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by thomk 6y ago
Are you sure about that? I had the same reaction but then I starting thinking about all the horrible life-altering things a person could do to earn something like that. The penal system isn't perfect but it's what we have.
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by thomk 6y ago
If I were Lyft I would fairly quickly start plastering "Build in America" everywhere. If it isn't true, I would make it true.
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by thomk 6y ago
I know it is probably not healthy but I am very much enjoying this social isolation. I suppose that makes me an introvert, but, I love spending time with my young son each day. Someone said 'hell is other people'. Although I don&#
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by thomk 6y ago
Do you stare deeply at a red light OR do you stare at a light that is the color deep red? If traffic lights count, I should be able to see through walls by now!
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by thomk 6y ago
Make sure you are tired. No caffiene that day and get up early. I did the sleep test with all the wires and video on me and it did not bother me once I got used to it and realized it was good for me. Also, they have take home sleep tests no
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by thomk 6y ago
Yes, get a CPAP. You have to go to a sleep doctor, get tested and then you can get one. I have one and it absolutely changed my life, nearly everyone says that. It effectively fixes obstructive sleep apnea.
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by thomk 6y ago
I try to follow a few rules when writing OO code. 1. Make classes do one thing that is basically summarized in the class name. (This also takes care of 'separation of concerns') 2. Be careful to not over-abstract. That results in
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by thomk 6y ago
I circle, underline and star things that I feel were noteworthy directly in a book. One day when my son inherits my books I want him to know what I thought was interesting. I also write in the margins (or wherever there is space) if I must
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by thomk 6y ago
Don't switch. Having a skillset like software development will help any other endeavor when the time comes. If you are good enough at coding, and you like business, sooner or later you'll learn what you need to learn.
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by thomk 6y ago
You work in a fortune 100 company, welcome to bureaucracy. Those middle managers do not give a shit because they are middle management! Big companies have tons of people like who's only motivation is to simply not get fired (this is on
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by thomk 6y ago
I love this movie. Its well done and some of the characters in it are self described nerds. Typefaces are a fascinating subject one you start to get into them. "Hacker News" typeface in the upper left (which I believe is Verdana)
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by thomk 6y ago
Actually a font is a file on a computer, Helvetica is a typeface. Does that help? :D Probably not.
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by thomk 6y ago
I'm a vscode user and I do like it. I only really use it for the file navigation and color coding though. Autocomplete drives me nuts, so I turned that off completely. I am a pdb fan so i drop in to that when needed. I never really con
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by thomk 6y ago
The same way we do it with email.
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House effort to pass surveillance overhaul collapses(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by thomk 6y ago|0 comments
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by thomk 6y ago
This brings up another question in my mind. You are examining 10 apples, well, so is everyone else. So all that fresh fruit has been held, bare handed, by the person who picked it, the person who loaded it and x number of customers who&#x27
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Ask HN: Effective Voting Mailers?
1 points by thomk 6y ago|1 comments
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by thomk 6y ago
I'd also like to amend my comment from "God doesn't exist" to "We don't know if God exists".
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by thomk 6y ago
Sure. For example: I value honesty and hard work. If I am honest and am working hard I am living with integrity.
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by thomk 6y ago
You completely missed my point. Here: God doesn't exist, I'm in competition with myself only, I can't control the outcome or anyone or anything at all including my emotions, only my individual behavior.
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by thomk 6y ago
Well that depends on your value system. If you define your own value system, you decide where you are. If you get a value system from someone or something else: they decide.
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by thomk 6y ago
That's right. I can not control anything at all except my own behavior. Exactly right.
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by thomk 6y ago
Thank you for your comment, yes it is hard. So what you are saying is God built failure into me intentionally. Therefore I could just point to that and say "Well I failed because I was prebuilt knowing I was going to fail". I don&
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by thomk 6y ago
Your points here are exactly why I am no longer religious. Also, if you are easily offended, I'd skip the rest of this, I do not want to offend anyone, these are my opinions alone. If you worship any God, then you can never be as good
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by thomk 6y ago
Conversely, happiness appears to raise IQ: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-19659985
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by thomk 6y ago
How has your experience been with privacy.com?
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by thomk 6y ago
Detroit has more crime than 99.2% of cities in the US: https://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Detroit-Michigan.html
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by thomk 6y ago
I have been to hundreds of events in Detroit. I know the type you are talking about, I am not them, I love Detroit. The unfortunate truth is there are 20,000 cities in the US and in 2018 Detroit ranked #3 for murder. Detroit has more murder
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by thomk 6y ago
I have lived near Detroit for almost 1/2 a century. Downtown is one of the pockets that are nice. Detroit has nice pockets, the stuff in between is where you don't want your car to quit on you. Detroit is a big city; like 140 squa
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by thomk 6y ago
Detroit, the city with the most violent crime per capita in the US, has also now been ravaged by covid-19. Most of the residential neighborhoods in Detroit are fucking terrifying for ADULTS. These guys are cutting grass in public parks so p

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