JPKab

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by JPKab 4y ago
Mexico will be fine as well. North America is in a pretty good place compared to the rest of the world when it comes to energy/food/labor demographics. China is, unfortunately, a long way from the competent leadership of Hu Jintao
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by JPKab 4y ago
You have no idea what you're talking about, and don't even understand the relationship between the executive branch and the DoD, which is a cabinet level department with the President as literal "commander in chief". Yo
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Obama never would have withdrawn under the conditions. At the time of withdrawal, the Taliban was already long in violation of that treaty. Additionally, the US could have easily done as the Pentagon originally asked, and surged in troops
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I voted for Biden in 2020. It feels better to say this wasn't his fault for those of us who voted for him. It was his fault, and primarily a failure of his administration, especially Jake Sullivan, who is the least qualified National
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by JPKab 4y ago
Economic growth can occur while simultaneously becoming more efficient with existing resources. See the massive gains in agriculture, for example. An acre of land today can produce vastly more food than an acre could 500 years ago, for ex
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by JPKab 4y ago
82%? Of course not. GPA inflation isn't caused by helping the students who don't need it. It's about coddling those who can't get good grades without help.
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The modern Ivy League campus is a popularity contest amongst professors. Universities are filled with a growing cadre of administrators, and the administrators focus on appeasing student complaints, always taking the side of students again
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by JPKab 4y ago
Agreed. My mom was a life-long drug addict, and I was raised by my father and at times in foster care with my mother's brother. Before she got hooked on oxy in 1999, she was just a typical drug addict (coke, crack, tons of alcohol) who
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by JPKab 4y ago
The case titles are utterly hilarious, and do such a great job in highlighting the absurdity of this entire process.
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The lack of imagination in some of the negative responses in this thread as to how or why someone would want to do this is pretty ridiculous. I'm at a startup where we do API as a service for insurance companies, and are specialty is a
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No shit. Twitter is filled with extravagantly paid Product Managers with thoroughly mediocre (at best) results. Vine is a great example, but think about the complete lack of imagination when it comes to Musk's idea of charging users $
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"1. Kids have little or no slack in their schedule. This means very little freedom, and very little time to work things out mentally. School, practice, volunteer, homework, bed, do it all again. This builds up to a very difficult to un
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by JPKab 4y ago
This reminds me of a product that I'm not sure exists that I want sooo bad. I've got a precious pair of jeans, and a hole right in the crotch. I want a patch I can glue on, no needle required, that is stronger than the existing c
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by JPKab 4y ago
Additionally, most of them were utterly innumerate. There's nothing more infuriating than the "I'm not a math person" folks sitting there gleefully pretending to understand data as they disseminate mass panic.
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Unfortunately, you make an excellent point. And yes, I do think that the majority of people, when given the choice between what they know to be right and what they know to be popular, will choose the latter. Additionally, they will aggres
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by JPKab 4y ago
The perspective of "un-moderated" equaling "cesspool" is entirely based on whether or not you hold any opinions which are unpopular with the powerful. I had an account I created in 2009. I had a modestly decent number o
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by JPKab 4y ago
Awesome! Yeah man, you nailed it all on the head back then, and yes, saved my ass. Sorry the thread felt like a eulogy. You've got a lot of mileage left in you my friend, and I'm looking forward to your future insights on the n
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by JPKab 5y ago
As I learned from the people on that project with lib sci degrees, the employment prospects are predominantly low-paying, but these ones found a new boondoggle to employ them as "ontologists" where they could get 6 figure salaries
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by JPKab 5y ago
"Americans rarely stop fully and look out for pedestrians" Rarely is being heavily abused in this statement. It's just not true. Otherwise pedestrian fatalities would be vastly higher than they are. Additionally, regional
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by JPKab 5y ago
The US, for various reasons that primarily relate to privatized healthcare and a proliferation of lawyers, had absurdly high rates of lawsuits and liability around driving. Most road signs here are excessive for the purposes of making it a
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by JPKab 5y ago
Is there a name for the logical fallacy that if an aspect of a system benefits a group, that the group must have planned said system aspect? It's a constant thread amongst all conspiracy theorists: GW Bush BENEFITED from 9/11, the
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by JPKab 5y ago
Clay, Just want to thank you for your great work. I used to work on a lot of US Department of Defense projects, mostly stuff I can't talk about. One very notable project I CAN talk about was an initiative (pushed by utterly clueless,
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by JPKab 5y ago
The car has a manual transmission. The odds of a car thief in 2022 in a modern American city being old enough to be in the age cohort that knows how to drive stick are minimal.
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I've been in your shoes before at a previous gig where we had a highly successful desktop application that ran on Windows. Containerization was an utter nightmare. It's brutal seeing posts like this too, because you feel like th
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by JPKab 5y ago
In US, same deal, but you have to show your ID at the counter to obtain the pseudophedrine version. Phenylephrine is so useless. Nothing worse than getting to a store after pharmacy hours and being forced to only get the useless garbage.
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I wish it was called something like "f**-putin.com". It's weird how comfortable people are blaming the nation and people of Russia, as if they have a choice in their leadership. It's also weird how high the overlap is b
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by JPKab 5y ago
I have such a deep love of Chinese culture and the Chinese people that it really stung to see that comment.
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"Fail to overthrow"? Are you kidding me? Have you seen what happens to dissenters in China? My favorite artist of my entire lifetime (I consider him to be the greatest artist of the past 100 years, hands down) is Ai Weiwei. I f
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The reasoning here is so tribal, myopic, and US politics centered. The Chinese Communist Party (not to be confused with the 91% of Chinese humans who aren't able to join it or participate in their own governance) is allied with Russia

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