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by renlo 4y ago
In that case neither is Europe or Asia ;)
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by renlo 4y ago
> although many are profiting from it and are probably more than happy about the situation being the way it is This is the "grift" part of it; those "many [...] profiting from it" are often times friends or acquaintan
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by renlo 4y ago
All of the public toilets I used as a tourist in Europe cost a euro, bathroom operators have an incentive to keep their bathrooms clean. San Francisco (lived there for 4 years) does not adequately maintain their toilets, echoing other comme
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by renlo 4y ago
I don’t know if we worked for the same company but your logging pipeline sounds almost identical to the logging pipeline at my last company. That said, logs are definitely abused often, usually all it takes is an engineer to say to themselv
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by renlo 4y ago
What about the archetype Staff Software Engineer who’s good at creating a promo packet but not good at much else? They come into an org, replace some open source / well-documented well-built tool with an undocumented poorly working too
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by renlo 4y ago
Not OP but planting a man-made forest is bound to require a lot of carbon up front; you’d need to transport people, plants, etc, to the forest-site, and would possibly need prepare the land for planting using machines (which again need to b
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by renlo 4y ago
Wikipedia articles for contentious subjects tend to be ... opinionated. Is there anything more contentious than race?
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by renlo 4y ago
Can someone recommend a good primer on _implementing state machines_? I’ve only really encountered the theory and the diagrams, but have had a harder time finding examples of actual implementations in code.
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by renlo 4y ago
In California they tried to add an amendment to allow race-based preferential treatment for the UCs (etc) [1]. It failed, but just putting this out there to better understand the milieu and how it _could_ be used. [1] https://bal
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by renlo 4y ago
That person said, paraphrased, that if a drunk woman cheats then the woman gets blamed for infidelity (implying it’s somehow someone else’s fault, maybe her partner or the person she hooks up with?). Yes, if you cheat, you are a cheater. Gu
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by renlo 4y ago
Yea! Why should phone companies be forced to carry conversations they don’t want you to have over their networks? Why should ISPs be forced to serve content they don’t want you to see? If you want to call the competitor of ATT to switch you
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by renlo 4y ago
It did seem a bit gratuitous the way the author mentioned they were a furry; it had nothing to do with whether one should delete their Patreon account.
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by renlo 4y ago
Aren’t cast iron skillets usually made heavier though? Ie, sure heat capacity is similar per kg but if one is almost always 2-3x heavier than the other then it’s going to retain more heat
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by renlo 4y ago
The irony is that the article states that progressives don’t understand conservatives / rural “non-elites”, then the author goes on to misunderstand and mischaracterize conservatives / rural “non-elites”. You and the author see it
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by renlo 4y ago
Ah, so he’s a conspiracy theorist and I’m of average intelligence. Have a label for everything don’t we.
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by renlo 4y ago
You’ve supplied the labels, I’ve supplied the critique. I don’t agree with your labels, am I pretending?
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by renlo 4y ago
Uh oh, sounds like a “conspiracy theory”, must not have any validity at all. Is there a “sounds like a conspiracy theory” fallacy someone can point me to?
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by renlo 4y ago
I think parent understands your point, but, it's implied that the salaries were high, so your example doesn't fit. > Our salary offerings are very aggressive to the developer's benefit Your example covers the case of &quot
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by renlo 4y ago
> Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has abs
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by renlo 4y ago
Do subtitles count?
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by renlo 4y ago
edit: looking back at the thread here, I see now that we're arguing over semantics I think. To me, "relying on someone" means that they are incapable of doing it themselves. It seems your definition of "relying on someon
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by renlo 4y ago
In this case, the surgeon isn’t conferring with a colleague; the surgeon is wholly unable to perform the operation. Collaboration is not cheating. A WhatsApp group used to collaborate on simple assignments or complicated projects is one thi
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by renlo 4y ago
These are college students (ie, legal adults), not children. This professor went way too easy on them, he should have failed them, especially the person who plagiarized the “repentance essay”. If I’d had taken the course I’d not be happy kn
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by renlo 5y ago
In addition to pronouns, let's include emojis that we feel identify ourselves
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by renlo 5y ago
> So I asked dozens of Bosnians in Utica and in Bosnia to explain what sparked that war. They described generational memories of violence that had happened long ago—conflict between their forefathers and the forefathers of their neighbor
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by renlo 5y ago
the question is whether economic sanctions could lead to "full on nuclear war"
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by renlo 5y ago
When are we going to get the PBS of search engines? Publicly funded, boring, informational, non-profit and works.
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by renlo 5y ago
it's not stealing
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by renlo 5y ago
Found it amusing reading this thread, thinking of gambling companies paying their lawyers to argue that gambling is "skilled based". Then, after gambling is legalized, they'd ban all of the skilled players so we'd go bac
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by renlo 5y ago
> It will take 25 hours for an infectious dose of COVID-19 to transmit between people wearing non-fit-tested N95 respirators Is this backed up by _any_ real world data? Because this seems to be overly optimistic, judging from the way Omi

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