gertef

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by gertef 9y ago
It means "a male working in tech who I don't like"
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by gertef 9y ago
The first part is important to signal that you aren't just trying to find people to work with, but that you also want to join up in a culture war, and a culture war requires promoting ideas to hate instead of letting them fade away. Im
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by gertef 9y ago
There is high-quality current literature today, and there was low-quality literature then.
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by gertef 9y ago
Counterpoint comic: https://xkcd.com/224/
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by gertef 9y ago
We also have virus botnets
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by gertef 9y ago
Right-handed privilege. But still, the thumbs are probably the least "handed" element of the body. I mix right and left thumb use based on whatever I need to be doing with my other hand.
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by gertef 9y ago
The people who respond to sales tactics are the sort of people who buy lattes every day, fo rhte same reason.
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by gertef 9y ago
Buying new saves on the transaction costs of the resale through a dealer and the risk of buying private used. Buying non-luxury cars is NOT expensive. Throwing away a working car is expensive.
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by gertef 9y ago
If you're good enough to act on Broadway, you're good enough to be a salesperson.
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by gertef 9y ago
What does private companies' compensation plans have to do with the government or Republicans?
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by gertef 9y ago
Equifax is waiving the fee since the recent incident.
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by gertef 9y ago
> I wish I could have 72 hours to review the front of all my snail mail electronically https://www.google.com/search?q=postal+mail+virtual > The post office would still get money/postage, The post office can&#x27
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by gertef 9y ago
The headline doesn't mention "dollars" at all.
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by gertef 9y ago
What in tobacco makes tobacco so bad, compared to all the other plants and animals people chew on?
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by gertef 9y ago
Vaping is illegal, but cigarettes are legal? Vaping is illegal, but also taxed?
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by gertef 9y ago
Those wealthy people can spend some of their wealth to hire reputable maangers, or donate their wealth to communal funds so they aren't a target. Hunger for wealth and control makes one a target.
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by gertef 9y ago
Not to disparage your suffering at all, but jail isn't always so much better. > you broke a written rule and you spend some time for it. Not true. Jail is for people accused of breaking rules, not convicted. And arrests are severe
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by gertef 9y ago
Defense of self and family is not murder.
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by gertef 9y ago
Scams and survival of he fittest are the state of nature. It's a miracle the legal system is able to resist it even a little.
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by gertef 9y ago
Interesting that your aunt cared for their mother for 30 years, drawing a small compensation rate, and your mother just took an interest in grandmother's care decades later when her inheritance started to dwindle.
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by gertef 9y ago
But really, what's wrong with that? Why is someone entitled to control accumulated wealth after they lose their faculty? Most parents live for their children. If a parent doesn't want to give wealth to their children, that's
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by gertef 9y ago
Your body is often sneezing because it has been hijacked by a virus that triggers the sneeze in order to spread infection. Sneezes were evolved before the invention of the handkerchief and tissue.
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by gertef 9y ago
People should be able to control all of them, at least for timespans of a few seconds.
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by gertef 9y ago
"Gesundheit" means "health". Sneezing is an indicator of health risk. It's a tradition, not a superstition.
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by gertef 9y ago
Do you value grammar over spelling? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grammer
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by gertef 9y ago
This is one of the problems with GDP/econometrics in general: It tries to measure value but actually measures prices. If I lower my prices (maybe as a charitable act, or due to competition), I haven't decreased my value, but econo
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by gertef 9y ago
Anything administrative paid to a third-party vendor is administrative cost but not payroll. For example, the EPIC software license fee is admin but not payroll.
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by gertef 9y ago
That's LOGO, not LISP. The program at top is a LOGO interpreter, written in LISP.
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by gertef 9y ago
Using text to quiz colors is folly https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
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by gertef 9y ago
I trust that you'll have similar gratitude for any doctor who kills you on their way to surgery, or any web developer who does the same on their way to build a revolutionary new Uber for Widgets

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