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by zaccus 10y ago
There are plenty of people who are happy to live in Nebraska. Warren Buffet is happy in Nebraska. You think you're too good for it or something? Yeah, either be worth a couple million, or buy property in a smaller city or town. If said
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by zaccus 10y ago
>it's better for both those kids and for everyone else to have education tailored to those kids' needs OK so who provides that?
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by zaccus 10y ago
So the problem is that people feel entitled to live in places they can't afford to live, because they can't deal with the "boredom" of suburbs or smaller cities/towns? Cry me a river.
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by zaccus 10y ago
The overall point is that there isn't a 1:1 correlation between time and productivity in this industry as there is in, say, working a cash register. I might spend a couple of hours trying to debug something screwy with my dev environme
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by zaccus 10y ago
I have no idea why they would care what someone unconnected would think. But the way this has been publicised sure makes it seem like they care, so here we are discussing it. What do you mean "against all odds"? Unless you're
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by zaccus 10y ago
I heard he raped or sexually assaulted someone. Someone wrote "a rapist lives here" outside his window. If he did rape someone, no due process means we're treating rape as a mere HR issue, and he's free to go rape more p
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by zaccus 10y ago
Why not? I'm not married to my son's mom yet. We just haven't gotten around to it because: we're not religious marriage as an institution just doesn't mean much to us outside tax/other legal benefits proper wed
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by zaccus 10y ago
It's not unheard of to have people in your extended network who you would rather not have alerted to your whereabouts. Examples: abusive ex, clingy co-worker, mother in law, etc. "Enemy" is a rather melodramatic term but you
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by zaccus 10y ago
Can you point to an example in the parent post where such language is used? I'm not seeing anywhere saying "I would miss entitlements x, y, and z".
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by zaccus 11y ago
I live in a "legit" Chicago neighborhood. There are plenty of taxis and sirens around. OP's comparison isn't that far off. Definitely looking forward to living in suburban house someday. IMO apartments suck and city livi
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by zaccus 11y ago
Just be good at your job and ignore the bullshit. Go home at 5. Has worked for me so far. Maybe I'm not a good cultural fit or whatever, but that's ok. Can't please everyone.
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by zaccus 11y ago
Part of "white privilege" is not having to give a shit about race. Race isn't a problem for white people, and there's nothing to be gained (but potentially much to lose) from them engaging in pre-loaded conversations abo
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by zaccus 11y ago
If I'm going to get anything out of a lecture, I need to be able to effectively take notes on it. To do that, I need to be able to parse an hierarchy of concepts, aka an outline. You know: I. Blah A. Sub-blah 1 B. Sub-blah 2 II. Fo
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by zaccus 11y ago
What do you do for a living, and how is it making the world a better place?
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by zaccus 11y ago
I used to work as a telemarketer because there was a recession on and that was the only job I could find after months of looking. I was literally a couple weeks away from being homeless, so I wasn't much inclined to care if I was causi
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by zaccus 11y ago
Insulting to whom? He just likes the one quote more than the other. There's nothing more to be read into it.
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by zaccus 11y ago
"You are responsible for your own choices" is just as much of a religious philosophy as "pain and suffering are part of the human condition". Both are non-empirical, irrational expressions of your personal observations a
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by zaccus 11y ago
>whats stopping you from putting in another couple extra hours to deliver even more value to the company? Probably the same thing stopping my employer from putting in another couple thousand dollars to deliver even more value to my paych
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by zaccus 11y ago
Because the fact that I'm distant cousins with a pine tree, while compelling, is inherently meaningless. Science is a method for achieving a better understanding of the empirical world, but it doesn't begin to address crucial part
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by zaccus 11y ago
You are worried about the same things, just to different degrees. Both of you depend on selling your time and skills for a paycheck. A hot dog vendor might make less than you do, but their income depends on leveraging their assets and selli
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by zaccus 11y ago
You don't know what you're talking about either though.
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by zaccus 11y ago
I think he's criticizing your idea that: >There's no more room for debate on such issues. There is always room for debate on any issue. It might be a one-sided debate, but you're clearly implying that the debate should be
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by zaccus 11y ago
If it's for defacing property, sure. That should be punished. But I'm not cool with punishing people for expressing an idea. Lots of people believe things that I strongly disagree with, or even find deplorable/offensive/
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by zaccus 11y ago
And sales engineers, which the author has apparently never heard of.
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by zaccus 11y ago
He didn't say any of those things are related to suicide, they're just examples of gender disparity. I don't know much about MRA or red pill, but my guess is that you're committing an association fallacy here.
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by zaccus 11y ago
Uh, what part of that comment is unrelated nonsense? Seemed pretty related and sensical to me.
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by zaccus 11y ago
The "beer test" thing is really sad. Like, why do people require their co-workers to hang out with them in their off hours? Friendship is supposed to be voluntary; don't they have friends of their own?
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by zaccus 11y ago
I've never been exposed to this side of math, do you have any book recommendations?
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by zaccus 11y ago
Seriously, parents are complaining about 10-20 min of homework a night? Kids should be spending 1-2 hrs on homework every night, and if they run out of homework they should be working on a personal project or reading. That doesn't have
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by zaccus 11y ago
It make a huge difference whether or not it's legal. Drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians need to be able to make reasonable assumptions about other vehicles on the road. Whether cyclists should be required to stop at stop signs or not i

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