r_smart

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by r_smart 8y ago
One of the things people often seem to overlook in the US is that at about the time the wage stagnation started, we also began the process of roughly doubling the workforce by removing barriers against women entering the labor market. Then,
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by r_smart 8y ago
The reality is that it sounds like you don't have the skills for the work you want and are chosing to turn your nose up at the work you can get. This obviously isn't sustainable. You need to get a job. Any job. Preferably the best
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by r_smart 8y ago
Presumably the loss of a tax base. I think OP is saying the laws slowly drive people out in a way that doesn't make it apparent the reason people are leaving is those laws. Eventually you wind up with a situation that levies high taxes
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by r_smart 8y ago
Never heard of this one, and didn't know anything about it. I tried reading the Wikipedia page. Now I've heard of it, but still don't know anything about it.
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by r_smart 8y ago
We all know you're going to pick the Patriot Act :)
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by r_smart 8y ago
Cherry pick? No. Anecdote? Sure. In my experience women have dressed at or below the level of professionalism (for lack of a better word) than the men. Women have a lot more variance in what they can wear, and very few people will choose to
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by r_smart 8y ago
> that usually results in dressing more seriously than their male colleagues. Are yoga pants really more serious than khakis and a polo?
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by r_smart 8y ago
When I was your age I thought I'd always play the guitar. It was inconceivable that I would ever not play the guitar. While I wouldn't go so far as to say I don't play anymore, 23 year old me would be appalled at how little I
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by r_smart 8y ago
Have you ever looked at the federal budget? I'd say we're demanding plenty of both...and we're going bankrupt.
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by r_smart 8y ago
I've been checked out for a bit. Did they finally come up with concrete evidence? Are you saying they actually altered vote tallies?
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by r_smart 8y ago
Personally, I hate the sound of people chewing and smacking their lips directly in my ear as they work their way through their 'fresh that afternoon' gas station nachos. But that's just me :)
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by r_smart 8y ago
I love mine too, and use it all the time, but I got it from a friend who bought a game that bundled the steam link for like $1 or something. No way they're doing anything other than trying to offload :(
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by r_smart 8y ago
Yes of course. I didn't care to enumerate every possible choice one could make. I guess I'd summarize my point as this: License what you make according to the outcomes you want. Do not complain about getting an outcome different f
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by r_smart 8y ago
I'm sorry, but I'm kind of tired of this double standard. If you want to get paid for your project, charge for it. If you want a lot of people to use and benefit from it, give it away. If you give it away, don't then complain
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by r_smart 8y ago
My advice to friends who are chewing on some major decision is always to tell them to flip a coin. It's the perfect way to shut off their brain, which isn't getting them anywhere (or they would have decided already!), and get them
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by r_smart 8y ago
I, for one, welcome a future of 24/7 streaming of yule logs.
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by r_smart 8y ago
Whereas requiring a balance is 'more fair' than the double standard of permitting all female boards or something like that?
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by r_smart 8y ago
Ah, gotcha. It seems more wrong to me, but I guess I'm thinking in terms of 'What would this do' as opposed to 'Is this law a violation of various laws / legal philosophy'.
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by r_smart 8y ago
>If the law required a 50/50 gender split on boards I'm curious why you would see that as an improvement. Care to elaborate?
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by r_smart 8y ago
Coming up: A lot of board members' wives get board positions.
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by r_smart 8y ago
I was going to say this. I just saw that movie for the first time about 6 months ago and it killed me. For some reason I had it in my mind it wasn't a good movie, but it's one of my recent favorites now.
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by r_smart 8y ago
I hear Reason used to be good. My experience with it over the last three years or so is that it's mostly garbage. It's become a lot of narrative confirmation but with little quality reasoning (drink!) or evidence. I don't go
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by r_smart 8y ago
As a libertarian, Reason annoys the bejesus out of me. As a human, journalists annoy the bejesus out of me. The real test here is, are drugs more efficacious then prior to the legislation. If not, we need to review it. I'd argue repeal
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by r_smart 8y ago
Steam does this. I honestly didn't get a ton of use out of it, but I only really followed Jim Sterling, Total Biscuit and TB's 30 FPS Locked curation list. The latter was the only one I found particularly useful because it turns o
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by r_smart 8y ago
>Basically, you have to demonstrate value rather than provide value. This was one of the most painful things I've had to learn. Finding ways to account for it in your work can be interesting.
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by r_smart 8y ago
You're probably right, but then the recommendations seems to just boil down to what other people are watching, what Netflix has recently produced and things in the same genre as what I'm watching a lot of at the moment. Seems like
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by r_smart 8y ago
Yeah, the front page of Youtube is an abomination. Reddit isn't much better.
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Just simply occasionally injecting something randomly chosen from the catalogue would probably do wonders. I do find that these systems as they currently exist tend to sate your appetite for a particular thing until you are fatigued by it a
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I can't tell if this is a weird attempt at a pun, a funny typo, or some kind of koan.
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by r_smart 8y ago
Thanks, I appreciate the offer for help. If I get stuck again, you might hear from me =D I think a lot of the problem probably depends on the work you're doing. I'm an engineer, usually I just want a GUI that shows me the informat

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