thisisweirdok

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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
As much as I prefer MDN, W3Schools is fine now.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
> if you put too many icons in a row and they are all different, they won’t work. uhh what? says who? where's the source of this? This is only the case if your icons don't look different enough. In the example those icons aren&
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
You're not talking a lot into account, especially that drivers are freelancers who own their own vehicles. That $6 per 15 minutes turns into $24/hr (if you're literally non-stop taking fares, which is impossible). Then you ha
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
There are multi-billion dollar companies that still need IE11 because they don't want to build new internal applications. Contrasted to the funding that some cities get, it's amazing they have computers at all. There's this h
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
The problem is that ride sharing isn't providing a service with a realistic and sustainable price. In Boston I can get a 15 minute Uber pool trip door-to-door for $3. They're undercutting public transportation and traditional taxi
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Talk to anyone with a reasonable public transit system about how ridesharing is clearing up the roads (spoiler alert: it's not, they're decreasing public transit ridership and contributing to a constantly worsening congestion issu
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
eeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Uber undercuts both public transit and traditional taxi services with prices that are unsustainable and can't provide a living wage for their drivers. This was OK initially because taxis in many places were
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
I'm not talking about an intellectual understanding, I'm talking about emotional understanding. Sympathy is intellectual understanding (i.e., recognition), but is not emotional understanding.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
I'm talking about how the terms sociopath and psychopath are used colloquially, which as you pointed out is incorrect. The original comment I'm responding to is "Psychopats and sociopaths will [always commit crimes]." Cr
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Empathy is understanding, sympathy is recognition. If I stub my toe you don't have to feel that pain to empathize it, you have to understand what it feels like to suddenly be in pain. Sympathy in that situation would only require recog
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
>untreatable Antisocial Personality Disorder I'm talking specifically about people you'd qualify as psychopaths/sociopaths as they're colloquially depicted. The "evil" emotionless/unreachable criminal i
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Alright, I guess I can revise my comment to say that I feel like it's kind of fucked that GP's empathy only extends to his self and no further.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Psychopathy and sociopathy aren't cut and dry clinical diagnosis. The idea that there are these inherently evil people roaming around out there is incredibly rare and is inflated by popular media. What people typically refer to is Anti
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Yikes dude. You should feel empathy because women and black people are fellow humans, not because you _are or have fathered_ someone in those groups.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
You seem pretty defensive for someone that can be proven wrong by a 30 second Google.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Sure, but the people in the billing department have never met me? So unless they're doing a credit check or doctors are taking notes on suspected financial situations... I doubt they're doing this.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Right, but in this case if the deciding factor is climate change and you're ambivalent about the outcome of climate change and humanity... you might as well just roll the dice.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
I've said things like "really? there's nothing you can do about the cost?" but that's a really weak push for it... I just hate kind of being a dick about it (asking for a manager and making a counteroffer makes me f
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
really? I've been told by different hospital billing departments that they will put me on a payment plan, but will absolutely not negotiate beyond an insurance provider's agreed upon rate. Of course, that stance is in their best i
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
>This is an especially bizarre reason for having children. This is basically why every species on the planet (with sexual reproduction) has children, whether you're aware of it or not. It's the instinctual drive to propagate. I
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Get this though: if you have insurance and your insurance doesn't cover something, you often can't negotiate. I had a $10,000 procedure that insurance didn't cover (i.e., I hadn't met my high deductible yet), and I had
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
I thought this was an interesting point from the Gates' annual letter, the specific context is Africa but it's true globally. > As more children survive to adulthood, women are having fewer kids than ever before. The result is
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Heat pumps keep getting better and better. I actually use one as my primary heat source in New Hampshire now. It's cheaper than oil or traditional electric resistance heating. Plus air conditioning in the summer is a nice bonus.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
This is mildly unrelated, but living in New England and being stuck with shitty heating bills in January and February always makes me wonder what things would be like if we had enough common sense to move to regions of the country where hea
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Oh god no. At least not as the primary guidance for long-range. It can be partially used to track a target, but it's not being used to decide where to target in a broader sense. Short range devices sure, but they still require a human
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
This absolutely needs to be an agreed upon standard similar to chemical weapons and mines. Anyone remotely familiar with software development knows that automating either when to launch or what to target will not end well. Which bug will en
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
But a human dictates the launch and what the target will be.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
What exactly are engineers and designers at Facebook doing? There are thousands of them! I've seen teams of 10 ship more (granted, no one is delivering on Facebook's scale)... I know most of them are likely working on backend stab
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
That's fair, but I also think there's a lot to consider with various brain chemistry. I don't think anyone can just thrust themselves into it if they're in objectively bad scenarios.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
It's fleeting. What makes you happy today might feel miserable tomorrow. You need to recognize this and be willing to change. It's hard. Life is hard.

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