xyzelement

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by xyzelement 15d ago
A few days ago I recall you taking the position that Israel should not exist and that anyone who disagree is a Zionist (correct definition) that you would not associate with. The implication of your idea is what? The desire for a destructio
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by xyzelement 16d ago
Either the vote doesn't matter and don't have it, or it matters and you vote for your people.
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by xyzelement 16d ago
Having great parents who overcame a lot and taught you how is the privilege
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by xyzelement 16d ago
If it doesn't matter why did Africa make such a push for this projection?
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by xyzelement 16d ago
As the article says, all protections have some distortions and it's just a matter of which ones you chose. It's totally reasonable and rational for the African association of cartographer to push for this change - it makes their c
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by xyzelement 16d ago
Not the person you are replying to, but I was greatly influenced by my grandparents who were themselves greatly influenced by how they were raised and their life experience. That seems very common and normal. Of you weren't influenced
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by xyzelement 16d ago
It's also New York legal which is rare for a semiauto that comes in 5.56. Ruger nailed it with guns that don't look scary. Don't have the mini-14 but do have the 10/22 and their PCC - both of which have all the functiona
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by xyzelement 16d ago
// Honestly - and I don't mean that as an insult - I hope for you to experience (just once) the loss of dignity that not being able to visit the restroom on your own decision will give you. Might make you realize the hell thi
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by xyzelement 16d ago
Thank you for this informative comment.
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by xyzelement 16d ago
Correct. In however long I've taken transit in NYC, I have never experienced a bus driver stepping out to pee, nor had a subway train held up for that reason. I am sure it happens, and I just read up on the rules around that - but the
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by xyzelement 17d ago
Sounds right. On the flip side there are jobs where random bathroom breaks don't really work. EG: bus driver. So I am actually not sure how that works for a pregnat bus driver. Letting her randomly stop the bus at rush hour to pee does
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by xyzelement 18d ago
Yes but is it healthy. If a kid graduated with comp sci degree in 2000, joined decent companies as a w2 employee, does he become "repugnant" and "deserves to be shunned if not punished" the moment his net worth crosses 1
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by xyzelement 18d ago
That's why I wrote "depending on where you are"
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by xyzelement 18d ago
Do you think there's any good decision making and hard work involved too, or just pure dumb luck?
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by xyzelement 18d ago
Depending on where you live most cars you see on the road are in the ballpark. It costs about 40k to change the roof on a house around here. So 75k is both objectively massive, and not. I won't argue "privilege" but it seems
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by xyzelement 18d ago
How tall are you? For reference, my 6 year old is starting to use the regular size urinals without "resting his frank & beans" on it.
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by xyzelement 18d ago
That's often true in software as well. Perhaps it's actually the etymology of the term.
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by xyzelement 18d ago
This is correct. We worry about getting someone's piss on us, not whether someone steals an admiring glance at our weiners.
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by xyzelement 18d ago
Just flip it over.
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by xyzelement 18d ago
Engineer with an MBA here. I don't think anyone finds this flavor of activity beneficial. What's beneficial is the underlying system that is sufficiently free and flexible that great things (like VMware to begin with) are possible
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by xyzelement 19d ago
At this level none of it is about moviemaker. It's a mix of coaching and testing. Coaching as in: reminding people that this matters and encouraging them to care outside the strict lines of their task/scope. Testing as in: who&#x2
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by xyzelement 19d ago
// Yet this entire thread is all about "oh but she was a woman and woman have it easy" despite no other women to point at all. You are confused about what the thread is about which confirms the point being made that you
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by xyzelement 19d ago
I think it's a little different. To use a micro-example - I've been to various Trump buildings around the world. I've skated at a trump operated rink, I've seen the trump golf courses. So whatever opinion we have about t
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by xyzelement 19d ago
Umm yes? Example: when crypto was at the height of hype, I assumed that most businesses in that space were scams(to different degrees) - and that those who invested in the scam ones without due diligence were taken in by wanting to ride tha
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by xyzelement 19d ago
You are missing the point. The praise of her was devoid of even a nod to the actual element of achievement. I know this because this was the first time I heard of Holmes and obviously well before the downfall and the fact that the story jum
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by xyzelement 19d ago
Is there an example of this that you could reference?
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by xyzelement 19d ago
If you think about it a little harder, the pattern isn't just gender but "thing you are standing out for". In the Holmes case, she was visibly celebrated for being a young female (as a positive) so it's not shocking that
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by xyzelement 19d ago
I find this a week comparison. I've driven a Tesla, I've used PayPal. My government has used spaceX to do space things. Whatever you think of Musk there's a significant amount of "actually exists and works" that&#x2
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by xyzelement 19d ago
The point is that anything subject to hype is also at a greater risk of being a scam. If we were desperate for red-headed founders then the risk of any given red-head riding the wave of hype rather than substance is higher than at baseline.
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by xyzelement 19d ago
// Mossad would love to know who to de-bank for criticising Israel "Criticizing Israel" has moved from edgy subversive to lamely pedestrian in the last few years. There's no great secret that Mossad needs to unearth

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