Michael Bacarella @mbacarella Twitter profile

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@QuinnyPig You have convinced me to take conspiracy theories a lot more seriously.

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@Aella_Girl why is everyone overthinking this

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@fasc1nate Afterwards, the dredged bikes are moved to this recycling yard in Groningen. Most bikes will be successfully reconditioned and sold. The Dutch are masters of efficiency

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@prstskrzkrk lol £1200? just write it off and move on if it was a £50,000 bill I'd bring it up with his heirs. but for £1200 I'd die of embarrassment

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@BillAckman Alternate theory: Business Insider isn’t intimidated by you.

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@BrandyLJensen being on medicaid doesn't mean you don't have any savings, wtf

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@Komaniecki_R STOP DOING MUSIC THEORY * NOTES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN LETTERS * YEARS OF LEARNING SCALES, yet no real-world use for MEMORIZING MODES * WANTED TO PLAY COMPLEX CHORDS FOR A LAUGH? we have a tool for that already IT'S CALLED IMPROVISING * YES PLEASE GIVE ME "DIMINISHED" OF

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@RichardHanania This book is brutal

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@transmissions11 it's a brilliant urban revival program putting these signs up ensures only luxury retailers with items >$950 value open up

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@PstafarianPrice @RichardHanania You look at "beautiful pottery, turquoise jewelry" and conclude the values being communicated are "difficult and dreary"?

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@SMTuffy 2008: Satoshi publishes the Bitcoin whitepaper

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@the_wilderless Whole story arcs of Breaking Bad felt like this at times

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@thomas_violence soon people will just email prompts to each other instead of the output "ask katy abt joining weekly adspend meeting, not really optional but make it sound like she has a choice" "reply with reserved but believable enthusiasm about joining yet another weekly meeting"

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@PstafarianPrice @Monoosapiens @mbacarella @RichardHanania Part of literacy is knowing the difference between the words on the page and the voices in your head.

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@AutismCapital I love how in the middle of Supersize Me he interviews several different people who eat McDonalds every day and they're in fine shape and this is never cause for any kind of "wait, what?" moment.

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@Aella_Girl The IRS (+ state) will eventually figure out their taxes for them and impose a judgment and follow them around for the rest of their lives seizing money from bank accounts until the tax liability + penalties + interest are settled.

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@bindureddy Xoogler here. Google turned itself into a tech retirement community. Easy work (though on the boring side), fairly low pressure management, high pay, insane benefits, cushy offices. Some of the least motivated people I've ever seen in tech.

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@DanielW_Kiwi Because SQL's type system might not be as good as the type system of the language you're pulling the data into.

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@a_real_society absolutely get a law degree completely out of spite

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@BasedBeffJezos I can’t believe 50,000 Twitter followers is Forbes’ standard for “it’s in the public interest to doxx this guy”

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@AlmostMedia Sorry, but any place where you're required to sweat in your own hotel or apartment is poor.

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@nagamyzuna World hazelnut markets would go into turmoil

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@soychotic Actually, it’s more accurate to say that I’m a doctor of software.

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@Martyn_Lockhart @JohnArnoldFndtn * four of these weeks are staycations because Europeans are too poor to afford to go anywhere

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@based_coded I emailed someone at Tesla once and I got a bounce message from Outlook 365 saying their inbox was full

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@zhao_dashuai Maintain a supply line for a land invasion of the US that crosses the arctic circle? Bold strategy. Looking forward to reading about it in the history books.

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@ddiamond I was about to cry but then I noticed they were kept doing stuff like deleting "[Virtual] Playdate" and not "[Virtual ]Playdate" and it started stressing me out

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@thechosenberg Pick pocketing was so bad in London in 2014 that clubs would have security checks to *leave* and they would make you unlock your phone in front of them to prove it was yours.

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@Perpetualmaniac @stillgray if I were in charge of this project I would have a CI stage that takes every PR, builds everything, installs it to a set of Windows VMs in various configurations, boots them and ensures the hosts come to life and pass a variety of checks I would also implement staggered canary

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@carmguti @CultureIgnorant Alright so, startup idea: build a new hospital at the same time as you build your modern EHR software to go with it. The incredible efficiency/safety edge your hospital gains will make the rest of the system beg to license your software.

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@GracchiSimp These threads are convincing me that I can start a ghost kitchen that's just me sitting in my apartment microwaving Costco frozen TV dinners to hand to delivery drivers and that I wouldn't even need to hide the fact that this is the whole business.

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@ga7ahad This paints an unrealistic picture of game development as a career, in that, this is so much cooler looking than actual game development.

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@emeryw2020 Yup. When I pull a trailer full of groceries on my bike: people try not to make eye contact. Drive my Nissan Leaf to get a soy matcha green tea latte from Starbucks: compliments on the nice car.

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@wanyeburkett Having been on both (long story), Medicaid in the US (or, at least Oregon) is also better than being on the NHS in UK.

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@tunguz "so yeah, I basically live in the Côte d'Azur of America"

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@StefanFSchubert I assume hiring McKinsey is like the business version of going to marriage counseling. Dismal effectiveness rate but nobody knows what else to do.

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@DeepDishEnjoyer The Seinfeld episode really writes itself here. JERRY: (shaking his head) Of course she did. Women don’t want to see that. They want a rock, George. A rock! GEORGE: (frustrated) What am I supposed to do now? I can't take back the tears! JERRY: (sighing) First rule, George: If

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@RichardHanania Here's another example question from the book. Sixty-two percent of eighth graders do not select the right answer.

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@wanyeburkett Sam Harris makes the point that atheists, who often have no experience with devout belief themselves, can't understand how others can really, truly believe that the material world is to be burned and the afterlife is what matters: surely they're fighting oppression? Or something?

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@mattyglesias I used to cut high school to hang out at the public library and read college level math books. NYPD truant police never thought to look there, for some reason. 🤔

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@anothercohen for a policy that costs $1000/mo you may as well just put that in savings and you can buy a new roof every 5 years

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@gdb If medical AI was only as smart as the average doctor but had the patience, attentiveness and exhaustiveness of ChatGPT4 it would already be a huge game changer

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@VoicesByZane If the synthetic garbage has value (drives human engagement and sells ads) we'll build more Internet to fit it all in. If we hit hard resource constraints, the least valuable synth garbage will cost too much to propagate.

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@growing_daniel The US are signatories to an international convention that allows asylum seekers to enter the country illegally before seeking asylum. It's been that way since the 60s. The idea is that people in mortal danger who have to flee their country can't get their paperwork together.

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@wanyeburkett Also, if you look into his circumstances his case sounds... better... ? He wasn't high. He didn't just finish doing a different crime. He had no priors. He was responding to a general call to protect communities from yet another night of rioting and looting after the police mass

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@cullend Hopefully, in the movie version of this story, cutting into the cage set off the halon fire suppression system and the team had to run around in a panic during the countdown to figure out how to disable it before the halon released and they all suffocated.

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@FracSlap Working at Google and watching how the most coddled employees on Earth would, eventually, start complaining about the free, widely available delicious gourmet food designed by celebrity chefs with ample vegan, GF and raw options taught me everything I need to know about humanity.

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@goblinisto @Duderichy Check stops coming if you tell them so and so died is almost certainly the primary driver

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@paulg My impression from living in the UK was that talking shop is a proxy for talking about your class, and that's just rude.

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@SwiftOnSecurity yah, Linux needs more opportunities for sys admins to slide their credit card to solve a problem instead of learning how to write a ten line shell script then it would be truly ready for the Enterprise

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@levelsio some nations have decided public exchanges create bad ownership incentives and make companies too short-term focused even in Europe, the state owns portions of important companies to ensure that some seats at the table have a long view it's debatable how successful this is

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@wanyeburkett remember that Cory Doctorow novel where the people who are against digital immortality were really loud and annoying at first but they eventually all, you know, died, so the immortality club got to live in peace? no reason

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@compost_enjoyer @transmissions11 $946 rebate if you check out without stealing it

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@AutismCapital literally writing an OBEY CONSUME article They Live wasn't an instruction manual!

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@Missy051721 @BrandyLJensen varies by state, actually in some states there's no asset test at all, just income

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@wanyeburkett I was discussing human rights with someone once and I raised the point about how today is actually the best possible time to be born. Even most men had worse lives at any prior point in history. She retorted that things actually seemed pretty freaking great for men in the

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@anpaure big tech is for when you've given up on working hard and just want easy boring work with fat comp

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@paulg marketing guy: <presentation> quirky founder: stop. redo the revenue chart. plot it log-scale marketing guy: what? quirky founder: it'll force us to grind harder

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@growing_daniel I dumped Apple stock when I heard they weren’t renewing their contract with Google Maps. Turns out nobody cares that Apple Maps is worse and Apple stock 15xed.

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@erikphoel someone I know told a therapist that she had a dream where she had died and the therapist considered that suicide ideation and reported it to CPS because that meant the kids were in danger resolving that was quite traumatizing

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@BillAckman @axelspringer If they’re reporting falsehoods I would assume you’d be suing them instead of posting 50,000 words to Twitter whining about “falsehoods”?

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@dvassallo here in Oregon they told us my 5 year old had 4 cavities and they used a laser while he was awake and watched cartoons 🤷‍♂️ dentistry seems more like a dark art though and I'd definitely get second opinions, been told I needed 12 fillings by one dentist and 0 by another

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@thebadstats This is the first conspiracy I ever came across on the internet and I completely fell for it for a little while. In 1996. When I was a teenager. Maybe Bret’s just new to the internet?

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@wanyeburkett I just realized Anthony Bourdain, who is basically a progressive role model, is the guy who never stopped partying.

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@ricburton I'm not an expert on international drug law or anything but I'm going to assume you were never at real risk of more than a fine for being caught with a small amount of mushrooms in Norway. Good job not confessing to additional crimes you didn't do, I guess.

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@PalmerLuckey My impression from listening to @DarknetDiaries is even when concerned citizens collect evidence and hand cases to police on a silver platter it still goes up against a lot of inertia. Prosecuting stuff seems pretty expensive.

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@emilio__oilime You should lower your tip on rent from 25% to 10% this month.

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@growing_daniel I don't grind on this shit but: I think so? Trump did almost the exact same thing and it was shot down by a Ninth circuit court.

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@FFmpeg Due to how deranged modern CPUs are, I would be worried the gcc one is somehow fastest.

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@kiri11squid @RichardHanania There is no catch. You have above average intelligence and this is what it looks like.

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@yishan Caning sounds cruel but would you rather ten lashes or a year in prison?

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@paularambles Come to Eugene. We love eurolarping. All of our Dutch Bros have walk-up windows.

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@CrisprChild according to actuarial tables, the odds of a 78 year old dying in one year is 5%

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@YaBoiShagNasty I parse the meme as: if the character's skin color/orientation/gender/abilities are irrelevant to the story, changing it for no reason is cheugy. (I don't necessarily agree, just don't think it's revealed naked bigotry)

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@gas_biz Like, luxury porta potties?

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@knd775 @thdxr yes. how the fuck did every embedded Windows device in his life manage to get CrowdStrike installed on it

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@ramit It's not **daily** taxes. If you have 184 days in NY you have residency for the whole tax year. Additionally, NY residency audits are so Kafka-esque that people end up paying NY taxes even if they haven't set foot in NY that year because they could not prove that they hadn't.

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@nope_its_lily what, they don't got the S&P 500 in Japan?

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@ramit idk at $20mm he might decide to buy a private jet that can cross the US and then throw it on Airbnb-for-jets when he's not using it and risk massive losses due to catastrophic mismanagement who can sleep at night with that over their heads better wait until $100mm

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@varunramg lots of stuff is obviously worth paying for but devs knee-jerk resist saas things because they know at some point they're going to get fucked on some kind of compatibility/integration issue and will wish they had just done the work to get it going in-house

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@BowTiedBroke you gotta start your own small business and then be a vendor for the company you left and drop by the office occasionally but wearing sunglasses and look well tanned then you'll be a legend

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@RebeccaAVelo @_evFM can mess kids up

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@Fluffy776 @SwiftOnSecurity Ah, nothing quite like ruining a company by doing $200/hour consultant work for $10/hour.

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@skylarromines The purpose of insurance is to cover events that would bankrupt you. Most people can afford dental work. Looping in an insurer in this case simply increases the costs overall because you’re paying administrative costs and insurer profit margins (and frustrating your dentist).

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@DrEliDavid @TheBabylonBee For their next act in celebrating diversity, maybe Google's Pixel ad should showcase a polygamous Mormon managing his different households with Android's profiles feature.

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@constans Need to have a BMI <30 Must be able to swim 25m without assistance Probably rules out a huge chunk of "down-on-their-luck" Americans tbh

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@i2talics He's saying it's quite unexpected from a casual reading that this code accesses the undeclared third argument to main, **envp, by overrunning argv. This is bad for reasonability and it is caused by spatial memory unsafety.

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@EM_RESUS Giving birth to a xenomorph?

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@wanyeburkett man this Wayne guy finds the most unhinged cartoonish leftist strawmen that nobody listens to to argue with *checks @CallaWalsh 's profile* 54,000 followers wtf

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@Babygravy9 Testosterone turns us into our full authentic selves 🥰

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@antoniogm There's a joke at Google that you're not a True Googler until you complain about the food. Yes, the free, limitless, gourmet food covering numerous cuisines designed by a rotation of celebrity chefs. Almost complains about it, eventually.

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@1goodtern How many professional athletes have had to end their careers because of COVID infection? You would expect this group to be a great exemplar for long COVID because even a tiny reduction in capacity can knock them out of competition.

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@neontaster Yes, definitely. I was reading up on case studies of dive fatalities for awhile and I was struck by what a death wish cave diving (or ship wreck diving) is. Truly nightmarish ways to die too.

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@socialcredit_ca @Perpetualmaniac @stillgray they probably have something like it but I bet it's not so comprehensive or has a flag for cases like "oh this is a minor PR that just adjusts a background color so skip all of this slow testing"

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@cldbrwszn @RichardHanania In the second number, the author is attempting to incorporate how many kids got the right answer by random guessing.

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@Duderichy so long as you don't pay cash at doctors offices or try to send your kid to a university, the US wins

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@levelsio eh, you still don't need AC in London except for maybe the one week in August it reaches 80 on one day but if you have this fancy heat pump already that you can run in cooling mode, well why not

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@Michael_Roned @prstskrzkrk okay so it would be the insurance company suing the estate instead of the landlord much more humane

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