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by slumdev 5y ago
I would have had kids earlier. I spent my twenties building a career, partying, and traveling, and I'd give it all back to have more time with my kids (and potentially even a few more kids.)
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by slumdev 5y ago
Anything that reduces the amount of Roundup that gets sprayed into the environment...
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by slumdev 5y ago
Death is irreversible, but our understanding of it keeps improving. At one point, pulmonary arrest was considered death. Then, cardiac arrest. Now, we use the cessation of brain activity as an approximation, but there have been plenty of
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by slumdev 5y ago
> So, are trans folks immoral? Yes. > Organ transplants? OK, as long as they were taken from someone who was actually dead. Not all organs can be taken after death. In these cases, the transplant surgeon ends the donor's life i
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by slumdev 5y ago
These positions are sometimes called "patronage" jobs. The Vice President launched her career with a position like this, which she received from her married boyfriend, Willie Brown. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x
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by slumdev 5y ago
> I really don't understand this sentiment, as if a professional gambler would not gladly gamble with novices... It depends on the situation and the game. Some poker professionals don't gamble significant sums with novices bec
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by slumdev 5y ago
It is not. Almost all of them allow religious, conscience, and medical exemptions. Only the most totalitarian regimes don't allow exemptions.
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by slumdev 5y ago
The GP might be a prima donna, or he might just be stating the facts. We have to be able to distinguish apprentices from people who have all of the breadth, depth, and color that comes with experience. In sane professions, they don't
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by slumdev 5y ago
I wasn't included in this survey. Make that 34.001%. > Above all, that means freedom to set their own office hours. This only works if every person on a team can work independently. > That includes, for example, not needing to m
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by slumdev 5y ago
I dream of not using the internet one day.
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by slumdev 6y ago
To be a little more precise, Catholicism teaches that every person in Heaven is a Catholic (even if they weren't necessarily a Catholic on earth.) It admits baptism by desire and the possibility of salvation of those who are invincibl
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by slumdev 6y ago
The Church has always taught that schism and heresy are mortal sins, and the teaching hasn't changed, even if most clergy don't talk about it.
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by slumdev 6y ago
Nobody ever made it to the top by groveling, volunteering for scut, and accepting an annual 3% raise.
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by slumdev 6y ago
"Public Service Announcement: If you've EVER called your wife your 'partner,' then your bench press is 50% of your wife's boyfriend's weight." -- @timotheeology
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by slumdev 6y ago
The name is going to have to change to avoid confusion with the restaurant. Also, you've mentioned "value based investing" in a comment reply here. Is this the same thing as "value investing"? Or is it something ne
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by slumdev 6y ago
One of the hardest problems in programming is naming--variables, function names, abstractions, etc. A larger vocabulary (in English, the lingua franca of programming,) will enable someone to write better names.
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by slumdev 6y ago
Only sort of. If you need someone in the same time zone who speaks English at a level that enables them to contribute work of the same quality and volume as a native speaker, you've really only added Canada. If you discount the languag
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by slumdev 6y ago
> GPA was 0.023 too low to pass the automated filters Your application was most likely reviewed by real people, not just automated filters. People with GPAs below 3 do get into competitive grad programs (and med school). An upward tren
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by slumdev 6y ago
> Even a person who is not better than anyone at any of the relevant skills can improve a team, because it's opportunity cost that matters. Fun fact: Amazon won't hire you unless your interview panel believes that you're
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by slumdev 6y ago
It also makes someone look 63% cooler.
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by slumdev 6y ago
Dr. Burry was trained as a medical doctor and started investing on the side. Definitely not one of the anointed "experts" who followed the too-common family connections, Ivy League, and i-banking VP path.
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by slumdev 6y ago
It's most likely that (because of dark pools and other legalized front running) that Robinhood is the losing counterparty at the other end of these trades.
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by slumdev 6y ago
They're not at odds. It is possible for the people at the bottom to have better housing, better food, better education, and better health, while the people at the top still enjoy a vastly disproportionately greater increase in income a
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by slumdev 6y ago
> How do you show how bad something is without showing the thing? Ordinarily, we'd simulate it. No one is actually killed in the production of a war film. But when the actresses themselves are children, it's not a simulation.
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by slumdev 6y ago
The actresses in Mignonnes aren't young-looking adults. They're actually children. The controversy exists (yes, even in France,) because it was unnecessary for Doucoure to sexualize children in order to decry the sexualization of
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by slumdev 6y ago
Do you mean to tell me that the "Praise Satan!" streaming service isn't desperately trying to be edgy? https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/11/the-chilling-ad...
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by slumdev 6y ago
What unmitigated cowardice! If a company chooses to offend only when there's little risk to the bottom line, they're not a brave cultural vanguard. They're the establishment hiding under an "edgy" patina.
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by slumdev 6y ago
Netflix, the streaming service that mainstreamed child sexual exploitation , is now shy of controversy. From IMDB's content advisory on "Cuties": "Frequent scenes of 11-year-old girls dancing lewdly where the camera p
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by slumdev 6y ago
Trench warfare is responsible for evolving a deadly 1918 Spanish Flu virus. Soldiers with minor symptoms remained where they were, not coming in contact with many other people. The very sickest soldiers were transported by train, where the
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by slumdev 6y ago
If anything, this is an argument against lockdowns and masking. Letting asymptomatic and barely-symptomatic people spread more-contagious but less-deadly strains would evolve the virus into a minor nuisance in short order.

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