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Another disingenuous framing. We’re talking about banning books from school libraries, not my personal comfort with an individual child reading an individual book.
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It's been there for years, they only just recently remodeled.
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> I don't think children should be given copies Disingenuous framing. Book bans remove books from school libraries. A book sitting on a shelf is not giving a book to someone. > of Mein Kampf or Camp of Saints Why not? Genuinely,
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The cruelty is the point
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What is the definition of input, what is the definition of output, and who is responsible for measuring them?
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>I think there are enough short term supposed benefits that something should be showing there. As measured by whom? The same managers who demanded we all return to the office 5 days a week because the only way they can measure productivi
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I totally agree with what you're saying, but just to note that in this article, the person who had the stroke is describing the experience. Whether someone told her that or whether she heard it herself, she found it meaningful enough t
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The questions you have are best put to a judge. The law is not meant to cover every possible permutation of circumstances and motivations. If student loans are dischargeable in bankruptcy, lenders will price it in or refuse to lend without
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> Someone who graduates from college in their early 20s with six figures in debt could file for bankruptcy immediately and have it be off their credit history by the time they've saved up a down payment and want to get a mortgage. S
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The article doesn’t say enough about why this matters. I have no opinion either way, I just presume from the headline that the author thinks it does, so it would have been more interesting if the author devoted more than a few sentences to
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Marx in his wildest nightmare couldn’t have anticipated the level selling short the working class does with the advent AI. Friend, you should be doing more than golf…
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Delivery apps exploit the poor. Buy a crockpot!
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“Terrestrial develops a robotic approach to earthen construction”. person you replied to claims to be a founder of this company, according to LinkedIn Other “tells” in the comment are the subscript “2” and the full spelling of the chemical.
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That’s actually how I got my Facebook deleted in 2015, and it appears I am still banned. I posted a picture, from behind, of a cowboy wearing only chaps. I tried to join again around 2022 to sell some stuff and they rejected me. Probably th
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NYT Link: https://archive.ph/xAtyG
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I don't know about heroic, but it's certainly necessary. Nobody is going to look out for you except you. Work will never love you back, your company will take as much as you give it.
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Some of us survive because we have anxiety deeply rooted in a fear of failure. It causes us to be perfectionists. This can look like success for those who hide it well.
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>In practice, Japan seems to be fine Japan seems to be fine? Japan, which created its own lost generation [0]? Japan, which has a word for "death by overwork" [1]? Japan, which has 9 million abandoned homes in ghost towns [2],
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For me, it was choosing between having kids or caring for my aging parents. With social security probably getting cut in the next 5-10 years, I just couldn't swing it. So I prioritized the already living over the potentially living. Ho
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> I know we instinctively want to frame this as a privacy problem, but the real problem Both can be true at the same time.
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Yes, and it’s probably why I often misremember it as being written by Stephenson.
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There’s a reason William Gibson called it “Disneyland with the Death Penalty” https://www.wired.com/1993/04/gibson-2/
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Are you Chinese, by chance? Chinese Buddhist lay food culture (especially in the south) generally accepts oysters, mussels and scallops as non-sentient, and I can see why. I’ve considered trying them, but right now I don’t have a clear way
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FTA: > I’d already understood addiction to be a treatable disease, not a personal failing. Still, these scans helped me appreciate how deeply addiction is rooted in neurobiology. A mere photograph of alcohol—to say nothing of a sip—was e
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Advertisements and web tracking feel like stalking. I’ll pay for content when the content providers respect my attention and privacy and not until then.
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Relying on exercise expenditure to outrun dietary intake is a losing strategy because exercise is not an effective way to create a caloric deficit. However, it may be one of the most effective ways to defend one.
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Are vegan sources of omega 3 worth it or am I fucked
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>People like to say that it’s not stealing because there is no physical product the producer is being deprived of, which is factually true, but even so why are you entitled to it at no cost? Well, the major services like Google and Faceb
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Facebook seems to think it will, since they employ A/B testing across pretty much much every facet of the company. Check out Airlock for just one example: https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/09/android&#x2
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Which items on the list have engineers dedicated to rapid A/B testing running 24-7 to amp up the engagement numbers?

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