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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
Police pull up to sounds of a rifle shot; active shooter. They hear another loud shot. 4 seconds later, someone is peeking around the corner, their hands on the trigger and grip, 30 degrees pointed up. That's 1/4 second away from
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
How naive that you think that Job provides any consolation to this concern. Job is one man who after years of misery, at least still has his life. Meanwhile, I just read the rest of the Old Testament where God ordered the mass murder of ten
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
NPC has always meant a non-human in a video game. What's new is applying it to people in the real world; it's textbook dehumanization. This is literally how many people use the word, as another commenter below experienced multiple
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
Whichever meaning, NPC is a recent insidious method of dehumanizing people that ranks right up there with labels like "pigs," "rats," and "cockroaches." This tactic is essentially a first prerequisite for mass
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
Let this serve as a reminder to always stick with investments in $VTI and $BND in the future. It'll be a positive.
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
> "This network originated in Russia and targeted primarily Germany, and also France, Italy, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. The operation centered around a large network of websites carefully impersonating legitimate news organizat
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
First OS was scrappy to MVP hardware and prove the market. But instead of iterating, they decided to fork Android so they could scale up a workforce who can only understand Java, not C++, to deliver features. Then they realized Android is
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
Notice a difference between the first Echo from 2015 and today’s? No? Well they still had us rewrite the entire OS, not once, but twice, and maintain all three OS’s across 10+ different devices… They did the same damn thing with the API to
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
Is this satire? My progressives-hating family were the only ones shoving down my throat that Qanon exists...
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
I mean, fire, brimstone, and sulfur lake are actual bible verses. "But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake t
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
Woke activist paints an entire country as racist while singling out a race with things like: "All white dude designers need to read this book. There’s a whole chapter dedicated to you all, and it’s spot on." Not surprised she&#x27
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
It’s simple. Mobile users are genpop while PC gaming users are more technical.
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
Don't universities and workplaces have particular sex and race only clubs?
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
> Oakland police is so dysfunctional https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/guqz5t/comment/fsk...
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
I was similar; an embedded C++ engineer moving into web dev to get a project off the ground. If you're going to write a modern web frontend like Next and Tailwind (which I agree is the right call) then I think continuing to use Typescr
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Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark(tinyclouds.org)
261 points by throwaway_4ever 4y ago|126 comments
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
Another commenter already pointed out this was going to be a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balloon https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32682393
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
Amazon is a terrible place to work for your well-being generally (personal experience and data-based). But, 2 weeks vacation only applies to 1st year employees outside of CA. Seattle dev: 1st year -> 2 weeks, 2-4th year -> 3 weeks, 5t
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
No, I inflation-proofed my lifestyle as soon as I could with a house, solar panels, a cheap hybrid car, and a taste for cheap, healthy, basic food (rice, beans, salad, water).
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
The only exception is Blackjack, where you could learn positive EV play in a week, by "counting cards". That's why casino's kick people playing too well. They make a little money off 99% of players playing bad and try to
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
What?? > france has a habit of pushing germany to fight because they get to arrogant. "she was asking for it" Going to say that about Ukraine, too? Germany started an invasion of another country. Austria-Hungary only invaded Se
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
I'm not really talking about just handing out more money to schools, nor debating whether schools received less funding. The school problem comes from both not valuing education and people who have had a rougher go at life that the pro
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
How is that similar? I'm not talking about anything with PD. Simply incentivizing troubled areas with wealth for simply not doing the things that makes their assets worth so much less. There is absolutely a non-zero amount of people, w
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
Exactly. When we're talking about US auto unions, the market for those vehicles pretty much is the US market. The rest of the global sales are made with global (typically non-unionized) workers. If Ford can't make competitive cars
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
This is "hacker" news, since when is an appropriate answer "that's now how it's usually done."
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
I mean, Ford is in a pretty tough spot for the future. They couldn't compete in the ICE sedan market. Their cash cow ICE truck market is gone in 10 years. They have a LOT of debt that will cost a lot more to service now interest rates
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
It seems to me a huge bank like Bank of America is well-capitalized to start a huge investment project into a troubled area of a city that will: 1. provide wealth to it's residents 2. fix crime and blight 3. help alleviate housing affo
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
You're talking about companies other than Facebook, right? Because Facebook is 3.6x price/sales with double digit growth still.
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
> US is becoming the IBM of sorts of nation. Slow, sluggish, inefficient You should look at the GDP per capita of the US compared to literally every other country in the last 10 years.
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by throwaway_4ever 4y ago
RoC only claims that because any deviation from their existing policy is "declaring independence" and what China wants as an excuse to invade and kill millions of people.

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