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This is about research, science research in particular. "Preparing for the workforce" is not the point here (and arguably should not really be the point of education in general, but much can be said about that...). You speak of &q
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> Probably 80% of the recent PhD grads I know are looking to leave academia, despite the fact that they went into it to pursue a career in academia. The median science PhD takes 6 years now, and is grueling work for terrible pay, all for
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Least unstable js project
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Real life is not SimCity, you can't just plonk more RAM factories like that. It takes an ungodly amount of capital investment, many years before you see a cent in return, plus there's only a couple firms worldwide that can do it i
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Oh come on... "Chronological feed of your friend's posts" and "algorithmic mix of your follows, paid content, and shit optimised to keep you engaged" are two VERY different beasts. This is why Facebook of 2008 is di
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You know what they say: there are only two industries now, fraud and gambling.
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It's probably the AI overuse introducing many of those bugs in the first place...
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It's not all bad though. We also managed to turn the Information Superhighway of the 1990s into the Slop Wasteland of the 2020s.
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AGPL, it is implied.
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> On average, the German study, which looked at nearly 40,000 people in total, found that parents who had at least one child under six years old reported sleeping about seven hours per night. Non-parents received just 10 minutes more sle
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There's a lesson there then, isn't there? Use GPL
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It's really no surprise: it's a game that was pre-installed on hundreds of millions of computers. That's it. For people of a certain age it's very very likely they have played it, at least a bit.
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The discussion was about age verification, not about the (rather more extreme) position that it's illegitimate for the state to hold information about its citizens. > For most of the time states did not have this information about t
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It's completely nonsensical too. Why would a parser for an alternative syntax introduce a GC?!
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It's a vibecoded parser...
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Refurbished phones are cheap and even going back 3, 4, 5 years you have great hardware, indistinguishable from what you would pay 1000$ new now. 200 or 300$ for a high quality refurbished pixel is really not that bad.
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by andrepd 5mo ago
All states/governments have basic records on their citizens and residents, including at least a name, dob, address, etc, at least for a passport, driver's license, if not an actual id card. Let's assume this is acceptable. Th
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The stated objective of this initiative is to break free of the American Mastercard/Visa duopoly. It would be pretty fucking stupid that if replacement required the use of the American Apple/Google duopoly! Convenience of use wi
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Rethoric ≠ snark
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> Im pretty sure Google wouldn’t intentionally cut marginalized people like this off from the entire internet, would they? Please don’t respond with sarcasm. Honestly, if you ask such terminally naive questions don't be surprised to
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Hey at least in September they're going to stop you from installing F-Droid. For your safety, citizen!
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You're right, we need big tech to protect us from the problems big tech created. In the olden 20th century, we had a term for that...
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We are much MUCH closer to "drink verification can" than to the time that greentext was written. Like many things in 2026, it's beyond fucking wild, it's a parody of itself. And I don't see it getting better without
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> The rest is companies that trick people into giving them money (battlepass! lootboxes!) and they don't deserve it. It's really funny to read this given that Valve largely invented loot boxes!
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> The US is really big and a lot of people have rural 30+ minute commutes The size of the country in which a commute is contained is immaterial to the length of that commute. What you mean is not "the US is big" but "thing
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Because it yields a simple corollary that to make travelling safer you can reduce the number of miles driven. Mostly by giving people viable alternatives to driving , be it long-distance rail or bike lanes to move around quicker and safer
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What. in god's name are you saying? > Don't forget to add rail incidents to that metric. I live in Spain, this year we had 4 derailments for a total of 48 deaths and 195 injured. Yeah and how many in the 15 years prior? 112. Of
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Many things already reduce road deaths and they are infinitely easier to do that driverless cars, namely: viable alternatives to driving ! Trains, streetcars, bike lanes, whatever.
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Child well-being being inversely correlated with stock price is very much a nice summary of the times we live in.
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>cemetech >Kerm Martian There's some names I haven't heard in a while :)

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