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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, 3…

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 o…

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 wor…

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 …

Let this serve as a reminder to always stick with investments in $VTI and $BND in the future. It'll be a positive.

> "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 websit…

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, n…

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+ diff…

Is this satire? My progressives-hating family were the only ones shoving down my throat that Qanon exists...

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, idolat…

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 …

It’s simple. Mobile users are genpop while PC gaming users are more technical.

Don't universities and workplaces have particular sex and race only clubs?

> Oakland police is so dysfunctional https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/guqz5t/comment/fsk...

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…

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

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. Seatt…

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).

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 o…