Jemmeh

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by Jemmeh 9y ago
USA has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, you can find many similar stories on Google.
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by Jemmeh 9y ago
Minority woman here. 1.) If it's really a huge concern to you, the best thing to do is probably go to a women's coding group in your local area (try looking on Meetup.com) and talking to the women there. You can ask them pretty ca
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by Jemmeh 9y ago
I say US simply because that is where I live and what I see daily, I'm sure the idea of "can never be happy after one thing" can happen anywhere and to anyone. I worded that poorly, sorry. I took that out of my post. I'm
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by Jemmeh 9y ago
I do understand where you're coming from, but I lived in it for part of my childhood too. It was truly awful in many ways and full of suffering. But my point is that I knew those people directly. I remember the lady who made the effort
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by Jemmeh 9y ago
The key is to be grateful of the good things, but still accept the bad things. I think taking the time to be mindful and appreciative of what's good in life is a great way to increase happiness overall. Example: I am grateful to have a
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by Jemmeh 9y ago
Happiness is a mindset, it's not about just external factors. I've met people in 3rd world countries that are almost starving, live under a dictatorship, and are very ill with no chance to see a doctor and they manage to be gratef
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by Jemmeh 9y ago
Yes, but it doesn't take as many people to improve those models as it does to have a thinking person at every single end point of a system. If it did, programming wouldn't be profitable. And it's obviously highly profitable t
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by Jemmeh 9y ago
I think OP's point was it's replacing a lot of mental work vs the industrial revolution replacing physical work. It can't do everything yet of course.
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by Jemmeh 9y ago
In my area, and I think it's like this in much of the USA, they come out with a new "edition" of books every year and require you to get the latest for class in college. Even in high school I remember they kept having to buy
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by Jemmeh 9y ago
Well I only did my final semester there, the alternate school opened in my last year of high school. Anyways it was pretty much exclusively solo work. You just had to grind through an e-course. If you got stuck the software would say "
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by Jemmeh 9y ago
My dad left and does Heating and Air work now-- but that still requires being analytical with the electrical work. He owns his own business. Others in my family do concrete, which is physically hard but they also seem to make good money. Ag
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by Jemmeh 9y ago
Depends on how it's used. You can use any tool poorly. Even large businesses do not always use their computers in the best way. 1.) I grew up in a poor area. For high school they introduced an alternative school where you could come in
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by Jemmeh 9y ago
Pick up a precision stylus and use it on a regular tablet. I saw one on Amazon for like $15. Can probably get it even less. That'd probably be good enough for most.
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by Jemmeh 9y ago
Sexual education, especially about birth control. Make birth control affordable. Make adoption mainstream/ preferred to having your own kids. I agree that we have an overpopulation issue, we don't have the resources to support thi
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by Jemmeh 9y ago
Look at the word "energy" there are a few mentions. I mentioned renewable energy pretty early on.
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by Jemmeh 9y ago
https://github.com/HospitalRun Open source, modern software for charitable hospitals in the developing world. Find some open source projects for some issue you care about. The medical community could use a lot of help, anyt
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by Jemmeh 9y ago
Personally written organization helps me. I like to use Trello to organize my thoughts. When you get an idea, write a quick note to get it out of your head so you can stop thinking about it. It's written down, you now have the freedom
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by Jemmeh 9y ago
1.) Usually when I'm not feeling motivated it's because I'm hitting a wall. The pomodoro technique helps me with this a lot personally-- it forces me to take breaks and recharge my creative batteries, but it also equally forc
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by Jemmeh 10y ago
Just a heads up, there's a page 2 to the article that mentions her research papers. I missed it until I saw a comment. Guess my mind thought the continue button was an ad.
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by Jemmeh 10y ago
It's expensive to reverse vasectomies and it often doesn't work though, so this is great.
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by Jemmeh 10y ago
So put your head down and ignore the fact that women make up a small portion of people in STEM fields and are leaving those jobs once they get them? That's not a solution, it's what most places are already doing.
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by Jemmeh 10y ago
This line of thinking comes up a lot in longevity discussion. Pretty much all medicine is "unnatural" and extending life. People evolve all the time even while being alive, we change our opinions on things, we learn things, and we
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by Jemmeh 10y ago
...so is making fragile art and collecting the insurance a common scam or what? <_< Not implying that this time was a scam, but I gotta think some people do it.
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by Jemmeh 10y ago
There's quite a few societies where old people live great active lives up until the day they die and take care of themselves. They're healthier. So shouldn't we try to be healthier and less reliant on the young people too? Gr
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by Jemmeh 10y ago
So many references. I'm sure I'm missing some, but that was great. I'm most happy about the cloud-pine at the end. :D
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by Jemmeh 10y ago
A lot of waiters don't report because they can't afford to lose their job over the odd slow week where they're stiffed $20 and then get blacklisted at other restaurants. And no, that's not a lot of money to lose out on,
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by Jemmeh 10y ago
Maybe something like FocusMe to dumb your phone down by blocking things? It says the app is free. I haven't used this particular blocker but I've used a different one and it's great. No willpower needed. https://fo
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by Jemmeh 10y ago
Well it still takes quite a lot of work and skill to produce high quality content. It's just more accessible now than it was. You have to write scripts, gather people, find the location, do makeup and costumes, have all the equipment(l
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by Jemmeh 10y ago
If I may ask, have you stopped using Facebook / changed how you use it now? Asked your wife to keep you logged out maybe? I know what you mean with the irrelevant notifications. Lots of tweaking which notifications I get--still more th
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by Jemmeh 10y ago
I think the point was that these days technology has made things so efficient and cheap that even college students can make a big production. Of course it was harder and more expensive back in the day...but that also meant less competition

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