jessedhillon

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by jessedhillon 5y ago
I don't trust the results of anonymous online surveys, nor should you. It's amazing that any organization purporting to be journalistic would report such results, but those are the times we live in, I guess. Anyway, my comment was
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
For the record, I didn't say any of this. It's not controversial to talk about your experience. It's certainly controversial to generalize your experience across an entire industry, or sex. And it's not acceptable to be
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
Edit: removed. I should take my own advice.
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
In this sense, this person is talking about empiricism as the outlook that only what can be measured matters. Hours spent in meditation can be measured, but your embodiment of right view can't (or isn't, at least).
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
In the case of MasterCard that might be true, but the law applies generally. It's not inconceivable that another piece of critical infrastructure could be provided by a country who has a data center in a more likely adversary, say, Chi
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
What does `uname -a` return for you?
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
I cannot understand how, almost 20 years after it was first created, a default install of WordPress still falls down gracelessly when faced with any significant traffic. There's no reason why a sensible default configuration can't
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
In case anyone else has no experience with diabetes and is looking for key quantities to understand the context here: - "Most people with diabetes need at least 2 insulin shots a day. Some people need 3 or 4 shots for good blood sugar
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
Almost nobody understands software then, by this definition.
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
Disclaimers have become magical incantations of a litigious, safety-obsessed culture.
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
Seems like the position you'd expect of a country founded on a mistrust of centralized, remote authority.
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
Yes, well on the one hand you shared evidence of actual outcomes and presented that as meaningful, and that's what I challenged. Weaving theories about how social benefits are good for entrepreneurship is not much of a counterpoint her
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
All of which is an entirely separate set of points from the point you were making about the number of billionaires.
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
I'm not familiar with the wealth situation in Scandinavia, but I just want to point out: what matters is the numbers of millionaires/billionaires created, not just the number existing. For example, these higher numbers could be le
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
> The highly symbolic law - which also removed preferential tax rates for foreign companies operating in China - was overwhelmingly passed by the National People's Congress (NPC) on the final day of its annual two-week session in Be
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
There's nothing that can't be justified by this reasoning.
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
Here's one that allows you to mix and match symbols and motifs that are common to national flags: https://flag-designer.appspot.com/
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
At least in CA, and probably other liberal states, you have what is ironically called the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) that distributes funding equally, more or less, and tries to erase these advantages. https://www.cde.c
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
First off, because of Bloom's two sigma effect [0], public schools will never be able to match the experience of a good homeschool. Unless you're talking about class sizes of four, each headed by someone who has mastered the mater
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
I find myself feeling vaguely offended by this response. These are needs that all previous generations fulfilled through their community, or by meeting strangers. But I have the feeling that (some subset of) current generations find that pr
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
It's bait. Certain people were probably never going to give the interview a honest read anyhow, but here you are giving it free advertising and also putting on demonstration one of its theses (tendency of the WEIRD to insist on hyper
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
If you are doing analysis and exploration, or creating offline reports, QGIS is worth learning. It can connect to and query a PostGIS backend directly, and doesn't need to do any sort of intermediate translation and storage that I&#x27
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
>Like if I'm looking for a photo I took around June 2018, I can get to it in <5 seconds. Not only that, you can search for a photo of a light bulb you know you took, but don't know when, but simply typing "light bulb&qu
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
Look, to me this is as preposterous as someone complaining that the eggplant and peach emojis should come in various shades. They aren't meant to be literal representations of your junk, and a yellow "thumbs up" is not meant
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
>We are still talking about adding some code points to Unicode here, right? Or did I miss something? This is a matter of representation and inclusion, which are worthwhile goals that should matter to people in positions to make decision
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
This is true for native speakers of most languages, in my experience. I remember many years ago traveling Spanish-speaking countries and trying to talk to locals about some grammatical point, like use of the subjunctive mood, and getting ve
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
I say this as a non-white person who ostensibly should feel better represented by these emojis: a person who feels anxiety or exclusion when they see a yellow "thumbs up" is someone who has a low grade mental illness in need of ad
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
The excerpt quoted here sounds reasonable and pleasant, which is why I was surprised when I clicked through and found what appears to be the social rulebook of hell.
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
sshfs has worked out fine for me, and feels more continuous with the *nix user experience.
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
Do you know how well it works if the speaker is on top of the bottle, pointed downward at the fluid?

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