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by bodiekane 3y ago
As some apolitical context, these two situations are pretty different in terms of representation. Utah was 77% Mormon in 1990 and somewhere between 42%-60% Mormon today, with a lot of that drop-off coming in just the last few years as peopl
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by bodiekane 3y ago
It's wild that 99% of the "point" of crypto and a Bahamas-based exchange was to avoid all the laws around securities trading, banking, money transferring (anti-money laundering, taxes, etc), etc and yet when things go south,
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by bodiekane 3y ago
GPA likely tracks to aptitude + ambition, but attending a "top 50 school" is mostly a function of who their parents were.
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Which maps perfectly onto how people would talk about similar work if it wasn't AI. If I go to the library and read a bunch of books and journal articles to understand something, that's certainly research or education and not &quo
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by bodiekane 3y ago
It's far too extreme in my view. No one was actually harmed by someone creating art. If someone writes a fictional story where a classmate is a character, or they draw a cartoon, or they paint an oil painting or they use a computer to
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by bodiekane 3y ago
Because Obamacare legislation ended up as a terrible version of socialism/pork-barrel spending/crony-capitalism in order to get the required support to pass. The democrats wanted to get subsidized healthcare for low income people
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by bodiekane 3y ago
Gawker got sued for their role in the sexual exploitation of an individual (hosting and publishing a non-consensual sex tape). Peter Thiel provided financial support for the victims of Gawker's abuse to pursue legal recourse. Many peop
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by bodiekane 3y ago
Why would anyone disagree with fundamentalist Christianity? Why would anyone disagree with Wahhabist Islam? Why would anyone disagree with Maoism? People have different opinions on politics, religion, society. The more extremist a certain g
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by bodiekane 3y ago
The average pay for a nurse in California is $133,000. A dentist is $172k. Physical therapist $100k. MDs $230k. Numerous other healthcare career paths where the doors to success are wide open to young people and where success is dictated by
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by bodiekane 3y ago
I can't believe the absurd euphemisms we tolerate on this issue. There is no such thing as "cancelling" or "forgiving" student loans. The debt was transferred from the people who took out the loans to taxpayers. Bid
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by bodiekane 3y ago
This makes no sense. Everyone alive today has 50% female ancestors and 50% male ancestors. Regardless of your gender identity, your ancestry is equally balanced in terms of gender privilege. Biasing for/against people today is just a n
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Getting laid off doesn't end health insurance, it's ironically bad journalism that they included that misleading question, from an apparently uninformed person. The typical flow would be: current insurance continues unaltered for
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Depends on the role and company. A big company can probably tolerate a couple non-team-player developers who just execute on tasks they're given in isolation, but most of the time software engineering is a team activity and being unres
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by bodiekane 3y ago
> But the climate change discourse is so poisoned, and scientific research so politicized Only because the people profiting from fossil fuels completely lie and deny facts to make it "politicized". No different than when young
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by bodiekane 3y ago
Weird attack on Jordan Peterson in this piece. The quote from him about being concerned about solutions that work "by impoverishing poor people, by raising energy prices and food prices" is a standard part of the discourse among l
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by bodiekane 3y ago
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Rice, beans, potatoes, lentils, other cereal grains are cheap and have a low ecological footprint compared to other foods. Other vegetables, fruits, nuts, eggs can round out a diet and provide nutrient
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by bodiekane 3y ago
It's sad people are so financially illiterate. Buying partial ownership (shares) in a real company that makes a product or service profitably, or loaning money to a person or business that will be paid back with interest, are both ways
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by bodiekane 3y ago
My weight floats in a range that's 40-50 pounds lighter today than I was a decade ago. It's because I eat less and move more. Physically, weight-loss is utterly trivial. Literally everything that people say works, does. Eat less c
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by bodiekane 3y ago
If that was true, then shouldn't Norway, Denmark and France be where all the exciting moonshot startups are founded? Instead, it's the US and China where essentially all innovation and major risk-taking is happening. Empirically,
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by bodiekane 3y ago
Except, the slogan "Don't say gay" was made up by people opposed to the legislation it refers to, and the actual legislation does not contain that line nor is it in any way representative of the contents of the bill. It looks
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"College admission rates are important" is an arbitrary thing society developed, which people are increasingly realizing is largely counterproductive and unrelated to anything meaningful. Getting into a highly selective school mos
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by bodiekane 4y ago
> Since this group already put in longer hours than the typical U.S. worker—and women at the highest income levels—these high earners had longer work days to trim > Before the pandemic, Eli Albrecht, a lawyer in the Washington, D.C.,