peteretep

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by peteretep 5y ago
One person’s tool is another person’s livelihood, the corner stone of their professional experience, and the basis by which other people will (apparently) judge their technical expertise
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by peteretep 5y ago
Yes, sorry, I edited it to change it from present tense to past tense, as that was more in line with my meaning
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by peteretep 5y ago
You said you wrote some code, and the memory of it makes you still wake up screaming. What’s the alleged insult, exactly?
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by peteretep 5y ago
I’m sorry the code you produced made you so unhappy EDIT: verb tense changed
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by peteretep 5y ago
As someone who reads a lot of CVs: if you’re applying for a front-end role and your CV looks like ass, maybe fix that?
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by peteretep 5y ago
> those miners are strong healthy men I think mining is exceptionally poor for your health, esp re respiratory disease, lack of vitamin D, and also usually highly correlated with near poverty (and the health issues that’s associated with
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by peteretep 5y ago
> but I'm surprised you describe SOB as a slight inconvenience Ever been to a high altitude city? I was short of breath for my first week in Mexico City, and my lungs hurt after exercise. It’s very disconcerting, but also just a sli
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by peteretep 5y ago
> Bezos is not 1 million times more productive Bezos has unambiguously produced 1m times more than what most humans have.
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by peteretep 5y ago
> nation-states You mean "countries", right, or are you trying to make some point about nationalism?
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by peteretep 5y ago
because a company is a legal entity and a DAO is a cryptographic slot machine. A DAO is no more a company than my 10 year old nephew’s gang is a company, although there exist similarly arcane rules, a complex voting system, and a great deal
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by peteretep 5y ago
With the caveat that I am sure it doesn’t matter, Puritan’s Pride 200mg
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by peteretep 5y ago
My (previously medicated) anxiety disorder has disappeared since I stopped drinking more than one coffee a day and started supplementing with l-theanine.
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by peteretep 5y ago
Am I completely off-base in thinking almost everything about a submersible drone is a better idea? No radar signature, much bigger haulage, can idle in location for much longer when needed, and presumably supports somewhat surreptitious unl
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by peteretep 5y ago
Yes, Russia and China are openly hostile to the US and to the world order in general.
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by peteretep 5y ago
> This looks like a shocking news It _is_ shocking news: the Israelis are selling munitions to the Moroccan government explicitly for use against the French state.
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by peteretep 5y ago
That’s hilarious, although I suspect “don’t hack the US” means “don’t hack five eyes” in practice
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by peteretep 5y ago
> location independent companies That’s not a real thing
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by peteretep 5y ago
> German automakers ... have been holding Merkel back against Orban Between this, Nord Stream 2, etc, Germany's commercial elite are having more and more to answer for...
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by peteretep 5y ago
Or they could just develop decent sanctions and enforce them. Hungary is a massive net recipient of EU funds, which seems a great starting lever, plus throw just the smallest amount of friction into their Schengen status, and you've go
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by peteretep 5y ago
> the lower middle class are (to generalise) materially well-off ... they have large televisions ... through pure boredom/decadence they were radicalised ... about things they largely don't fully grasp 8/10 top parody com
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by peteretep 5y ago
I sleep much better from limiting water consumption in the evening
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by peteretep 5y ago
> They further argued that being transgender was not the issue for them, rather having male genitalia was To be clear, the beauticians explicitly didn't care (per their claims) what the birth sex of the customer was, so I'm not
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by peteretep 5y ago
Are you confused that a “question” can be a hate crime? Seems pretty straight-forward to me?
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by peteretep 5y ago
> I'm not so clear about that Try your best to get a projected CFR of 25% using any metrics you can with a population that’s 70% under 40, even one with TB rates like Myanmar. Can’t be done.
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by peteretep 5y ago
> The difference between magic internet money and USD is the word internet. No, the differences are that people denominate prices in USD, there’s a gigantic and mature financial services industry around USD, and finally I have recourse t
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by peteretep 5y ago
> Yet the question remains; on what basis are they holding him in prison right now? sayeth Wikipedia: > On 13 September 2019, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that Assange would not be released on 22 September when his prison te
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by peteretep 5y ago
> Targeted attacks against VIP users don't cause significant PR damage, so why go to all that effort? Because VIP users include people who run big-tech. Ask Bezos if it's worth fixing bugs that only target VIPs.
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by peteretep 5y ago
Yes, that’s definitely the implication
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by peteretep 5y ago
Sure, but the medical claim is clearly insane and also the headline
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by peteretep 5y ago
The situation there sounds dire, but this story is literally a set of WhatsApp messages turned into “news”. > One very reputable public health specialist expects that the population will be decimated by at least 10-15 million by the time

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