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by war1025 6y ago
I think that's just the rat race. Wherever you go, there you are. The company you keep at 50k / yr is probably different than at 100k / yr and certainly different than at 500k / yr.
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by war1025 6y ago
It really all depends on the lifestyle you think you need to maintain. I like to think of money a bit like gasoline. 100 gallons of gas will last you pretty well forever if you ride around on a moped. It will get you maybe an hour or two do
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by war1025 6y ago
> organized religion is a key part of how Americans transmit their cultural values The abandonment of religion and culture more generally has been a giant exercise in ignoring Chersterton's fence. Culture is a basically "here i
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by war1025 6y ago
As a less dramatic version of this, just go through and purge your friends list. Also aggressively block / hide / unfollow any "shared" things you come across. For example, on Facebook you can hide something dumb someone
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by war1025 6y ago
A magical thing about high school / college that people fail to appreciate is how few actual responsibilities you have at that age. It's why kids are able to devote so many hours to video games and other time waster stuff. Only di
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by war1025 6y ago
I imagine the "for graphics engineers" version has to get figured out before they can do the "for Dummies" version.
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by war1025 6y ago
So flipping my original question around a little, how did you get into learning these things? I've always wished I had taken a hardware course or two while in University. I can't seem to think of anything practical enough to keep
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by war1025 6y ago
Would this be a good stepping stone for someone wanting to learn more about microcontroller type stuff? I bought an Arduino starter pack a few years ago, and it was neat, but I never ended up doing much with it beyond the first week or so.
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by war1025 6y ago
For the uninitiated, what sort of content is Slate Star Codex known for? I see he kind of addresses it in his initial post. That description seemed pretty broad and open ended though.
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by war1025 6y ago
I own several domains that I registered through Hover.com . I noticed the billing statement always comes through as from Tuwcows Corp, but I didn't realize Tuwcows was it's own thing that existed apart from just Hover. According t
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by war1025 6y ago
A proportionally represented Senate is just a duplicate of the House. It would have no reason to exist. The whole point of having two separate bodies is that it requires two groups that are chosen in a different manner to both agree that a
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by war1025 6y ago
> What's wrong did someone possibly criticize your dear leader? Wouldn't want that now, would we? Objectively Trump is not a good person. That doesn't mean he wasn't a useful blunt instrument. Many people on the right
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by war1025 6y ago
Not so big as you might think. History shows us that the line between "you are evil" and "the moral thing to do is to get rid of you" is vanishingly small.
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by war1025 6y ago
Heart Emoji The left spent four years focusing on the absolute worst aspects of a man, and refusing to give him credit for the several things he accomplished that were actually worthwhile. That's a recipe for an unhealthy relationshi
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by war1025 6y ago
"Art makes you think. Propaganda tells you what to think"
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by war1025 6y ago
Yea fair enough. My main point is that the media will now cover it as everything Biden says being "unifying" rather than every word Trump ever uttered, which was "divisive". Even when they say the same thing.
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by war1025 6y ago
> I think a lot of people are more interesting in helping the half of the country that supported Trump and QAnon walk itself back from the crazy positions they've talked themselves into It's not just the right that has walked i
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by war1025 6y ago
> And I think presuming it's nothing more than a swipe makes no sense, Obviously it's not only that. It's a big moment for her and a great honor. But also I think there was that flavor to it, and I'd guess her targe
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by war1025 6y ago
> When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? > The loss we carry. A sea we must wade. > We braved the belly of the beast. > We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace, and the norms an
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by war1025 6y ago
I have to imagine that's just a typo, but who knows.
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by war1025 6y ago
The House is supposed to represent the interests of the people. The Senate is supposed to represent the interests of the states. Each state is supposed to be an equal member of the union, which is why they each get equal voice in the senate
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by war1025 6y ago
> don't think the original senate had states that had 80X the representation by population, as we have today between CA and WY. I would argue the "false-positive" state that in this case is California. Imagine if the enti
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by war1025 6y ago
I had the thought back in the fall that a reasonable compromise could be: Every house district gets an electoral vote, and then each state's popular vote counts for the two votes provided by the senate seats.
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by war1025 6y ago
> Given that republicans have lost the popular vote in every election since 2000 They also just don't devote resources in heavily blue states for the Presidential race. Why work to gain votes in a race you will lose anyway? Particul
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by war1025 6y ago
> I'm sure that a GOP candidate could pull the right strings to get a plurality vote There was a bunch of hubub on the Right in the fall about a Democrat win leading to Democrats tilting the tables in all sorts of ways that would l
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by war1025 6y ago
It's amazing how many "media personalities" are basically always wrong on the subject they "specialize" in, and yet they get invited back again and again. I guess that's the whole Gell-Mann Amnesia thing.
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by war1025 6y ago
Maybe politics keep popping up because it's a conversation that needs to happen? Maybe it pops up here because people have at least a modicum of hope that there will be a productive conversation even amongst the various downvote brigad
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by war1025 6y ago
Sounds miserable.
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by war1025 6y ago
Do people commonly wear masks outside in some places? Where I live, we have more or less universal mask wearing in stores, but the only reason people wear masks outside is that they are about to head into a business or are just leaving one.
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by war1025 6y ago
I did some quick math, and the 240k acres it says they own comes out to about 378 square miles, which if condensed down to a square would be 20 miles by 20 miles. On the one hand, that's a lot of land. On the other, it's not reall

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