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by bbarnett 6y ago
> So take the example from TFA, where the investor thought male founder A would be a better CEO than female founder B. Implicit bias is a real thing, and has been proven in dozens of studies. Incredible. In TFA, this precise same individ
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Further to the point, this isn't about discriminating against those Russians. This is about fearing them, because all Russians have a "super power", and can destroy you with a single word. No court. No sensible attemp
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Could be for a US H1-B VISA. Skilled category counts things like published works...
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Hmm. I wonder why the dichotomy. Where I was, it seems the inverse. Data points re: 1541 reliability: * all were early adopters, but moved to the Amiga within a year of A500 release. So there is an end-time bracket here. * I had a VIC20,
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by bbarnett 6y ago
The device in question allows women to pee like men, while standing with pants on. This is the feature referenced for hiking, I think. It can also be used to pee in bottles.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I wonder about these posts citing c64 and Amiga floppy reliability issues. Was around both for 10 to 15 years, in computer clubs, ran a punter bbs, worked repairing/selling amigas for years, reliability was awesome, unless one had the
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Proof of the horrors of lockdown. People now have hour long discussions with google over dinner.
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It's often unenforceable, due to rural driving distances, with potentially zero alternatives. (eg, are you just going to do it in your pants, over the car's seat??) I'd even call it a human rights issue, when no alternative e
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Women can pee in a bottle too: https://www.amazon.com/Standing-Resistant-Urination-Portable... Equality often means, delicate sensitivities of either sex, are not considered.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I grew up in a rural area, and sometimes find 'city logic' amusing. Need to urinate? Pull over, get out, and water the grass. This is older than time, and a non-issue. Really. It isn't an issue to me. Defecation is obviou
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by bbarnett 6y ago
A dual approach might be to dig around, but just place the dirt in preparation for a temporary levy scenario. So much cash burned per hour, a fallback wouldn't hurt, and secondary backhoes could be used, so the primaries don't slo
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Hey, that's an incredible amount of force, it's too risky, not to mention it will impact the local ecosystem, and uh, stuff!
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Plus, how did one find anything out? Even when telegraph, the phone, and wireless first existed, how would you transmit thousands upon thousands of scientific papers? News? And who would pay the incredible cost of doing so? Imagine trans
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Frequency locking, max transmit power, and other typically mandated things, are doable in hardware. Radio firmwares can be open source. It's a red herring.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
On top of other comments here, labour rates, and farming methods/costs have changed. At least, in many countries...
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Bear in mind, that many subconsciously are unhappy with their workplace's policies and effects on the world, but at the same time have linked their personal esteem and identity with work. By threatening their self esteem, their very id
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by bbarnett 6y ago
This has somewhat opened my eyes. Looking in at the US from abroad, most people I know locally have been highly upset by US 'cancel culture'. Why? The lack of courts, the fact that people's lives, careers, and works have be
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by bbarnett 6y ago
One time I was cooking pasta, to mix with some left over, home made meat sauce in the fridge. After I started the pasta, I realised there was no enough sauce. So I added fresh crushed tomatoes, which had only enough time to warm up, and no
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by bbarnett 6y ago
The mouse brain derived Japanese Encephalitis caused death, often 2 years after vaccination. It too went through clinical trials, and seemed perfectly safe at first. It was pulled as a result. Yet, those clinical trials were not rushed,
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I'm sorry, but anti-vaxxer nutjobs do that hype all on their own. And people are already sensibly worried about rushed testing, and approval processes. (It is sensible to be worried, and to keep a sharp eye.) Now there appears to be
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Yes, but, there are close to 200 vaccines. It isn't as if all vaccinations have stopped, there are other options, and panic and fear on the side of omg must vaccinate now, now,now! ? Any hint, even the slightest, that complications m
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Those two guys from Twitter, are here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhrD5SVo3OU
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Current UI/UX dogma comes from endless studies, done at the dawn of wide scale adoption. Yes, many users between the late 90s, and early 2000s, were a mass of people which had never, ever used computers. They bought them for the Inter
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Excuse me kind sir, where may one procure the services of an evil maid ? Asking for a friend.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
No kidding. The amount of contact I've had over the last few years, by what might be best-tagged as 'low-ballers'? Absurd. The most amusing, puerile trick goes somewhat like this: Looking for junior full stack dev. Expert
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I guess it depends upon the crime rate in the local area. Realistically, at the time, I'd be carrying between $500 to $1000 in my pocket, cash, from delivery payments. And usually -- from 11am to 2am, it was very slow. Generally one p
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by bbarnett 6y ago
We'd just walk across the street and drop cash into the bank deposit slot. What armed guards? Obviously things can change for large businesses. Even employee theft is less of a concern, when (like the restaurants highlighted here), i
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by bbarnett 6y ago
As a small pizza place, if I take a credit card payment, I must: - have some way to process it. This requires hardware, often leased, sometimes owned. - which requires an extra phone line, OR, internet connection - and requires a service,
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by bbarnett 6y ago
What I find astonishing, is how much things have changed in a mere 30 years. Back then, I was working at a local pizza place. I'd worked there for 6 years, both in high school, as a delivery person, and eventually as the main cook&#x2
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by bbarnett 6y ago
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/sql-mode.html#sql-mo... Much of your MySQL complaint is not a MySQL issue, but a config issue. And yes, powerful config options are good, not bad.

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