii delimited binary thing' - it just doesn't have a 'stream id' in it, but there could be. Of course, people always forg
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by penguindev 13y ago
Meh, the hypervisor(s) have all the power, and they aren't even afraid to hide it these days.
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by penguindev 13y ago
Because a lot of people don't use their brain, and realize that linux package management / image creation has been a solved problem since forever (I've been doing this since redhat kickstart circa 2001, and I'm a young g
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by penguindev 13y ago
That is awesome and disgusting. On a tangent, it reminds me of the 'US Govt making money from federal reserve profits' talking point. Yeah sure, just as one would gain reward points by growing a credit card balance... you'
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by penguindev 13y ago
Correct, but that's been the case for a very long time. Banknotes and fractional reserve lending have been around the block many times, even under a 'gold standard'. It's a banker's world; we just live in it. &quo
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by penguindev 13y ago
That was a great post, thanks. I'd like to add another point - one may need paranoia [the common, not medical, interpretation] to make all that power work without bugs. You know the quote about a good programmer needing laziness, impa