psychometry

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by psychometry 5y ago
>In life, your only opponent is yourself. This argument reminds me of people who try to deny things like white privilege by describing how hard they had to work to get where they are now. Yeah, well, for a lot of people working hard (or
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by psychometry 5y ago
No, your analogy is neither apt nor useful. It's an oversimplification that ignores the unimaginably more complex nature of ecosystems compared to software. The same principles do not apply.
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by psychometry 5y ago
If there's one website I would never in a million years let a closed-source, venture-backed browser extension inject content into, it's console.aws.amazon.com. What a terrifying thought...
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by psychometry 5y ago
You know...not every concept needs to be interpreted through the lens of software development.
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by psychometry 5y ago
https://aspe.hhs.gov/system/files/pdf/265341/vaccine-hesitan... "State of residence" was a predictor in their linear model. A person's state (and its government) will probably affect the o
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by psychometry 5y ago
I have much greater confidence that vaccination of non-white populations in the South will climb to acceptable levels than I do when it comes to GOP base of rural white people with no college.
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by psychometry 5y ago
"A layout optimized for different viewports results in the layout changing when the viewport changes." How ridiculous to complain about a phenomenon that is basically tautological. The solution? Apparently it's user agent det
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by psychometry 5y ago
I'd actually like to hear one good reason, sure.
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by psychometry 5y ago
I have a feeling that methods of patching the Linux kernel is a concept most members of IRB boards wouldn't understand at all. It's pretty far outside their wheelhouse.
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by psychometry 5y ago
Would you like to hear the lecture about why cats should be kept indoors now? Or have you already heard and ignored it many times?
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by psychometry 5y ago
>Parler will forever be associated with negative connotations Well, seeing as how it was created specifically to host content that moral, reasonable people would find objectionable, it's a fair association.
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by psychometry 5y ago
Everyone who's tried to fight a war against language change has lost.
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by psychometry 5y ago
Wow, the irony of the Veritas guy complaining about defamation. Do you think he realizes it?
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by psychometry 6y ago
Clearly, but you're entirely missing the point.
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by psychometry 6y ago
You're getting downvoted into oblivion because you wrote an astonishingly selfish and moronic screed because of some kind of weird financial code you apparently live by. Truly bizarre.
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by psychometry 6y ago
We need better education so that people stop voting against their own self-interest, in union elections and generally.
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by psychometry 6y ago
It's an idiotic, racist dog whistle. Nothing more.
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by psychometry 6y ago
Can you touch type with only your thumbs? I don't think I could, but you'd have to with a keyboard that small.
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by psychometry 6y ago
Jetbrains is extremely fast for me these days because the indexing is good. The fact that the IDE and Java are using 1-2 GBs RAM isn't really a problem when any dev machine is going to have at least 8 GBs.
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by psychometry 6y ago
Again, try reading the article before commenting.
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by psychometry 6y ago
>they are being paid handsomely for their work Seems like someone didn't read the article...
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by psychometry 6y ago
Not sure I'd trust the expertise of someone who doesn't know how to redirect to https...
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by psychometry 6y ago
Why police unions are not part of the American labor movement https://theconversation.com/why-police-unions-are-not-part-o...
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by psychometry 6y ago
What exactly is there to unpack? You have modern-day humans going around believing that an omnipotent God impregnated a human female so that his son could sacrifice himself for the sins of humanity. It's patently absurd (though really
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by psychometry 6y ago
The most "solid" theology is just shaky philosophy, though.
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by psychometry 6y ago
It's the new American Dream: Working a 9-hour day at one job (or at multiple jobs), spending an hour commuting because you can't afford to live closer to work, lacking access to fresh ingredients because your house is in a food de
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by psychometry 6y ago
Your math is wrong. Assuming that desired tax revenue should scale linearly with the number of families, the owners of the non-apartment parcels would be paying 1.35 times what they paid before the apartment building was built, not 1.5. How
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by psychometry 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
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by psychometry 6y ago
Yes, I'm aware, but the person I responded to is very obviously from the U.S. or Canada.
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by psychometry 6y ago
You shouldn't use a debit card for everyday purchases. Use a credit card since it offers you far more protection against erroneous and fraudulent charges.

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