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I didn't read most of that, but "Muslim terrorists are willing to spend six years learning Spanish to infiltrate America," "Spanish and Arabic are basically the same language," and "no foreigner has ever learned Chilean Spanish" are all complete bangers of the crazy-person-thought genre
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Antivehicular posted:I didn't read most of that, but "Muslim terrorists are willing to spend six years learning Spanish to infiltrate America," "Spanish and Arabic are basically the same language," and "no foreigner has ever learned Chilean Spanish" are all complete bangers of the crazy-person-thought genre my dad lived in Chile for a while and learned Spanish there. some time later went to Spain for some academic thing and asked a friend why nobody could understand his Spanish. so they conversed a bit and then his friend laughed and told him he had the worst gringo Chilean accent he’d ever heard …idk if that counts but every single South American I’ve told that story to thought it was absolutely hilarious
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Spanish, famously close in structure to Arabic (right-to-replace dude should just get a Framework)
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posts like this used to have +5 insightful on slashdot in the bush years right after 9/11
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those posts were just pure strain loving insanity a+ content
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throwaway892238 58 minutes ago | prev [–] I wonder if we'll still be ashamed of our body parts in the year 2222. What exactly is so "private" about our "private parts" anyway? If I cover my face with a mask every time I'm out in public, does that make my face a private part now?
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fritz posted:throwaway892238 58 minutes ago | prev [–] my eye is down there
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GenerocUsername 3 hours ago | next [–] In my experience, creeping unexplainable crashes are usually caused by recent releases which didn't receive enough testing. Sometimes these bugs go unnoticed by teams without sufficient monitoring. Have there been any major updates or releases 'across unconnected demographics' in the last year or two? If I was trying to solve this in my production systems, I would focus my investigation there reply
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i had to look up the context, and i should have guessed it was a vaccine truther
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fritz posted:daniel-cussen 5 hours ago | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: Records show ICE uses LexisNexis to check millions... hn thread: Wahhabi muslims mixed in there posing as Mexicans this guy's gonna have A TIME when he learns about our history of diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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ajhurliman 1 day ago | root | parent | next [–] Non-facetious question: will kayaking bring them meaning in life? I’m a little burnt out on these articles that talk about work life balance, 4 day work weeks, UBI. Not working isn’t going to bring you meaning in life, it’ll probably make you more sedentary and feel more isolated from the world (or at least it does for me). benreesman 4 days ago | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: Dhall: A Gateway Drug to Haskell I’m currently a bit overweight, like maybe 10-15lbs. This is because I have some combination of bandwidth-consuming and focus-consuming things going on that results in me not doing an obviously correct thing: get the gently caress back in shape. Every hacker in the peanut gallery deep-down knows that they should know Haskell and Lisp well. They resent the fact that their job or personal life or whatever doesn’t leave room to get serious about computation theory. And they vent this frustration endlessly on people lucky enough to have had the bandwidth at the right time to thoughtfully contrast computation with physical computing machines (the only person I know to stomp Lemire in AVX is a GHC hacker). I’m kinda fat because I haven’t fixed it yet. People don’t know Haskell and Lisp well because they haven’t fixed it yet. Neither is an appealing look. reply
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nikolay 0 minutes ago | prev | next [–] Sentient AI is not interested in food... which it cannot consume
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epitaph posted:nikolay 0 minutes ago | prev | next [–]
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put a slice of bologna in the optical drive
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-1 points by nvr219 18 minutes ago | prev | next | edit | delete [–] 🅱inance reply 
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Neon Noodle posted:put a slice of bologna in the optical drive peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the vcr slot
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Neon Noodle posted:put a slice of bologna in the optical drive
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https://twitter.com/carterhambley/status/1105590571777908736
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BurningFrog 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [–] The word "exploit" is thrown around a lot. AFAIKT it only means that other people are having an interaction that the speaker finds repulsive. This makes "exploitation" in the eye of the beholder, and not something that can be objectively measured or discussed. reply
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gxt 18 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] I don't care how amazing the body is (it is), blood flow needs constant flow with a pulse. Put two bellows in parallel, use a linear motor to push out quickly and pull in slowly on each, and voilà mechanical heart without shear. MIT licensed, go save lives you f'ers. reply
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matt321 10 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [–] This law has good intentions but will be used to imprison political rivals and online gamers. The first link in the chain is forged, captain, get ready for a wild ride. reply
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Let's play "guess the law". I'm thinking something related to bitcoin or crypto more generally.
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ultrafilter posted:Let's play "guess the law". I'm thinking something related to bitcoin or crypto more generally.
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i would've guessed a country outlawed cartoon child porn sometimes the internet isn't as terrible as i expected. now let's reflect on the fact that "i might get in trouble for yelling racial slurs at children, and that's bad" is better than i expected
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if japan outlawed child porn there'd be no japanese media (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Achmed Jones posted:i would've guessed a country outlawed cartoon child porn I thought it might be something like that but wanted to be more optimistic.
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sillysaurusx 3 hours ago | next [–] I think if employees feel slighted by being fired, they're fooling themselves. The best mindset is that you could be gone tomorrow. It gives you clarity and purpose. It also happens to be the truth. Coinbase was also extremely generous with severance. 12 weeks plus two for every one year at the company, I think. I've had the experience of being let go without notice and without severance. Devs seem a little more grizzled this time around, so I think this mindset is slowly becoming the norm. College grads seem skittish, but they always are. People keep pointing to Armstrong's $110M house like it's some sort of injustice. If you think billionaires should exist at all, then that's one of the least-bad injustices imaginable. It's probably true that no Armstrong, no Coinbase, and 10% of Coinbase is the prize. EDIT: It's actually 14 weeks: https://blog.coinbase.com/a-message-from-coinbase-ceo-and-co... Three and a half months of dev salary is pretty incredible. reply
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That comment unleashed a shitstorm of a subthread about the wealth tax
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do they pay the severance out in bitcoin
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14 weeks, wait no 12 weeks, wait no 7 weeks, actually 2 weeks, oh whoops you owe us money now
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14 weeks is probably more severance than any employees fired in future rounds or those that lose their jobs when they inevitably go out of business.
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14 weeks is p deece firing-figgies, yeah otoh, it might be worth it to coinbase to lock down all those good non-disparagement clauses
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(the real severance thing you want in the US, AIUI, is for them to pay your COBRA for a year)
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kitten emergency posted:14 weeks, wait no 12 weeks, wait no 7 weeks, actually 2 weeks, oh whoops you owe us money now My cynical reaction was "they want people to exercise their options with the severance and hand it back over", so. Subjunctive posted:(the real severance thing you want in the US, AIUI, is for them to pay your COBRA for a year) 
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Subjunctive posted:(the real severance thing you want in the US, AIUI, is for them to pay your COBRA for a year) Cause if they don't, oof.
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depends on how old you are. if you're in your early 20s that's kinda whatever and you'd rather have some money
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i mean, a year of cobra has a specific dollar value based on your coverage, so don’t, like, bargain away a larger amount of severance pay for it or anything. it’s not some infinite peace of mind thing
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makeitdouble 2 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [–] > Public companies are inherently evil by default The extremism of this positon makes it hard to swallow the message. You might as well be right, but accepting it at face value would be a huge cognitive dissonance for many people working in public companies. Basically, the “are we the baddies ?” answer would be “yes” for a huge chunk of us, and I don’t think that’s how we see it personally. Companies have to make money, but the evil label needs way more nuance. To apply this to another context: I genuinely think that IKEA has had an outsized positive impact on our everyday life, even as they aim to make money (not the core “charity”, but the rest of the group), or as they make truely dirty legal and commercial decisions to trick the system in their favor. And they didn’t improve flatpacks by accident, it is their stated mission, and I’d be crazy proud of my job if I designed the Expedit series. reply
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crawfordcomeaux 1 hour ago | prev | next [–] Listen to the jokers telling you you're worrying about things out of your control. You have access to things others don't. Remember your gifts. You can use them to transform into someone who can have a more effective influence on the world around you. The issue is we've been socially/culturally/linguistically programmed with busted mental models caked with denial. This cake is always made up of literal lies, like "I am white" or "There exists a sustainable way to cling to life without slowly killing oneself" or "A comment on the internet can't possibly be the stimulus for a heart attack." What's the finite set of universal human needs? How can we show this? One way is to compile a list from all the lists online and see what needs you're not meeting. Work on getting those met. Sounds like you've got some acceptance going unmet, as well as some mourning. Do you have effective grieving strategies? Have you cried through envisioning the death of the last human? What about extinction by asteroid? There's a whole world of death to explore and accept! This is why we're starting a traveling circus meant for healing, grieving, and more. Anxiety is normal for any beliefs out of alignment with reality/nature like "There's nothing we can do about it" or "I'm but one person." And no matter what your beliefs, if you have a chronically unmet need for something and you're making plans that continue to deny it, the parts of the body needing that thing may naturally get anxious. Money literally isn't a human need, so if you think a collapse is coming and you don't know how to live without money, part of you is probably aware you can get pretty screwed pretty quick in that scenario. So go learn that. Consider a change in career. Have you considered running away to a weird traveling donation-driven circus, becoming a death clown, and learning what it's like to have 0 money and not feel anxious? Cause that's where I'm at and I wish this peace for all. The Caravan Stage Company has also been rolling this way for decades. Maybe check them out? If you do this kind of work on yourself, you may become a person who's equipped to help family through anything. That's the journey I'm on, or so I hope. I suspect I can show it works mathematically. reply
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