spoonjim

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by spoonjim 4y ago
Exactly. You don't have to like him or like his work. But to fail to see his talent is like thinking that Magnus Carlsen was just in the right place at the right time. Your domain knowledge would have to be so abysmally low that you wo
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Bill Gates was an insanely good programmer and Steve Jobs was an insanely good product manager. Yes they also had the right circumstances to succeed, just like J.S. Bach.
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If you think Steve Jobs was just some lucky huckster you will never ship a great product.
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Because I vastly prefer native apps and maybe others do too? The biggest advantage is that they stay logged in. I haven’t used AirBNB in 2 years but it’s still logged in. The web app wouldn’t be.
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A lot of us enjoy life better this way. I realized through COVID that I fuckin hate people.
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That hardly tells me anything because essentially everyone has a weaker heart than a professional cyclist. So they may be more capable of fighting off whatever hypothetical damage there is. It's like saying, "we threw a brick at 8
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I mean sadly for me and probably better off for everyone else
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I'm amazed at how much "content" people will devour inside their fandoms these days. Whether it's Marvel, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc... seems like people will watch like 15 movies of content and happ
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Yep. I’m not an opponent of capital punishment for example but wouldn’t want a government executioner to get a hardon while he does it.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Speaking from personal experience, when a “bad” forum is shut down the members are not usually successful in spreading their toxicity into other areas. Sadly it sort of just dies.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The Chiraqology stuff is wild. People threaten each other on YouTube and then follow through with murder! The only reason it’s not banned is because nobody with power cares what happens to impoverished black kids in Chicago unless they can
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by spoonjim 4y ago
What’s your opinion on sites not targeting specific individuals? Like, “people with Property X have no place in civilized society” where readers of this site occasionally went on killing sprees of people in the category?
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Everyone says this but except for the hot babes in their bikinis the TikTok algorithm does a TERRIBLE job of seeing what I want to look at, to the point where I use the app less than 15 minutes a month. There's always something absolut
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by spoonjim 4y ago
There are essentially three explanations for your lower pay 1) You're being paid less than your market price 2) Your colleagues are being paid more than their market price 3) Your market price is not the same as theirs. If 1), get a ne
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by spoonjim 4y ago
It’s hard to turn a dryer off with software. Most are gas and even for electrics, smart plugs usually don’t support 240V. So you’d need a different kind of arm or hand for each kind of dryer.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The grocery store. The bus stop. The town hearing on a shopping mall operator asking for a permit to cut down four trees. A coffee shop. Fuckin' anywhere!
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Easy to say but harder to do. A death of one's child is essentially an infinitely negative utility event, so any probability of it has an expected value of negative infinity.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
You can negotiate a 4 day workweek for yourself if you have the right skill level or are willing to accept the market wage.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Because women control dating. Women decide what they want and men will go to whatever place and do whatever thing is required to have sex with them.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
If you want a relationship take everything lower priority than a relationship, transfer all that time to 50% the gym and 50% to going to physical places where you can talk to real women in meatspace.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Yeah exactly. Online is the worst place to learn how to meet women in real life.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I'm saying talk to men and women because it shouldn't be just "hitting on" people, it should be "talking to people." And if you don't like to get talked to at the grocery store, I mean, fine, don't re
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Just go talk to random people in stores. Men and women. Make it based on shared interests. Find a way to start conversations with them. And work out and stay fit and wear decent clothes. On a dating app women are happy to swipe left and see
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by spoonjim 4y ago
> You don’t buy your jeans and jackets by looking for their letters on that pull. Likewise, you almost certainly wouldn’t nix a garment purchase because the zipper isn’t YKK. LOL LOL LOL. The YKK zipper is pretty much the first thing I l
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by spoonjim 4y ago
If you set it at zero you will never build anything
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Only 11 people died during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge which is fewer than the number of people who jump off of it every year.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Yes, but this works because Israel has access to vastly more money than Hamas does. So they can withstand a 10^X cost discrepancy. It would not work between two parties who are close to evenly matched financially.
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The problem is that the counter drone technology, if it is a drone itself, will necessarily always be more expensive than the attack drone (because it must follow the attack drone). In that case it becomes a lopsided war of attrition.
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The reason for doing something almost always has implications on the legality of you doing that thing. Since we don't have mindreading devices or truthtelling serum, judges use patterns and heuristics to make their best guess as to the
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by spoonjim 4y ago
LOL. This guy doesn’t realize what DALL-E is going to be like in 18 months.

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