Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 1y ago
What's the point in writing something while "not caring" if the reader understands or not? Seems like a false confidence or false bravado to me; it reads like an attempt to project an impression, and not really an attempt to
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by Pyxl101 2y ago
Well, that's pretty much how China behaves with respect to foreign companies operating in China. They all need to be joint partnerships with owners in China.
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by Pyxl101 2y ago
Just curious, how does your company host its email? Documents? Files?
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by Pyxl101 2y ago
In historical context, the “militia” was everyone, every able bodied person who could participate in common defense. It wasn’t a specific organization like we’d think of today Beyond that, the right is entirely unconnected with service in a
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by Pyxl101 2y ago
More … peak voltage or something like that?
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by Pyxl101 2y ago
Yes, but a person can still choose which job to work in order to optimize their happiness, trading off compensation with the work's enjoyment. A person can also invest in themselves and develop new skills to unlock additional types of
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by Pyxl101 2y ago
Why should there be a corporate tax rate at all though? Why not just tax income and leave it at that? All of the money that corporations earn (and would be taxed on this way) will always be taxed as income before it's distributed to an
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by Pyxl101 3y ago
Yes, it can. It provides a feeling of excitement or enthusiasm for whatever you're doing, and can be channeled into working hard for long periods of time. Especially if your job already brings you some satisfaction, then doing your job
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by Pyxl101 3y ago
> Working with base-10 numbers is so much easier than trying to think in base-60, base-12, and base-24. In some ways, sure. If you're doing precise mathematical things. Otherwise, if you're doing simple mental math, base-12, -2
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by Pyxl101 3y ago
Agreed. More clarity would help. Maybe he wanted to start drawing a salary in order to resume working on Processing again, and the board said no. (That isn’t my first guess about what’s happening, based on the highly polarizing content on t
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by Pyxl101 3y ago
The part about turning off donations via Ethereum due to concerns about “environmental impact” was pretty good too. (I mean, if a donor doesn’t have Ethereum, then they are probably not going to buy Ethereum in order to donate. If they only
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by Pyxl101 3y ago
How do two-wheeled segway devices handle this? If you continue to lean forward and try to exceed their maximum speed, they will somehow tilt you backward and slow down anyway. (Presumably, enough force on the front edge could cause them to
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by Pyxl101 3y ago
I've listened to the voice call [1] linked in [2] and I interpret it the same way that Reddit staff apparently did -- as a veiled threat. Here's why: Christian is saying during the call that if Reddit wants Apollo to "quiet d
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by Pyxl101 4y ago
If they had taken credit cards, and made fraudulent transactions, maybe they could have made a few purchases in retail stores, but as soon as you detected that fraud you’d call the bank and issue a chargeback - a hassle but you’re not out a
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by Pyxl101 4y ago
Can’t he borrow against his Tesla stock, and other assets including his ownership of SpaceX, and personal property, for cash to buy Twitter? Depending on his banking relationships, and other assets that he can use as collateral for the loan
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by Pyxl101 5y ago
What’s wrong with Word? Modern businesses are turning increasingly to document formats like Google Docs and Quip in my experience: online editing solutions where documents are stored online and are as easy to share at any stage in their lif
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by Pyxl101 5y ago
I myself was “canceled” privately from an employer where I had worked for over a decade. Fortunately the issue stayed in-house and my name did not go public. I wrote an on-topic email about my life experiences and challenges concerning a me
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by Pyxl101 6y ago
I don't necessarily subscribe to this point of view (I don't know what I believe; I need to think more), but allow me to play devil's advocate consider: most of the people who die from this disease are old people who have alr
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by Pyxl101 6y ago
News is totally fucked. Look at how most media reported on James Damore being fired from Google, and what they quoted him as having saying, vs what he actually said (1). According to the media, Damore called women "neurotic" and s
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by Pyxl101 6y ago
A war that was started on incorrect pretenses is not the same thing as terrorism. Among other things, the US did not deliberately target the Iraqi civilian population, and made their best efforts to avoid civilians being harmed. The US prov
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by Pyxl101 6y ago
Full disk encryption isn't suspicious. It's standard on many corporate devices, and corporate travelers cross the border with them constantly. However, the encryption would not protect you against this problem. They may ask for th
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by Pyxl101 6y ago
If black people are graduating with CS degrees at a lower rate than other groups related to the population at large, and having a CS degree is a criterion of getting the job, then we should expect jobs that require CS degrees to have fewer
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by Pyxl101 6y ago
> E.g. an hour before a hurricane strikes, the price of water bottles and gas won't motivate new producers to enter a market, Yes, it will. It will motivate suppliers to find existing supplies of water and transport them to the affe
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by Pyxl101 6y ago
I believe that merchants are not responsible for fraud for certain kinds of transactions, like credit card transactions that use chip-and-PIN. On the other hand, there might be higher responsibility for card-not-present transactions (i.e. s
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by Pyxl101 6y ago
The question is whether they had children when they began their ambitious project. Bill Gates was definitely childless when he started Microsoft. He met his wife Melinda through Microsoft; she was an employee. I don't know about Musk b
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
How is Java bytecode fundamentally insecure? (Example?)
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
The flights are canceled. There’s nothing for the employees to do.
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
A polite way to say this would be "Can you clarify what your concern is?" or "Can you clarify what you're referring to?". The original phrase drips with disdain. If that's not the intended sentiment, then well,
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Point of consideration: supremely fit men in history (in a Darwinian sense) could have hundreds or thousands of children. Big wins can have big genetic payoffs. Supposedly Genghis Khan has millions of living descendants today, with perhaps
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Why did it take so long to dismiss the charges? Wasn’t it obvious from the beginning that they had no criminal intent? (Or is criminal intent not necessary for this crime?) I would love to read some reporting about what was going on behind

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