mecha_ghidorah

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by mecha_ghidorah 2y ago
The poor definitionally spend a higher percentage of their income on just about everything because their income is significantly smaller
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by mecha_ghidorah 2y ago
I genuinely don't have a webcam. I mean my work laptop does, but I wouldn't be using my work laptop to interview with people. My home desktop doesn't have one though because I'd literally never use it, and no way I am bu
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by mecha_ghidorah 2y ago
> "Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. " I really wish I understood the original language for this because both sides of this or sound essentially synonymous
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
Back in the day I had a messenger account without a Facebook account, you used to be able to create one with just a phone number
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> Before Starbucks, the median coffee was worse. They showed the world that coffee is something more than Folgers or something you drink out of a carafe that’s been warmed for 6 hours. You mean they showed America . Lots of places weren
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
It kinda depends on the candidate. Someone who already has experience may not stick around long because they aren't learning new skills, where as someone who isn't familiar with a particular technology will have added satisfaction
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> There isn't more news now than 100 years ago, so how do you feel all that time and how do you keep someone engaged? So, I agree with your point, and I also agree that there isn't enough news to fill 24/7 coverage... but
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
I think mostly just the iPhone exploded it, and also made a lot of things much more low effort. Like take for example people constantly posting photos of themselves and food and what have you on social media - pre iPhone high quality photos
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
If Republicans are voting against it too they are also to blame though? If some Republicans would vote for it then it could pass. I'm an Australian so maybe there is nuance here I'm missing about how the US of A's legislati
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
< can afford med school I mean arguably subsidizing med school would be a pretty sensible thing for a government to do if it wanted to increase the number of doctors. The other elements of the venn diagram can't be modified I agree,
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
Eh. The problem is that people can change software too easily. Say I work on an app as a major contributor and then later on a colleague makes an update to it which makes it do something unethical. Now my name is attached to this unethical
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
I'd definitely feel chilled, because what I post here isn't under my meatspace identity. I don't think they should have a right to pass judgement over something I'm doing under a pseudonym that can't be attached to
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> I have never in my life seen an Indian person with a beard and turban Wait really? I see Sikhs not too uncommonly. Sure they are the minority of ethnically Indian people I do see where I am (Australia), but I see Sikhs with the expecte
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> I'm firmly in the latter camp. Because the compiler can't check program correctness only type correctness. Type correctnes is necessary for program correctness, but NOT sufficient. Static typing adherents fail to recognize th
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> And good luck untangling your type definitions when your requirements change. That one is the killer. Static types are premature concretions on the domain data model as you understand them now. They will change and if you are unlucky y
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> The argument that it helps inexperienced developers approach the codebase is, IMO, a poor one as it tends to incentivize an iteration loop that lacks understanding and is simply trying to make all the red go away. In fact I find that t
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> Not to mention that if sellers stopped selling on Amazon they wouldn't control so much. This is a problem in terms of organisation. If lots of people stop selling on Amazon this would be true. The problem is individually each sell
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
Oh I don't just mean for astronomers, I definitely feel like all those lit up towers must be contributing for less visible night sky stars for the rest of us
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
I do think it is kind of crazy when I am out late in the city and still see lots of lights on in office towers everywhere. I refuse to believe that many of them are actually occupied at that time and it seems like a waste of electricity and
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
I'm straight, I definitely don't think this is at all healthy. If you don't trust your spouse to live their life as best they can with your best interests at heart, let alone just not cheat on you, why are they your spouse?
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
It sounds like you and your wife don't trust each other, which makes me wonder why on earth your married in the first place
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
I wish more theatres in and around Sydney Australia would do this sort of thing. The Hayden Orpheum does, but it is kind of out of the way. For a brief period when I was growing up though my local cinema had a period where they'd put o
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
Sure, but there has also basically been no secular societies to speak of at all until relatively recently... Like I'd love to see you name as many as you know just to see how many you get beyond "Soviet Union", which had a bu
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
Historically speaking there is an overwhelming number of failed religious societies than there is failed secularist ones
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
It isn't just that businesses aren't paying enough (though I am sure that contributes) is that increasingly we are beholden to large entities and systems to which individuals are just fucking gnats and beneath the notice of. As an
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> Its interesting that any time where someone can gather some form of data is now labeled as "privacy invasion" .... I think technology that enables visualization through walls is pretty obviously a privacy invasion. People are
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
>In some countries, the government sends out a tax bill as if it's a fait accompli and the poor citizens just have to take it. In Australia at least we get a pre-filled form, but we still need to validate and submit it. If there is
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> teams are less productive when not face to face even though individuals may think they are crushing it. I can imagine this argument being true if and only if the team is all based in the same office, which isn't necessarily common
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> Debit cards are the big scam. What.... how? I get a debit card for free and use it to pay for things in the same way I would cash. How exactly am I getting scammed?
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> Using a credit card responsibly is a good way to help build your credit Not where I'm from and honestly I've always kind of thought that was insane. If I were a money lender and two people came to me, with the same income and

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