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by ponker 6y ago
“It’s a waste of money” and “I bought it” are not mutually exclusive.
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by ponker 6y ago
You’ve pretty much done what almost never happens on the Internet: genuinely changed my view.
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No idea what you’re talking about. Someone comes to me with a dumb idea. I tell them it’s a dumb idea and am not nice about it. If they are a minority group they could feel that I am acting this way to them because I’m a x-ist. But it’s act
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by ponker 6y ago
I loled.
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You’re not wrong... but remember that the voting booth is another anonymous forum.
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Yep — this is Exhibit A as to why this is something I say only anonymously. Any other forum and she’s stunning and brave.
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There’s actually a very thriving market for ribbons, especially generic half inch ribbons for manual typewriters. It’s a very low capital business.
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by ponker 6y ago
Let’s say you have a affidavit from your Ecuadorian supplier saying that the goods do not contain lead. It’s then rubber stamped by the Ecuadorian government office that does this. The Senegalese customs official says “this needs to be nota
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by ponker 6y ago
I think there are definitely people who don’t want her to exist but there are also ones like me, who get called Nazis for it, but whose perspective is largely 1) OK 2) please pay for your own costs related to your choices and 3) I’m not bei
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by ponker 6y ago
Even the most technical CEOs like Bill Gates stopped writing code pretty early in their careers
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by ponker 6y ago
For me it’s just a hobby but plenty of businesses still use typewriters. Any time there is a international bureaucratic process like “Affidavit of intellectual property for imported electronics” when shipping between two countries that don’
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by ponker 6y ago
And their businesses can generate revenue for decades after they’re obsolete. I pay $30+ for OEM IBM typewriter ribbons.
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by ponker 6y ago
If you wanted to get hired as a bank robber, how would you do it? Gotta rob a few banks first.
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by ponker 6y ago
The problem that the Internet has exposed is that the average person is too susceptible to lies to be a useful contributor to republic-style electoral governance.
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by ponker 6y ago
Because of the optics of giving the award exclusively to two women. If Siksnys was a woman she would have been the third winner.
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by ponker 6y ago
LOL. 360 days a year tells me everything I need to know about your analysis.
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Except not only the rich can win. My longtime barber is a Vietnamese guy who speaks very broken English. When I go and get a haircut his son was often in the store studying. My barber would tell him a math problem, like 257 times 191 or wha
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by ponker 6y ago
For a flip side to the dominant opinion here... we migrated to micro services. Then the PMs figured out a bunch of new products to ship by combining the micro services in different ways. Grew the business a lot.
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by ponker 6y ago
Most religion is a way of explaining what can’t be explained through reason. Back in the day it was “Persephone is in Hades and Zeus is throwing angry lightning bolts” but now that we’ve figured out a lot of science, religion just talks abo
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by ponker 6y ago
Man, I can see both sides of the Amazon Echo argument but I can’t imagine putting a Chinese IoT gadget on my Johnson.
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by ponker 6y ago
The three worst are: normalization of racism after 50 years of steadily decreasing racism in America, terrible COVID response responsible for 100,000+ deaths in excess of what average countries have achieved, and vast corruption that has de
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by ponker 6y ago
The abuse is that the H1B program is supposed to be for truly distinctive skills. But the "body shops" bring people with very low skill.
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by ponker 6y ago
That's not a bug, it's a feature. Wealthy immigrants are more useful to a country than poor immigrants, unless those poor immigrants have a lot of promise which is most easily approximated by educational credentials. The PhD taxi
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by ponker 6y ago
If he had spent four years on trade instead of being a moron on Twitter I might be voting for him this month.
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by ponker 6y ago
Maybe Trump’s Hail Mary for his re-election is... governing?
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Once I studied a list like this and then got one of the questions in an interview. I did a good job with the theatrics of not knowing the fully correct answer and struggled through it with flashes of genius. I got the job, after a few years
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by ponker 6y ago
Important to note that it was on a manual typewriter. The key is making it slow, so you can observe how the author is doing what they're doing. Reading is very fast ... typing on a manual typewriter is slow enough to give you time to o
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by ponker 6y ago
Cities have always been cacophonous. Moving to a city and then asking your neighbors to be quiet is like moving next to a farm and then asking them to stop making smells. There is much more quiet real estate in America than noisy real estat
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If you want quiet go live in the woods. Cities are for doing stuff. Doing stuff makes noise.
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Well they are still the leaders but the patents that are now expired give good-enough of an experience for most regular users.

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