FlannelPancake

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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
> College admissions could really do with some sort of objective criteria Like GPA and SAT/ACT scores? Because they tried that. Secondary education is too easy and variable in the US, and Harvard can't really do much about that
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
> If your work harder than anyone else you'll still not get recognized because you're not claimed to be smart, cultured, pretty or interesting enough. Err, that's not at all what she said or even implied. That's the p
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
It was a similar story in Seattle. Frequently you'd call both yellow cab and orange cab (the two major cab companies) because you only expected one of them to show up within a reasonable time frame (which of course only exacerbated the
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
It's probably not too different from the other statements, e.g. "Shit, I'm really sorry, I'll get that done soon" "Yeah, I'll talk to the other team and tell them to get their shit done" "No
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
> Post teens were adults with adult incomes but not adult responsibilities, like kids, for quite a few years, usually. Hmm, not sure I agree with that really. I agree with most of your sentiment about elimination of entry-level jobs and
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
IIRC the federal government really doesn't offer plea bargains, right? And federal sentencing is pretty rigid, so he probably would have served ~80 years.
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
As I mentioned above, that's definitely not the case in the outer boroughs of New York (Manhattan in some cases too, depending on where you are, though I don't know that for certain). There have been weeks at a time where I'v
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
> And yes, it took twice as long Yeah, that sucks. If it takes you 12 minutes normally to walk 1 km (assuming 5 km/h, which is a normal walking speed), now it takes you 24 minutes to and from the station in the winter. So you'r
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
Walking sucks in the winter. It's never ridiculously cold (certainly not midwest or Canada cold), but windchill is frequent and kinda nasty if you have literally any skin exposed. Especially in the outer boroughs (not so much in Manhat
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
> Funding schools through property taxes is an easy explanation for that one Though if it wasn't for that it would be through a local school levy, or a fundraiser, or any number of other seemingly harmless methods of transferring mo
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
> As soon as the elite can segregate them-self from public systems like schools and hospitals Ehh, I mostly agree with your first point but I think it's kind of a pipe dream to think it could be otherwise. Go visit a public school i
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
Oh god, please don't do this. This is worse than "We decided to go a different direction," because at least that takes less time to read. If you're not going to provide substantive feedback ("we felt like your perfo
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
Ouch, this is clearly meant to be (at least somewhat) tongue-in-cheek. Calling it "drug abuse" is a little extreme unless you're familiar personally with the author. It doesn't seem like it's affecting his life in a
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
> The tensions arise, such as with firearms laws, because states don't see eye to eye on those issues so they get to dictate exactly how things work in their own states That causes some AWFUL problems for people traveling between st
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
> This approach creates a more unified country because people are able to make their own decisions and live with them. I don't know why you would assume that: There's a whole host of tensions that come with decisions made at th
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
Incest - maybe. There's a clear harm involved there (inbreeding depression) that's much more substantive than anything used to argue against gay marriage. Polygamy - We probably will revisit our stance on polygamy in decades to
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
Wait can animals consent to marriage? Isn't that a pretty necessary component?
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
It's almost assuredly a "States Rights" argument. I'd be really shocked if it wasn't.
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
Maybe. I think it would cause a very serious disruption to bring a guy like Terry into a normal team dynamic. The CIA delusions alone would make most people understandably uncomfortable, to say nothing of the racism. With a very patient and
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
Hey! I'm sorry to hear that people treated you poorly. That's really shitty and in an ideal world people would treat you as an individual, and not as a representative of a disease. > John Forbes Nash Jr That's not really f
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
That wasn't really my intention, and I apologize if it came across that way. What I meant to say is that confronting a schizophrenic about their delusions or disorganized thinking is almost assuredly a futile exercise, save maybe if yo
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
It's a weird conundrum. He's obviously extremely mentally ill. On the one hand that doesn't give someone carte blanche to do whatever they want. If he started stabbing people we'd (hopefully) put him in a place where he
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
Heh, that's fair.
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
> With the wisdom of hindsight, I should have said, "Hold it. Wait a second. I'm riding on this spacecraft. Just go out and replace that tank." That's crazy. I didn't realize the tank was acting funny before they
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
> Well, that depends. I don't know if it really does in this case, because... > are you black and joking about athleticism To extend our metaphor, the guy in the article is not black. He's very white and making a joke about
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
Idk, that seems kinda specious to me (though I realize you're not necessarily defending the reasoning). If I yelled something racist into the microphone instead of "baba booey", very few people would shrug it off as "oh
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
> "At some point, millennials are going to grow up. They’ll start caring about stability for the sake of their families, and they’ll make decisions that likely look more and more like that of their parents." Uhhh why? Wasn&#x27
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
In many cases, it's not even about the content of their messages. It's about a total lack of awareness, especially concerning their medium of speech. To me that's far more damning than an off-kilter joke or a moment of drunke
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
> Capitalism is actually a pretty efficient antidote to that. Ehh I'm not really sure how that applies here, especially since the market of "javascript libraries" is probably about as free as you can get (in many senses of
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by FlannelPancake 11y ago
> libraries are a bit like office politics for front-end web developers -- basically something that feels like work and "advances your career", while in truth it's just a way to avoid doing the real work with actual custom

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