chiggsy

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by chiggsy 1y ago
>some engineer actually decided No sane person would flaunt Apple secrecy in such a fashion whilst employed there. >instead of his work quietly improving everyone’s experiBence Laughable that you feel that Apple engineers have the cap
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by chiggsy 1y ago
> Having to deal with senior managers has always been the most unsavory part of my job, because when it comes to technology, these managers exist on a whole other level of stupid vanity and narcissistic pursuit of their own selfish agend
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by chiggsy 2y ago
You could use your engagement to live a live infused with your values, as a beacon to other like minded people, or people who were unaware they were like minded, until they saw your light in their tunnel.
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by chiggsy 2y ago
Those lawyers know all about it, and why it's legal. If you want a lawyer to elp you, hire one.
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by chiggsy 2y ago
>I don't really see putting important links in the footer as anti-pattern. For my entire internet life, many important links were put into the footer of a webpage. Careers, About Us, Contact Us, Locations, Citations, etc. They are e
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by chiggsy 2y ago
>Trust the market. We do not.
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by chiggsy 2y ago
>(despite being very higher-educated-Danish which means most employees are very environmentally-everything) Sounds expensive. These academic purists are happy working in a factory, are they? Good for them! I always thought that housing c
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by chiggsy 2y ago
This reminds me: Stem cells. Whatever happened with that?
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by chiggsy 2y ago
I have no faith in this statement. Let's see how it plays out.
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by chiggsy 2y ago
Why do you feel it is unreasonable for this person to have human failings? What label would you find suitable?
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by chiggsy 2y ago
>Those who need a car for longer distance travel should accept living further away from city center Strongly feel this acceptance will be difficult to actualize sans coercion.
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by chiggsy 2y ago
I live in Vancouver, and I find this discussion utterly fascinating. Thank you all for sharing.
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by chiggsy 2y ago
Gravitational waves would "wiggle" all of you the same way, so not sure how they would do something different for one part of your body, so you could hear it.
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by chiggsy 2y ago
But resources are what you are, hoss. Sounds like the youth of this manager got you messed up. Old head move is to pull him to the side, with the sotto voce, give him a chance to show you he is open to feedback. How can he change now witho
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by chiggsy 2y ago
And you are mocking his authentic feelings. Slaves are an abstract kind of human for him. Feelings are not comparable, right? Now this poor dude can't even vent a lil in an online forum? To the OP: When it sucks a lot, try singing. It
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by chiggsy 2y ago
>For some people what i described is exactly what would bring them joy. Backbreaking manual labor sucks. The heat. The cold. The shit. The frost. I'll format my fucking code any way you tell me to to avoid farm life. Like I give a s
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by chiggsy 2y ago
> I suddenly became incapable of doing work that I found meaningless. This attitude will fail you. The meaningless work must be done as carefully and joyfully as the meaningful work. Think of it as building the foundation for serendipity
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by chiggsy 2y ago
Seem to be forgetting how often these swaggerin dude's got the story wrong. No need for swagger, just tell the goddamn truth, verifiably.
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by chiggsy 2y ago
What???? Keep reading buddy. Ridiculous.
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by chiggsy 2y ago
Sounds like an argument for C, honestly. After all, that complexity is either in the language, or solved on a case by case basis. Every patch adds complexity, because it reflects changes in the business environment that presents the problem
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by chiggsy 2y ago
No, the complexity comes from people, both the taxed, and those who impose them, and those who manipulate the legal process for relief. Computers actually give the sums a chance to be somewhat correct.
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by chiggsy 2y ago
>By the 1960s, the systematic selection for competence came into direct conflict with the political imperatives of the civil rights movement. During the period from 1961 to 1972, a series of Supreme Court rulings, executive orders, and l
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by chiggsy 2y ago
The actual DK study is far less assertive about it's conclusions, from what I can recall. People who think they don't suffer from it love to prove that they do by raising it almost to the level of physical law. Octopi are intellig
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by chiggsy 2y ago
>I mention Alfred Wegener, the balloonist who proposed that the continents must have drifted, given how clearly their coastlines fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. Blinded by scientific precepts, what is now plainly obvious to any child
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by chiggsy 2y ago
Recent American efforts at regime change have fared poorly in hindsight. Attempted during the fall of the USSR, led directly to the oligarchs, and eventually Putin. Deposing Saddam left destroyed a middle class secular nation, who cheerful
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by chiggsy 2y ago
Problem: the Norks actually are starving, have a poor but fairly large standing army, and are sitting on China's border, and are not estranged from South Korea, on a personal level. China would prefer not to have a humanitarian catastr
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by chiggsy 2y ago
Since they are using your money to do this work, is this not what a taxpayer would want? How long are you gonna keep that gig if you are a coin flippin kind of prosecutor, and when your boss runs for whatever office, he gets crucified for w
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by chiggsy 2y ago
State Department will have all the docs one needs to avoid any problems. In your example, the real risk would be that the lithium mining equipment is dual-use, ie: they also use it to mine yellowcake uranium ore, or when your watch business
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by chiggsy 3y ago
Not everyone can pass it though, which is the point.
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by chiggsy 3y ago
And who evaluates the mentors of these apprentices? What if they are the Weinstein of legal practice? Or they have a tattoo of a bowling ball covering up the swastika they had done when they were 17? Or maybe it's the apprentice who ha

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