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by a3n 5y ago
I guess now he'll know one of the known unknowns.
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by a3n 5y ago
In some rural areas the local prison is a major employer. Gotta keep the economy humming. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_co...
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> equal response teaches them immediately that committing those acts leads to a negative outcome. I could say just as logically and with the same lack of evidence say that hitting kids to control them teaches them that violence is a good
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> "Parents hit their children because they think doing so will improve their behavior," Gershoff said. That's what parents say . Parents hit their kids because they're angry with no impulse control, or assholes. Doin
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by a3n 5y ago
Money is, after all, "speech." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC Walk softly and carry a big purse.
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by a3n 5y ago
When you're told you're number one your whole life, you don't go anywhere else, and your religion and patriotism are joined at the hip, why, there's no reason to change anything.
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> Call your congresscritter. Sorry, but regular people don't make "campaign contributions" of any noticable size, so all we get back is a form letter acknowledgement based on whatever box you checked for subject. Big Pharm
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by a3n 5y ago
TIL. I've always called it bottom line at the top because of the symmetry, and because what we're taking about is literally being placed ... at the top.
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by a3n 5y ago
It may not be lazy engineers so much as senior engineers leaving, and new seniors not effectively mentored and grown.
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I knew one of those. He insisted on remaining a contractor, I think for his particular tax situation. He would have to leave the company every so often because of company rules (or labor law?) about how long the company could employee a con
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by a3n 5y ago
Boeing management used to be grown from engineers. The person promoted would have been practicing "engineering in the large." I don't know if that's still true.
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Total guess, some of those managers probably do appreciate what software engineering is, and what it needs, but they're pressured by their managers to cut costs and expertise.
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by a3n 5y ago
> For long emails, I'm adding TL;DR in the first lines of the email body. Yes. Bottom line at the top.
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Unless you're in prison for murder or mayhem, it's hard to say anyone is a "failure." At most, you haven't found an arrangement that works for you. The American Dream, for example, or parts thereof, is a perfectly g
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by a3n 5y ago
Yeah, I was in my 30s. Private language school.
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23 is much too early to declare yourself a failure in life. That's the depression talking. "That shit ain't the truth." Just because you're not having the outcomes that you want does not mean you're a failu
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by a3n 5y ago
No point to make, just responding ... I had to quit Facebook, it amplified my depression. I met my first wife IRL, in high school. I met my second wife IRL, in a language class. She was the teacher.
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USAA offers a CC.
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by a3n 5y ago
Way back when I was still on LinkedIn they suggested I connect with a neighbor in my apartment building. The only thing we had in common was the street address. We'd never spoken. I recognized her from being around, and that she worked
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> Ignoring the mathematician’s appeal to rigorous (re)formulation, we focus on the latter part of the quote: “The physicist’s often crude experience leads in an uncanny number of cases to an amazingly accurate description of a large clas
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by a3n 5y ago
> The unions also buy off politicians to disastrous effect. Any sufficiently entrenched bureaucracy is indistinguishable from corruption. With apologies ...
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Yeah, they're leaving in droves. They're also arriving in droves, which is why Amazon has been able to withstand 150% turnover. But Amazon is now worried that they've worn out much of the US workforce available for "indu
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by a3n 5y ago
> I suspect much of janitorial and security staff in Amazon HQ probably have no access to stock options either. It's likely that security and janitorial are 3rd party contractors and have no access to anything available from Amazon
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by a3n 5y ago
I visit the first page of the front page, and then if I have time I scroll through all of New, sometimes until I see where I left off before. The New page holds some of the most interesting content, similar to how "not appropriate&quot
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by a3n 5y ago
At my discretion.
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You have an interesting writing style. I wonder if you can leverage that.
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by a3n 5y ago
> 11. “Wow, that had great grammar,” said nobody ever. Hope for ... me.
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by a3n 5y ago
Similar to my doctor's office (a university/corporate enterprise with multiple offices and hospitals) sending me emails during the pandemic to come in and get seen about this or that.
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Download the source, compile it, and let us know.
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by a3n 5y ago
Gohmert could be re-elected.

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