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throwaway87378
7y ago
It sounds like you are making a lot of rationalizations for not investing the time to practice live-coding and whiteboarding. Those are skills that can be learned, like any other.
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> Men approaching women in real life is now rarer than it was in favor of online meeting through Apps. Ask your female friends (if you have any) about this. You might be surprised. > Elite men can get dozens of sex partners. Why so lo
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> But I'd actually use Amazon. Amazon book recommendations and keyword search are garbage. Sometimes even a direct search for title and author name will put the result halfway down the list. The two good things Amazon has going for
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7y ago
> a left-leaning Sunday paper (WaPo/NYT)/news magazine. The fact that either the Washington Post or the New York Times is considered left-leaning is one of the problems in US media. They are both corporate rags pushing the neo-
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> However, we also know that the difficulties of typing these languages without special keyboard support have led to a variety of more English in ASCII language successors such as J/K/L. The input language has nothing to do wit
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> The problem is that the only programming language I know of that tried to be its own language-language was APL and thoughts of coding in that give me nightmares. Have you ever actually tried learning APL, or are you just trolling?
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7y ago
Tor bridges do not have this problem, do not consume a lot of bandwidth, and are very useful for people who need to circumvent firewalls. I have been running one for years without any issues. The Tor Project is currently looking for more vo
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7y ago
The only thing anyone outside of the US needs to see to understand the insane situation we have with gun ownership can be found in this news story about Waymo driverless cars: https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/
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> Seriously, email these days isn't the greatest communication tool any more, thanks to the spammers. Do you have any better alternatives? > GMail does a pretty decent job of filtering, but not everyone uses it. Yes, anyone not u
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7y ago
There were Visual Basic boot-camps during the dot-com boom.
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> Take into considering that while the wages for software engineers were high, they weren't as high as they are now. That is a common misconception when people do not take inflation and housing cost increases into account. $1USD tod
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7y ago
Amazon is a trust, not yet a monopoly. There is an inherent conflict of interest, and lack of recourse (forced arbitration), between Amazon marketplace sellers and Amazon the e-commerce store. Likewise between AWS customers and Amazon the e
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I don't understand why people are not pointing out the obvious: there is a correlation with rising obesity rates. https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti... 40% of the adult US population is n
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> I don't know anything about John Zerzan but Stop right there. You know nothing about the "modern left" if you have never heard of John Zerzan. And if you think that he is some kind of Marxist because you skimmed a Wik
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> That's pretty much what my copy does. I'm grateful the profession has TAOCP as a resource, but the reality for the majority of workaday engineers is that most of the sort of art described in that series is abstracted out into
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> The keybindings it does have are terrible and give RSI, and crucially because there's a whole ecosystem of addons that try not to collide, they can never be changed, which is why CUA mode isn't default. Everything you are cla
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> I mean, if you're too conservative to use modern technology, this doesn't seem like the right field to work in. That kind of attitude ("why aren't you using <insert personal preference bloated point-clicky IDE re
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> There obviously is a modern left and feminism is a central tenet of it. Since you seem to be so well-informed on the subject, maybe you can help me with a question about the "modern left" that I have had for several years now
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> you can't really "improve" your looks after possibly weight loss and personal care without a doctor. An appropriate hair cut (which might be going totally bald for some people) is a big deal. This also involves facial ha
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> This is a bit myopic with respect to how normal people view university education. For a typical person, the point of education is not to learn things, but to obtain a degree. The point of degree is to get a good job. If they manage to
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There is no such thing as the "modern left," except as a straw-man used by various people in US corporate television and radio. Mary Daly was a Catholic professor of theology and prominent second-wave feminist in the late 1960s&#x
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> Move forward to today: a large percentage of men are totally removed from the dating market (not by choice), they do not have sex, they have no hope of getting into a relationship. The reverse is not true for women, who have countless
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> The idea that moves like this will "keep us safe" is utterly preposterous The "terrorism" rationalization provided for this surveillance has nothing to do with reality. The United States government is not in any way
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> Vancouver's specific problem seems to be that the Soviet leadership in British Columbia has been unable to curb the very capitalist problem of money laundering profits from the People's Republic of China into Canadian real es
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> I'd rip you to shreds on that one. What a wonderful way to phrase talking about interviewing your potential future co-workers. You must be a very pleasant person to work for.
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The economic exploitation underlying the need for women (and to a lesser extent, young men) to prostitute themselves is central to the subject, and highlighted well by this essay. Chris Hedges did a very moving interview with Rachel Moran a
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> Cultural changes and evolves, of course, but it's really hard to uproot a norm or more once it's settled in, even if it's one that causes you personal pain. Terence McKenna lectured on this at length. Here are some aprop
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It is not surprising that these kinds of conditions exist on fishing vessels - you start to treat your fellow human animals the same way you treat other animals. "Fishing," which is really planetary-scale sea foraging, as Jeremy J
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Here are two organizations you can join that advocate for Social Security: https://socialsecurityworks.org/ https://www.epi.org/ (see https://www.epi.org/research/social-security/