Eleopteryx

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by Eleopteryx 5y ago
Strange comment. I have to imagine that the part you find "good" is the lowered viewership? Or what is the "good" part to which you're referring?
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by Eleopteryx 6y ago
Feeling somewhat validated in my choice to upgrade to a discounted phone from 2019 rather than spring for a newer phone with 5G support. I just had a feeling 5G was going to be something I would certainly eventually want to have, but wouldn
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by Eleopteryx 6y ago
Your reading of the situation seems predicated on a conveniently pedantic definition of "automatic" from my perspective. I watched the entirety proceedings as they transpired and don't recall witnessing much hesitation from R
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by Eleopteryx 6y ago
"Numerous examples" is fantastic but what he said was a generalization and as a generalization it holds up. What % of congressional Republicans would you estimate "did not automatically spring to his defense"?
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by Eleopteryx 6y ago
It actually doesn't depend on when it was said. It was wrong. But, for the record, he said it in October 2016.
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by Eleopteryx 6y ago
His argument that Donald Trump would be a better choice for President than Hillary Clinton because the former would be easier to remove from office than the latter, arguing specifically that "congressional Republicans would [not] autom
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by Eleopteryx 6y ago
I've tried a strategy like that in various contexts. e.g. not uploading a photo of myself on a Slack workspace. How differently might people read what I'm saying if they assume that I'm white versus knowing that I'm blac
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
I'm almost certain that's what op meant to get across.
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
Funny how quickly this Bloomberg article manages to segue into "Bernie Sanders doesn't want poor people to have electricity"
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
>My DNA is not just mine, but it's really shared property. But you didn't get a cut of the $300m.
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
>Yes, they're incompetent. So you feel confident in asserting that, at the time that the person made that tweet, the quality of the Python code that they shipped was poor, or it took an inordinate amount of time to produce? All beca
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
>It sounds like the poster has been rejected from a job interview for missing a semicolon or writing “length” instead of “len”. These kinds of anecdotes make me often wonder if candidates are "disqualified" for far more superfi
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
>Twitter isn’t a phone call, but it also isn’t a message board. Well, Twitter is Twitter. But Twitter is probably closer to a message board than it is to a phone call.
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
It seems like the reason why the publisher dropped the book is to cover their ass in terms of legal repercussions. This actually presents a compelling question: "does Britain have free speech?" if you can get zapped for being raci
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
To me it seems like there are features of the site or certain subs that essentially shitlist you until your account is of a certain age or upvote quota. You're not wrong that posts by brand new accounts seem to be invisible sometimes.
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
>yes hello site's creator here I like your way of greeting
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
I've witnessed unconscious prejudices in myself e.g. toward female coworkers. I remember being livid because a female coworker corrected me in the presence of others. If she had done it in private I would have had no feelings about it.
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
I wish the real world generally valued employees as people instead of numbers on a spreadsheet. These individuals can get jobs with dementia but I can't seem to get a job with ADHD. I guess "our employees can't regulate their
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
It doesn't guarantee a job at google, but I don't think that was the point. If he feels that the reasons for his disqualification are absurd, how should he voice that frustration while not being perceived as entitled? Are hiring p
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
You've repeated the same argument except this time with examples.
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
But the nature of 8chan's user base isn't being dictated by its design. It's still an overwhelmingly right-wing site that gained its prominence from the Gamergate controversy. As a frequent user of reddit I would openly decla
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
>Just maybe the democratization of film I've been thinking about this for a while. The "despecialized" versions of the Star Wars films prove that audiences can dictate the nature of a creative work in lieu of (or in spite
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
Can Safari play webm files in the browser? Never works for me.
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
That begs the question, what distinguishes actual technical debt from short-lived assets?
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
This is painful for me as a Rails dev because the real technical debt is always a lack of test coverage. Cleaning up cruft is great, except without tests I'm just going to break my application in the process (and probably not know it.)
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
I was well aware of that before I commented. It's still a non sequitur and a remarkable logical leap. If he or she had left it at the church having the capacity to alleviate loneliness, I could go along with that. "Church maintain
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
>You didn't see a connection between people suffering from a lack of meaning and purpose and the decline of an institution that basically specializes in that? There's nothing concrete there. The fact that an institution that sp
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
After having read the article your comment comes off as a non sequitur. The article doesn't even mention churches or relate volunteering to churches or churchgoers... You didn't even make an effort to correlate churchgoing with th
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
You are correct, after re-reading the comment I can see that I misinterpreted the comment as meaning something along the lines of "ADHD people are really just lazy and want special accommodations", which was hasty and cynical on m
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
Invoking goalposts in the context of this discussion seems overly combative. The article deals in pessimism/optimism which is a matter of perception. If one perceives that George W. Bush's success in 2004 was precipitated by exten

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