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by ahi 7y ago
I think UBI is kind of dumb, but UBI on the state level is just plain stupid. If you don't control your currency, UBI is a non-starter.
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by ahi 7y ago
We do not regulate the content of broadcast media just fine.
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by ahi 7y ago
I am an '05 alum of GW. GW disqualified itself from using "Don't Be Evil" a long time ago. e.g. https://www.propublica.org/article/george-washington-univers... But GW isn't really an academic i
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by ahi 7y ago
I've been there. 100s of lines into a ruby program then "oh yeah, cut sort grep"
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by ahi 7y ago
I think it's the personal/interpersonal version of "real artists ship". I am one of those people that spends too much time in his head. It's mostly wasted energy if I never pause and let the thoughts out.
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by ahi 7y ago
Parsing enumeration and chronology data for serials. E.g. "v.1" is obviously volume:1. But throw in years, parts, editions, copies, supplements, numbers, page ranges, etc, shit gets weird.
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by ahi 7y ago
Of course this is written by an academic. Most of the rewards and penalties of academia are status related. No one besides the football coach is making private sector money, and no one gets fired for anything less than a felony. There are l
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by ahi 7y ago
AMF is a UK charity so I'm not sure I'm reading their financial page correctly: https://www.againstmalaria.com/FinancialInformation.aspx Looks like they're using half their revenues to build up a bank account
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by ahi 7y ago
A career ago I spent a good chunk of my time going over the financials of non-profits large and small. It's an entire industry passing grants back and forth, skimming a percentage each time. United Ways are typically run by a board of
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by ahi 7y ago
Took over responsibility for some shell scripting glue. Task: migrate to new servers. "How hard can it be?" 2 months later I am still completely lost. I have random input/output files going everywhere, complete flustercuck of
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by ahi 7y ago
I suspect you're paying more than what I pay for gigabit FTTH, $50.
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by ahi 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Banks_of_Newfoundland I am imagining all these old salts in the pub rolling their eyes at the aristocratic "explorers"
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by ahi 7y ago
More than one of my acquaintances has reused her grandmother's ring. I expect this practice to increase as dead grandma is more frequently a post-war boomer.
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by ahi 7y ago
How much of that is skimming off what the grad students do? ...who get a poverty wage adjunct position
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by ahi 7y ago
I work in academic IT. My job is mission critical to the existence of 3 other project manager jobs. The bureaucracy grows to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy is not a joke.
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by ahi 7y ago
Happens on Chrome 77 on ubuntu as well. Doesn't appear to affect Chromium 76, whether that's due to the Chromium or the 76 I dunno.
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by ahi 7y ago
This is a terrible take. For 8 years, whenever Obama or Holder were asked to make things right at the expense of their future employers, they proclaimed just how powerless they were. The White House and the DOJ have the power to squash wall
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by ahi 7y ago
He didn't say it was impossible. He said it was impractical. "will not" vs "can not"
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by ahi 7y ago
> "They also intend to sell ancillary businesses that provide marketing, networking, and office-cleaning services" Those ancillary businesses' main (only?) client is WeWork. I don't expect them to get top dollar.
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by ahi 7y ago
r/blizzard is now locked down.
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by ahi 7y ago
Except the local operator will have a more intimate understanding of area dynamics than data science can provide.
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by ahi 7y ago
Some of their financing demands they IPO this year I think. Could have misread something though.
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by ahi 7y ago
I was mining bitcoin in 2011. It was stupid then and stupid now. Sometimes a lotto ticket hits.
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by ahi 7y ago
This wasn't the most robust crew. They were at a local minimum, both topographically and risk. They were safe where they were for at least a few days. Hiking out might have been beyond their ability. Having read some stories of people
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by ahi 7y ago
I really wish I hadn't taken AP Calculus in high school. I sort of got it, but it wasn't intense enough to really grab me and my study habits were non-existent. I took multi-variable calculus as a freshman and was mostly in over m
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by ahi 7y ago
That's my organization. Most of the actual work doesn't go through either process because the engineers know if they start discussing things in the sprint planning a manager will pick it up for a multi-year "investigation&quo
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by ahi 7y ago
My community is currently trying to remove its run of river dam. It has mostly come down to removal is cheaper than maintenance. There is added benefits of one less portage and I am not convinced of the upstream habitat argument. It is most
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by ahi 7y ago
A copy is available from HathiTrust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102154371
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by ahi 7y ago
They were the vehicle of choice for Argentinian death squads: https://www.reuters.com/article/argentina-dictatorship-falco...
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by ahi 7y ago
OT: there must be a ton of science that gets lost, delayed, or duplicated purely due to language barriers.

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