JimTheMan

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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Ironically the dictionaries you mention have greatly stabilised language. Language is going to be far more stable over the next 500 years. I wouldn't worry about it in the slightest.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
I feel like a lot of people are commenting about sport, when the point of the article was an allegory about lazy or badly applied adoption of a practice... Surely people actually read the article?..
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Reading the brownstone institute at large, it's an anti vaccine, anti lockdown rag. This particular article is.. just trying to drum up why people shouldn't get the vaccine. Without saying, "don't get the vaccine."
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Just goes to show, the most important thing is vaccination rate which Australia is trailing the rest of the developed world on. 500 apparently can be attributed to Grand Final Celebration! (American equivalent of the super bowl but for AFL)
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Medical bills are overwhelmingly huge in the US. Getting rid of them would decrease the problem to simple unemployment. Sure being unpaid for a time is bad, but you won't be massively in the red... And this specific example, the guy is
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
It's a true joy to be able to learn a modicum of computer science from MIT as an engineer in a different field. And it's so enjoyable because you don't really need any special tools beyond a basic computer, which most already
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
It's skyrocketing for a real good that people consume in the everyday of industry. Not some silly fantasy speculation good, like crypto or... overvalued stock.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Wages in the broader workforce haven't risen with increased productivity (in the developed world). Any additional profits aren't exactly getting shared with workers. The article kind of a raises a moot point, if regular wages aren
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
I second that. The Yes Minister series is brilliant.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Yet another excuse I can provide for letting myself go and growing out a beard like a professor or a 'person of no fixed address'. "Yeah, like it is totally proven that it helps with punches to the face. It's like an arm
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
I think you are assuming we have access to the vaccine like the US. Where at this point, if you want to get it, you have the opportunity to do so. We don't have enough vaccine to do that yet. We have a shortage and consequently we are
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
I guess I don't really follow the reasoning with the examples. Syria has always been a somewhat dangerous place. Ukraine got invaded by Russia. Hong Kong was taken from China by the British, became it's own nation and is currently
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
For the day to day, actual lived life of an Australian, I can't think of any media I want that I cannot get.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Completely agree, especially due to the incredible expenses involved with going to court.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
A quick and dirty way to distinguish between work/stress fatigue and depression would be simply if you don't recover even when removed from work for a significant period of time.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
I completely agree. Sure it might be work stress that caused the depression, but I suspect the author and others here are calling it burnout as it is more socially acceptable and palatable for them to accept. And I mean this in the least ju
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
It's incredible isn't it. And they are the ones who will (and are) be paying the price as well. And very little acknowledgement of the impact their choices have on others in their community.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
For a non-programmer I do enjoy using Python to get my work done and automating everything boring under the sun. However sharing the code with others always seems difficult and fraught with dependency issues. To a non-pro this next level of
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Fox News realizing that the propaganda it usually puts out might be literally killing their audience, decides to pull back on the stick.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
The tall tales of Mr. Feynman, is an instructive guide that one can assist the narrative about themselves if only they cared to try. While I am sure he was a maverick, he loved to talk about himself as such even more!
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
The pipeline is welded the full length, so a linear leak rate doesn't really make sense. Where it could leak would be at valve station flanges, which by code are required every X km depending on the land risks. You can test to see whet
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
'Inflation' is not the price increase of a single thing to demand/supply. Inflation is the systemic increase in all costs of what a household would buy as money itself become less valuable. Prices 'inflating' on a s
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
A shortage is not inflation
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
I can see the appeal for urban zones to have new underground high voltage lines (even though it's not ideal from a technical/operation standpoint) to appease land owners, who don't want big new easements for overhead transmis
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
And yet a popular activity seems to be "pig sticking." Which broadly speaking, involves using dogs to find and hold a boar so you can jump in and stab it to death. Some people are crazy wild!
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
To add to the other commenters, above ground local powerlines are the default around the world. They cool easily and are easy to build/fix/maintain. I am curious as to where you live where underground is the norm? I wonder if they
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Probably only a matter of time before it's a thing here too...
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I wonder how much this is an American phenomenon. I've been reading about it on here quite a bit, haven't really heard any news of it in Australia. It feels unreal to read. Like, crime must be higher in Chicago/LA etc than I
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Can't speak for the European experience, only the Australian one. Have had friends struggle on skilled visas, whilst relationship visas with no schooling or skills all get approved with minimal fuss. My preference would be to make skil
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
An English language test and what the white Australia policy did are not the same thing. Basically everything you've stated is just called immigration policy. I personally think we're too hard on skilled migrants and too lenient o

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