WesternWind

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by WesternWind 2y ago
the best determinant, statistically, is what zip code you grew up in.
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by WesternWind 2y ago
A lower power study can still lend weight to a good meta analysis.
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by WesternWind 2y ago
The offering of public services would only be pretextual if it wasn't a genuine offer, right? So I'm not sure I'm understanding your argument. Also public services are inherently shared services. The delay time and tax payer
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by WesternWind 3y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think you are parsing that correctly according to legal canons of construction. Generally all language in a law must be considered relevant, and or implies a disjunctive list. Finally permissive lang
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by WesternWind 3y ago
Yeah there's some silly shit that I'm sick of states paying for. Mandatory drug testing almost always costs more then it saves.
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by WesternWind 3y ago
My friend works for a medical device manufacturer helping prepare for FDA inspections and related quality control measures and as I recall, and this was a couple years ago, he said that the FDA is fairly stringent but could be more so, and
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by WesternWind 3y ago
Actually helping people who have become homeless is like two steps away from what it should be, of course. One step in the right directly would be more homelessness prevention (there's some, but not nearly enough). Two steps would be
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by WesternWind 3y ago
No, they are a tech company, they produce software for their main product. Like a lot of companies, tech and not, they use their power and resources to keep their position. The difference is that their actual competitor is the government.
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by WesternWind 3y ago
I think the issue is that they could have taken steps to lower their rate, but didn't. There are steps even privacy-conscious companies can take. Like it doesn't even have to be E2E messaging, they could check the birthday of peop
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by WesternWind 3y ago
Well you can always do IT style tech work for a non-tech company. You will still easily solve 90% of their problems because it's configuring gmail or adding a form to a Wordpress site or getting a printer to work.
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by WesternWind 3y ago
Thanks. Honestly, all I do is check emails once or twice a day and maybe respond to a DM if there's an emergency, but it's nice to be appreciated.
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by WesternWind 3y ago
Weather Ballons can't go beyond the atmosphere because they utilize the differential in density between the atmosphere outside the balloon and the gas inside.
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by WesternWind 3y ago
It's not going to disappear, instead people who work to build a reputation, media celebrities but also scientists and researchers and reporters and politicians will have their reputation and image appropriated and used by others withou
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by WesternWind 3y ago
Can the car detect screams of pain? Because I as a driver can.
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by WesternWind 3y ago
Basically it looks like the center of the vine is hollow and inverted, and the programming decides which side to feed more or less to to make it turn, and then air is added to create stability. If you can imagine bunching up a longer sock t
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by WesternWind 3y ago
The Paxlovid.com website is from the for profit company Pfizer, which makes Paxlovid, so yes, they'll list every kind of disability that could conceivably be a reason to take paxlovid and make them money. But yeah ADHD can count as a d
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by WesternWind 3y ago
I'm not personally in love with the idea of smart glasses that don't have a display of some sort.
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by WesternWind 3y ago
Prior to getting into tech, I had an internship at the NY State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) where I did work helping people developing assessment tools for schizophrenic prodromes (people before they develop schizophrenia), as they were w
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by WesternWind 3y ago
It's not like he's poor or anything.
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by WesternWind 3y ago
It's always interesting when folks tell me that some form of discrimination based on categorical prejudice isn't that bad, or that they haven't seen it themselves. Personally I think the amount of discrimination should be zer
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by WesternWind 3y ago
Seems like it ignores people traveling with others (like children and disabled folks) who need assistance.
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by WesternWind 3y ago
loans basically, I think?A deposits $100 you loan $97 of it to B who deposits that in their account. But A still has their $100.
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by WesternWind 3y ago
The same people who hate and politicize abortion also usually hate and politicize contraceptives. I don't know if that had an impact in the choice to seek approval or not, but I wouldn't be surprised. If it looks like Trump might
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by WesternWind 3y ago
The username thing makes sense for discord, in that few people can remember the number that comes after it. I snagged a four letter username that was my username without the number so I'm happy about that.
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by WesternWind 3y ago
I mean that's a possible motivation for some folks, but not everyone. I know that when I've taken on unpaid positions of responsibility (not as a reddit mod but within my hobbyist community), it's because I cared about the or
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by WesternWind 3y ago
A friend was joking that LLMs explain star trek's obsession with the 20th and 21st century.
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by WesternWind 3y ago
Yeah most of the stuff that is ostensibly the purpose of classic non compete agreements is well handled by NDAs and explicit agreements not to poach clients/workers, if I understand things? It's still okay to block the use of secr
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by WesternWind 3y ago
Then they could provide it for a year, or six months, or one month. twitter currently makes it's money from advertising served on content users generate, creating barriers around programmatically serving that content reduces the value
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by WesternWind 3y ago
Hasn't work from home been shown to improve worker efficiency and happiness too?
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by WesternWind 3y ago
If folks where actually skeptical of the paper, you would think they would provide some evidence to back up their thought process, based on experiences from academia, or a study of crowd movement in relation to race that shows contrary evid

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