polka_haunts_us

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by polka_haunts_us 3y ago
My first job was 40 hours a week in an office, my current job has been full WFH because of covid, transitioning into 3 days in the office. I can tell you factually that the days I'm actually at home in this hybrid setup that I'm w
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by polka_haunts_us 3y ago
The only competitive multiplayer game I play lately is R6 and that game 100% has what the author is talking about, casual mode is great when you're waiting for the last member of your group to finish up whatever it is they're doin
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by polka_haunts_us 3y ago
Anecdotally, when I was taking Advanced Econometrics as an undergrad, the class was being audited by a professor in the Economics department that, in their education through PhD, had never actually learned any quantitative anaylsis. So ther
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by polka_haunts_us 4y ago
https://archive.is/
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by polka_haunts_us 4y ago
When I was younger I used to watch the late TotalBiscuit's gaming podcast. I remember one episode he was on some anti American chocolate rant and said something to the effect of "I like good European brands, like Ghirardelli"
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by polka_haunts_us 4y ago
Small company hired a certain VP who the engineering team reported to. He had experience in our industry but was clearly not adept at actually managing us. He had extremely unrealistic expectations, like he'd demand hour estimates for
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by polka_haunts_us 4y ago
I don't think I've ever owned a pair of earbuds headphones or otherwise that failed anywhere other than a wire coming loose internally. To be fair, I've also tended to buy fairly cheap headphones because I've internalize
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by polka_haunts_us 4y ago
For my parets, our consumption of Netflix definitely peaked years ago and has been on the decline, but they never even thought about cancelling it b/c we've been subscribed since the DVD by mail days, it's such a long term ex
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by polka_haunts_us 4y ago
Pretty much this, we don't have small electric cars because we don't have small cars period. I used to own a 2000 Nissan Frontier, didn't even bother considering a truck for my new car not because I dislike truck ownership co
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by polka_haunts_us 4y ago
I'm so confused by Jack Dorsey. Anytime Elon says "blah blah blah is wrong with Twitter", it seems like Dorsey is in the news saying "Yeah I agree 100%", as if as the co-founder and CEO of Twitter he somehow had 0 c
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by polka_haunts_us 4y ago
This kind of shit really gets my imposter syndrome up. I got Direct Admission at UW back in the day, and I'm 1000% aware that it was a purely geographic decision. I was the only person in my cohort from that part of the state, and I ha
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by polka_haunts_us 4y ago
This is the issue with Wife as a Service. Let this be a lesson to make sure your wife is Free and Open Source so you can self host her in the future if necessary.
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by polka_haunts_us 4y ago
Location does impact lifestlye, and in my view that's a big component of culture. The kinds of outdoor activities people do, the kinds of commonly avilable foods, the interests people have (especially prospective partners if you'r
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by polka_haunts_us 4y ago
Culture change doesn't have to be political. One of my friends post college moved from the PNW to Northern Virginia. Both places he lived were represented by centristy Democarts. However, they're still wildly different places. Eve
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by polka_haunts_us 4y ago
So what you're saying is that the author is arguing in bad faith and therefore we shouldn't trust anything they say? I think that is an entirely too unchairitable view to be taking in civil discourse, and frankly, the author deser
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by polka_haunts_us 4y ago
Netflix, at least compared to Dropbox, had the opportunity to transition to producing 1st party content which they could use to continue to generate revenue even after all the 3rd party content went proprietary. My gut instinct is that Netf
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
From what I'm understanding, it isn't even a gas tax holiday, it's a holiday to an automatic inflation adjustment they baked into their gas tax, valued at a whole whopping 2.2 cents a gallon. I feel like the situation in a ge
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
Ghosting a company is small beans, next job cycle I'm sending copy pasted form letters waxing about how impressive the company is, however I've decided to move forward with other companies at this time.
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
Kind of depends on the situation. I'm currently working in a situation where I've never set foot in the office, but am living where I do with the expectation I might have to someday since it's not a remote position on paper.
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
I remember walking around Green Lake during a friend's Bacehlor party prior to his wedding, and a guy brandished a knife at us because he was "Looking to stab some yuppies". This is despite us being in a group of 6 or so. So
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
I believe the accepted term of art is "Dinobabies".
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
Well first of all, I don't think the phrase existed in the original Japanese, only in the English dub where they made the creative decision to make the character who says it talk like some Redneck Trucker. The context is said Redneck T
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
There's a significant difference between "Not Voting" and "Voting for 0". Other than Nevada, most states don't allow "Voting for 0". The closest thing we get is writing in Mickey Mouse where writeins
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
For some context, including this year, out of 38 tax advisory votes, 10 have been voted for approval and 28 for repeal. That said, these votes are entirely nonbinding, there are advisory votes have failed by a larger percentage and still be
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
My parents are worth several million, they've spent their lives as a high school teacher/administrator/community college professor and an administrative assistant. Some boomers were just able to buy houses and otherwise save
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
I dunno, this site probably disproportionately represents the kind of demographic who just orders all their groceries on Amazon Fresh and hasn't set foot in a grocery store in months anyways. Maybe some people do need photos.
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
In various countires with relation to the UK Commonwealth, it's equivalent to giving someone the finger. If you do with a bit of an elbow swing it basically translates to "Shove it up your ass"
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
I have at least one or two games that are essentially ports of short point and click adventures originally made for Android that I beat in under 2 hours. I didn't refund them because these days I have a Software Engineer salary that I&
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
Broken link?
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by polka_haunts_us 5y ago
House of (Twitch's Biggest Female Star) Catches Fire House of Twitch sounds like it would be an awful reality show starring all the internet personalities who do nothing but talk about other internet personalities.

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