reverendsteveii

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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
our industry has existed on the cutting edge doing what's hard since its inception. it's just that there was a time when sending a piece of text across a wire was hard. Now that's easy, so we do more with the tools that make
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
if you're LOOKing for a MOVIE or a tv show 2 download and you don't want to mess with DOT TOrrent files then there are plenty of options but it's generally considered uncouth to link to them publicly and directly
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
what about everyone who uses Brady's system and also isn't the best? Does that refute Brady's system? Why choose the arbitrary cutoff point of top 5? Why focus on being the best when you'll definitely fail instead of foc
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
This doesn't preclude that though. Maybe it's because I'm a weightlifter and while we compete with one another we really don't, but my own numbers can be my rival. In fact, they're a much more effective rival than a
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
thesis: every champion needs a rival to draw out the best in them antithesis: there is nothing about the existence of any other person that changes what my best is or whether I deliver it potential synthesis: I am my own perfect rival. I am
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
capitalists have rivals, but capitalism does not
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
We compare QBs because QBs are comparable. It's really difficult to build a narrative around the number of passes one person completes vs the number of tackles a different person dishes out to different people on different teams, but v
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
I agree, but hackernews is evidently taking his side because any time I try to reply I get told I'm posting too often, even when its been hours since my last post.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
well yeah if you claim a war is justified because there have been wars between people in that area then every war is justified because warfare has been happening everywhere there have been humans since humans arrived
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
wild cuz it was sorta the rest of the world that started the "Semitic tribal warfare"
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
we're precedenting it in the united states. our government is deeply ideologically aligned with the people committing the vast majority of domestic terrorism in this country.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
That's where I first learned about them. NO SMOKING. NO SPITTING. MGMT
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
Then it makes an awful lot of sense to get that service for free/at a one-time cost until their marketing team sobers up, doesn't it? It's only a bait and switch if they switch before I get the bait.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
steamed bread has been a thing for centuries but this is a neat trick
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
I already avoid devices that require subscription rather than allowing ownership. If someone decides to change the terms of the deal after I bought the device to gate previously accessible functionality behind a paywall I guarantee that the
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
interviews should be about determining whether you can use the tools available to deliver the desired product, not some sort of purity test to determine whether you can build without tools. also I want to see you interact w AI because as of
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
yeah, we're getting wartime government when it comes to AI. we're getting government of endless special cases, "here's why the law shouldn't apply this time" every time
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
>It definitely feels like a "too big to fail" scenario at this stage The courts are just reading the room. If you're a judge appointed by a guy who wants it to be illegal to regulate AI at all, you're not gonna be too
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
This might not be the right way to highlight it but I personally am very interested in the ways in which the proscribed penalties for breaking the law greatly diverge from the actual penalties inflicted, with the variance being directly cor
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
I've been told that my rainbow flag lapel pin is anti-Christian hate. This opinion seems to be gaining in popularity. If society decides this is the case, which some elements of society are currently making a concerted effort to see th
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
What is hate? Who gets to decide? What if someone decides that what you're saying is hate?
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
>There's really no way to know so it's silly to ask for a source. Well then its even sillier to make the claim in the first place, isn't it?
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
I can't speak for all of western civilization but one of my favorite facts is that violent crime has been plummeting in the US and the trend started with the release of Doom
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
I know several intersections in America that do this. They go to a flashing red light because we do have an occasional problem with citizens who don't know that a traffic light that's not operating is an all-way stop sign, but the
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
idk, in the age of social media I'd argue that most of the money being made on the internet is being made inducing diseases of the many
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
I was abused and also falsely slandered in different, unrelated incidents. Am I qualified to speak on this?
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
I did exactly that, and I thought I made that clear in my original comment but maybe I was unclear. With that being said, this article is about drivers of obesity so weight control is sort of the topic du jour itt.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
This illustrates a dark pattern in the service industry that I really hate: deny people what they're entitled to by default and hope people give up. In this case this person had $1000 in stuff taken from them and the airline told her t
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
this makes me want to rewrite the unbeatable tic tac toe algorithm I wrote back in high school so that instead of starting optimized it just walks through potential game states and eliminates them as it loses.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
it's not though, because I lost 25% of my weight

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