towlejunior

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by towlejunior 10y ago
Did any employees express skepticism re the worthiness of this as a goal?
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by towlejunior 10y ago
I will offer that platitude over and over again, Einstein's wonderful definition of insanity be damned. If I could end bigotry tomorrow, I would, but what I won't do under any circumstances is ally myself with people who cry racis
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by towlejunior 10y ago
I'm familiar with the moniker. I don't contest it. I still don't believe it represents 20% of global wealth. For one thing, if 20 trillion GBP, twice the U.S. GDP, had left the global economy in a week's time, we wouldn
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by towlejunior 10y ago
Total global wealth is $250 trillion. British mutual funds can't be one-fifth of it, no matter how well invested.
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by towlejunior 10y ago
If the claim is that muscles don't fatigue, then I am skeptical. In college, I took a weightlifting class with a bunch of athletes in it. One day, we did lunges (no weight) around and around, in a line like ants. Nearing the end, my br
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by towlejunior 10y ago
>Europe doesn't have the sort of ingrained racism that exists in the United States. Who's throwing bananas at their black soccer players?
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by towlejunior 10y ago
Truly, the most predictable of all replies.
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by towlejunior 10y ago
Let's see that link, baby.
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by towlejunior 10y ago
C++ podcasts, anyone? A niche request, yes, but my podcast app's search won't respect the plus characters. :(
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by towlejunior 10y ago
Lol, I read "Weasel" and assumed it was the name of a startup or a python lib or something... I need to get outside more.
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by towlejunior 10y ago
The CIA may be sickening, but at least they don't intentionally misinterpret headlines in order to segway into grandstanding.
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by towlejunior 10y ago
Zero of those things fun, granted, but zero are scary. That's a total misuse of the word aimed at you coming off as sympathetic to women's issues. FWIW, my mom, mid-50s, has been in tech since the '80s. She has complained of
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by towlejunior 10y ago
>CS is supposed to be so super scary and women need special hand-holding and encouragement to attempt it. This. I think this is really damaging. A misogynist sees this characterization and thinks, "Lol. See, what did I tell you?&quo
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by towlejunior 10y ago
Sexual harassment was diluted by overuse. Gotta up the ante.
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by towlejunior 10y ago
Great, but why in the world (not capitalized) do you consider it a proper noun?
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by towlejunior 11y ago
Nor is telling me "it's attributed to Grace Hopper." It's a special kind of hell to google something for 20 minutes, return, and have someone throw you a Wikipedia link. Oh, you don't know who the Beechers are. They
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by towlejunior 11y ago
That's the thing. There's no particular flourish that makes her version remarkable. It's just a sentence.
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by towlejunior 11y ago
I find it unlikely the first person to express that concept was born in the 20th century. Some places say Henry Ward Beecher (brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe). If I had to guess, though, it's hundreds or thousands of years old.
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by towlejunior 11y ago
Laundry is the most overrated chore. Clothes in, detergent in, shut the lid, push the button. You can do it in 45 seconds. Regardless, you don't know what other people's chore splits are like. It's not something you can obser
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by towlejunior 11y ago
All well and good. No one will read "look at the plethora of anecdotal stories" and think, "Oh, now I see." It's a bit like saying, "There are convincing things out there. I don't have time to get into it,
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by towlejunior 11y ago
> look at the plethora of anecdotal stories Early frontrunner, Least Persuasive Rhetoric of the Year
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by towlejunior 11y ago
Kind of. I'm not sure how I would categorize it, really. "Wealth" is abstract, but shoes are not.
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by towlejunior 11y ago
When you can't attack the argument, attack the man.
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by towlejunior 11y ago
What if you're better at making chairs, and I'm better at making shoes? As you say, partiality of resources, but how is that trade zero-sum? You benefit, I benefit. To be zero-sum, one of us would need to lose.
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by towlejunior 11y ago
Not where patents are concerned. If I join up with the Nazis, the Nazis are stronger. If I file a patent, one more idea might go unclaimed by a major corp. Unless I am litigious on their level, the patent will hurt fewer people.
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by towlejunior 11y ago
I did not know that. I always assumed the Romanizations mapped over one-to-one. I can't believe I'm saying this, but: it seems like the sort of thing an awareness campaign could solve, no? a) It can't just be me. b) There&#x2