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This is a "do use" list, so recommended services.

If you're already a competent developer, I think that's a reasonable expectation of impact on productivity. I think the 'life-changing' part comes in helping someone get to the point of building things with code where before they couldn't (or believed they couldn't). It does a lot better job of turning the enthusiasts and code-curious into amateurs vs. empowering professionals.

In Icelandic, computer is "tölva" which is a combination of "tala" meaning "number" and "völva" meaning "oracle".

Do you do anything for fun?

"Michael... now has 30 BTC, now worth $3 million, and is waiting for the value to rise to $100,000 per coin."

Can someone help me understand this? If his 30 BTC are now worth $3 million, that comes down to $100,000 per coin. But he's waiting for the value to rise to... $100,000 per coin?

That wasn't the quote. Why did you use quotation marks?

Maybe, I'm not sure though. The "because" part is pretty directly saying that caring more about your family/hobbies/life than the app you're building at work is what makes them mediocre developers.

> And you end up left with only mediocre devs who just want to take the salary and be home by 5pm because they care far more about their family/hobbies/life more than the quality of the app they're building at work.

I think it's amazing that in your mind this is a negative thing.

> Most child abuse is committed by family and friends

Yes, a father in this case.

How is that clickbaity? It's playing a 639-year-long piece. You could change chords on a million year long piece (that started 30 seconds ago), but no one would care. This has been playing for 23 years.

If I say to you "die slow", would you read it as me threatening to murder you?

In your analogy when you say buying directly from the farmer by paying with cash, what does that translate to in the real world? How are you supporting content creators on YouTube if you block ads?

How would you identify a shoplifter at M&S based on their socioeconomic dress code?

The article didn't say he committed his crimes in the name of white supremacy. It referred to him as "white-supremacist terrorist Timothy McVeigh".

No one said that everyone horrific is a war criminal, this is a straw man argument. The claim is that someone who personally "approved each of the 3,875 Cambodia bombing raids" that killed 150,000 civilians can reasonably be called a war criminal. If you think that's diluting the term then I really don't know what to say.

If your argument starts with "Sure, he micromanaged the bombing of innocent civilians but", then I think you've gotten lost in the technicalities of being right on the Internet.

Apologies, I mistook this:

"Raising private investment allows a non profit to shift cost and risk to other entities."

for a suggestion of that.

But that's the difference, the CEO is not a regular employee. If a board of directors wants to be trusted and taken seriously it can't just fire the CEO and say "I'm sorry we can't say why, that's private information".

Fair enough, I understand better where you're coming from. Thanks!

Are you basing that on any information?

But he's acting as a board member firing the CEO because he arguably believes it's the right thing to do for the company. If he then changes his mind because the fired CEO continued a successful career then I'd say that decision was more on a personal level than for the wellbeing of the company.

The non-profit wasn't raising private investment.

It is quite amazing how many people know enough to pass wide judgment on hundreds of people because... they just know. Feel it in their gut.

What? Do you think it would be understandable for a board member to regret firing the CEO because of his career path post-firing?

Exactly; there are multitudes of reasons and very little information so why pick any one of them?

What if you can function socially, at work, can mostly take care of yourself and generally look the part, but on the inside you are a miserable husk of a person exhausted from the neverending struggle to appear functional and normal?

Is that person just having fun on speed in your view?

Maybe he follows through with it if he doesn't like the offer. Systematic threats don't have to be empty.

I see this sentiment often and I understand the idea, but how can you implement this "no doubt he did it, very clear cut case" level of guilt? We already have Guilty which is supposed to mean that guilt has been proven beyond reasonable doubt (or however it's phrased in each justice system).

Of course in the real world that's not always the case, but are you going to take two Guilty verdicts and say "A is kind of Guilty but not enough for the death penalty, however B is extremely Guilty and should be put to death"?

Or add a new verdict? Not Guilty, Guilty and Definitely Guilty?

Without medication, I feel much less in control of my mind. It's like I'm in a mind-fog; every long-term thought is blurry and vague so everything tends to become about the short-term. I know that eating this sugary garbage is bad for me but the immediate dopamine gratification massively outweighs that knowledge. Same with tasks I know I need to complete. I know that doing them is the correct thing to do and that procrastinating on them will not be beneficial for me overall, but I just can't "see" that future in my mind.

I don't think this is caused by my environment. Feeling like you are unable to think a clear thought is not because clear thoughts conform with modern society's ideas of a highly productive an obedient individual. For me it's simply a feeling of not being a whole human. Medication addresses this to a very significant degree, although it's by no means a complete fix.

I also use glasses, and I find similarities there. Without them my eyesight is blurry and I cannot see things beyond a very short distance. Are glasses simply producing normative behavior that conforms with modern society's idea of a highly productive and obedient individual? Is it really the environment that is causing me to think of bad eyesight as an issue to be addressed? Obviously not; being able to see clearly is something you want regardless of environment. I think that the same applies to being able to think clearly.

I'm confused. Is not paying Twitter for ads a statement against free speech?