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by avs733 3y ago
As far as I’m aware test shots of both us Air Force and navy icbms off the west coast went to Kwajalein atoll. Some other interesting details… Naval icbms have star tracking for alignment and correction but land based ones do not. The reaso
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by avs733 3y ago
> I would like to apologize on behalf of other ycombo users for your top comment being downvoted, and also for people calling workers "oxen". I appreciate it but no need - the people doing that (typically) are as much victims o
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by avs733 3y ago
I don’t think it was the goal as much as a biproduct. This article hits the same cultural problem…all this discussion of actions by the capitalist and ruling classes, by companies and governments. The simple solutions of respecting people a
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by avs733 3y ago
I wanted a sports car as a teenagers and my parents gave me a minivan. It wasn’t what I wanted but it’s likely the reason I’m alive today. The point of governance to some extent is dealing with the tension between what competing groups of p
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by avs733 3y ago
I would caution you against assuming disagreement is misunderstanding, A spring only suspension system responds quickly to a bump in the road. If that’s your only metric, it’s good. But a car without a damper is going to be hella uncomforta
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by avs733 3y ago
Personally I see this as a better option than the one from the dead comment below. We can argue about rules begetting culture or culture begetting rules, I think there is some back and forth and one set of changes is concrete.
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by avs733 3y ago
because what they are talking about is the workforce. Treat your workforce like cogs, like oxen, and guess what thats what you get even when you find out quite some time later that you actually need something else. The contrast of these two
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by avs733 3y ago
Or maybe just treat blue collar workers better? And enshrine such treatment into law so this doesn’t happen again. That would seem to be simpler
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by avs733 3y ago
I'll provide an example...while heavily medicated after breaking both of my legs I signed something on an Ipad, once. I asked for a copy and they weren't able to provide me one. After more than a dozen phone calls I was finally ab
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by avs733 3y ago
the ability to drag and drop rearrange, and the ability to have a header and then just body text is really useful for lots of mockups. I think at this point, I've used powerpoint (or equivalent) in place of at least: * word processing
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by avs733 3y ago
Years ago I remember having a very similar reaction to many online platforms switch to https. It was pitched as protecting people from isp packet based ads but it always felt more motivated by locking the competition out of the data stream
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by avs733 3y ago
> It's sort of a big deal in academia and some percentage of other people feel pretty attached to the title. Having been yelled at by colleagues for opting to not include Dr. on my own freaking business cards - here here.
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by avs733 3y ago
to add - the scapegoat here is also particularly useful to take attention away from consumer changes that would effect to operate expensive retail properties. Not saying it is one or the other, just that nordstrom would be particularly moti
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by avs733 3y ago
Thank you…this seems to actually support the point that’s all I really care about
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by avs733 3y ago
Because he stated it and used a citation to support it. I’m entirely agnostic to what the claim is, what ideology it supports, or even whether or not it’s true. You use a citation to increase the credibility of you claim or argument. If th
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by avs733 3y ago
I read that entire article and nowhere does it say they give them phones. The entire article is about installing an app on their personal phones.
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by avs733 3y ago
In my prior experience (inside and outside of software, anything having to do with a process) I think there is another situation where diagrams are enablers that they missed. Finding consensus on how the thing currently works. When these is
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by avs733 3y ago
The grandparent comment is referring specifically to campuses (there are a few) who have nuclear research reactors
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by avs733 3y ago
As someone with a PhD in education, anytime someone uses the phrase “real education” as an attack on new approaches to teaching and learning, it’s a gigantic red flag that their argument is unserious.
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by avs733 3y ago
I’ll add an odd tertiary problem HN folks might find interesting. It is becoming increasingly common for “undergraduate research opportunities” to in fact just be a job annotating data. Researchers need some custom annotated dataset. Under
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by avs733 3y ago
ultrasound works quite well as well - but no NRE technique is perfect https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7503374/
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by avs733 3y ago
alongside the narrative of a recession (and layoffs) that seems to remain perpetually on the horizon...if any meaningful resistance begins to emerge
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by avs733 3y ago
But it generates angry clicks!
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by avs733 3y ago
> When I worked in networking, and later web dev work I found Reddit to be a TERRIBLE place for Q & A type situations. Training in this sense is about how people use language not what is the right answer . Among other sources - th
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by avs733 3y ago
A group of students I mentor have been working on the reverse version of this startup actually...towards this very idea. They are trying to figure out how to have people submit their bills and gather actual billing data and compare what a
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by avs733 3y ago
so speaking for myself, but I had a medical provider (medical equipment rental company) falsify my signature. Among other medical billing misadventures. My wife and I both have Ph.D.s I say that not to gloat but to reinforce how broken a sy
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by avs733 3y ago
Its not strictly satire...its meant as commentary It is part of the 'Christmas edition' of the BMJ which is famous for things like this.
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by avs733 3y ago
funny enough I actually use this article and others in a project when I teach stats. This article is part of what is known as the 'BMJ Christmas Edition' which gone on for quite a while[0]. it is meant to be at the same time scien
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by avs733 4y ago
which makes me feel it is even more likely to be necessary for their children and enabling them to have the chance to escape from the developmental and educational favors foisted upon them by their parents.
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by avs733 4y ago
I think you are basically looking for anti slapp laws https://www.rcfp.org/anti-slapp-legal-guide/

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