hackissimo123

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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Vietnam might not be as bad as China but it still doesn't exactly have a stellar human rights record.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Get outside of central London (and possibly some other big cities like Birmingham? I don't know, I never go there) and you'll never see armed police anywhere. I grew up in a small British town in the Southeast and I can't thi
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Reminds me of Sweden's famous "H day": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Does it make sense to compare an iPhone to "the average Android"? iPhones are a premium product; they're not available in the wide range of prices and qualities that Androids are. People who buy iPhones are the type of people
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
I find it hard to believe that people are choosing Apple products over competitors because of anything to do with "racial equality". Especially since most of the components are manufactured in China, therefore by buying an Apple p
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
I think his point is "Democrats bad!" or possibly just "lefties bad!"
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
> Last year's fires were truly an aberration. And, as climate change continues to get worse, they'll eventually be seen as unremarkable.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
> Pulling a gun is one thing, actually threatening to use it is another. It’s a difference in how police are in the US vs UK. Well the most salient difference is that UK police don't carry guns at all.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
London also has excellent public transport. (Some Londoners might disagree, but have they ever travelled? I've never been to any other large city where it was easier to get around by train and bus.) It's very easy to live in Londo
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
If you're going to lie, make you sure you fake the timezone in your git commit timestamps.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
> London is easily as expensive, if not moreso than San Francisco. As a Londoner, I find that hard to believe. London is a huge, diverse city with many industries other than tech, and the vast majority of London's population don&#x2
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
That doesn't contradict what I said. "Remote-first" was more common in my experience too than "100% remote".
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Don't forget this, also within the last week: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ayaan-hirsi-ali-and-the-... And that's just recent events, without getting into the disgrace that was the 1619 Project.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
I'm applying to jobs now (in the UK) and I'm yet to speak to a single company that plans on a full return to the pre-pandemic normal. Everyone is either staying 100% remote indefinitely, or they're hoping to adopt a hybrid ap
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Previously: Rails. New job: Elixir.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
I can't find it now but I read an article once with a title like "The $10,000 Shirt" or something like that, which argued that in medieval times, the amount of labour that it took to produce a single shirt would cost about $1
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
I'm in the opposite position; I've spent almost my entire five-year career focusing on one quite narrow tech stack and I'm good at it but I'm also sick of it and desperate to learn something new. I just changed jobs and
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Sharks rarely attack humans too, despite the popularity of Jaws . I was always taught that sharks generally only bother to attack humans when they mistake us for another animal.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
To add to this, "endangered" languages aren't necessarily those with few speakers, and languages with few speakers aren't necessarily endangered. What matters is how many children are being raised to speak the language;
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Is that the case in the whole EU? Because my AmEx gives me 1% cashback here in the UK, and that's been true since long before Brexit.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
> Are there any other independent journalists you would recommend? I pay for Andrew Sullivan's Substack and reading his weekly column is always a highlight of my Friday. He's not really a "journalist" but John McWhort
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
Or, as with much else in the woke lexicon[1], they don't use the word "safety" in the way that most people understand it. [1] https://newdiscourses.com/translations-from-the-wokish/
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
It becomes a lot more explicable if you assume that the journalist was lying and the piece was not going to be positive.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
> content which teaches people to hate It's called "critical race theory".
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
The examples you give at the end aren't remotely comparable to Scott's situation. Success in the film or music industries is synonymous with fame; it would be absurd to pursue a career in either while expecting to preserve your an
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
I saw those tweets from Yglesias when he posted them; I didn't realise he'd deleted him. To clarify: you say that Yglesias deleted his tweets "for clear reasons" - are the reasons really clear (e.g. Yglesias confirmed hi
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
"In the last few weeks"? The NYT has been going in this direction for years.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
FWIW the CEO of Lambda School had the following to say on Reddit regarding whether the piece would really be positive ("you" in this quote is addressed to Scott): > I don’t want to be the bearer of bad news, but they’re going t
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
> I hope that the journalist gets revealed The name of the journalist in question is no secret; spend 5 minutes browsing Twitter or the SSC subreddit and you'll figure it out.
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by hackissimo123 6y ago
I don't think The Spectator claims to be neutral? Everyone knows that it's a right-leaning magazine and it doesn't pretend otherwise. I'd describe myself as centre-left but I agree with GP that The Spectator is one of th

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