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by KPGv2 2y ago
> despite being completely detached from useful skills for a wide swathes of degrees It's a nice suggestion, but it's one that isn't supported by the evidence. Even controlling for other factors, a college degree makes mor
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> or is it just more of a western mentality Where do you get the idea that "have kids and treat them as a side thought" is a Western mentality? In the West, we usually use prophylactics to avoid kids until we want them. That&#x
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> What exactly do you find "snide" or "sarcastic?" I haven't read the article, but certainly the phrase "whose entire schtick" doesn't belong in journalism that purports not to be sarcastic or snid
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by KPGv2 2y ago
Agreed. I recently started bookbinding as a hobby, and it's given me such an appreciation for well-constructed books. There are some amazingly talented people still honing this craft and even publishing research about new ways of doing
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> Rust has the "non_exhaustive" attribute that lets you declare that an enum might get more fields in the future.a Is there a reason, aside from documentation, that this is ever desirable? I rarely program in Rust, but why woul
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by KPGv2 2y ago
looks like Racket got high and all its parentheses become wobbly
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by KPGv2 2y ago
Well, you replace bricks every couple hundred years, but solar panels every 10–20, right? Also a 2000W solar panel is like $300 or something and it's half the size of a door. Unless a building is crowd-funded by the future tenants with
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> Can any of those things be traced back to a specific positive outcome for anyone outside the US weapons industry Yes, you have a ton of money to buy stuff that is much cheaper for you than for anyone else in the world because of the gl
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> America is not a democracy in a strict sense, its a republic Most republics are democracies. You seem to think "democracy" is equivalent to "direct democracy," but a direct democracy is only one type of democracy. A
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> they will never be paid back by the Ukraine It's "Ukraine," not "the Ukraine." "The Ukraine" is a Russian imperialist term because it's rooted in the idea that Ukraine is a mere territory (akin t
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by KPGv2 2y ago
No, it was dodecahedral or octahedral, I can't remember. I just vaguely recall it looked like a Platonic solid. I don't remember it having a subscription. I think it just communicated with BT to your laptop or something? Might&#x2
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by KPGv2 2y ago
This happened to me once. It was like attaining enlightenment. My company worked with a F100 that had, as a core piece of their business, a piece of software they'd commissioned in the 80s that they still used in the 2010s to make bill
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by KPGv2 2y ago
This is like saying "You love mosquitoes. Try not having any." Not having any would be catastrophic to humanity because whole ecosystems would collapse and we'd have mass starvation. But it doesn't change the fact that
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by KPGv2 2y ago
There was a cool device I saw once, used for timing your work. You'd program the faces for different tasks (bug fixes, new features, etc.) and whatever you worked on, you'd have that face up, and when you changed tasks, you'd
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by KPGv2 2y ago
I switched to the Kobo store specifically because its DRM is so trivially breakable. They've gotten hundreds of dollars from me, and I switched to independent book sellers for physical copies of things. I order a few, and next time I&#
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> You're not going to starve in America if you lose all your money. claim, meet data: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10990269/#:~:text=%...
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> The Musk love vs hate that people foolishly adopt as their identity is the result of a power struggle between teams of elites. Yeah there's certainly no justifiable way a middle class person could arrive at at "Elon Musk is b
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> Samsung should be avoided like the plague anyway I've avoided them for years. I had a Samsung phone a long time ago, and I'd rooted it to run one of those apps that could automate tasks (Tasker?), with a killer feature being
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by KPGv2 2y ago
Actually a somewhat decently known way of avoiding tax on real estate transfers within the family in Japan is to move abroad, gift it, and then move back. The other way is gift it as a wedding gift, as wedding gifts (and others made out of
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by KPGv2 2y ago
I'm not surprised. Right wingers will complain about anything not vociferously against the interests of the people.
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by KPGv2 2y ago
Yes, I was. I suspect most PhD candidates who are considering a future career in academia are thinking about financial security after, not during. So if we're talking about why are there fewer PhD candidates...
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by KPGv2 2y ago
I'm not surprised the richest man in the world will commit all manner of sin, because one more dollar might be the one to fill that gaping hole where his heart should be.
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> the experts that developed the libraries over a weekend is frankly fantastical. this is not synonymous with "most [C++ programmers] in industry" The claim was the person learned it better than most people in industry, not mos
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by KPGv2 2y ago
Because this is ostensibly illegal, and it would be nice if someone enforced the fucking law (H1Bs must be paid the market rate, and it's supposed to be enforced by the Department of Labor). But the entirety of US government apparati a
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> PhD research was never about financial security You're looking at this wrong. PhD was always about financial security for the vast majority of PhDs. You think all those Chinese and Korean etc. students are coming to study engine
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by KPGv2 2y ago
"I've never heard of it, and I don't like what they said" See also the similar argument "The media isn't reporting on this thing that they are in fact reporting on, but none of my friends on Facebook are sharin
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by KPGv2 2y ago
Here, you can educate yourself so you don't look so ignorant next time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Jones_(magazine) For those too lazy to click on a link, calling Mother Jones "partisan blog spam&qu
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by KPGv2 2y ago
And despite all that, apparently the DOD just awarded Tesla a $400M contract to produce armored Teslas. That will somehow charge up at the local war zone charging station? https://www.yahoo.com/news/musk-wins-400m-us-go
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by KPGv2 2y ago
This will probably jinx me, but I've had so many drives, many purchased on the cheap from Fry's Black Friday sales when I was a poor university student, and the two drives I've ever had fail since I started buying over twenty
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by KPGv2 2y ago
I love paperwork, so I always handle passport applications and stuff for us, and whenever I have to fill out my wife's stuff, there's that part about other last names, and I get super paranoid trying to remember which ones she&#x2

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