towaway1138

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by towaway1138 8y ago
Basically true, but I'm happy enough to let the market solve this one. California will change or it will fail. The one thing that should perhaps be legislated is some up-front disclosure in employment offers of typical costs of living
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Interesting. In general this seems good, but sometimes I really do want my final submission not to be squished, e.g., because it consists of several distinct stages and is easier to understand that way.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
"Hospice nurses often list five emotional tasks for the end of life: thank you, I love you, please forgive me, I forgive you, and goodbye." That's a pretty good list. Some of us might also add, "See you in Hell", b
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Having been through a long and very ugly divorce myself, my advice is to just rip the band-aid off and crash out as soon as possible. Yeah, it's going to be terrible, but nothing can stop that now. And the anticipation is worse than
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by towaway1138 8y ago
I grew up in a very conservative part of the Bible belt in the 70s and 80s. Turns out that was great training for dealing with today's Progressives. Keep your mouth shut and trust no one.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Useless. There's no indication of what the points are, nor what the connections mean, nor can any real person take the time to sweep through hundreds of points to try to get a sense of what this graph even looks like.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
I guess. How many political murders are there in the US each year, though?
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Meh. The idea of original or inherited sin is obnoxious, and ultimately unethical. We're here now, it is what it is--it's day one. How shall we proceed? I'm white. I grew up in a very liberal household and have never had
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Maddeningly, this article wanders around without really making the key points. The self-checkout experience could be done reasonably well, but hasn't been. Why? The article doesn't talk about it. Yes, companies want to cut cost
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Most of the abstract seems to be saying that unlike men, women can form tight cliques with other women, which gives them an advantage (the 2.5x boost) apparently unavailable to men. But they also end with "Women who have networks that
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Maybe it's for the best.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
There's nothing wrong with producing a series of personal commits with little or no comment, and then squashing them into fewer or a single commit before merging. But it's very important that the final product have a good comment.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
I'd chalk Pittsburgh up to mental illness rather than politics. The Cato study is interesting, but unfortunately covers a period of decades. I was referring to the last couple of years or so, which unfortunately this does not break ou
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by towaway1138 8y ago
> Mental illness doesn't cause violence. ??? Reality begs to differ...
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Upvote for the links. Yeah, I've been following the Portland thing a bit. To my eyes, it seems a bit like frenemy sport between PP (kind of full of themselves) and antifa (wannabe fascists without the martial skills). If this is the e
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by towaway1138 8y ago
More timely than ever.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
There's no real lesson, but that's a great story.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
People who think they've found a way to contradict the simulation hypothesis remind me of breathless gamblers who are sure they've figured out a system to beat the house. It's simply impossible--the simulation hypothesis is
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by towaway1138 8y ago
> the uptick in politically motivated violence on the right I haven't looked closely, but it seems like the preponderance of such violence has been coming from the left these days (ignoring people with obvious mental health problems
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Ugh. The article completely contradicts the click-bait headline. Yeah, NEAT is a thing, and it's basically what people mean by "faster metabolisms".
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by towaway1138 8y ago
We could also reduce inequality by blowing up the planet. Instead, how about trying to raise the quality of life for those at the bottom?
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by towaway1138 8y ago
As a lifelong liberal, I've sunk into despair at the firehose of hatred coming from the left these days. And I talk to far fewer of my old lefty friends anymore--if they've made themselves awful, I just don't want to know.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
One possible reason for the lack of interest in older coders is that they're largely white and male. Hardly a sympathetic demographic in the current cultural environment. For myself (note: am old), I'm just following the advice I
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by towaway1138 8y ago
This is interesting, but note that this is a specific technical usage of the word. There are other, more general uses: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quietism and also one dictionary definition: 1a : a system of re
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by towaway1138 8y ago
The fact that merit is often difficult to evaluate doesn't mean that it's not important, crucial even.
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by towaway1138 8y ago
My most serious foray was around 2012, and back then such a house seemed to go for $800K. Given the mortgage ratios, that corresponds to a PI payment of around $3800/mo. Kind of hard to match this to current offerings, but it looks l
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Today it does. Tomorrow maybe it goes to my nefarious host...
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Although I agree in general, it seems ethically incoherent to describe in details the horrors of living into decrepitude while opposing physician-assisted suicide (as the author does). Also, the difference in life-expectancy at 60 between w
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by towaway1138 8y ago
Because I've done my research. I generally quote salary requirements in terms of living in a modest house in a pretty good school district, on a single salary (since my wife wants to stay at home and raise the kids). Not surprisingly,
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by towaway1138 8y ago
They left out the most important question, which is: What will the poor do when developers rationally build fewer units of housing as a result?

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