wakawaka1

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by wakawaka1 6y ago
"ad hominem" Attack the message, not the messenger. Even folks you don't like might have well reasoned arguments.
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by wakawaka1 6y ago
As someone who was bullied as a kid, I am glad I went through it early on. I learned self confidence and standing up for myself. Glad I learned about bullies before I hit the workforce, where I had to deal with narcissistic sociopaths—- adu
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by wakawaka1 6y ago
The irony is that diversity of thought is supposedly predicated on diversity of social background. That was promoted so thoroughly— “we want different social backgrounds on our team because this will result in more creative ideas and thoug
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by wakawaka1 6y ago
First of all— Google is not an unbiased search engine. The leaders of google were exposed as promoting an anti-conservative election agenda in the 2016 USA elections. If I am seeking a less than intentionally biased search algorithm, I don
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by wakawaka1 6y ago
(Beware the following “wrong think” which will cause you cognitive dissonance— it will challenge your popular culture world view. Yes, if you dislike the following, you are not counter culture. You are a subscriber to pop culture. If you a
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by wakawaka1 6y ago
I totally agree. A person must learn actively while reading: - By taking notes - By summarizing important/difficult to understand sections in their own words via writing - By looking up and exploring alternative explanations of complex
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by wakawaka1 6y ago
I agree. I think it's amazing to see CICD tools which make it super easy and quick to deploy web apps-- such as Vercel, for example. Simply by booting up a github project, and starting from a template, I can deploy a SSL-secured site w
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by wakawaka1 6y ago
Haha. Yes, but there is football... and then there’s futbol (ie soccer).
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by wakawaka1 6y ago
>” In fact, just the fact that I’m interested in doing sports for leisure is associated with class, since it’s not something that would be so easy for, say, manual laborers or shift workers.” I think the bias here is the opposite: the au
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by wakawaka1 6y ago
> Otherwise it is half a day of unpaid labor. >> The same true for an interview Who does half day interviews? In my 3 years as a professional software dev, I've perhaps spent a cumulative 2 hours in interviews with a company.
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by wakawaka1 6y ago
>"cultural appropriation" you are joking, right?
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by wakawaka1 6y ago
Yep. Police Forces really need to reform these silly baseless psuedo-science ideas.
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by wakawaka1 6y ago
I am glad that gender dynamics is finally being explored by mainstream readers. Men seem to have the onus on them to try and understand courting women-- What women look for, how to please them. The reverse does not seem to be true, at lea
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by wakawaka1 6y ago
If anyone is interested in antiques from medieval eras, imported from mediterranean countries, I highly recommend this place in Santa Fe, NM. They also do reproductions. To be honest, I wish I had the sort of job they do-- traveling aroun
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by wakawaka1 6y ago
This is what I wondered as well. Given that there are things like: Contentful, Ghost, Strapi, etc., which either have a REST API for content, and/or other API for customizing the interface for non-devs, or are developer-oriented. I&#x2
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by wakawaka1 6y ago
Ahhh more political blather masquerading as science, by authors who apparently are ignorant of multi-variate analysis, given that they quote the debunked idea of a gender pay gap. Uhhh... Politically biased much? Lol. Yeah, because Politic