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I went further for myself and looked at protein per dollar and several others as well. This was 12 years ago and I no longer have the spreadsheet, but lentils and other beans were absolutely stellar, shrimp and turkey are great for protein
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Commentary from the front lines here: Our research group prided ourselves on cutting edge nanotechnology that was also commercially viable. Just focusing on my project alone, and not the other great ones, if I explained it in the most conci
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Hey, serious question but off topic from the thread: You used the word "what" where we would normally use the word "that". I've heard this done during speech numerous times from everyone ranging from fluent native s
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To me, the amount of electricity used is a similar issue to RAM. Just because we have computers with more RAM does NOT mean programs NEED to use that RAM. So many applications right now that don’t need as much memory as they are using but,
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You might find this interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust There were a number of other companies that played both sides of the fence in WW2, including Coca Cola. I agree, if they knowingly
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1. Applying for a credit card and confused about something that was part of the conditions. Had an answer in less than 5 minutes. 2. My hosting provider’s support via the widget is SUPER Amazing. Needed shell access, Tony pulled it of in 7
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8y ago
I didn’t run into a paywall. Are you on mobile or desktop/laptop?
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This might be more overt than the usual form, but how does this differ from donating a new building, department, or scholarship fund and subsequently getting your kid in? My mother did well in the Masters program at Stanford and I would hav
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Probably the same reason mom and dad don’t try to figure out who started it.
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I totally agree with you. From a developer side: Google, Facebook, etc have well developed and much safer password and login authentication and the liability technically falls on them for any screw ups. Although I have a very secure hashing
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If you love what you are doing, is that not what life is about? I won’t lie to you, there were some truly 100 hour weeks, but for the most part I worked precisely 96 hours per week in the PhD program and I loved it. 6 days of 16 hour days.
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It’s not just the programming companies that have clauses or practices about stuff like that, many companies in different industries do too. It just blows me away how lazy or thoughtless most people are. It’s the company’s network or machin
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Materials Scientist/Engineer who also codes here: 1. I highly dislike material design as a programmer and as a consumer. 2. Google and others using “Material Design”, Polymer, etc is really annoying and can be confusing until the conte
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Fun story for you on that: I applied numerous time for their Failure Analysis Engineer, Reliability Engineer, and other similar positions but repeatedly got rejected (or simply ignored by their ATS, I don’t play that keyword game very well)
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Your first sentence isn’t true. I was just looking at the laws regarding applying for a sellers permit and filing the tax status for my startup (deductions, compensation, etc). A single example of the laws not being clear-cut and concrete,
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I can’t speak about here, but on Reddit, people use the voting for “like/agree” or “dislike/disagree”. At some point I read somewhere that the whole point of upvote and downvote on Reddit was for “contributed to conversation” (upv