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by rjbwork 4y ago
Honestly, I have eaten some insanely hot peppers and sauce. The whole "coming out" thing is not really a problem for me. What is a problem, is that I have some acid reflux issues, and if I'm not careful about when I eat spi
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by rjbwork 4y ago
>1. Trust hasn't been eroded (i.e. fraudsters/salesmen do not predominate) I have become much more guarded and cynical in the past few years after a handful of interactions like this. At a bar or restaurant, and strike up a co
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Absolutely. I continue to imbibe in increasing quantities despite the negative digestive effects.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
McMaster Carr is one of the greatest websites there is. It's incredibly easy to find just about any kind of hardware.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Maybe. AFAIU, they've been pretty incapable of getting anywhere near high-end fabs working, and have relied a lot on western consultants to actually get what they do have up and running. I don't think it's a foregone conclus
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Saw an F-450 the other day... granted, it was at the gun range, but I was there in my compact hatchback and it had not a spec of dust on it.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
>200k USD salaries instead of 2e5 USD? You mean 2 lakh USD? :D
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by rjbwork 4y ago
My two favorite sources for financial news are Matt Levine's Money Stuff column/newsletter[1], and Patrick Boyle on Finance on Youtube[2]. They're both quite funny. Both have a very dry wit, though Boyle moreso. [1] https:&
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I think it's the same phenomenon that causes road rage. Collective pseudo-anonymity (and on the internet, literally pseudonymity) causes people to act in bizarre ways. The other people who are interacting with them via that mediated
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Wow. That is insanely user hostile and borderline gaslighting/psychological torture. That is truly one of the most insane experiments I've ever hard of someone running.
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There's also the fact that there's no alerts about people replying to you or commenting on your posts. You have to explicitly go into your profile, click comments, and then you can see if anyone has said anything to you. This
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Private prisons are a problem, but as other posters mention, a sub-double-digit percent of our prisoners are in them. One of the real problems, it seems to me, is that pesky little clause in the 13th amendment allowing slavery as punishment
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That's right. And that's why we put people who do things like smoke the devils lettuce or sniff a little columbian snow in there. To keep these menaces away from the rest of us. I mean, can you imagine? People just walking arou
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by rjbwork 4y ago
My dad is an accountant who took some punch card FORTRAN programming classes in the early 70's as well. After 3 semesters he told his professor he wouldn't be returning to the computing department - his professor was shocked, for
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Just FYI, you're being downvoted because generally on HN you should just upvote if you have a contentless agreement comment to post, AKA a "this"-style post.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Unfortunately, taxes and regulations seem to be the only mechanisms we have to price externalities into economic activity.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
It's a difficult sphere of knowledge to penetrate. All of that is perfectly coherent to me, FWIW. From first principals, I can highly recommend Ralph Kimball's primer, The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimension
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I think it's more an argument about how to refactor from one to the other. If you think of the current state of US vs European cities, you can think of it it as a long series of decisions in a tree, where largely EU has taken one path
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I feel you may have misunderstood my comment. I wasn't really trying to argue anything, merely stating my belief in light of information conveyed to me by someone. Let me explain. I don't think I intended to counter anything wit
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I don't even think RoR is analogous to C# and .NET. It's like saying RoR is analogous to Java and the JVM. RoR is more analogous to ASP.NET and Spring, or similar. Also, C# is used in Unity, for desktop apps, for console apps, fo
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by rjbwork 4y ago
While I do think GP is correct at many places, my team literally hired a black woman from Georgia and turned down a white dude from Boston, lol. I am not a fan of the overbearing top down policies like Microsoft is talking about, but I hav
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Four years ago, and you have an email in the profile. Better hope nobody can trace you down using subpoenas to registrars via outliir.com
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For the same reason I don't drive my car as if it were a frictionless and spherical point mass. It's an idealized and fictional construct that is useful only insofar as a model by which to derive principals that can be applied to
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Glad someone said it. Nearly every day I see Walter spouting off at the mouth on shit, asserting ideological opinions and viewpoints as fact with little support. Probably the most high profile and technically competent user that regularly
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by rjbwork 4y ago
With most in game currency, there does not appear to be a way to convert back to a liquid currency such as USD/EUR/Gold/etc. Thus, it is understood by all that any gambling proceeds are confined to the in game universe. Wit
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I think they meant it literally, to further reinforce the fact that they were colluding to extract profit out of their students via yearly textbook revisions.
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I have empathy for my fellow workers. I also value my stock options at 0 until a liquidation event. The industry is rife with stories of people working their asses off for years and getting nothing out of their options.
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Not only is it a fake trend, it's capitalist propaganda meant to make people feel bad for doing the job they're being paid to do. You want people to do more work? Pay them more money and give them the responsibility.
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Postgres still doesn't support SQL:2011, and the temporal_table extension doesn't support the proper syntax, and is a bit jank to boot. If you have any kind of complex DW or SCD needs Postgres is pretty much immediately out the wi
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by rjbwork 4y ago
You make some good points, but honestly I'm not terribly interested in continuing the conversation. I apologize for my overly aggressive rhetoric.

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