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by weeksie 11y ago
Look into John Rawls' theory of justice. It'll answer a lot of your questions.
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by weeksie 11y ago
Can someone explain this to me like I'm seven? My maths just isn't good enough. I've read Pinker's Better Angels and I've read the unsatisfying letters that Taleb wrote in criticism. Taleb seems to have a chip on hi
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by weeksie 11y ago
Though I recently found out you can get it at a bourgie EV restaurant, I regularly frequent a joint in Brooklyn that will make kibbe naya (Lebanese lamb tartare, essentially.) You have to call ahead and you have to know the guy. It was the
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by weeksie 11y ago
Yeah, I just had corrective eye surgery and the Kindle is just as easy on my eyes as a book. Easier, even because I can enlarge the text when my eyes get tired.
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by weeksie 11y ago
A decade ago? Hell, that still happens with frequency. I don't know how many times since I moved out to Brooklyn that I've pulled the "hop in back and misdirect" strategy. I'll sit in a cab and call 311 and put the
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by weeksie 11y ago
Man, I feel out of touch. Dr. Scheme is now called Racket? I'll crawl back under my rock. . . .
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by weeksie 11y ago
One of my favorite things is when my dog gets near an open pump in the summer. The little maniac makes lunges at the stream(s) with his snout and then backs off, then repeats the whole routine until he's pretty much water-logged himsel
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by weeksie 11y ago
Just looking at data and making assumptions is no better than astrology. For a supposedly scientifically literate field, tech makes use of a TON of pseudoscientific hand-waving.
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by weeksie 11y ago
Yeah, I'm feeling that it'll be a bit like the late 90s/early 00s at least from an exchange perspective. But coupled with a pretty inevitable housing bust on a massively inflated market. . . . It's going to be tough goin
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by weeksie 11y ago
On the upside, the AUD will probably shit the bed now. Which is nice, because I'm more than happy to come back in a year or two and pick up a little terrace in Newtown for something resembling a sane asking price.
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by weeksie 11y ago
Fun fact. There are still a few pigeon keepers in Brooklyn. It's an entire subculture, complete with political intrigue. They're known to "kidnap" each other's birds and hold them ransom. Even funnier is that there
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by weeksie 11y ago
I found risk aversion in Australia to be incredibly pervasive across all aspects of business. I started a boutique software company in Sydney back in '06 and was fortunate enough to have partners that weren't risk averse. That ri
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by weeksie 11y ago
Steven Pinker's Better Angels of Our Nature goes over all of the probably reasons for this in its general survey of the correlation between violence and civilization. And he's mentioned for the Leviathan theory, but that is only
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by weeksie 11y ago
The Ruby/Rails hype cycle started like ten years ago. Rails is one of the most widely used web app frameworks in the market. Ruby's been around for twenty-odd years and has gone from being a niche scripting language to one that&
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by weeksie 11y ago
Poetry is pretty popular. Most of it is called hip hop now, though.
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Work is for dopes(scottyweeks.com)
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by weeksie 11y ago
Now that makes sense. Thanks!
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by weeksie 11y ago
Reflux has that with the `.joinXX` functions. Perhaps there's something else there? I guess I can see some organizing factor but doesn't the dispatcher get really large in a complex application?
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by weeksie 11y ago
I'm surprised Reflux wasn't mentioned. I really don't see the need for a dispatcher, but perhaps I am missing something important.
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by weeksie 11y ago
It was a classic (very simple) hero's journey that strung those scenes together. And the scenes were pitch perfect riffs on eighties action movie tropes. The whole thing was incredibly on point from start to finish.
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by weeksie 11y ago
That reads like a right-wing mirror image of critical theory—a logically flawed mess that attempts to hide its defects with a long-winded obtuse writing style.
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by weeksie 11y ago
Awesome. Thanks for the tip! One in return: I've found that vacuum sealing meat when it's somewhat frozen helps maintain its shape.
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by weeksie 11y ago
This is the only way to cook meat. (Aside from special purpose stuff.) I thought I'd end up using my sous vide maybe once per month and I probably use it three times per week. It's perfect for fish, pork, duck, and of course steak
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by weeksie 11y ago
Ha! Perhaps. I'm sure it's a lot of things. I also grew up working on fishing boats in Alaska and what passed for civil discourse out there would be fighting words in most professional environments. Mindfulness is tough though. I&
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by weeksie 11y ago
Spot on. I think it's tough, particularly as a young guy, to hold back on being overly confrontational. I used to be horrible to be around, not just professionally, but in nearly every way. Super fighty and abrasive. I'd like to t
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by weeksie 11y ago
It's a great language. Back in '06 I built a kiosk software platform on Lua. Hilariously enough I also built a REST based document store in Haskell, and we started using it probably three weeks before CouchDB came out. Weird langu
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by weeksie 11y ago
I don't think it's a coincidence that hitchhiking became vilified at the peak of the mid century crimewave. It well and truly _was_ more dangerous then. Now, even though the crimewave has subsided, people have scare stories from i
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by weeksie 11y ago
What would you say the major differences are with Flummox? It looks pretty straightforward but Reflux seems pretty lightweight as well. Just trying to figure out if it's worthwhile to switch an early stage project over.
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by weeksie 11y ago
I doubt the accuracy of that table. It's been a number of years since I regularly took CityRail but I remember the price of trains in Sydney to go up pretty drastically the further into the suburbs you got. Like, $5/ride and such.
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by weeksie 12y ago
Odd because we didn't experience an increase in violent crime during the recession, in fact it continued to decrease. How many of those studies look at data after the great mid century crime wave had settled? As for evidence that jobs

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