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by scottious 6y ago
anecdotally, I felt like my only option was to throw the baby out with the bathwater. It was too hard to avoid the outrage. Everybody has that childhood friend who won't stop posting BS conspiracy theories or that aunt who thinks the
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by scottious 6y ago
I think you're right, but I also think the author isn't necessarily wrong. Using his tennis analogy, each chunk of code written is like swinging at the tennis ball. You don't have to have the perfect curve-ball, you just hav
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by scottious 6y ago
ah, the dreaded distributed monolith. I hope this is looked at as a terrible anti-pattern someday. "But we can deploy services independently" they say, "we can scale these services independently too!", "We can fina
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by scottious 6y ago
That's exactly why NIMBYism is so destructive -- overall it probably would be a net positive for the community. However one very loud resident (I'm exaggerating a bit) says "nah, I don't want the noise" and then th
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by scottious 6y ago
ORMs are great for the simple CRUD case. That's how people get lured in. It's when things get complicated and performance is important that they start to feel like a hindrance. I've had to wrestle with ORMs only to figure o
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by scottious 6y ago
> I disagree here. I don’t see him putting people in there as one dimensional characters. I respect your difference in opinion. I'm interested in how asian / black people feel about these Dr. Seuss books. > And only African
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by scottious 6y ago
When Robert Downey Jr. did it, the context mattered a lot. It was a commentary race. There was an actual black actor along side him that was basically spelling it all out for the audience. They were using blackface as a way to talk about
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by scottious 6y ago
> Why would a christian bakery sell gay wedding cakes? I think we've decided as a society that sexual orientation is a protected group. You cannot discriminate based on sexual orientation. But I think you can still discriminate ba
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by scottious 6y ago
> I definitely don’t want public librarians to see their job as an avenue for expressing their views. Doesn't the fact that there are more books in existence than any library can possibly stock forces them to pick and choose what ge
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by scottious 6y ago
I don't see what the problem is here? If I open a book store I'm sure as hell not going to sell Mien Kampf or white supremacist manifestos. Am I being unreasonable by standing by my values and not stocking these books? I don&#x
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by scottious 6y ago
Evil, maybe not explicitly... but over-emphasizing asian-ness in order to portray them as a one-dimensional "other" is not a culturally sensitive way to handle it. I don't even think there's anything wrong with them bei
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by scottious 6y ago
I think what he's saying is that context matters. Nobody is saying that you need to hire an asian artist to draw the eyes and suddenly that makes it okay. You have to take into consideration history and changing sentiments when lookin
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by scottious 6y ago
Further, I think microservices can encourages devs to stay in their own little walled garden and they're quick to say "everything's working on my end, must be somebody else's problem". Very few people, if any, have
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by scottious 6y ago
it's a strange contradiction. On one hand there's something to be said about persistence and discipline. You can find loads of stories of people sticking through the hard times and being rewarded for it. On the other hand, there&
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by scottious 6y ago
Recently mother showed up unannounced at my house in tears and SCREAMED at my wife and I for HOURS and wouldn't leave. It was an absolute ambush. The reason? She wanted to get together earlier in the day but we had an appointment so
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by scottious 6y ago
If you take the high road while they consistently take the low road long enough, eventually you'll feel like a complete push over who lacks self-respect. I personally have reached a breaking point in which I realize that if I don'
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by scottious 6y ago
As somebody who's struggling to forgive somebody who's wronged me, I find this article to be a bit wishy-washy, like this: > Reexamine your perceptions of life events that have trapped you in the role of victim. well, what if s
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by scottious 6y ago
Because housing is inelastic and in short supply -- everybody needs it and if the price increases they will still pay for it. If you increase the housing supply, the price falls. Increase it to a point where there are some vacancies and su
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by scottious 6y ago
It's not an either/or... we should be pursuing lots of different avenues for power generation because we don't know what will pan out and what won't. Fusion might still be a huge win even if it takes 50 more years to p
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by scottious 6y ago
I've long been impressed with the progress that MuseScore is making and this seems like a huge jump forward. > Under the design direction of Martin Keary, we are making significant improvements to the interaction models and interfac
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by scottious 6y ago
Anecdote: I got silenced by posting a performance of Fur Elise by Beethoven on Facebook and Instagram. Really weird.
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by scottious 7y ago
a few hundred dollars per month is just for the car. Apply this principle to your entire life and it could be a thousand or more dollars per month. Literally. I had out-of-control spending until I did a detailed audit of my finances 5-ish
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by scottious 7y ago
The problem is the opportunity cost. That money you used to splurge on a car is NOT being invested. Having a nice car now could literally cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars of compounded retirement money in missed stock/bond g
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by scottious 7y ago
> Where else can you take $40,000 and set it on fire in seven years? And pay a bunch of interest to the bank in the process? What a disaster. Where is this $40k number actually coming from? I read the linked articles but there didn&#x27
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by scottious 7y ago
You'll never ever be able to stop bad developers from making poor choices and ruining things. So you have encapsulated services... boss comes and says "we need feature X right away". What if feature X spans all of your micro
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by scottious 7y ago
illegal, sure. But let's say there are some very bad actors involved... would it be possible? People have been known to do illegal things in finance and have tried to cover their tracks in the past.
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by scottious 7y ago
Yes very possible I don't understand what you are trying to say... I know what leveraged investing is but a lot of the details may be beyond me. This is not my area of expertise. Correct me if I'm wrong: my understanding is that
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by scottious 7y ago
If it's so easy and straightforward to return 50% YoY, why aren't there a proliferation of funds doing this?
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by scottious 7y ago
I'm no finance expert but doesn't this all seem way too good to be true? At first I was reading this and thinking "how is this not exactly like Bernie Madoff?" Then they say "The Medallion fund has been closed to e
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by scottious 7y ago
As I was reading this I began to wonder if there were confounding factors here. The original study did mention controlling for age, gender, and income... though I can't help but think that there can easily be other confounding factors.

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