brnaftr361

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by brnaftr361 3y ago
Just secede. The scale of the US doesn't make sense. The culture has many schisms. Give people who want guns their guns, give those that don't their peace of mind.
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by brnaftr361 3y ago
Botulinum toxins are large, easily denatured proteins... by heating to 80°C (176°F) for 20 minutes or > 85°C (185°F) for at least 5 minutes. Their heat resistance varies with composition of the food or other medium, and the concentration
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by brnaftr361 3y ago
I think "bad actors" is a poor framing, this extends well beyond malfeasance. Even in a perfect system, at some scale people need these elementary quantities to be able to model and predict exogenous factors or justify certain oth
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by brnaftr361 3y ago
This, so much this. And these have been the two main publishers I've had to deal with. And all the course content is structured around their organizational modality because the professors just dump their slide decks in lecture, except
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by brnaftr361 3y ago
That's only half of the story. A lot of those people are mentally ill. There are also a lot of "hidden" homeless people who live diverse lives. I knew some travelling kids that rode freight around the country, they were typ
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by brnaftr361 3y ago
Well let's not conflate the education system with education. The former is supposed to facilitate the latter, but it does not necessarily function as such. And when it does, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is doing it well.
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Yeah, and it's precisely that kind of opaque behavior that makes me question the whole proposition.
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I don't really know how to state it more clearly. The appeal of a worker-owned coop is the fact that the workers in aggregate have complete control. Relinquishing 20% of that by default, and one might surmise 25% due to the installed
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I don't think it's fair to say that. Teamshares will sell up to 80% to the employees. Many worker-owned cooperatives have laws specifying that shares can only be exchanged internally. Teamshares isn't particularly transpare
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Mondragon Corporation is the poster child for worker-owned cooperatives and has been both successful and robust for decades. I believe it was Ford and GM, no doubt others, were studying their model at some point. But convincing stakeholders
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There's records of it, Graeber details some instances in The Dawn of Everything . As to your definition of culture, I would say it's lacking in sophistication. And when not abandoning it, in many cases it can be foisted upon peop
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I think with proper terms this would be a good launchpad for tested and tried businesses to transition into worker owned cooperatives, which I think would be a noble endeavor. As it's set up currently it reads more or less like a tribu
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They can also hire the regulators. Companies with first movers advantage build huge moats before industries get regulated, once they do those moats give them de facto primacy in their field. I would actually point at regulation for most of
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by brnaftr361 3y ago
"Industrialism" (I lack a better term) is the real bane here. But it's sort of more than that, right? At the macroscopic level I think it's fair to analogize humanity as a system searching for equilibrium. But we can als
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by brnaftr361 3y ago
What does an exam measure in theory and in practice? I have never come up with a sufficient answer for myself.
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I think just about everywhere I've worked has a cost of living raise, even entry level at restaurants. In any case this is somewhat of a contraindication to the economic planning undertaken by the Federal Reserve and their aims with in
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Can you verify the position, hours, benefits, and expectations of those offers? 'Cause I can offer (up to!) $18.50 and then negotiate down. I can also give somebody 10 hours a week and duly provide no benefits. When I worked there th
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Same here, been served a loop all week long.
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Yeah, but is there say... Scientific consensus that "safer" for the procedure is safer for the species? I mean, we don't really have a predefined goal, right? And I'd posit we're increasingly distancing ourselves
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I'm so used to it I read right past it, but yeah, on closer inspection if any other race was used in this context or the source material I suspect it'd get cut real quick. And the author doesn't even bother to mince in some q
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It may not be. I would be willing to argue that there was a tipping point and we've long exceeded its boundary - progress and disruption now is just making finding an equilibrium in the future increasingly difficult. So entering into a
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The dangers of getting hooked are greatly exacerbated by current "treatment" modalities and the culture the black market breeds.
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I've been looking for a node based image editor for a while. It seems like something that would serve the scientific community by allowing people to program complex processes and handle images procedurally. If you aren't familiar,
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Which like... If you were a prisoner for instance, how do you think you'd feel if they pretty much admitted that "Hey, we were wrong, we put you up for x years." Personally I think it makes it tantamount to false imprisonme
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Direct democracy is a threat to order, the unwashed masses know nothing, they're protecting us. I think the saddest part is there probably isn't an auto manufacturer that isn't a participant in the lobbying campaign against
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I think it's also a pretty big thing to unwind, right? Do they keep all the people who are in the system because of something related to weed in, or do you let them go? Do they assume culpability for fines, imprisonment, damages, defam
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I haven't done it in a while but I was cranking images out at 11s/output on a 3080. But it depends on your workflow, too. I started low res/low samples (32-64) and scaled up or used recursion until I got a desirable result or
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Neither of you really have a conclusion. Your modality is overly-reductionist. His is overly broad. In both cases it's impossible to reliably measure. What had ought to reasonably be concluded, then, is that we're entirely ignoran
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This seems like such an old train of thought. There are full lecture series available from a large number of prestigious lecturers at highly accredited universities. There are thousands of creators/hackers/researchers that have sp
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I dunno man, I took the community college route, $2k/semester on average. If I was a traditional student I would've been eligible for free tuition on the basis of my ACT (27) score — I graduated with a 1.89 GPA. University is on

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