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by viklove 7y ago
> Maybe it's cause they aren't downtown or something? I nearly spit out my drink when I read this. This guy doesn't seem to be aware of the existence of half the city, and he's lived here for 10 years!
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by viklove 7y ago
You live in Chicago and you don't know UChicago is more prestigious than even NW? Damn son, you haven't been here very long have you? ARENT DOWNTOWN??? UChicago is in the heart of Chicago! You know Chicago doesn't end at Roos
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by viklove 7y ago
If your cells aren't replicating... what do they need DNA for?
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by viklove 7y ago
I disagree, and if you go through life expecting everyone to constantly support you, you won't make it very far once you start to face any real adversity. You have to learn to rely on yourself, at least that's what my experiences
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by viklove 7y ago
It looks like a Golf... It's a very classic design for VW.
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by viklove 7y ago
Do you know offhand how many males leave the tech industry in their 30s?
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by viklove 7y ago
Then you should be able to start a company in the same industry as these sexists, abuse this fact, and run them out of business because your operating costs are lower!
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by viklove 7y ago
I think if you had figured out the sophistry in this reasoning you would've explained it instead of dismissing it without making any real point.
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by viklove 7y ago
> We live in a frothy time when a relatively jr software engineer in SF can make $300k/year. This is just a lie.
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by viklove 7y ago
> It is possible, but you can simply check that the size of the US and world economy has grown tremendously, so that argument doesn't explain the growth. Can it keep growing forever? If not, how much longer can it keep growing? Shou
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by viklove 7y ago
Because if you're not born rich your chances of dying rich are astronomically low. We pretend social mobility exists when in reality it does not, or at least it's extremely rare (even in the US, now more than ever).
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by viklove 7y ago
Even if someone's lifestyle is emitting 1/10th the carbon of yours, they should still reduce it to 0 before criticizing you? Sounds like you're just trying to avoid feeling guilty and absolve yourself of any blame.
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by viklove 7y ago
> The harm they are doing is substantially less than flying without offsets. [citation needed]
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by viklove 7y ago
What qualifies as a rifle?
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by viklove 7y ago
Meritocracy implies nothing about fairness or a level playing field. Meritocracy implies the person with the best skills gets the job. If someone with worse skills gets the job because they're the bosses son, or even just because of th
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by viklove 7y ago
First the headphone jack, then the fingerprint sensor. Smartphones are getting dumber by the year.
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by viklove 7y ago
Compared to a Fiesta there's no doubt it impresses, but a comparison to an E-Class, 5-Series, or other comparably priced luxury vehicle would be more apt.
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by viklove 7y ago
The problem is using "the enforcer," breaking in, and taking file cabinets is loud and obvious. Accessing your gmail account and dumping its entire history takes seconds and is entirely unnoticeable. You can't compare physica
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by viklove 7y ago
I don't see a column for age, what are you talking about?
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by viklove 7y ago
Yes
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by viklove 7y ago
This article is about China...
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by viklove 7y ago
Kids don't have mature facilities for self-motivation; you can't expect them just to do math problems because it's good for them. Tell them they can't do X until they finish 20 difficult math problems, and I guarantee th
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by viklove 7y ago
Where do you live, SF/LA? In cities like Chicago it's not quite as easy since we have frigid and icy winters that last 4+ months a year.
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by viklove 7y ago
You just have to find a compromise. I tumble dry my undershirts, underwear, etc, but line dry my button downs, sweaters, hoodies, jeans, etc. I wash those less often anyway, and line drying them saves money because those are the pricier ite
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by viklove 7y ago
let bool = !!(whatever) Yuck let bool = Boolean(whatever)
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by viklove 7y ago
> The food scarcity is manufactured to suck money back to the mainland U.S. Hah--oh wait, you're actually serious?
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by viklove 7y ago
Well, yes.
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by viklove 7y ago
> In the tropics you'll find a lot of food unsecurity. Hawaii is a good example of this, importing 80% of its food. This is hilariously misled. Food must be imported into Hawaii because it's an island with very little arable la
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by viklove 7y ago
> or people have the ability to grow and deserve a second chance at a normal life. Yes, and I should have the ability to judge wether or not they've grown and changed, but I can't do that if I'm not even aware they committ
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by viklove 7y ago
The problem is that the only thing you can do is limit free speech, and that has far worse implications than just dealing with the trolls. Silencing people based on their opinions, however much you may disagree with those opinions, will lea

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