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by rriepe 6y ago
These are all great points. I recently quit too. It was mostly because like this post, I found someone I really respected and it turned out he was a raging bigot against people like me. The site's tagline should be "Meet your hero
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by rriepe 6y ago
Hah! What assumptions do you think I'm making here about you ?
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by rriepe 6y ago
Has the price of transactions gone up relative to the value of Bitcoin? (I don't have a dog in this race, just curious.)
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by rriepe 6y ago
Try lobsters.
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by rriepe 6y ago
Is junk food addictive?
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by rriepe 6y ago
Everything 7-11 sells is addictive. They're literally drug dealers set up on corners. But I really enjoyed this analogy.
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by rriepe 6y ago
You have access to an army of pedantic jerks. Treat it like a super power. Use it or don't use it. Don't ever wish the pedantic jerks were better because that never happens. You just become a part of the other ever-present group
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by rriepe 6y ago
Only 70 more though and you're right there at Venus' pressure.
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by rriepe 6y ago
Easy to miss too :)
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It's #2 on the honorable mentions list
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by rriepe 6y ago
I'm not a lawyer but I got lawyer-nervous reading this post.
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by rriepe 6y ago
It's important that it's at the department level and not the individual level too. It turns the "looking the other way for other officers" dynamic on its head right away.
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by rriepe 6y ago
And it's gone.
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by rriepe 6y ago
Hey HN! So I wrote a book to explain my new CSS library, but it kinda became this whole thing on web development. This covers pretty much everything involved in setting up the style architecture for a big project.
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Launch HN: You Suck at CSS [Book](gumroad.com)
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It's carbon and nitrogen today.
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by rriepe 6y ago
The downvotes make it funnier!
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by rriepe 6y ago
I really wish people wouldn't post stuff like this to HN. The last bowl bubble was devastating. In 2013 there were literally bowls selling for millions of dollars[1]. My kids didn't eat cereal that year. Please consider the conseq
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by rriepe 6y ago
The buried lede: A landslide blocked a river and water backed up.
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by rriepe 6y ago
Check out Dr. John Sarno's works. It's mostly about back pain but he covers other manifestations of the condition he calls TMS. He talks about a personality type which you seem to fit.
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by rriepe 6y ago
You're conflating outcomes and solutions. You've offered no solution.
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by rriepe 6y ago
What purpose would realizing the absurdity serve, again? It might be absurd that someone is shooting bullets at you but you should shoot back if that's the case.
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by rriepe 6y ago
They do exist but it's a social thing, not a technical/skill thing. They get the big multiplier by making other team members more effective, not through their direct work efforts.
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by rriepe 6y ago
Let's see: outfucked
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by rriepe 6y ago
No, he's always involved. People behave as though he is there even if he doesn't get directly involved.
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by rriepe 6y ago
We have a fickle king. Sometimes he executes you and sometimes he rewards you. Just because he does both doesn't mean it's a good situation.
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by rriepe 6y ago
It's just projection from the publication that brought us the line "Democracy dies in darkness"
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by rriepe 6y ago
The Nintendo Switch turns 4 next month.
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Perception?
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by rriepe 6y ago
I just finished a book (link in profile) in an obtuse/absurd humor style and there could be some overflow here.

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