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by atwood22 4y ago
They raised 350M at a 3B valuation back in March of last year. Crazy...
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The compressor is moving the air around in the freezer, which can have an impact on how much heat is transferred. You can sit comfortably in a sauna, but your arms will heat up quickly if you wave them around. Similarly, a convection oven h
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I see Unity lasting a long time. There are basically only two companies to consider if you want to make a 3D game: Unity and Unreal. Unity is so much easier to pick up for newer game developers, which means Unity will always have a funnel o
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by atwood22 4y ago
There are two issues: 1) Data collection and algorithmic manipulation. This has been discussed to death, but why you'd let an adversary control the information flow to a huge portion of the population is beyond me. This is obviously a
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Whether or not crossing planetary boundaries is a problem is a matter of debate, not a settled fact. If we can treat the side-effects of human disruption on the planet, then why is that not sufficient?
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by atwood22 4y ago
While pre-modern battlefields were certainly horrific, I wonder which is more terrifying: 1) Hand-to-hand combat where your fate is decided within a few seconds but you have some control over the situation. 2) Sitting in cover while artille
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by atwood22 4y ago
If the product was successful even with the bug that annoyed millions of users, then have you really contributed anything by fixing it? Sometimes, the answer is yes, but I think it makes sense to require data to back that up. Similarly, dat
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by atwood22 4y ago
> The Wall Street watchdog found that 49 EY professionals "obtained or circulated" answer keys to CPA license exams, while hundreds of others cheated to complete the continuing professional education components relating to CPA
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The log scale view of that graph is comforting.
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Your answer begs the question. Yes, abortion is a wedge issue, but why is it a wedge issue? Why are people against abortions in the US when most people aren’t against abortion access in other countries.
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Whenever talking about America, you need to do a massive cost-of-living adjustment for the entire system. For instance, a general practitioner in Germany can expect to earn around 3,000 Euros after taxes per month, and a surgeon barely gros
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It's called picking up pennies in front of a steam roller.
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Because workers' rights are a zero-sum game. There is a total amount of power that can be had in the workplace, and it is either held by the owners or the workers.
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The Black Museum episode also touches on these themes. Like the repeatedly executed prisoner.
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Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake seems to derive very little from classic science fiction. Perhaps this is because she’s a woman, and thus less drawn to teenage male fantasies like those found in Dune.