ImTalking

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by ImTalking 9y ago
Trust is earned, so at the beginning you give people the benefit of the doubt and you have 'faith' that they are trustworthy. But don't call it trust. Trust takes time. And regarding your 3 unfortunate betrayals, just remembe
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by ImTalking 9y ago
Reminds me of "It's a Wonderful Life".
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Ask HN: Ideas for IT-based articles in industry newsletter?
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by ImTalking 9y ago
This is why I can't understand age discrimination. We oldies have a wealth of experience which we can turn to. How can a new programmer have a "gut feel" which should be listened-to when there is little to no experience? The
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by ImTalking 9y ago
My kids school had a career night where parents from all sorts of different jobs came to answer kid's questions. I was the IT rep and I thought I would be inundated with kids all night. Well, I had 3 kids. 2 were definitely geeks and o
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by ImTalking 9y ago
Yes, and the State and society is fine with that judging by the fact that we understand the severe consequences of tobacco, alcohol, and opiates and they remain legal. For example, we know that in 2015 over 10,000 fatalities occurred on the
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by ImTalking 9y ago
You cannot use harm as an argument unless you also include tobacco, alcohol, and opiates. These are the drugs that kill directly and indirectly. We know this, we've known this for decades, and yet they are still legal. And if it is har
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by ImTalking 9y ago
Don't think of it as legalising another drug; think of it as expanding the rights of a person to own their own body. What right does the State have to legalise and promote one drug but put another in jail for a different drug. Do we ow
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Yeah, maybe I should travel more.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
I was born in NZ but the family moved when I was 2. I recently got NZ citizenships by descent for my kids because I want to give them the option to move to there if all hell breaks out in the world. It's probably the last place on eart
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Don't agree with this at all. Pricing should never be up to the client and their ability to pay. And also, you will have to keep track of every customer and their individual prices which would be a mess to keep track of. You have to re
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Agreed. I got my PP license 40 years ago on a 172, then 4 years ago went thru training again to renew but quit due to the condition of the planes (all 150's, 172's). I also quit because I realised (maybe because I'm older now
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by ImTalking 10y ago
The market's invisible-hand benefits. If this corporation is toxic, then it fails and in it's place will come a better, more ethical, more resilient corporation.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
I think what JPMorgan fails to realise is that their entire business will be subject to automation. In a way they are signing their own death warrant. Obviously they will reap the benefits of AI while it's in it's infancy, but it
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Anything that reduces the oppression of women is a good thing. Freedom is the ability to make choices.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
I would say change one's attitude from a technical-person who happens to make money programming, to a business-person who writes code. You must put business first and understand that coding is only a tool to be used to further yoursel
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Just shows that every financial decision regardless of political system is driven by incentives.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
That 9% is a sham. Here's the critiera for an substance addiction which only needs 2 to be checked. Note the 1st 4 points and the Tolerance point. It's easy to see how 9% checked 2 of those points (I would). - The substance is
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by ImTalking 10y ago
What does it matter since the prohibition of cannabis has never been about harm. You can have all the studies in the world and it won't matter a damn... and my proof of this? Why is industrial hemp illegal?
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by ImTalking 10y ago
You can have all the technology in the world but eventually what censorship really means is someone else stopping you from speaking your mind, and that person can be benign or malignant. "host better conversations" is a nice littl
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by ImTalking 10y ago
> it doesn't benefit society as a whole... But there is no benefit to society by incarcerating someone removing the possibilities of a functioning life. Does Louisiana benefit by having 1 out of 7 black men either in jail, or on par
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by ImTalking 10y ago
> And because Americans are somewhat punitive in nature. Yes. Very much so. And at what stage does the word 'punitive' turn into it's next level of synonym: 'sadistic'?
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by ImTalking 10y ago
> "Police arrest a heroin addict along the tracks." We humans think that we are intelligent and just, yet I would love someone to explain the wisdom and/or logic behind this policy; to arrest someone who is addicted; to gi
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by ImTalking 10y ago
> "Everything happens for a reason." I don't know why people believe this; like there is some grand universal plan. This way of thinking also unnecessarily brings emotion into the events of life which does nothing other th
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by ImTalking 10y ago
4th amendment is a farce anyway. Asset forfeiture is a direct violation of the 4th and yet has passed judicial constitutionality tests. Asset forfeiture was never supposed to be used on US citizens since citizens can be prosecuted under fed
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Huh? This is still an issue? Well, glad that we finally have a decision after 129 years since George Eastman.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Classic m.o. of a fledging dictator. Begin to instil mistrust into the people of the very core of the political system, then once this mistrust permeates society enough, come in with an alternative system which, surprisingly, consolidates p
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by ImTalking 10y ago
I would suggest you turn on the 6pm daily news.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Yes, the 'why' that is eating at me is why anyone would try to proselytise religion to anonymous people on HN.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Despite his intellect, he was a child really and his only hope was for management to rein him in and focus on deliverables (which they did not).

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