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by shifter 8y ago
Very much so, beginning with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_pioneers
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by shifter 8y ago
Paging Steele...
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by shifter 8y ago
To the downvoters: I'm a liberal speaking from years of working with him in meat space . You may not like what I said but it's accurate.
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by shifter 8y ago
Gotta love how clattner shuts down the thread. He's a nice guy but he does have a strong authoritarian side that gets triggered by the typical SJW causes (even in small talk about silly things).
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by shifter 8y ago
Or, as the calculus on living in the Bay Area shifts [0], top tier talent starts to direct itself elsewhere. This stems growth in the Bay Area since founding successful companies in lower cost areas will be possible, housing investment slow
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by shifter 8y ago
That shifts the "cost" to employers... and you profited from it. Does that make it theft? :-)
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by shifter 8y ago
Clarification: the outrage machine does exist as a phenomenon in American politics. It's real. I agree that stewardship of the environment is very important.
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by shifter 8y ago
There are multiple "American publics". The outrage machine will not like it, you are correct, but take a drive through Nevada or West Virginia and you'll see folks used to such side effects.
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by shifter 8y ago
There's enough oxygen floating around in various forms that the _lack_ of an oil layer can allow rust to form. There are other ways to treat it, as your uncle alluded to, but they are probably very sensitive to following the appropriat
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by shifter 8y ago
The laws aren't there to protect us, they exist to secure entrenched interests.
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by shifter 8y ago
Yep. They also need regular "exercise" and lubrication if you want them to be worth anything in a WROL situation.
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by shifter 8y ago
Yep, this used to happen frequently on road trips. It relies on squeezing the wheel fairly firmly. I got into the habit of periodically giving it a good squeeze while resting my hand on it.
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by shifter 8y ago
Nashville's getting pretty expensive, too, thought it's nothing compared to the Bay Area.
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by shifter 8y ago
There's a surprising amount of super-detailed material on the state of the US Armed Forces: https://www.armed-services.senate.gov You can do a "wikipedia dive" on that site and take away a depth of understanding t
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by shifter 9y ago
Eero works okay but the consistency is not great (wild variations in ping time, for instance). I switched to a Ubiquiti (Unifi) setup and it is a world of difference. My ping times are super stable (like < 1ms of standard deviation aweso
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by shifter 9y ago
War is peace
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by shifter 9y ago
To be fair, you're discounting the possibility that nostalgia-tinged anti-political-correctness views are correct ;-)
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by shifter 9y ago
Due to projection distortions, the size of the area was visually misleading. An area-maintaining projection would be a more accurate way to communicate this data. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection#Projectio
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by shifter 9y ago
In general, that makes sense. However, achieving big things requires working with people, ergo their opinions do matter in that regard...
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by shifter 9y ago
Well said! Sam posted a great defense of what I view as the second leg of "freedom of speech". There's the legal sense of the term – which is limited to government suppression of speech – and then there's the idea of wha
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by shifter 9y ago
Why does the race of the hipster matter? That’s in poor taste.
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by shifter 9y ago
The left believes that the ends justify the means.
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by shifter 9y ago
It depends on the exec. Most that I know like rough, raw feedback.
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by shifter 9y ago
> Project leaders need to set good examples Why? Are we Puritans now?
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by shifter 9y ago
A lot of feminists think this denies networking opportunities for women.
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by shifter 9y ago
There are some terrible people out there that will lie to get what they want (c.f. borderline personality disorder, sociopaths, etc.). They exist in large quantities in the business world. I've been on the receiving end of false (non-h
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by shifter 9y ago
Jackie from the UVA story?
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by shifter 9y ago
Every action has a reaction. SJWs beware.
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by shifter 9y ago
This.
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by shifter 9y ago
> West Virginia is the 10th most affordable state in the U.S. and ranks third for equal opportunity, scoring especially high in education equality, by race. Unfortunately, that might just reflect the poor quality overall – or the general

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