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by Test0129 4y ago
Stay mad imo. Bicyclists should be licensed and insured just like cars. They pose a danger to everyone around them just like cars, and should have to be able to make anyone they harm whole. Anti-car rhetoric is absolute top tier nonsense. I
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by Test0129 4y ago
> Studies in Delaware and Idaho have shown significant decreases in crashes at stop-controlled intersections. Seems like the introduction of the law got people to think about cyclists because lunatics will fly through stop signs and igno
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by Test0129 4y ago
> I think part of the problem for current graduate students (well, for the last generation or so) is that while the past idea / lore of graduate school modeled by mentors (professors, parents) was built on a growing post-war pyramid
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by Test0129 4y ago
You missed the point of hiring PhDs. You don't usually need them unless you are on the literal bleeding edge of a very minute subfield-of-a-subfield. You hire PhDs as a value signal. "We have 6 PhDs from ivies working on solving X
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by Test0129 4y ago
Similarly, the delusion of the "house poor" hoping for another 2008 is frankly hilarious. The difference is, if you picked up a house at 2.7% you will be winning for a long time. There are fewer ARMs, which means a small more prot
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by Test0129 4y ago
The worst offender when I was in school was a physics textbook for a 2 semester introductory physics series. The textbook was about 400-500 pages with an online code. The total cost was $380, and even in graduate school this physics textboo
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by Test0129 4y ago
> How do the people putting up the seizure notice not know who they work for? Does the US government contract this out? Because they US Gov. troglodytes. These are people chasing after some nobodies harming the extortative textbook busin
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by Test0129 4y ago
At least this somewhat makes sense with satellite. I have a 1gbps down connection and 1 TB cap because my ISP has a monopoly. I pay an arm and leg for this connection. The nearest competitor is basically a town over. Don't worry, I can
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by Test0129 4y ago
Dang dunno why I got downvoted. Guess people are upset at reality.
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by Test0129 4y ago
We don't actually know the situation. If he wants people to work 84 hour work weeks regularly - yeah that's a problem. I looked at it charitably. Twitter is in such bad shape the only choice is to burn out engineers in order to fi
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by Test0129 4y ago
> Tech was a bastion of "treat your employees right, and they'll be productive". I can't verify the veracity of this claim. Tech spans a wide spectrum of job conditions. I have worked in traditional suit and tie place
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by Test0129 4y ago
> The totality of the circumstances around the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 ought to give authorities probable cause to obtain additional information. While a laboratory accident is not malicious, accidents that result in the loss of human li
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by Test0129 4y ago
Vulture capitalism refers to a very specific practice. It's also known as LBO (leveraged buy out) or asset stripping. In particular, vulture capitalists prey on distressed firms in need of cash, engage in a takeover, and proceed to gut
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by Test0129 4y ago
RH was a joke from the start. To invoke a no true scotsman, I know literally zero actual traders using the platform. Value investors like Schwab for it's customer service. Sometimes they prefer other firms (Fidelity). Day traders, et
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by Test0129 4y ago
Twitter was also very bloated. Musk has an agenda, some of it is personal. I think from a business standpoint this was well overdue especially from some ex-twitter employees I've talked to. It's also not the first time I have seen
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by Test0129 4y ago
That is a remarkably generous severance package. My COVID severance when my company's local office went under was 2 weeks pay for 8 years of service. Healthcare terminated at the end of the month and they were sure to lay me off in the
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by Test0129 4y ago
> All of this together allowed me to build and sell already two startups. Develop and maintain easily many web sites and SaaS which creates me nice passive income A successful entrepreneur, perhaps, but not necessarily a good programmer.
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by Test0129 4y ago
I think the worst one I've ever seen was a nurse I know was given a pen (of bic quality), a $10 giftcard to fast food, and a lanyard as a gift from the hospital during COVID . She was pulling double shifts and exposed to all sorts of
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by Test0129 4y ago
There is quite literally a difference between selling a cat to your friend and selling it to a business that makes money liquidating cats (this sentence is actually humorous if you dont know what cat is short for...). I have no interest in
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by Test0129 4y ago
I don't think a law like that is really a problem. There are already laws on the books similar to it (pawn shop laws and such) where KYC is a big thing to prevent the fencing of stolen goods. It can be as simple as this: 1. Joe brings
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by Test0129 4y ago
Where I live they don't even send police for non-injury accidents anymore. Even if there's a hit and run no police get sent. Property crimes don't matter anymore. When my friends got their catalytic converters stolen the poli
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by Test0129 4y ago
This is happening more and more frequently in my locale. Several of my friends and many of my neighbors have had their catalytic converters stolen. It's good to see something is done. Let's hope this steamrolls into a nationwide m
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by Test0129 4y ago
Because one does not imply the other. A minority of whites are disproportionately wealthy. Associating the trait of a minority of a group with the majority is racism. It's really that simple.
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by Test0129 4y ago
I object to the use of "white privilege" on first principles: Interpreted literally, it implies all whites are privileged. This is categorically untrue. It encourages racism through associating an immutable trait with a negative w
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by Test0129 4y ago
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. > I get where you're coming from but this is the end state as far as I'm concerned. Pure FP is where we're all headed. I am convinced the more we try to make mutable sta
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by Test0129 4y ago
I am a long time paid user of Protonmail. This isn't the first issue I've seen. It's is really annoying I have to use a bridge at all to be honest. That being said, I've evaluated other providers like Fastmail. While the
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by Test0129 4y ago
Exporting an XML file from a database of already existing emails is very likely a query that takes milliseconds to run automatically. If it's true they require you pay to export emails it sounds like borderline extortion.
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by Test0129 4y ago
Tmux + VIM. Never needed more. Basic layout with some conveniences like a nice scheme (Nord), nerdtree, and fugitive. Bindings so I can move seamlessly between VIM and tmux to do what I need. The upside of this is it's minimalist and i
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by Test0129 4y ago
You likely won't get pricing information out of a company like this. It's safe to assume "Contact Us" is being used as shorthand for a price between expensive and absurdly expensive. Usually companies that do this offer
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by Test0129 4y ago
I guess I was more curious about the cost/benefit. Given a well defined standard like POSIX, and the difficulty of swapping in a new shell into Windows, I wasn't seeing why you'd buck the well established trend.

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