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by aggie 6y ago
I would be shocked if their R&D isn't far ahead of what they share publicly. We've seen in the recent conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia that drones have become a major factor in modern battlefields. And not just surveill
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by aggie 6y ago
A lot of these issues sound like bad workmanship and not inherent to the prefab process.
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by aggie 6y ago
This wikipedia section describes the idea better than I can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Be... My personal takeaway is that, horrifying or not, you cannot escape life, whether by hiding fr
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by aggie 6y ago
Nietzsche's writing on "eternal return" helped me with similar thoughts. It gives life heaviness, as Kundera says in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return Also,
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by aggie 6y ago
> All the toxic workplace stuff was just a narrative tool That's a pretty bold claim. What of all the reports of a toxic workplace? I've heard first-hand accounts.
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by aggie 6y ago
It's not inherently bad to make it easy to trade, but they specifically target (among others) people who don't understand the risks they're taking. If you're a hardline believer in individual responsibility, there's
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by aggie 6y ago
From the people I've talked to it seems to be mostly a lack of understanding. They often self-describe as people who don't know anything about personal finance beyond earning a paycheck and paying bills. They see trading stocks as
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by aggie 6y ago
> Sweden to Norway, when they took up the strategy, became apples to oranges. Your logic is simply wrong here. If you want to assess the effect of the lockdown, you compare effects between similar countries that did and didn't have
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by aggie 6y ago
It's sarcasm
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by aggie 6y ago
I initially read the comment the same way, but I believe they were saying that when the pandemic is over you won't be isolated, not that isolation wouldn't be bad for wellbeing.
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by aggie 6y ago
Finding a life partner is not easy. I suggest not adding "must be ok without a diamond ring" to your criteria. Also, communicate beforehand rather than taking a stand on an issue she will literally wear for life and expecting her
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by aggie 6y ago
"X isn't going to solve anything." "X will help with..." I'm seeing a lot of good, evidence-based reform ideas dismissed as not being enough to "solve" the problem. But reform isn't all or nothin
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by aggie 6y ago
Wouldn't that be more of a proof of concept than collateral?
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by aggie 6y ago
You'll have the same experience with CarMax if you try to trade in a vehicle that is too old, even if it is in perfect condition. It's not worth their time, but they want to be able to say they accept all trade-ins. So they offer
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by aggie 6y ago
What are you saying is the vulnerability introduced by mail-in voting, a method that has been working successfully in Oregon for years? It may be relatively easy to commit a single act of mail voting fraud, but if it's not scalable, it
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by aggie 6y ago
There are tech companies that only think they're doing good. But there are plenty that are doing good, and they would love your help. By all means pursue things elsewhere, but not because you think there are no opportunities in tech.
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by aggie 7y ago
As a non-developer who has a career track-change in the back of my mind, I can't speak to the accuracy of the information, but I disagree with your take that it needs to be pared down. This kind of extended view of the path forward is
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by aggie 7y ago
You may have described the precise reason that kind of news is not reported.
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by aggie 7y ago
I have a fully-adjustable chair from Office Depot similar to this one for $350: https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/448575/WorkPro-Quantu... $450 for separate lumbar support: https://www.officed
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by aggie 7y ago
> Doctors and nurses are being told The passive voice is doing a lot of work here with only one anecdote cited.
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by aggie 7y ago
I wonder if this is trending because people figure you might be able to strengthen your diaphragm as a precautionary measure in case of contracting COVID-19. Anyway, if anyone is interested in a practical application from a scholarly source
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by aggie 7y ago
> Sometimes, even one sentence paragraphs are ok. They're more than ok -- they're a great attention management device! Don't worry about stuffy rules of prose when writing an email.
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by aggie 7y ago
You're stating this as a fact. Can you provide any reasoning or evidence?
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by aggie 7y ago
> From what I can tell there is little evidence that there is a large health risk to most of the population. These measures will absolutely prevent a significant number of people from dying. Does it matter if that population is not &#x27
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by aggie 7y ago
> The science is settled It doesn't take a domain expert to know this claim is fundamentally wrong. Science is never settled. There are conclusions that stand the test of time and accumulated evidence, but nutrition is a field with
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by aggie 7y ago
"Wars could start" only in that the people who could start wars by other channels happen to use Twitter. The president could make a bombastic statement in a TV interview just as easily. It's not like some random who managed t
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by aggie 7y ago
That's a good point about what is a form of survivorship bias in science and journalism, but there are not just cases of "we hadn't seen this technology until later" but also cases of "we had seen a lack of this tec
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by aggie 7y ago
> Its design shines a light on technical skills that researchers didn't think Neolithic people possessed. It seems these kinds of discoveries -- people were more advanced at some point in time than previously believed -- happen quit
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by aggie 7y ago
> The whole Bay Area is building like crazy, I'm wondering what your frame of reference is here. As someone who has lived in the Bay Area for most of my 30 years, and lived in Atlanta for a couple years recently, where they are actu
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by aggie 7y ago
Apple Pay is great, but I wish it was more universally accepted at point of sale. But in the US we're not even at consistency in any form of POS payment method. Disney World (Florida) notably spent a BILLION dollars implementing a wond

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