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sudomake

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How work kills us 8 years ago

We have this absurd combination of people that are working 40,50,60+ hours a week when some of them might prefer less, and people cant find any work so they are stuck at 0 hours a week.

I gave up on reddit politics because it has an overwhelming pro establishment, pro-corporate-democrats bias. And in their effort to fight against "fake news" this has gotten worse because they effectively only accept links from pro-establishment sources like the washington post.

Additionally,criticism of the democratic party from the left is frequently met with accusations of being a russian shill.

Also I got tired of seeing overused words like "slammed" in article titles.

This is why I think that the buttcoin subreddit is one of the better places to learn and have an honest discussion about bitcoin. Sure,its not that main purpose of that subreddit and there there is still some bias, but the bias is nothing compared to the alteratives

However annecdotal - I moved out of SF and will not return for exactly this reason. At this point I almost laugh whenever someone approaches me for a position where the main office is in SF and they have a "no remote employees" policy.

You dont need include aggregate functions in your select clause to use them in having and order by.

I suppose I may be glossing over another point, but for the subquery example I would've just done:

SELECT first_name, last_name, email FROM customer WHERE customer_id IN (SELECT DISTINCT customer_id FROM payment WHERE extract(month from payment_date) = 4 AND extract(day from payment_date) BETWEEN 10 AND 13 GROUP BY customer_id HAVING SUM(amount) > 30 ORDER BY SUM(amount) DESC LIMIT 5);

So for me, what happens is that out of paranoia I will end up attributing meaningful words and conversations to ambient sounds when I'm under the influence of a certain substance.

This substance also ramps up my paranoia.

Its something that many people disapprove of and on top of that using it creates a very potent smell that essentially broadcasts its use to everyone in the area.

And so out of paranoia I anticipate people in the distance are discussing my activity and complaining about it.

On top of this now I have a greatly enhanced sense of hearing so lots of low level ambient sounds become much more noticeable.

All this blurs the line between ambient noise and distant muffled conversations. And so because of my heightened paranoia, my mind subconsciously starts filling in the gaps with what I think theses people are discussing.

Even knowing all this, it still feels very real. But now I can recognize its happening because whoever I "hear" complaining has a very rhythmic cadence to every sentence they speak - mirroring the repetitive nature of ambient noise.

So the solution for me is to put on headphones and blast music in these circumstances where I would otherwise be tormented by ambient noise.

The Economy 9 years ago

Theres a more in depth chapter on income inequality later on the page.

If anyone likes RTS games, Dawn of War 2 and 3 are available on OSX(and Linux).

Unfortunately for multiplayer you are limited to playing against other OSX users - so windoze is the superior option again.