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by Ajay-p 5y ago
Do you have a hobby? I build model airplanes and collect old telephones, when I can afford them. There are rich communities behind these and that has given me a social life outside of the internet.
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by Ajay-p 5y ago
Social media has given us the illusion of unlimited choice and availability in our social lives. It's like a drug that makes you think the world is at your doorstep, when in reality it's the complete opposite. The single greatest
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by Ajay-p 5y ago
I met LeVar Burton at CES many years ago. It was like meeting one of my childhood heroes and I liked him very much. What a nice man.
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by Ajay-p 5y ago
One of the most fascinating YouTube channels, Clickspring, builds one of these from scratch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4tw_UzqZE
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by Ajay-p 5y ago
This only appears limited to Los Angeles. Uber and Lyft appear to be working as usual in other major cities.
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by Ajay-p 5y ago
Based on the discussions therein I can see where my thinking was not quite on point, or I did not explain myself properly. YES a question could be a a form of a hate crime, I can think of examples where asking someone a question that be int
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by Ajay-p 5y ago
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Cec9Fb6JI
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by Ajay-p 5y ago
I don't agree that "great servers" are making 100K because of tips, but instead it is because of the generalized percentage gratuity. Just because the food was $150 doesn't mean the service was great, and just because
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by Ajay-p 5y ago
That has not worked out so well in other industries. Immigrant labor is badly abused, perhaps you said this in jest, but I do not think it is something to be taken so lightly. This article from the New Yorker may change your thinking: http
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by Ajay-p 5y ago
I worked a long, long time in the food service industry and it was the tipping that drove me away. I just could not smile and bear it anymore. I never got angry at a customer, never lost my cool in front of them, and did my best to be polit
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by Ajay-p 5y ago
IANAL but my gut tells me no, unless you're in a place like Russia, North Korea, China, most of the Middle East, parts of Africa and Latin America, and some parts of the former Soviet Bloc. In western nations, you might get arrested fo
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by Ajay-p 5y ago
Is the incentive for publishing research that is fraudulent primarily money, prestige, or are there just that many professors that graduate students required to publish something?
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by Ajay-p 5y ago
Related, a good read is "No Place to Hide" by Robert O'Harrow who studied and predicted corporate facial recognition and profiling back in 2006.
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I've been waiting for @cstross to finish the Halting State series but at last update, he appeared to opine that fiction was getting too close to reality. Thus he has declined to finish the series. I felt this was a bit of a cop out at
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by Ajay-p 5y ago
Title ..checks out! I wonder why the government did not just seize these miners and put them to use for the local economy? If it makes money, why not?