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parrotdoxical

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    Comment #7389571

    TL;DR: Grad student naval gazes about + waxes philosophical on occupation he feels predestined towards but actually has no real world experience with

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    Comment #6982771

    Yeah, my thoughts exactly. It looks like the problem and solution don't exactly agree -- if your problem is someone having access to wire details for your bank account who should n…

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    Comment #6966832

    "Not a single breakthrough product was unveiled" Probably the most damning line in the piece. It was indeed a year marked by cryptocurrency mania, NSA scandals, and worst of all, m…

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    Comment #6906083

    When I see a hypothesis which is THAT sweeping, there's no reason to waste the time of trying to find data to support the hypothesis or a refutation of it. I mean quite literally i…

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    Comment #6901021

    Nah, I understand all of what you've written, I just find it sophomoric and pretty poorly thought out. I'll be glad to engage you in discussion once YOU mentally mature past the ag…

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    Comment #6901003

    I'd argue that a such a sweeping hypothesis as one made by the "paper" is so broad so as to be meaningless, and that you couldn't actually come up with enough facts to prove it one…

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    Comment #6896672

    Someone REALLY likes the sound of their own empty rhetoric. While that's all fine and dandy, you should probably be aware that you don't necessarily get a choice as to "subsidize" …

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    Comment #6895183

    Uhh..not always. The work is balanced out, but often, there is a net loss of jobs. There may always be a need for mundane labor, but that doesn't mean it will be priced at a point …

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    Comment #6894601

    This is awesome. While it's great how performant the approach is, I also really dig how elegant the whole solution is -- using Postgres FDW with Numba is very pragmatic and clean, …

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    Comment #6840559

    I'm not sure -- OP mentions the guy is a musician and specifically a pianist, so perhaps he just intrinsically has developed great spatial reasoning from learning and practicing wi…