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by beej71 1y ago
Let's remember that China funds all kinds of research, not just the research with guaranteed profit. (Indeed, private industry already funds research with guaranteed profit.)
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by beej71 1y ago
It's almost certainly not maximizing tax revenue, but I'd trade some defense for research.
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by beej71 1y ago
Does the federal government have the authority to enforce this?
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by beej71 1y ago
I don't get it. If someone gets a hold of the encrypted customer ID, can't they impersonate the customer? Is it just that the customer ID is guessable?
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by beej71 1y ago
"PC on four legs".
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by beej71 1y ago
Short-term versus long-term gains. Businesses have the short term covered, but they're rarely going in on high-risk/low-reward (monetarily) research. So supply and demand can get stuck at these local maxima. Central planning can t
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by beej71 1y ago
Another way to look at this is that a country that only spends research money on profitable ventures is going to lose to a country that spends exploratory research money. I, for one, willingly give my cash. You don't get breakthroughs
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by beej71 1y ago
I feel like the endgame here is that the diploma will no longer be a decent proxy for skill. You're going to have to interview everyone thoroughly regardless of their degree status. And college will become just 4 years of intensive, br
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by beej71 1y ago
You can anonymously whistle-blow. Why not do that?
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by beej71 1y ago
Every DEI program I've ever been involved in has been 100% about selecting people _purely_ on merit. Not race, not gender, not whether or not they're trans. The DEI trainings are about completely ignoring those factors when hiring
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by beej71 1y ago
This is the one piece of meat in the article: > Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama climbed the charts because they focused on core academic instruction when much of the country used ESSA as an excuse to focus on anything and everything e
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by beej71 1y ago
Everyone who has played this game knows what's behind that video link before they look at it. :)
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by beej71 1y ago
It makes Trump look bad, and that dude is fragile. If Amazon were marking "made in America" WH would be all for it.
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by beej71 1y ago
Dumb phone does all that, too...
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by beej71 1y ago
We need it so I don't file a takedown request against what you just posted because I disagree with it.
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by beej71 1y ago
I just spoke with a bunch of conscious people at our solipsism meetup!
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by beej71 1y ago
There are a number of videos that try to show the scale on YouTube, but I'm a big fan of the one by Cody's Lab where he has a drive to proxima centauri, IIRC.
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by beej71 1y ago
Before I had a dash cam, I had somebody at a stop sign just throw it in reverse and back right into me. I thought I was completely fucked, that they were going to say that I rear-ended them and I would have no recourse. Luckily for me, they
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by beej71 1y ago
In some cars. You're making me think of my van where installing a radio involves unbolting and lowering the steering column. :)
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by beej71 2y ago
A number of BASICs had ON GOTO to accomplish this, IIRC. It's been a few decades since I've used it, though. :)
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by beej71 2y ago
I started journaling in cursive after taking a 40-year break from it. I've gotten better, and am now faster at writing cursive than non. Even losing programming skills to AI... I'll bet we can get them back. Definitely easier to n
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by beej71 2y ago
Aside: I can't stand popups when I'm coding. I always have to change it to something more manual or it just breaks up my flow. ^K to bring up a man page from vim is great--that's what I'm after.
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by beej71 2y ago
I can only speculate that the base was insufficient for high commercial traction.
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by beej71 2y ago
No, he's not in MS-13. I mean, the White House said that, but it's apparently a lie in that it has not been proven in any courts. Not allowing the government to spirit people out of the country without judicial oversight is a hill
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by beej71 2y ago
I agree that TurboTax should be unnecessary. And if you want to make it unnecessary by simplifying the tax code, go for it. In the meantime, we should have a free and efficient direct-to-IRS method of paying taxes that doesn't rely on
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by beej71 2y ago
I recommend this, as well, especially if you have repetitive taxes. I spend just a few hours doing taxes by hand when it's are similar to the previous year. With an accountant, I have to spend a bunch of time getting things ready, any
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by beej71 2y ago
Oregon made its own turbo tax competitor and it's great, and getting better every year. I was really looking forward to Direct File. (I used an accountant this year so I didn't get my chance.) Back to filing my own returns by hand
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by beej71 2y ago
What sounds better to me is spending 58 minutes and $0. Seems like a better bargain.
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by beej71 2y ago
One way to lower the bar would be to show up any day before you could collect financial aid.
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by beej71 2y ago
Actually I care that you, Vyrealian, cannot be deported to a foreign prison without a hearing, even if the President of the United States says you're an illegal immigrant in MS13. And if you're any kind of American, you should car

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