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by JackFr 2y ago
My mom has been retired from teaching for over 30 years — and she got a package to retire early. Weird situation. Shrinking demographics in the 70’s led to layoffs. By their union contract layoffs were done strictly by seniority. Working o
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The thing is, after repeatedly getting excited about commercial fusion power for the past sixty years, it's tough to maintain enthusiasm. For me I worry it's like the search for the northwest passage. ( https://en.wikipe
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Not the panacea you think it might be. A strike by NASA employees would hurt NASA employees far more than it would anyone else. I'm sure Elon and the prez would love a walkout by said employees. Congress, not unions, should be the gua
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The benefits don’t accrue to the capitalists they accrue to consumers. Capitalists don’t get rich stealing from workers. The get rich improving the lives of consumers.
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The business owners don’t get rich from the reduced wages, the consumers do.
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When doing your first ML project, zip codes are unsurpassed in providing a set of hand written digits to train on.
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> Sit in a tower for a day before talking about automation. Everything is easy when you don't know about it.
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> I mean, you're telling me that the infinite creator of the universe cares about the prayers, the suffering, the aspirations, and the sexual habits of a bunch of finite beings? Yes. > The hubris! It seems obvious to me I would t
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There is a halfway between 1 and 3 where the manager is told to drop 5% and rather than picking one dev per team the manager just squashes one “nice-to-have” application and drops that team.
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> The whole point of jargon is to have precise definitions Well, not always. Per Webster: 1: the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group 2: obscure and often pretentious language marked by circumlocut
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I loved the article. This is a truly minor nitpick - he really wasn’t walking that far. As most of the streets and street names in lower Manhattan are the same you can mark the spots on Google maps and see the distances. None of the trips a
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The real unintended consequence is that cities ultimately don’t like to run them. They’re effective, and thus the revenue the city is expecting disappears. In they end they become costs rather than revenue sources.
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My daughter went from being a walk-on novice in a sport to being selected to a US national U23 team. 1) the amount of time and effort she devoted to training was simply astonishing to me as a veteran of Div III and club sports. 2) but alo
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Further it’s far from given that had the hostages been released Carter would be re-elected. 1980 was the second straight year of double digit inflation. Reagan was elected with 51% of the popular vote to Carter’s 41% and carried 44 states t
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Like the old joke - growing old sucks but it beats the alternative.
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As Mary asked Jesus to perform the miracle at the wedding at Cana, for the said of her friend, we too are called to pray to ask Mary to intercede for us for our intentions.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filioque - to this day the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church disagree on whether the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father, or from the Father and the Son.
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Twelve Byzantine Rulers https://12byzantinerulers.com/
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Center embedding = lexical scoping for clauses which need to withstand adversarial interpretations.
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You understand that with respect to abortion, the effect of Dobbs was precisely what you seem to be asking for? That is, Dobbs handed the issue back to legislators.
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Bankruptcy is something that happens to the borrower. Foreclosure is something that happens to the property.
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Talk to Elon about Delaware judges overstepping...
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My favorite fun fact about the colors monk's habits is that The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a branch of the Franciscans are at the root of the words cappuccino and capuchin monkey.
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My first thought was that this language was named in reference to Lord Acton and his most famous quote "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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I have no dog in this fight but I’ve always been amused at my farmers market by the cleverly named Ludacrisp. https://applerankings.com/ludacrisp-apple-review/
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Get pigs.
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> I struggle to reconcile this with stock buy-backs. Would it offend your sensibilities less if they paid dividends with that money? Buybacks are simply a more tax advantageous means of returning profits to share holders. Similarly debt
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For those old enough to remember, we heard it all before in the 1980's about Japan so experience has made us circumspect. But even more so, markets enforce discipline on capital that state directed firms don't have. Everyone decr
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Good question - do the bad players play less because they are bad, or are they bad because they play less?
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>The straightforward explanation is that random perturbations early in the evolution of life broke symmetry and led to homochirality of all descendent life, similar to how random perturbations early in the life of the universe broke symm

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