QuantumGravy

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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
Religions and denominations of the same religion won't even agree on the nature or existence of free will. Why everyone else is so concerned about the same, I don't understand. It's more philosophy than science in most discus
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
I find this unnecessarily aggressive and dismissive of people's (willfully chosen) social responsibilities. Yes, "the wife" is a convenient excuse for many things, including why you can't go out drinking tonight, even th
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
Vicious cycle / feedback loop. I recall there being a few studies suggesting that being poor can lead to poor decision making, and I certainly agree that poor decision making reinforces negative outcomes such as credit card debt. Thus
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
Even if they are accepting of you earning more, their own boss and/or Human Resources may well have a different opinion. Woe unto those whose supervisors are also underpaid.
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
Viable long-term survival strategies on Earth have some pretty hard limits. Even if we master famine, disease, our own worst impulses, and asteroids, there's still the expansion of the Sun. Even if we don't expand beyond our own s
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
Perfection is a particularly anthropocentric concept. Earth was clearly a local optima, but our very capacity for trashing the planet suggests it was rather shallow. We've changed the fitness landscape like so many bulldozers in a land
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
Assuming artificial gravity generators, who needs planets?
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
We stay on this rock, we die on this rock. Confining ourselves to Earth isn't a survival strategy, it's giving up. Rebuttals would be appreciated, though!
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
To be fair, only some do. Others just assume endless reincarnation is a thing and promise escape. Whether you see that as real distinction is something else entirely.
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
From the moment those copies exist, I'm not them and they're not me. We do not share subjective experiences. If you think we're equivalent and expendable, you'd best murder me in secret and pretend it never happened. You
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
If everyone has similar memories to conceal, problem solved. Who's ready to sign up for Total Recall style memory implants?
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
> 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings. Not enough to compete with the real deal. Has to have multiple team calendars, so it can support conflicting mandatory meetings so people can bitch at you on Googl
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
If employable programmers are as rare as brilliant young mathematicians, we have a serious problem.
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
> Alcohol is a poison. A meaningless blanket statement. Methanol is a poison, far worse than ethanol, yet you've likely consumed it in small quantities from what you would think of as non-alcoholic sources. If there's no safe
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
Yes, I want to be around those 20 year olds when I'm in my 40s. I want to be around a few 60 year olds as well. I don't want to just talk about diversity, I'd actually rather like to live it. Those who insist on living in bub
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
Personal anecdote here, which may mean absolutely nothing in the bigger scheme of things. I had encountered, from time to time, a certain category of recruiters who seemed to be hunting for brogrammers. The type looking for passionate ninja
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
> Recruiters typically don't want to waste their time with folks who aren't going to get selected. My spam folder says otherwise. There are still enough bad recruiters out there (or bad recruiter spam-bots) hitting me up for po
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
> "Why not just build a faraday cage?" Then my very next thought is, "Who is going to notice my house-sized faraday cage, who are they going to tell, and what are those people going to do in turn?"
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
For that exact reason, I am incredibly thankful my kid's interests are currently sufficiently geeky. Terrified for when those interests are dumped in favor of appeasing boys.
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
In my purely anecdotal observations, there hasn't been a great demand for entry-level work, especially so following the last recession. A college degree and no experience won't even earn you the benefit of a rejection letter. Peop
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
That's a perfect illustration of what I'm getting at. You can just keep redefining whatever 10x means to make your point. In your example, minus the the initial "Haha", this might as well be lifted from a cover letter or
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
The wonderful thing about 10x developers is that you can keep redefining what 10x means to make your point. The 10x developer is a mythical beast that changes with every retelling. There's only one definition with any experimental weig
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
- man nurse - man housekeeper - man secretary - man escort Wow, these all sound absolutely awful. How did the female, err, woman version become such an accepted construct?
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
The paper clarifies that this means being unable to reach a solution, as in, you can't figure it out. You've hit a brick wall. Perhaps your intellect is insufficient or maybe there is no solution, but you're definitely not sm
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
Hope it was obvious that I understood who holds the purse strings. Regardless, if such sales people make themselves the enemy of those who'll be held accountable for the purchase, they'll get the fight they're asking for.
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
Wait, that's a thing? (Quickly Googling...) OMG, that's a thing. People in the office are still using old-school typewriters for certain official documents, so I expect I can get away with it. If I can't concentrate due to ex
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
Less than a decade ago, by my reckoning. Pretty sure there was a rash of ambiguous medications between 2007 and now. You're absolutely right about today's drug ads being too much information , of course.
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
This strategy can be taken too far. You can claim that your "comprehensive fractional imperial unit helical matter extraction system" will turn me into a sexy master craftsman all you want, but as much as that's a better vers
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
Honestly, the amount of empathy here is encouraging. I'm not in the best position to take all the advice given just yet, but knowing I'm not completely surrounded by sharks is reassuring.
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by QuantumGravy 9y ago
Other than time spent programming on platform X, I'm at a loss as to what values I'd bring. Would I hire myself, based on my job history? Probably not. I'm hardly going to impress anyone with such an attitude! Any suggestions

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