AlexTWithBeard

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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
Is there enough homes within walking distance of the office for all the developers?
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
They (well, we) are not underpaid. Some time ago I used to work in a large organization on the very bottom of the food chain. I was making, say, $100k a year, which was quite decent money. Sitting there, doing same thing I could've gro
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Singles Map of the USA(archive.boston.com)
7 points by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago|6 comments
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
It becomes complicated if the new owner has legitimately bought the bike in a second hand store.
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
Yeah, the problem here is that leaving syringes on the floor, urinating in flower beds and talking shit is insufficient to arrest the person. But is sufficient to drive a lot of tenants away from the house.
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
Because as soon as it happens, I will be first in the line with the question: okay, what should I do to get a free house? Do I need to consume drugs? Would weed do, or it has to be some heavier stuff?
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
IANAL, but I'd think in this case this is prosecutor's job. Also, the original post is about the traffic ticket. I'm pretty sure if the judge hears a reference to something he had never heard before, he'll be like "
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
I don't see the problem here. > Defendant (as dictated by AI): The Supreme Court ruled in Johnson v. Smith in 1978... > Judge: There was no case Johnson v. Smith in 1978. Case closed, here's your fine. Next time please be mo
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
Many legal things are evaluated lazily: the law may not specify exactly what the vehicle is, but if such need arises, there are tools, like precedents and analogy, to answer this question. The way to think about it is like a logical evaluat
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
Will it stop me getting high on food? If so, it's a blessing.
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
Dear pharma, please (please, please!) make something to fight food addiction?
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
Safety is our number one priority. Not efficiency.
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
> The most diverse companies outperform their less diverse peers by 36% in profitability. Did the report imply causation from correlation?
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
May be yes. May be no. But it looks suspicious enough to appoint a special prosecutor and investigate the allegations.
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
They will have lots of problems trying to hire the next CEO then.
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
Sometimes I feel like we're trying to stop the bulldozer by all this privacy regulations and rules. It can be slowed down, but cannot be stopped. Would a complete openness be an alternative? Everybody knows everything about everyone? Y
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
I once asked a church choir director: how many people in a typical choir do really believe in god. His answer was: zero. As for the priest - he said - it's more like a coin flip: some of them are still religious.
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
I still fail to understand: is slapping an escape ladder on the side of the house THAT expensive?
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
Well, the easy part of tax filing is easy: yes, it's a bit tedious in a sense that you have to copy some stuff from your W2 to 1040, but that's it. Calculating part time rental property depreciation is complicated, but that's
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
> people forget about this and continue to fly Southwest For me it means that most customers would happily accept such a disaster once in a lifetime in exchange for, say, 10% ticket price reduction.
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
> "Every third woman who responded to the survey, sent out by Allbright to employees at the tech companies, reports that she has been discriminated against" Which - putting my boring hat on - doesn't mean she was discrimin
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
> I had never been made to feel like a freak for being a programmer until I moved to Sweden. Are you saying that Sweden is a sexist society? Do you mind me asking where have you been before?
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
On the other hand, all the C-suite works with people.
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
> As a software engineer I am working a lot with my computer. And with ChatGPT coming up we all will have soon to resort to a mixture of arguing, begging and threatening to make computers do what we want.
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
The question is: on one hand, any sane adult should be able to make whatever decision they want regarding their own health and property (some text in small font goes here). On the other hand no sane adult will refuse medical insurance: it&#
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
I'd rather not: BS ordinances suck, but in some sense it's my problem. I know how to solve it. Syringe center inhabitants, on the other hand, is also a problem for my kids and my dog, who may be not mature enough to handle it prop
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
You are right: nobody wants to go in the middle of desert and start building a new brave world there for nothing. With some proper incentives though it's doable. Nice parks. Low taxes. Decebt transportation infrastructure. Cheap housin
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
The irony is that most of YIMBY do not have a backyard. Once they buy some property and start raising kids, the attitude changes to "yeah, the syringe distribution center is very important... but can we please build it somewhere else?&
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
NIMBY is exactly the word. It's MY backyard. I've paid dearly for it. Please keep off. If you want high density development - pick some unoccupied land and build there whatever you want. It will take some effort to attract tax-pay
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by AlexTWithBeard 4y ago
TL;DR: The growth of Bay Area has stalled, because we don't build enough housing for homeless.

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