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I bet your politics are junk too. Why do I need to care about your 2 cents about this or that "issue" if we are writing code? I am not interested in your inner world or opinions. We aren't friends. We are coworkers. I have a
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4y ago
Well go write Cobol at a bank. Or play office politics and write another pointless chat app that gets canceled. What is wrong with a bit of chaos from time to time? I thought this was hacker news, I thought you guys like startups..
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4y ago
Well, well, speak of gaslighting. The twitter employees have been hostile to him since before him buying this dumpster fire was ever a rumor. People are almost exclusively talking about his politics. Unless I report to him directly his mana
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4y ago
> I couldn’t help but wonder if any engineers would actually work for this guy going forward and why? Why not? I like money. I don't care about his politics. Or yours. It is called work not daycare for adults. My self esteem is also
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4y ago
> If you say, in all ernestness that my favourite maths equation; 1+1 equals 436 then I can reasonably judge you. > That doesnt make me a triggered little maths fan boy, it makes you an idiot. Toucheous Grassous!
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4y ago
To quote William Shatner to a room full of Trekkies: "Its just a TV show, get a life, losers". Good grief. :P He made an off hand simile about your favorite childhood book you don't find accurate and therefore he is Voldemort
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> Then he described the titular character as, essentially, a special snowflake that doesn't have to work for anything or figure anything out. Harry literally has a scar marking him as the chosen one, abused by muggle caretakers and
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4y ago
> It isn't the Stratfor origin, or the blazenly pro-American optimism per se that concern me Are you sure about that? Because all you've written is that Zeihan, who focuses on practical and immediate concerns of demographics, e
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4y ago
Writing the umpteenth Javascript framework might be good for your career. It isn't hard, in fact, it is so easy a multitude of javascript-only developers attempt it on a regular basis. Occasionally one takes off. Really just a function
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4y ago
brb, need to edit my pitch deck..
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Yes, actually, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English If one were to take the 25,000 word Oxford Pocket English Dictionary and take away the redundancies of our rich language and eliminate the words that
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4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo3cL4nrGOk
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Lisp is absolutely superior and you should absolutely learn it but you'll never get concise examples as to why. Only jokes and anecdotes. How do you fix a waterlogged smartphone? Put out a bowl of rice, which attracts an Asian guy who
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4y ago
You've just watched a pretty good quibi of "The Problem with Jon Stewart's viewers".
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4y ago
I propose a new term for these volatile times instead of unicorns: Wily Coyotes.
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4y ago
Dammit, that's just the old
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4y ago
That's just the old
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India prepares to overtake China as the world’s most populous country
(theguardian.com)
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My condolences, as it is apparently clinically impossible for them not to have developed severe psychological issues as a result. ;)
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I like this reply and agree with most of what is written. > So when we go back in time in most places, we might not see that much cross-settlement travel, but how dense are the settlements? Depending on when and where sometimes not very
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4y ago
I fall into that percentage. I got stuck in a very severe lockdown whilst traveling. It was unpleasant to say the least. However we should disentangle the stress of the situation, the uncertainty about the future, the arbitrary restrictions
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For a long long time 9/10 of Europeans didn't leave their village for a multitude of reasons. If the village is small and remote enough that's functionally the same thing. When you did leave you might not see your family and
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Population density through out history has been far lower with far fewer people around and much more spread out. People didn't typically live in cities. Travel was difficult and dangerous. Frequently forbidden when not impractical ( ht
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When the people who print the real currency are your friends, the people who are supposed to regulate who can print currency are your friends, and the people who lend you massive amounts of real currency are your friends - it is easy to del
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There is no such idea implied, if anything I mean to say the opposite. We have to stop looking at things through a narrow political lens. Whatever noises SBF was making about regulation - what actually appears to have happened is that he wa
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I don't know which discord the reply to me is supposed to be linking to but here it is in text form. A true scandal is opening for the Biden administration. April 25, 2019: Biden announces his presidential campaign. 13 days later,
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Sounds like plain old moral hazard to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard Why people think that such things are limited to any one political party or that progressive liberals are somehow immune from it is b
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> Part of growing up in most modern North American and European cultures is learning to suppress 'childish' tendencies. You ever been to Asia?
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4 people to debate the merits of LED vs CFL, one to screw it in (probably an incandescent when research money starts running low). Same as today.
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Not at all being idealistic, this is a hard problem. But if we're really going to compare stuff.. Systemd alone is over 1 million lines. Probably X/Wayland as well. And the not-slim QT is probably going to end up over 1 million li
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