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by ryanobjc 8y ago
I’m not sure why you threw in a dig at homosexuals in your little immigration rant. That’s probably why you’re getting downvotes here. Plus it erases a lot of goodwill you might be building up. Also btw, there is no modern state that recogn
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by ryanobjc 8y ago
I mean, what other magical field allows otherwise difficult to get along with individuals to have a full time job? There’s tons of leeway for weird socialization in tech. While the soft skill requirement goes up year over year, it’s still n
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by ryanobjc 8y ago
Exactly this. Also you get paid real cash money. And really proper healthcare. Which is handy if you want to have kids. I often see criticisms of bigtech as overpaying... or perhaps it is everyone else who is underpaying? Quit making the ar
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by ryanobjc 8y ago
Academic papers are written in a difficult to read style. It's more than being precise, the use of jargon, and latex at work. It's a deliberate process of puffing up the difficulty of the work by making it hard for someone else to
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by ryanobjc 8y ago
You are so lucky! You have a huge chance to note the experiences of the author, and _change course_ now before you end up unemployable years down the road! (like the author, who is going to be one of those aging coders who can't seem
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by ryanobjc 8y ago
I disagree, and the reason Is that the word prescription is a legal and medical jargon term with specific meanings and ethical requirements. However an opinion is not. Thus building a moral barrier there. Some other opinions that many docto
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by ryanobjc 8y ago
In California, there is no such thing as a “prescription for weed”. You don’t get one from a doctor, the dispensaries don’t describe it as such. What you do get is a recommendation by a doctor that you would benefit from cannabis. This is a
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by ryanobjc 8y ago
I was always suspicious of the magical 'one glass of red a day is actually GOOD for you!' - seemed like a major case of wishful thinking and confirmation bias. Alcohol is fun to many people - including researchers. This has drive
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
The ag of California sure Nevada for doing exactly this. Nevada settled: http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-reaches-400k-settlement-proposa...
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
One of the consequences of the liberal tendenancies in California is visible homeless people. Californians just don’t want their cops regularly as policy beating homeless people and arresting them for existing. That’s why other downtowns do
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
And rightfully so - the world can’t all be small businesses of 1-2 persons. There are things worth doing that require a large team working closely. More closely than a bunch of mercurial small businesses.
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
I disagree with “code can be thought of as formal requirements” - perhaps if you twist the meaning of the word requirement, yes. This analogy puts us into a place where we mix intent and implementation and make them the same. It doesn’t all
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
Perhaps you could describe how you would pressure a judge successfully? I often see comments like this, abstract what ifs without any details on what. So, try to illustrate what might happen. Also, describe what protections the judges might
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
Might I suggest an introduction course to political science? Additionally consider learning legal history and contemporary things. The law isn’t as Ill considered as most techies believe, and also recognizes the imperfections of the human s
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
That belief isn’t just something they got from nowhere. Your contempt for their choices is bizarre and really offensive. If they have a better option, perhaps you could illustrate what that might be. Perhaps grab a coding job? Or waitressin
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
The problem with this line of conversation is one side is trashing compromise, and the other side looks like they're defending the indefensible. We do need the Stallmans of the world to be a counter balance, but we won't be able t
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
So, what you're saying is that, apart from buying goods and services from rural areas, that the rest of the countryside should somehow assist, with tax money, the rural citizens? Strange that you'd say that, from a population hist
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
Sure, but who gets to decide who is a slouch? And once you dive in to the details, thats where life gets muddy. I do think it's controversial that a single boss that might hate you for totally irrelevant reasons be able to fire you on
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
ironically many programmers ARE doing fairly rote jobs. And getting paid more than ever for it!
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
An oped isn’t a great place to learn about this problem. The author has massive incentives to distort or mislead in pursuit of their argument. For example, I have heard from state senate staffers that although the state is blue, the notion
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
Comments like this seem reasonable, but are part of how insanely toxic the community on HN is. People don't see it as toxic because they are either used to combative or are ok with insulting dismissivity as long as it isn't pointe
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
Too old for this == I prefer to use ATMs only? Because human interaction == high touch. Especially if you only want to talk to a man at the bank! That's extra high touch!
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
Homelessness is only the most visible sign of poverty. If we somehow gave all homeless people some walls to live in, let's say without running water and no heat, would we have "solved" poverty? Of course not. As the GP pointe
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
Is bitcoin in it's infancy? You have CBOE offering futures on it. The prez of JPMC pro bitcoin. You have so many exchanges. This ain't the era of mtgox, $10m pizzas and running your own full bitcoin node and joining a mining pool.
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
So, your experience in Australia, applies to a city that has a population of 870,000 residents, and a total daytime population of over 2,000,000 all in a 46 square mile area, also with nearly every single intersection controlled in some fas
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
Maximum snark: and that's why you aren't on the NASDAQ board? Besides which, there's nothing underlying the US dollar either. Sure you can pay taxes, but that's about it. The rest of the economy is a shared belief, an il
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
That's because you have an unrealistic and naive view of the world and politics! Abandoning politics because you're... too "moral" to deal with such things just leaves the field to those who do not feel that way. Those p
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
If you are doing fountain pens (which I highly recommend!) then leuchtturm is the only way to go, every since moleskin downgraded their paper quality! leuchtturm has every feature of moleskin and costs less and better paper quality.
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
Sexism is more than "safer to talk shit to a woman compared to a man" as you say in your article. Sexism comes out in target choice, and the strength of which ones chases their prey, and the vehemence of attacks. I do strongly bel
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by ryanobjc 9y ago
Actually it wasn't obvious that this is sarcasm. It totally reads like the kind of libertarian/dude-bro nonsense that has invaded tech. I'd be wary of reusing text like this in other areas, because until I skipped ahead to &q

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