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by AdrianB1 4y ago
What we learned in school decades ago is no longer considered correct by some people. Also logic is not a strong point of DEI people, for them math is racist [0] and logic is the basis of most math, so it is also racist. Also white is a col
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I am writing best practices for my department. Nobody else wants to do that, it does snot help the career and it eats up you own time from other projects that still need to be delivered. Managers don't care, they are not measured by th
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
I am on some IT forums for almost 20 years; I don't know what is the gender or race of most people there, I have no idea what is their sexuality and there is no racism, sexism or any "ism" in these communities. The day someon
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
About 10 years ago I had an incompetent colleague, but she was a woman of native American ancestry, with a lot of visible tattoos and she was a lesbian. She was passed on from one department to another every couple of years to check a lot o
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I would like to revisit this in 3-5 years, without an office there is less motivation to live in a very expensive city like NYC. As leases expire and companies close even more offices, we'll see where all this goes.
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I heard the opposite, but I haven't seen any proof in any direction. What I read is that office space in NYC is still expensive, but occupation rate is lower than ever.
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Not every person works in a company organized this way, even IT people. In all my working years and all companies, I always had managers that were technically inferior to me (not bragging, most were not technical people at all, some had som
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
I worked for 5 years for a group that was located on a different continent; I was the only one not in that office. My performance was stellar based on official evaluations, but career was stagnant, I was almost a myth than a real person wit
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They could won the lottery, it does not tell anything about their intelligence. Actually, it tells something, very smart people don't play the lottery and I guess they did not invest in the crypto scam.
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No. With D&I, in many corporations wages are heavily correlated with gender and race more than the value of the work. In the opposite direction, with the equality part pf DIE the brilliant engineer and the mediocre-at-best HR paper-push
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I don't want to tax any property, if that is not already obvious. It is already paid and taxed once.
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So the next logical step would be that property tax to be extended over all your property, not just real estate. We already pay property tax on cars in Europe, but not yet on bank accounts, clothes on our back, collection of family photos,
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It depends a lot on your use case. In my case we have SQL running against tables with trillions of rows, so we need to take a look at every single SQL query in the code that runs more than tens of milliseconds or often enough to get signifi
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What is the relation between property rights and services? Paying for consumption versus having property rights is orthogonal.
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All developed countries have negative demographic growth, if people want to get into very few places this does not make it right. At the opposite end you find the example of hundreds of villages in Italy that are deserted (and many more in
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You will own nothing and be happy /s
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The scientific name for this is "failing upwards".
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From an economic and environmental perspective home PV make sense (but the investment takes many years to recover), on cars not at this point, maybe in the future. The article describes options less than 1 KW, at home you put 5-20KW, it&#x2
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They are an electrocution hazard, the voltage on a string of panels is several hundred Volts, enough to die. One can build a fool-proof system, but the current devices and connectors are meant for static configurations handled by a qualifie
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RV and sailing boats have a relatively large area that can be used for panels. Small installations (less than a couple of kW) have a low efficiency, the inverter and storage losses benefit of scale are lost.
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Bad value versus what? If you invest the same money in a stationary PV grid at home, it is a much better value, that is the point of the article. As I have a PV grid at home I mostly agree with that.
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I used a few years OsmAnd+ on a pair of Samsung Galaxy S3 phones while touring across Europe; the first phone crashed from overheating, the second one died too (screen died), but OsmAnd was running fine on these antique phones, except the r
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If I read correctly, Amazon adds a 50% increase over the price from the seller. If we think about the cost of manufacturing to the price the person that buys from Amazon, the price hike is significant, the buyer is paying a lot of money for
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Having menarche and having the capability to bring a child to term are different. Pregnancies at early age have a higher rate of miscarriage. It seems there is a question of definition of sexual maturity - for me it is the age of reliably g
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Sexually mature? Definitely not. Able to procreate? That depends on nutrition, probably not, only a few years later (15-17).
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You are right on the first part, just got the number wrong: the female fertility starts to decline a lot earlier, below 30.
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By definition yes. "Average age of people who gave birth include people who never give birth?" or "Is a selection bias to include only people who gave birth in the selection of people who gave birth" sound completely dif
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If a man at 50 wants to marry, it is usually because he wants kids, otherwise there is no reason to get married at that age . If he wants kids, the woman must be in the fertility age, which is 15 to 35, with the best bet in the 20-30 inter
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In the past the age of female fertility was higher than today, mostly due to nutrition. Age of 14 was more of an exception than a rule, it used to be 16 or more. Also even 24 is a right average for 14 and 34, most women even today can have
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Diversity targets.

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