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Comment · 9 years ago
It means "a male working in tech who I don't like"
Comment · 9 years ago
The first part is important to signal that you aren't just trying to find people to work with, but that you also want to join up in a culture war, and a culture war requires promoting ideas to hate instead of letting them fade away.

Imagine how it would look if they wrote "no pushovers or girly-girls, please"

Comment · 9 years ago
There is high-quality current literature today, and there was low-quality literature then.
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
We also have virus botnets
Comment · 9 years ago
Right-handed privilege.

But still, the thumbs are probably the least "handed" element of the body. I mix right and left thumb use based on whatever I need to be doing with my other hand.

Comment · 9 years ago
The people who respond to sales tactics are the sort of people who buy lattes every day, fo rhte same reason.
Comment · 9 years ago
Buying new saves on the transaction costs of the resale through a dealer and the risk of buying private used.

Buying non-luxury cars is NOT expensive. Throwing away a working car is expensive.

Comment · 9 years ago
If you're good enough to act on Broadway, you're good enough to be a salesperson.
Comment · 9 years ago
What does private companies' compensation plans have to do with the government or Republicans?
Comment · 9 years ago
Equifax is waiving the fee since the recent incident.
Comment · 9 years ago
> I wish I could have 72 hours to review the front of all my snail mail electronically

https://www.google.com/search?q=postal+mail+virtual

> The post office would still get money/postage,

The post office can't take money from a customer and then fail to provide the service because someone else told them to. That would be fraid.

Comment · 9 years ago
The headline doesn't mention "dollars" at all.
Comment · 9 years ago
What in tobacco makes tobacco so bad, compared to all the other plants and animals people chew on?
Comment · 9 years ago
Vaping is illegal, but cigarettes are legal? Vaping is illegal, but also taxed?

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