stubybubs

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by stubybubs 3y ago
Exactly like in Total Recall when Cohaagen cuts off the air.
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by stubybubs 3y ago
Offshoring is contractors. They (usually) will code exactly what you tell them, and no more. They are not "product oriented" and won't push back on things if they make no sense -- they'll just shake their heads and get i
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by stubybubs 3y ago
Possibly the Nate Cohn thing from NYT in early June? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/millennials-will-not... This is a pretty good analysis. Yes, some rightward shift. Things to change, though sometim
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by stubybubs 3y ago
I could see legitimate risk with RFID tags. One of the tools sigint uses is simply the volume of transmissions going from one point to another. You can wrap tagged documents in RF blocking covers but eventually you'll have to unwrap th
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by stubybubs 3y ago
Yes, I just said dimorphism for short. My bad. What I said still stands, sexual dimorphism is the non-gamete differences between sexes.
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by stubybubs 3y ago
You're talking about gametes and OP and GP are talking about dimorphism, which is generally considered the difference in forms not including gametes . It's a very specific word to do with size differences, body hair etc. That is
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by stubybubs 3y ago
I feel like the mask is coming off these tech/hedge fund guys. It was ZIRP the whole time. They're smart but they're not god damned geniuses.
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by stubybubs 3y ago
> There are no "PC' police or HR nazis here. I'm guessing this is not an insignificant part of it.
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by stubybubs 3y ago
120 interviews over the 2021 hiring boom and got nothing? I must say, this is quite out of line with most developer experiences in that time period. What area do you work in?
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by stubybubs 3y ago
In America it's the corporations that do all this maximizing of government subsidies and regulations, only they get to write those regs themselves through regulatory capture. If you want subsidies, the US is only slightly behind the EU
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by stubybubs 3y ago
> Dodge / Chrysler's in the 1990's Absolute garbage. Made me swear off domestic cars. > we have more reliable engines I think one of the best inventions to really come into use in the last 25 years is multi-layered stee
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by stubybubs 3y ago
> In class 10th biology I was shocked to learn human stature does not change after puberty after growth plates are closed. Well this is the thing about high school biology. It's greatly simplified, and almost everything you learn sh
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by stubybubs 3y ago
Hillbilly Ozempic
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by stubybubs 3y ago
> Guys aren't quite so built to be huggy friendly and we tend to be more defined by real working relationships. Do you think this is really true, or just how it is in some societies? There's been a lot of talk about suicide rat
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by stubybubs 3y ago
What? It's anybody who criticizes anybody. Women journalists in particular, BLM activists, climate change scientists. You realize there's been a wave of scientists who have left Twitter recently? https://www.theguardian
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by stubybubs 3y ago
Super sad somebody deleted their comment comparing marginalized people tweeting at millionaires to the lynching of Emmett Till. Really great stuff, it's why I'm on HN, for those big brain takes.
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by stubybubs 3y ago
> Death threats are an actual crime. They are not free speech. Nobody's been held accountable for that though. There are laws about this. If they're difficult to enforce then somebody needs to make a decision about how much ano
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by stubybubs 3y ago
> So... when the marginalized groups start getting cancelled, After all the things that have happened to marginalized groups throughout history, mean tweets are worse? We're all living by the sword and dying by the sword called free
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by stubybubs 3y ago
They pulled out Emmett Till being beaten to death and I'm being hyperbolic?
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by stubybubs 3y ago
> the most self-centered generation in history Boomers? Also I'm not sure cancel culture is a bad thing. It's just negative branding for what is essentially the first time marginalized groups could have their voices heard. Peop
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by stubybubs 3y ago
No Thinking Machines CM-1/CM-2?
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by stubybubs 3y ago
Golly. It's just hard to get a grip on anything in it.
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by stubybubs 3y ago
I don't think you understood the article or what I wrote. I understand that Ellison, Gates, and Zuckerberg didn't graduate, then I said they still attended top schools. They had connections. MBAs at top schools are only really w
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by stubybubs 3y ago
Article criticizes an general named Fredenall, saying his lack of combat experience doomed him. He was basically a military MBA type. > After service in the Philippines and other overseas and stateside assignments, Fredendall shipped out
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by stubybubs 3y ago
My icebreaker is talking about Huey Lewis and the News. When I need to exit the conversation, I simply say I have to return some videotapes.
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by stubybubs 3y ago
> Which time? I mean the original appearance, thousands of years ago, when it definitely was not a lab leak. The point is that our worst viruses have come from nature, likely zoonotic sources.
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by stubybubs 3y ago
> My "source" was mainly common sense (the simplest solution is usually the right one https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/zoonotic-diseases.html 75% of all new infectious diseases come from animals.
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by stubybubs 3y ago
Probably actually _do_ what most people think of antitrust, which probably means undoing the Bork-influenced "immediate consumer welfare only" interpretation of the law. Cory Doctorow has a lot to say about this in Chokepoint Capi
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by stubybubs 3y ago
Also from experience, I think it's Baumol's cost disease really starting to show. Wages/practice costs for doctors have increased because everything around them is more expensive. A family doctor in my hometown used to be abl
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by stubybubs 3y ago
When did you read it? I think the US went heavy on post-apocalyptic movies and books since the GFC. Maybe there's a bit of "Seinfeld isn't funny" going on?

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