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by FormhellFrom 5y ago
energy research is typically publicly funded, no? With a profit motive, why would you even do anything besides the easiest and cheapest option of burning fossil fuels? Fusion research, especially, is so pie-in-the-sky right now that I doubt
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by FormhellFrom 5y ago
Ok, then where does the meaning of a given word come from? It comes from somewhere. If not from consensus, then where? this is all unfortunately very far from the original argument, which is that it takes no effort to just use whatever pron
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by FormhellFrom 5y ago
> You don’t get to redefine language and force your linguistic preferences on others. That’s not how language works. you literally do and that’s literally how language works. You are free to disagree with these new definitions, and in tu
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by FormhellFrom 5y ago
Yes, but /how much/ was the client offering to pay? This whole situation screams of someone trying to get a cheap deal, then getting mad when the attempted victim wises up. (This is pretty typical with loud-and-proud small busines
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by FormhellFrom 5y ago
Someone else pointed out that nowhere did he list how much he was going to pay this guy. Horror stories abound about companies using “take home” application tests to get work done for free, I think it’s somewhat reasonable for the applicant
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by FormhellFrom 5y ago
Damn, for all the huffing and puffing about “prima-Donnas”, it sure sounds like this guy couldn’t even follow a very reasonable request.
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by FormhellFrom 5y ago
I really don’t see what’s wrong with an applicant saying “no”. Employers say “no” all the time! The paragraphs and paragraphs about small-business ownership and how you have to hustle and grind and have character seemed really odd to me. Yo