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by zasz 8y ago
I did exactly the same thing! I couldn't believe it that my boss was okay with it!
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by zasz 8y ago
I have tried weed, and I really, really dislike the sensation of being high. Just assume that whatever possible drug intervention is out there, I've already tried.
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by zasz 8y ago
Not entirely. Some issues were fixable, like moving our RabbitMQ cluster away from RHEL to AWS. But others weren't. There was an upstream service we depended on that went down, that caused a cascading failure. It was the company's
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by zasz 8y ago
Yeah, and that's the other problem this article is pointing at--young children aren't developing deep reading skills like you have, because the girls are getting waylaid by social media and the boys by video games. They won't
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by zasz 8y ago
I agree there's a lot of crap out there, but the point of the article is that even for text that is worth the effort, your ability to supply said effort will have been diminished by a lifetime habit of skim-reading. The ability to read
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by zasz 8y ago
Yup, that's how I feel about ever being on-call again. I used to be part of a four-man rotation for a set of services that regularly went down 2-3x times during sleeping hours. This was really rough as a lifelong insomniac. I could nev
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by zasz 8y ago
Hopefully, you feel alive while working on your art project with them outside of the burn! Her camp doesn't center around a big art project, though, so that might be why she feels more limited.
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by zasz 8y ago
IMHO we have enough resources that people shouldn't have to work bullshit jobs like being advertising execs if they don't want to. cf David Graeber's essay on bullshit jobs.
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by zasz 8y ago
It wasn't intended to be snark. She was very clear that this one week was IT for her. She was a leader in an established Burning Man camp that hands out free stuff for women's health, and she said she really enjoyed the recognitio
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by zasz 8y ago
Oh, I think it's a lot bigger than that. The woman was the leader of a known, established Burning Man camp. I'm pretty sure the friendships she developed there are more meaningful than the ones she has outside of Burning Man, and
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by zasz 8y ago
Yeah, of course I am and I understand it's their job to do that. I really hate it when waiters come interrupt you, but what made you think I'd actually say it out loud? I used the phrase "fuck off" as an expression of an
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by zasz 8y ago
I'm glad she's found a way to be alive one week out of fifty-two, but I'm sorry the other fifty-one weeks a year apparently suck that much!
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by zasz 8y ago
I went in 2010 and one of the first people I met there was an advertising exec who said this event was the only time she felt alive. It was really sad.
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by zasz 8y ago
I love Chinese service. I hate feeling obligated to make small talk with the waiters. "Is everything fine?" Fuck off, I'm trying to talk to my friend here.
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by zasz 8y ago
Kinda surprised no fountain pens were part of the journey.
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by zasz 8y ago
No, you're being downvoted for amorality.
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by zasz 8y ago
If Wu felt that writing about the controversy would damage her standing in China, then he shouldn't have done that. Seems pretty straightforward.
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by zasz 8y ago
In this case, we're talking about a country where even the phrase #metoo is censored and outspoken feminists end up in jail, so, Vice should've listened to Naomi Wu about what could and could not go into the article.
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by zasz 8y ago
Ahh, hm, according to this reddit comment ( https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/89br5e/whats_... ) you're right. It still seems like she said, I don't want to discuss X, Vice said, let
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by zasz 8y ago
I don't quite get it either, but at the very least, she talked to Vice before they published the article and said she wanted her relationship status and sexuality to not be discussed, and then Vice put in several paragraphs about her r
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by zasz 8y ago
well, as it says in the article, she's had good experiences with other western media outlets. she wasn't expecting vice to buck the trend.
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by zasz 8y ago
The vast majority of California's water usage is agricultural. http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=1108 In fact, an apartment dweller uses only as much water in a year as is required to grow $200 worth
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by zasz 8y ago
Dude, if you love your friends and family, why are you referring to their attempts to stay in touch as 'drivel'? That's a really negative, condescending word.
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by zasz 8y ago
It is, but some foraging societies used infanticide as well.
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by zasz 8y ago
It's not that the information comes digitally versus in deadtree format. The problem is the destruction of local news, period, which means that you're going to get less of it even in digital formats.
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by zasz 8y ago
Well, it sounds like in the Mayan village, a kid would have the opportunity to run off and interact with someone else, or do something else, a lot more easily than in an American suburb or city. I don't think we can conclude from the N
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by zasz 8y ago
These people are asylum seekers. What they are doing is literally not illegal. According to USCIS, asylum seekers must be physically present in the US to apply: To obtain asylum through the affirmative asylum process you must be physically
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by zasz 8y ago
My guess would be because Palo Alto's right next to Stanford and an important part of Silicon Valley, esp since Palantir HQ is in Palo Alto.
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by zasz 8y ago
Yeah, basically nobody went to jail, and yet, he considers Bear Sterns losing its independent existence to be the equivalent of a coyote getting shot? Sloppy thinking there.
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by zasz 8y ago
Why the excitement? If you're paying for a service, you're entitled to customer service.

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