a_techwriter_00

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by a_techwriter_00 3y ago
Talking about things you don't understand is a natural human activity. The poor as well as the rich are able to do it. It's very peculiar that you're so obsessed with this completely normal aspect of human life and view it as
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by a_techwriter_00 3y ago
He insisted on saltine crackers for the breadcrumbs and Old Bay seasoning in particular. (Old Bay is known enough now that I've seen it in random parts of the country and even overseas, but I suppose back in the day it was a lot more o
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by a_techwriter_00 3y ago
My father's family have been in Maryland since the 1600s. When my father made fried chicken, he made it with lard, a seasoned breading, and a milk gravy, somewhat like country fried steak. But he never billed it as "Maryland fried
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by a_techwriter_00 3y ago
Man, I seriously hope people don't use what they post here to predict the outcome of future interactions.
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by a_techwriter_00 3y ago
One example is a little-known disreputable degree mill called Carnegie Mellon University
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by a_techwriter_00 3y ago
A civil war happened the last time a King Charles broke with Parliament.
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by a_techwriter_00 3y ago
In terms of ethnicity, isn't China something like 91% Han Chinese? I wonder if that has anything to do with the incentive structure behind why their media denigrates other races.
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by a_techwriter_00 3y ago
You really sound like you know what other people should be doing. Have you considered a career in management?
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by a_techwriter_00 3y ago
Euclid's Elements. I was gifted at most everything language-related in school, but I was complete dogshit at math. Studying Euclid changed my entire perspective. I don't think I'd have had the self-belief to do programming wi
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by a_techwriter_00 3y ago
The psychology involved in the response you're wondering about is really quite simple to understand.
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
It's something of a meme to say talk about shorting what he recommends his viewers buy. Sometimes people will come up with data showing that if you did that over such-and-such a period you'd be up like 50%, but I don't think
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
If history's any indication, you can't give companies an inch. They'll take advantage of employee ignorance of the law, or do shady things with the payments under the logic that if the employee sues them for the money they ca
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
Confessions is on the program Sophomore year, as are excerpts from Summa Theologica. I vaguely remember one of the differences between the campuses being that Annapolis students read some Calvin and Santa Fe students read something else, bu
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
I forget if War and Peace was the first book of a semester or whether it was over spring break, but long novels were typically scheduled so that you had some free time away to read them. The books me and my friends found to be ass-kickers w
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
That's an extremely complicated question for me. I'll talk about each of the classes and offer what thoughts I can: Math -- without math class at St. Johns I don't think I'd have ever thought I could be a programmer, muc
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
You're right, that view is "a little" dramatic. The Holocaust proposition was maybe more defensible 20 years ago when we could still look at Third World with rose-colored glasses. Nowadays, I think if someone argues along the
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
St. John's graduate here. It looks like that list includes a lot of what we read in "lab" class mixed in with what we read in math class. Freshman math was almost entirely the study of Euclid and Nicomachus.
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
To my knowledge in the US "40 and older" is a protected class but "under 40" is not.
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
As an example of this, Oregon's had the 'Death With Dignity Act' since 1997. It allows a process for terminally ill people with a prognosis of less than 6 months to live to see a doctor and be prescribed a lethal dose. There
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
I assume "this job takes team bonding so seriously that when the boss tells you to get drunk with him or get in bed with another random employee, that's just part of the job, so don't work here if you're not cool with it
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
To 'subduct' is to take away or subtract from.
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
Marketwatch is a subsidiary of Dow Jones which is a subsidiary of News Corp, which also owns Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and Investor's Business Daily, among others.
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
Can the universe be infinite? Whatever layer of contingent substrate one finds, can't there be another one lurking behind it, just as contingent?
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
Well, sure, there are philosophical problems with having to work at all for a living -- but work is required by nature. If one sits and does nothing, one starves to death. There's nothing in the natural order that says I must starve if
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
Do you think that it does justice to the victims of Jan 6th and the victims of the siege of the Colombian Palace of Justice to say that both of those events are the same crime? They're both deserving of the same punishment?
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
I must have missed the part where the Jan 6th insurrectionists had machine guns and bombs and took hostages. Pretty alarming, if true. Do you have sources for how these two events are at all similar beyond that both involved unlawful entry
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
At least in America, the relevant organization would be shouting their successes from the rooftops to get more budget, get more goodwill, and make careers on the back of that casework.
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
American lawyers, as a profession, have one of the highest rates of alcohol abuse and mental illness in the country.
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
Working from a corporate office is entirely someone holding me hostage. I hate it like I hate death. It's my sincere hope that Malcolm continues his slide into irrelevancy.
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by a_techwriter_00 4y ago
Do they still pay you guys 50 cents a post, or is it more these days?

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