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by peterangular 4y ago
God the fact this comment keeps going gray really bothers me. You're 100% correct and these people are acting lawfully. I get that HN often swings conservative, but I gotta believe if we were in these folk's shoes some of us would
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by peterangular 4y ago
I think it's a valid conversation to have in parallel when the people/politicians in these places are pulling expensive political stunts that do nothing but stoke the ever-increasing polarization of our nation... only to turn arou
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by peterangular 4y ago
> I mean is it irresponsible to live in a hurricane prone area? Climate change really doesn't have an opinion on this. Here's a paper from the EPA: "What Climate Change Means for Puerto Rico" https://19janu
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by peterangular 4y ago
> If catastrophic hurricanes are really going to happen every 10 years, should the federal government be subsidizing the coastal lifestyle and building you a new house each time? No. Unlike other subsidies there is no greater economic&#x
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by peterangular 4y ago
I mean I can make up ad hominem analogies about this stuff too - but it practice it makes people feel attacked/defensive, and rarely ever adds nuance or context to the conversation. I feel like in this situation it could have been omit
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by peterangular 4y ago
I'd posit that it's not as simple. Maybe if you're just cranking out your one-off app or something of the sort... But getting a good replication setup that's HA, potentially across multiple regions/zones, all abstra
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by peterangular 4y ago
> What exactly is the fear of dulled senses? What are you gaining by being a bit sharper on Friday night that drinkers are losing? Is anything actually lost? If I drink even a drink or two I can definitely tell a difference in my perform
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by peterangular 4y ago
Yes. If that's what it takes for public sector employees to be well taken care of. Unironically, yes.
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by peterangular 4y ago
> as a fellow human That's not what we were discussing - we were discussing you valuing them as an employee . Which if you devalue their labor output then, yes, you certainly devalue them as an employee. Saying "I value them a
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by peterangular 4y ago
Yea. I'm just not thrilled to be returning to Firefox after over a decade of Chrome use. 2023 is going to be rough with the removal of the webRequest extension API. I feel like Mozilla is having an identity crisis - but then again... w
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by peterangular 4y ago
Gotcha. I just find the self-checkout/cashier bit moot to my original point. I could have easily said "retail employees," or "the guy who makes my subs." Swap out "cashier" with any entry-level/lower-
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by peterangular 4y ago
> could bargain for a living wage That's called collective bargaining and the only way we'll end up there is strong unions. Otherwise, I promise you - most companies will not altruistically ensure their employees are taken care
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by peterangular 4y ago
> A cashier should be able to pay rent, transport, utilities and a decent life. Unfortunately there's a huge group of people who will vehemently oppose this as they don't see that job as deserving of basic human dignity (rent,
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by peterangular 4y ago
Shelter as an investment vehicle leads to consolidation. And, no one in the capital class is going to address the scarcity as it's a conflict of their interests. Rent in my city has been going insane. At the end of the day this is all
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by peterangular 4y ago
Windows 10 - absolutely zero issues for me. Rock-solid stability. Here's my install notes - just make sure you don't launch Photoshop/Illustrator prematurely: * Skip the "setup an adobe ID" step * Only install
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by peterangular 4y ago
> Also completely remove Pocket and anything else like it. Yeah - hard agree. Pocket feels like a sheer gimmick. It cheapens the experience, and it hurts the trust people have for Firefox when they jam it in your face. I remember the ori
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by peterangular 4y ago
Adobe CS5 user here - 12 year old software. CS5 Master Suite w/discs and valid serial from a reputable seller on eBay still commands $200-300+ which is nuts to me. But, when I realize that I can do all of my modern graphics workflow in
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by peterangular 4y ago
I understand where you're coming from. We likely have very different views on welfare and the compassion of society. > But there are likely more who are lazy, dull, and sucking up resources that could better be used to improve socie
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by peterangular 4y ago
> Many of the people here are becoming sociopathic Tons of people here are well monied professionals who struggle to put themselves into another person's shoes. They grew up privileged, got to go to school/college, and ended up
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by peterangular 4y ago
> I think if we're privileged enough to be having this conversation at all, it's probably tough for either of us to really put ourselves in the shoes of the folks asked to be subjects of these videos Eh, my parents hated each o
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by peterangular 4y ago
Yea - I wouldn't. I'd rather not have such direct representation of myself out there - invariably people would recognize you, and invariably they would pass the video around social groups. Just the way things work in the social me
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by peterangular 4y ago
You're being hyperbolic. I said "This is why I'm generally in support over codified + regulated child protection acts, especially the online ones." This is clearly not advocating for a "nanny-state." I'll
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by peterangular 4y ago
I understand your ideals... but in-practice many many children don't have engaged, or even present parents. The older I get the more I believe people conflate having kids as raising kids. I don't believe we're on a path for t
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by peterangular 4y ago
> Incidentally, not long after posting my comment I noticed a few people down-voting it without comment. Sometimes I think I should not interfere and let evolution follow its normal course (as it nearly did with me). Often you'll ca
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by peterangular 4y ago
Exactly this. In a pay-to-play legal system this person would only be risking more by litigating. I get that we have our ideals here, but our legal system does not necessarily lead to justice - especially when asymmetric imbalances are in
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by peterangular 4y ago
Regardless if it's the police brushing me off over a theft, or Uvalde... it all leads to one place: the public's eroding trust in the police. They're really not there to protect and serve. That was a LAPD marketing motto that
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by peterangular 4y ago
Not op - answering personally. The moment you have an audience for something it significantly changes the experience. Doesn't matter if it's music, development, cooking... if other humans are involved on the receiving end it makes
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by peterangular 4y ago
Ah yea you're right - I misspoke. Vanilla JS feels verbose, and jQuery feels more terse in regards to general syntax. --- document.querySelector('#sel').addEventListener('click', (e) => {}) Feels way more verbose
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by peterangular 4y ago
Even as someone who's largely ripped out jQuery for vanilla JS I still totally understand why people use the API. Vanilla JS is terse comparative to jQuery short-hand syntax, especially for simple event bindings. Sure, I think jQuery t
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by peterangular 4y ago
> "every third thursday" ... nice. Other folks are beating ya up based on their first try but mine was exactly correct! Adding to my cron tools bookmarks - cool stuff.

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