throwaway999777

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by throwaway999777 11y ago
Oh, cultures and practices that are different to your own are strange to you, are they? You want a cookie for sharing that enlightening piece of information?
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
> Yeah a lot of us do it even if we find it awkward, because we feel it's better than seeming cold and smug. In what universe is a simple greeting cold and smug ?
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
Yes. You can either do AA or do nothing with your problem. That's the only two options in the world. Jeez these AA PR snippets are just stellar.
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
That's what all the drama around OSS communities have been about lately, haven't it. People that say they want more diversity and inclusion in OSS communities, at the possible price of toning down or neutering certain elements of
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
> The reason this is so important is that should this woman have a "slip" - which LOTS of alcoholics do - now the world, and needy alcoholics, have one more reason to dismiss AA. > Try it before you judge it. An organization
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
Better the devil you know.
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
People should think more about Moravec's paradox when they decide to rag on janitorial jobs.
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
> Unions once explicitly took that position. A century ago, when Samuel Gompers was asked what he wanted for his union members, he answered "More". What do companies want? Uh, more . It's not unreasonable to guess that al
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
> Do you think the ruling classes are idiots? Hey, hey now. The ruling class doesn't disproportionately influence/control the market. It's the magic fairy dust of the Free Market that keeps the Just World as it is. /s
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
> "Please nerf the inheritance system." The random spawn system is broken in that game!
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
> Anyway, consider the following scenario. Bob makes $10 an hour, and produces $100 of value. Obviously, this is a great bargain for Bob's employer. So much so, that another employer should be perfectly willing to offer Bob $11 to l
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
Life is a obviously an open-ended sandbox game.
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
I'm sure that relying on blogs for being informed on matters like this is another kind of bias.
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
Oh, you've started losing your hair in your 40s ? Count yourself lucky.
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
Technically examples are biased to the specific examples given though they aren't supposed to serve the particular examples in particular.
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
> Anything can be made to look bad by only looking at the negatives, anything can be made to look good by only looking at the positives. And then you have the faux-"fair and balanced" posts about Go by jerf, which always ends u
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
Norway: Greenland and Vinland (New Foundland). The thought of those vikings sucking the fertile soil of Greenland dry fills me with guilt.
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
You misunderstand me. I wasn't trying to diss FP but rather the naysayers who try to associate people who like FP with certain groups.
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
> Higher productivity of feature development is probably another. So productive that they had to invent a new language for the JVM platform?
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
I thought functional programming[1] was associated with ivory tower CS researchers/enthusiasts? I guess it's been turned on its head for some reason. [1] At least the Haskell/ML kind.
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
It's not directly linked, but it is shallowly indirectly linked by going to their home page which is listed on their profile. In any case I agree that presenting information in this manner can feel a bit invasive, as in putting someone
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
Rude like asking someone who has disposable income why they aren't donating to a specific cause? Hmm.
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
Was there a need to develop a Java IDE in Java to begin with? I can understand dog fooding by building IDE-primarily-for-lang in lang itself. But were there technical reasons? Or maybe Java just was the best alternative [at the time].
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
rdegges obviously has a lot on their plate already.
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by throwaway999777 11y ago
> You have it flipped. "This group of people with a neurodevelopmental disorder are more inclined to X and therefore industry of X has more of them." > Which is an entirely valid thing to say, by the way. The point was the s