metaphorm

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by metaphorm 9y ago
it's shocking that this division exists. liberty requires freedom from ANY institution, whether state, church, or corporation, from having too much power over your life.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
HN has a lot of blindspots. This famous quote comes to mind. > It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
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by metaphorm 9y ago
most drivers in NY drive for multiple companies. Uber, Lyft, and Gett are the most common.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
a permanent resident immigrant is definitely an American. it's important to distinguish between temporary guest workers and Americans who were born somewhere else.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
you're already writing the test cases to ensure correct behavior with typical input, and predictable exceptional input. putting in one more assert for predictable exceptional input (wrong type) doesn't really add a noticeable amou
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by metaphorm 9y ago
The type systems of Java and C/C++ are the most commonly encountered ones and by far the most widespread in industry programming (as opposed to academia/research) and they are actually awful and really add a lot of friction and in
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I think you should be a lot more careful about throwing around terms like "extremely narcissistic", which both has a technical definition in psychology, and also an enormous amount of emotionally loaded subtext. I also think you s
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by metaphorm 9y ago
No zero days is such good advice. Even a small, but concrete, goal to accomplish every day makes a huge difference. It requires self-compassion to set appropriate goals that match what we're capable of in the middle of a low period tho
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by metaphorm 9y ago
you may have a very idealistic idea of academia.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
its not non-sense but it might be underspecified. the only jobs that care that you have, specifically, an English degree are jobs in academia. Corporate jobs will gladly hire an English major just because it's a degree they don't
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by metaphorm 9y ago
this is the demogaphics page from the Harper's Bazaar media kit http://www.harpersbazaarmediakit.com/hotdata/publishers/harp... they push heavily that their target audience is affluent, college-educated women
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by metaphorm 9y ago
it was a bad interview and Peterson's cantankerousness got the better of him during that segment. The second interview is more worthwhile, and the two of them have an interesting discussion about what sorts of concepts they respectivel
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by metaphorm 9y ago
was he right? he's one of the most historically examined leaders of all time and we still don't know. In the present we have the benefit of hindsight and can more easily see that war was inevitable and we might even think Lincoln
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by metaphorm 9y ago
> In the 1850s US, there were pro-slavers and anti-slavers. Who was in the middle, and were they right? Abraham Lincoln
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by metaphorm 9y ago
you're correct, there are many many different varieties of Buddhism. It's more correct to talk about Buddhisms since it's not just one thing. In the Chinese context though we're generally looking at Mahayana schools rang
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by metaphorm 9y ago
Trump is deliberately using the language and tactics of his political enemies against them in a kind of counter-trolling demagoguery. This is ugly stuff. The discourse has descended to the level where the media is dominated by two different
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by metaphorm 9y ago
Romulans are emphatically not dark and barbaric, they're "evil" Vulcans, and aesthetically modeled on various European Imperial iconographies with lots of Eagle/raptor symbolism. Ancient Roman (it's in the name alre
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by metaphorm 9y ago
you just reflexively accused someone of being a sexist on no evidence
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by metaphorm 9y ago
Chinese philosophical roots include both Confucianism and Taoism, as well as the imported schools of though associated with Buddhism, and more recently quite a lot of modern Western ideas (particularly Marxism). Taoism is anti-authoritarian
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by metaphorm 9y ago
that isn't what compensation means, and the amount of money it costs to improve your health outcomes is not much how much those improved outcomes are worth, it's how much you were billed
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by metaphorm 9y ago
kind of a bogus measure. if the nominal cost of health insurance coverage rises, and your employer continues to pay for it, your total compensation went up, but you didn't benefit from it at all. it just became more expensive for your
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by metaphorm 9y ago
you're bending the word propaganda to the breaking point.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I think they stumbled into being media companies out of naivety and not understanding, initially anyway, that they had duplicated a media company business model with everything except the content generation. they simply replaced the content
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by metaphorm 9y ago
the parties differ on fiscal policy, and each has chosen opposing sides in the inter-generational culture war, but besides that they are shockingly similar. both parties are corporatist, neoliberal, military-interventionist, and in general
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by metaphorm 9y ago
"It is with appreciation and gratefulness that I accept from you this scroll for the Los Alamos Laboratory, and for the men and women whose work and whose hearts have made it. It is our hope that in years to come we may look at the scr
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by metaphorm 9y ago
quite a lot of perfectly legal behavior, that would not be called misconduct by a prosecutor or investigator, can still be on shaky ethical grounds for various reasons. surely Google does not visit the white house just because they enjoy th
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I don't follow you on making a connection between Joe Arpaio and the story in the linked article. In what way are they connected?
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by metaphorm 9y ago
it's not a very convincing argument to quote the dictionary at someone who is clearly trying to make a more sophisticated point about political and cultural attitudes w.r.t influence peddling and interaction of money and politics.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
Corporations (like Google) and billionaires (like Eric Schmidt) buying our politicians (by influencing them with sponsored think tank studies)
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by metaphorm 9y ago
what counts as funded by Google? if you have a media product that is monetized through ads and you put Google ads on your site, are you funded by Google? if you are a member of a political party that Google made contributions to, are you fu

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