chrisbaker98

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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Pronounced "foo-chee-BOW"
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
> something nearly unheard of even after all these years It's not "nearly" unheard of, it's completely unheard of apart from in Pelé's case. He remains the only player ever to have won three world cups.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
How often does that happen though? I'm straight and I don't recall ever being asked about my family or love life in a job interview. Not that I'd keep it secret if asked, but why the hell would they be asking?
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
I'm far more experienced with React function components than with class components, so I'm curious, what are some of the problems with class components and how did hooks solve them?
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Am I the only one who had no idea until now that "peloton" is an existing dictionary word and not just a brand name?
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Ideally we'd wait until we have evidence of who did it and what their motivations are, rather than just jumping to whichever conclusion fits our existing biases.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
In the UK, if you want to kill yourself by overdosing on paracetamol, then you're forced to visit several different shops (because you can't buy more than two packets at once) then spend a long time tediously popping each pill ind
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
It's accessible in that you don't need to be terminally ill or get your doctor's permission. If you want Dignitas to kill you, they will.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Okay, I'm not Canadian, and I'm not going to pretend to be intimately familiar with how things work there. But then I read appalling anecdotes like this one: https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/10/13/me
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
On the other hand, I have a loved one who struggled with suicidal thoughts for years and told me that if they'd lived somewhere like Switzerland where euthanasia is easily accessible, they would almost certainly have used it. Now they&
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
> I’d rather there be some cases of coercion than people who want to die being denied the chance. No-one is "denied the chance" to die if they wait long enough and I'd much rather let a few more people die natural deaths i
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
> Anyone who would consciously sacrifice another human being for something inanimate like "infrastructure" is sick in the head You need to read more history.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
I'm glad someone else shared this. I used to be very much in favour of legalised euthanasia but I'm a lot less certain after reading about what it's actually looking like in practice in Canada - where the results seem horri
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Your death affects other people.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
The blanket statement is obviously untrue. For example: people are forced to obey the law. But if you only want to talk about suicide: we already "force" suicidal people to stay alive via suicide prevention measures (nets under br
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
It's already happening in Canada: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-canada-euthanisin... Sometimes the slope really is slippery.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
> It's immoral to force someone to do something they don't want to do. It's trivially easy to think of counterexamples to this statement.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
> America and the west as whole is not actually significantly different from China with stuff like this. As someone who has spent many years of my life living outside "America and the West": this is not remotely true.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Switched to Elixir/Phoenix a few years ago and have never looked back. Absolutely a 100% improvement on Rails in every way (except the availability of work!)
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
I don't get what you're saying. It's not obscure at all that black ink denotes profits and red ink denotes losses - "in the black" and "in the red" are well-understood English phrases. All I'm saying
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
"Spade" can mean "black person". Although I'm not sure whether it's considered offensive and I've never heard anyone use it to mean "black person" in real life... was it more common in the past?
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
That's a good story, but according to Wikipedia this etymology was invented after the fact and isn't the real origin of the term (which is somewhat obscure.)
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Stanford also contains "Ford", a possible reference to the notorious anti-semite Henry Ford. I propose renaming the institution after a more acceptable historical figure, one whom most undergraduates don't think did anything
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Can you give a link to "Heavyweight"? I searched for it in my podcast app but there are loads of results - I'm not sure which one you're talking about
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
The tweet you link to doesn't show LOTT doxxing anybody.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
> A possible etymology is that it means not a game played with the feet, but a game played on foot. As opposed to all those other popular ball games which are played sitting down?
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Corbyn is a lifelong Eurosceptic who voted against every expansion of EU power that came before him in his entire ~30 year career as an MP pre-2016. He only "opposed" Brexit in 2016 because he had to.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Back in the day, Twitter's error page showed a cartoon picture of a whale, which became nicknamed "the fail whale". The fail whale was a common sight on Twitter circa 2009 because the site couldn't scale fast enough to m
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
I remember people saying Trump hadn't got the faintest prayer of winning in 2016 too.

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