rev_bird

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by rev_bird 9y ago
Genetics has something to do with my interest in genealogy, but honestly the direct familial connection is what is so interesting to me. Sure, I never met my great-great-great grandfather, and his genes probably have a negligible effect o
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>"go/be abroad at least once each month" This is such a dramatic departure from my experience as an American. I'm almost 30 and have left the country once.
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by rev_bird 9y ago
It's not the fault of liberals that you believe quantifiably incorrect things, but it's a convenient idealogical scapegoat to get out of learning anything helpful.
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>the gateway drug marijuana This is a myth, and not even a good one. Alcohol has a far stronger correlation with negative outcomes than marijuana does, and having "personally seen friends" doesn't change that. As for the c
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by rev_bird 9y ago
That's a good point, I hadn't thought of it that way.
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by rev_bird 9y ago
I honestly didn't know about "PING," thank you. I have no idea how I missed such a fundamental feature, even if it is relatively new.
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by rev_bird 9y ago
I've considered doing this, but I can't figure out if the networking upside would be outweighed by the "annoying people making lots of noise" downside. Not to mention I really like my setup at home, which I value more th
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by rev_bird 9y ago
I can't imagine how much work it would be to sift through all the other "ideas people" who need an app next week and then they'll pay you once the cash starts rolling in.
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by rev_bird 9y ago
Thanks for sharing your experiences, this is really interesting. It seems like you had a pretty unpleasant experience as a traditional employee, which I can appreciate. I'm curious about this part: >I was one of the best people some
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by rev_bird 9y ago
I recognize your username from various threads, but I'm unfamiliar with your work. What is it that you consult on? And, if you don't mind me asking, how did you get "demonstrably technically competent" in it? Were you an
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by rev_bird 9y ago
So excited for this, really excited to dig in and start kicking the tires. One question, since it looks like steeleduncan is answering questions in here: How does the realtime typesetting deal with large documents? I can't tell if it c
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by rev_bird 9y ago
That's true, but it would still need to reload , rather than just sending the little request in the background as you keep scrolling along.
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by rev_bird 9y ago
This is cool, thank you for explaining. It never occurred to me that it would be so different for commercial offerings. The main question I have with ideas like this is where the shitty pricing scams are going to be happening—if it's
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>We just had an election in Alabama that proved this view incorrect. Even in seemingly "safe" districts your vote can matter. That's how safe districts become safe. It's kind of counter-intuitive, but the election of
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by rev_bird 9y ago
This is a really straightforward explanation of a situation I was having trouble getting across, thank you.
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>As with any other system where a product is delivered over someone else's product, a negotiation will take place, money will change hands, and business will resume. I don't think this is always true, is it? The price of a phon
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by rev_bird 9y ago
I agree there are lots of reasons to be discussed, but it's my understanding that access to postpartum healthcare is certainly one of the factors, one that varies widely by insurance company. Medicaid, for example, only covers two mont
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by rev_bird 9y ago
Thanks for linking to this, looking forward to checking it out.
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by rev_bird 9y ago
That's not at all how representative democracy works, and I suspect you know that. It's possible for a president to disagree with the regulatory decisions of a federal agency, because the agencies work for us, not the president.
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by rev_bird 9y ago
I appreciate the clarification, that makes a lot of sense.
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>If you try to do this using conventional budget math, you're not going to get the right answer. I'm very curious about this part, particularly in light of your comment elsewhere that "It's possible to implement basic
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>It seems that for this to work we'd have to maintain some intestinal fortitude to say "no" - and that to me sounds like a serious culture change in this country. I'd argue that the culture is currently overwhelmingly
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>wealth and power are their own defense against redistribution Right now, yes, that's definitely the case. But does it have to be? Our campaign finance system provides a direct and unlimited conduit between wealth and political powe
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>If we are talking about handing out cold hard cash as basic income, as the statement implies, then that is a recipe for disaster. I've tried and failed to figure out a less confrontational-sounding way to ask this, but do you have
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by rev_bird 9y ago
Oh wow, I hadn't heard about KDP Paperback. They're literally telling people to start moving stuff over. Thanks for responding.
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>unless you think that large website payloads exist because developers are literally too lazy or don't know how asset optimization works. For what it's worth, I do think this. It's easy to just drag another JS library into
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>published via Amazon CreateSpace (which Amazon seems to be phasing out). I just published my second book through CreateSpace, any phasing-out would be news to me, but I'm very curious what you mean. My experience the second time ar
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by rev_bird 9y ago
I think "existential panic" in this case maybe isn't referring to existentialism, but... existence? Like if you aren't going to have food tomorrow, and there's no solid prospect of figuring out how to get food the n
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by rev_bird 9y ago
>You're telling people you have a right to seize their earnings for their labor. You don't think this is happening now? A hypothetical, though not a very abstract one: A wealthy investor uses some of their money to buy a corpor
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by rev_bird 9y ago
Workers have been generating increasing productivity for decades—Americans have never created more wealth. Yet wages have stagnated, companies have trillions of dollars squirreled away, and the richest families in the country have more mone

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