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by ambrozk 5y ago
How did you get into this? Did you learn the tech with a job in mind, or did you just learn the tech and then jobs started appearing?
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If you're wondering what PR buys you, it's a constant stream of articles like this one. There's no new information to report, but Commonwealth Fusion Systems is in the news again!
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Suburbs don't have to be structured around cars! You can have lots of trees, lots of grass, be removed from bustle, and still be able to get around by car. The problem is that zoning rules have essentially regulated these sorts of subu
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The public doesn't trust politicians, the government, or its official experts. Facebook is a public forum, and the public uses it to express their mistrust. Politicians then pretend that Facebook is the reason no one trusts them, becau
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I cannot tell you that this has never happened to you, but I can inform you that the person you are responding to did not say a single word about either black people or intelligence.
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They're a private company who is free to do what they want, and the people complaining are private individuals who are free to do what they want. There's no assault on anyone's liberty in either direction. Companies can freel
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To me, there is obviously a tension between the right of individuals to take calculated risks and the responsibility of the society to protect its members from harm. I don't think it's reasonable to say that individuals have an ab
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Yeah, there's a logical inconsistency. So what? Just because our society has so far failed to ban two addictive, harmful drugs, does not mean we must legalize every other addictive, harmful drug.
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What you say is true, but there's something missing, which is that a working-class person who was extremely fashionable by the standards of their own class would, if transplanted into the world of penthousees in SOHO, figure out quite
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In what world is a city deriving its charter from the state "dystopian?" Californian municipalities are wholly creatures of California state law. They derive their authority from the constitution of California, which grants them t
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> Cities and their existing residents have a right Palo Alto is a charter city. As such, it has special rights only insofar as those rights are delegated to it by the state of California. California has every right, legally and morally,
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I have worked with people in such a development center, and the quality of their work is very noticeably worse than that of their equivalents in the US.
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In that comment you say Murray's translation is "meticulous but annoyingly archaized". Do you know a translation which is non-euphemistic and meticulous, but also not archaized? Also, what should I read if I like the poetry o
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The Communist Party was viewed much more favorably among people who didn't have to live under it. It was especially alluring to those persecuted by fascists before and during WWII. You didn't have to like all the CP's politic
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The article claims that "trans women in 2021 are among the most at-risk groups in US history". I looked into this and can find no corroboration. GLAAD compiles a list of trans people killed each year and, even if they're only