CydeWeys

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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I don't specifically know about Berkeley, but my experience has been there's always an accelerated track for some students whose parents push the school system to let them into the right classes. At some point in middle school I
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Hell, I took honors history instead of AP history my junior year (it was the only class I took that was "merely" honors; everything else was STEM magnet/AP level). And that class sucked, and was way too dumbed down, and was
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You still get better and prompter health care when you pay more money in pretty much every country.
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> The fact is anyone can be fired from any job they refuse to do. Oh c'mon, that's not what a strike for betting working conditions is and you know it.
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Take-off/landing pairs are use them or lose them. Presumably they're being given the option here to not use them all without suffering any penalty for it. This allows them to drop only their least profitable flights
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Unlike the government, you can be sued.
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Yes, these settings were chosen specifically to destroy evidence, and the courts are increasingly unhappy with that. All conversations involving people on legal holds (such as the CEO!) should be retained indefinitely.
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How common is this "some" though?
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The thing about religious people is, even if they lose their religion, they don't suddenly start committing all the wanton acts that when they were religious they insisted they only didn't do because fear of God was holding them b
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> What I'm meaning, though, is that if you were to go against your duty as the head of NASA, Carl Sagan isn't going to rise from the grave and smite you for your transgression. Whereas I believe that is exactly the point of swe
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Community colleges flat out can't afford the salaries that the best require. That's not network effects, that's a market effect.
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The universe is so vast that anything we are able to create must exist elsewhere at some time or place.
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Yes, and if nukes are being used like this then the world is ending anyway, as the en masse retaliatory nukes aren't going to be set for upper atmospheric detonation only.
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Fyi, the English word you're looking for here is millennia.
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Interesting, but what the heck was this quote all about?? > When Napoleon Chagnon told his Marxist colleagues that the Yanomamö made war over women, the Marxists faced a choice: Either revise the whole foundation of what they thought the
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How is it a sale if no money has changed hands? It's not even a barter. It's nothing.
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None of those facts are known in the second story. It's all based solely on the testimony of the person who did the shooting. That's why I emphasized it's way too soon after to actually know what happened. Also, you'r
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> You're right, we don't have the details yet, but from what we do have, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a jury willing to convict someone that shot an assailant with the assailants gun after being shot twice. All of
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In the first story, the charges were dropped. In the second story, who knows what in the hell is even going on. It happened too recently for there to be any clarity on what actually happened there. That could easily have been an over-zealou
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You're not even in the same ballpark of arguing sensibly here.
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Indoors is much more expensive though. You've got to build the buildings and all the infrastructure. Outdoors in big simple fields has a lot of pluses. And it's time-tested. There's no particular reason to think that the majo
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By the end of the war we were the ones marching on them, killing them in their cities, and burning them down. War is war. The world would be a better, safer place for us if every single al Qaeda member worldwide were dead. I'm glad the
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Refactoring is a large part of programming, full stop. Yes, even if you're making a silly training game.
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Twitter (the product) has changed a lot since then too. It's much more complicated and does many more things. What it was like at the beginning isn't particularly relevant anymore.
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Every Confederate killed during the Civil War was a US citizen too (secession is illegal and not recognized). At some point, if people are trying to kill you, you kill them back.
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Vertical farming is a solution in search of a problem. It's not viable and it doesn't solve any meaningful issues in agriculture. In cities, land is more productive when used for other purposes (residential, commercial, retail, et
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He was an al Qaeda member with ties to 9/11. Not the same situation at all as a journalist.
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You need to work on your imagination a little bit then.
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Why shouldn't we be here??
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People are always so quick to bring this up as if it's a gotcha, but it's not. You spend roughly half of your waking hours working. Do you really want to spend that much time isolated, only interacting with other people through sc

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