topologistics

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by topologistics 6y ago
If you're pooping two to three times per day, that's like three or four squares of TP per dump, which seems quite reasonable. (not wasteful) != frugal
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by topologistics 6y ago
> if everyone on earth just sat still for a couple of weeks, this thing would just vanish. Actually that in itself would cripple economies, despite being a really good idea (sitting still for a while I mean). The whole world is operating
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by topologistics 6y ago
> What’s the software equivalent to “Churnalism”? Basically anything consumer-facing from the past 15 years, especially if it's "mobile"
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by topologistics 7y ago
Have you had bad experiences with Windows subsystem for Linux? In my experience it's useful, effective, and works out of the box with no configuration.
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by topologistics 7y ago
Taking away somebody's right to make a living with their chosen profession or otherwise participate in commerce is economic violence. Say you have built up a following of people over many years and you are making thousands of dollars a
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by topologistics 7y ago
> We are exclusively hiring engineers who use CLI email clients and browse the web using Lynx One major benefit: everyone at the company will be 10x
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by topologistics 7y ago
Sometimes your right brain doesn't have to know what your left hand is doing.
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by topologistics 7y ago
Kinda snarky way to show off those deductive skills Mr. Holmes
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by topologistics 7y ago
Advocating for some minority group's interests (white knighting) is oppression, but opposing white knighting is also oppression? Seems like a no-win situation for the so-called "oppressor class"
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by topologistics 7y ago
>“No one thought of this,” she said. “We didn’t think of it. The astronomy community didn’t think of it.” That is absolutely ridiculous. The Iridium satellites were decommissioned recently and it was a big deal because, for the longest t
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by topologistics 7y ago
You are right, it comes down to the bargaining power of large corporations. The hourly rate of the tutoring gig was higher, but I would also have been paying a lot more for insurance, so it would even out. I also have to take brain medicati
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by topologistics 7y ago
It seems like you're ignoring a lot of facts and making rash generalizations to justify your political position. In particular, this is stood out to me as blatantly wrong: >You can pay for your own insurance, which includes doctor p
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by topologistics 7y ago
I have had to choose between working at a fast food restaurant (crappy job) and working as a math tutor (awesome job), but the tutoring gig was a contract deal and as such they were not required to provide any health benefits. Working as a
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by topologistics 7y ago
Worst part about it is, when you get that yearly headache from dealing with insurance plan renewal, you have to pay full price for the headache medicine because your deductible and out-of-pocket counters reset to zero! Adding insanity to in
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by topologistics 7y ago
I have toyed with the idea of making it illegal for companies to replace people with robots and not give those people some other job to do. On the other hand, I have pretty strong feelings about regulation tending to favor large industries
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by topologistics 7y ago
You're going to get downvoted for saying something objectively true. I, on the other hand, desire social accolades. The emperor's new clothes are beautiful.
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by topologistics 7y ago
>For the next four hours, I stand in one spot on a concrete floor working the tray line. It’s like a constant assembly line, putting food on trays for thousands of patients. I do milk, bread, butter, Ensure. Milk, bread, butter, Ensure.
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by topologistics 7y ago
I'm not familiar with Kenyan tax returns, do they have some law that is analogous to the Federal Insurance Contributions Act or are you just making stuff up?
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by topologistics 7y ago
> Noise is a very well defined term in information theory. If political forecasting is throwing around the term without applying it correctly they’re gonna have a bad time. Class is a very well defined concept in software development. Ar
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by topologistics 7y ago
>total revenues for the oil and gas drilling sector came to $2 trillion in 2017. And all that money was immediately given to dirty evil fake scientists, right?
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by topologistics 7y ago
I can't be certain how many degrees separated the two are, but I have established a lower bound on the answer Let d:(x,y)->n be the degrees of separation between x and y. Since d(x,y)=0 implies x=y, and we know that FB and HN are no
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by topologistics 7y ago
Real Programmers (TM) use emacs -nw
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by topologistics 7y ago
I don't know how much customizing my desktop environment is bikeshedding, I just like for things to look nice. Take some time to appreciate the aesthetic value in the little things, you will get more out of life.
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by topologistics 7y ago
Psalm 23 is the most famous one, so knowing it doesn't indicate an encyclopedic knowledge of the bible.
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by topologistics 7y ago
As a limes disease survivor I vehemently oppose your idealized depiction of sliced citrus fruit. It's a very impressive project and I can't wait to see what else you come up with. Good job!
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by topologistics 7y ago
Consider me appetized, could you please explain the significance of the holstered weapon and provide more pictures? I'm guessing only cops can have guns in China or something like that. Thanks ^_^
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by topologistics 7y ago
Dividing the issue into pro-vax and anti-vax spreads FUD and obscures the real problems: what preservatives are in the vaccines, what growth medium proteins are in the vaccines due to improper filtering and poor manufacturing processes, how
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by topologistics 7y ago
This seems dangerous and gives me the heebie jeebies, but I can't put my finger on exactly why. It just feels like bad practice to move my important files somewhere else and link to them, but I've never trusted the cloud anyway.
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by topologistics 7y ago
The idea that black folks and females score dramatically lower on anything is a commonly held racist opinion that is foundational for the continuation of institutional oppression. When you assume the worst about people it ends up hindering
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by topologistics 7y ago
If I have 3 left shoes colored blue green and red, and you have 2 right shoes colored black and white, how many pairs can we make if our lefts and rights are put together? Hint: together does not mean plus.

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