throwforfeds

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by throwforfeds 11mo ago
> Though why do you Americans put up with all this? I have heard the US is a democracy. So then insurance-based healthcare is what American people truly want? It's because our politicians are largely owned by our corporations and sp
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
I'm working on a gov contract right now and they're forcing everyone to migrate off of Slack and into Teams. I somehow have managed to avoid MS corporate products for the better part of two decades. People's tolerance to UX p
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
I agree, it'd be nice to cut the bullshit jobs, but you're right that that's not going to happen. But I still am down with paying a little more to support people that are providing to our overall culture. I'm friends wit
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
A lot of shadow artists in this thread seem upset that a relatively tiny bit of money is supporting some people that chose a difficult life producing art over a stable career. If I had a choice between some of my tax money supporting artist
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
My wife has won multiple prestigious awards for her writing (novels, memoir). She's published by huge multinational corporations you've heard of. She got paid about $100k for her last novel, which took maybe 5 years to complete. I
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
Honestly can't tell if this is satire or not.
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
> Their RPE (revenue per employee) is roughly $1mm and growing at a 50% YoY rate... Meanwhile OnlyFans is at something like $30mm per employee, which is wild.
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
Honestly, these all start to happen naturally when you start dedicating yourself to doing something first thing in the morning. I spent my 20s smoking cigarettes, drinking as much as I wanted, eating whatever. Then after a pretty intense LS
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
I've had a few friends on it. They definitely lost weight, but the GI issues were too much and when they went off of it they gained it all back.
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
In my experience orgs choose these low code tools because good engineers are expensive and many don't fundamentally understand the process of software development. I've seen business-side product owners complain "why can&#x27
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
> The introduction of nationalist ideologies (including Zionism and Arab nationalism), the impact of colonial policies, and the establishment of modern nation-states altered the status and dynamics of Jewish communities in Muslim-majorit
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
While we should absolutely be covering on-going civil wars and genocides across the world -- I personally listen to French news sources in order to understand what's going on across Africa -- the fact is that the US has provided Israel
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
My wife gets hit on and asked out all the time when taking Ubers/Lyfts by herself. It's unfortunate, but it's just a reality for women.
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
The thing that bothers me the most are the companies out here trying to get psychedelics to a state where they own the tech and can try to make as much money as possible off of it. Not so much the part where it becomes more available with c
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
I remember a friend who was going to school in Boston coming to visit me at my college in western Massachusetts freshman year. I brought him to some off campus house in the woods, probably 200 or so people there, huge bonfire in the back, b
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
A client of mine has a 30 min timeout on basically all their systems. I hate using Jira as it is, but having to login pretty much every time I need to go look at my tickets just makes it awful. And then I end up on Hacker News instead of do
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
I'm guessing he didn't want to tell his family he messed up, his professor was unavailable for the rest of the summer, and he might get a low grade in the class for missing the final project. He had been given 2 months to schedule
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
My friend is a professor at NYU and, to make a long story short, one of his international students messed up their scheduling and tried to get my friend to change their final meeting time because his flight home for the summer cost >$10k
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by throwforfeds 1y ago
> I don’t want to end up with some weird ass world view, so I’ve avoided LSD and mushrooms. I'd be with you if you said ayahuasca, or maybe iboga, but mushrooms are really pleasant and I don't know anyone that has come back wei
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by throwforfeds 2y ago
Maybe a decade or so ago I saw some right wing news posts on Facebook that were talking about welfare recipients in Maine and how much it was costing the state. All the photos used in the article were of black people. This is in a state whe
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by throwforfeds 2y ago
My wife and I got Covid during the first major wave (March/April 2020). I had no symptoms at all, but my wife ended up getting long Covid. GI issues, extreme tiredness, shortness of breath, brain fog, sleep disruption, etc etc. She los
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by throwforfeds 2y ago
USDS was one of the few orgs that was clearly doing import technology work out in the open [1] inside the federal government. Their mission was to embed into other federal agencies to provide support for making tech decisions. They publishe