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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
This is the basic premise of this talk by Petar Zeihan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi_nFz1CJSI&t=2s
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
Just out of curiosity does stripe offer a paid support model? Are you guys paying for it?
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
It's a bit of a difference, but many of them are which is exacerbating the problems is that everyone who can in some of these places are leaving for other jobs. But the difference between the EMT scenario is that there is that there is
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
Looking at that link murders are down from 34 to 33, not exactly stunning success. Especially if a murder is ruled something else.
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
So you can totally "hide a body" but using %s with homicide is a bit unclear as homicide is less that 100, so the 2.9% drop is only a difference from 34 down to 33.
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
> According to the data, crime in SF is lower that it was a few years ago: https://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-San-Francisco-Californ ... Every time I see something like this I will point out that during the anti-p
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
As someone who moved to ID because I have in laws in the area I can tell you it is a terrible place, no one should move here, the locals are rude and crude, it is freezing 8 months out of the year. Everyone here is an avid Trump supporter a
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
Q. What is a Marxists favorite programming paradigm? A. Functional Programming because it has no state.
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
I have two guys I work with that got their degree in Economics or Poli Sci, then they went back to school to get a degree in Info Sec. So that's kind of a success story I guess.
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> Humanities specialists argue that these majors open up higher-earning opportunities later in life because they don’t lock students into a narrow programming language, certification or career path. The critical thinking taught in humani
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
For those curious according to this source https://what-if.xkcd.com/130/ an Aircraft carrier produces about 191 Megawatts an hour Unfortunately there's really only one county on earth with a substantial aircraft c
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
"It's better than legal we're using the law to keep justice away" - The PHB
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
The national highway system was a military not economic or social policy designed to allow for easy transport of troops in the event of a way. That is why many cities have large beltways that surround them, the idea being that if a city is
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
I have to wonder how many of these people were supposed to be evicted earlier but hid behind the COVID rules to avoid it.
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
Be an enterprise customer. Again AWS is great for small businesses just starting up that can make a lot of use of the free tier, and find the pay per use pricing attractive, and for massive corporations that only need one approved vendor th
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
That's the same reason I taught my 4 year old DND great way to learn basic mathematics
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
> Remember when France paid even more in 1815 and 1871 and didn't went on a genocidal rampage on their neighbors? I don't know that I'd say that, like I who to blame for WWI is a very contentious subject and ultimately I&
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
Actually most of the people I hear that talk about Teacher's union are expressing negative opinions of them, citing things like rubber rooms, and the impossibility of getting rid of bad teachers. Not necessarily saying I have an issue
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
So it looks like this mine produces coal which I am assuming is used for power generation. Don't know if I can blame them for not shutting it down while the message coming from the rest of Europe is that everyone's going to be doi
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
> I believe this is one of the largest challenges when trying to make effective changes in the system to address climate change: those whose actions can create the largest changes are not the ones who have to bear the burden first or dir
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
> High-temp records for September were set on Thursday in Salt Lake City, with a temperature of 102 Okay so I grew up in Utah about 30 minutes north of Salt Lake and I know for a fact that we would get temperatures up to 102 at least a f
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
Actually I listened to an interesting talk yesterday by Peter Zeihan, just discovered he has some interesting ideas. One of his theories is that the reason we have globalization isn't economic but it was rather America's attempt t
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
The problem in the US is pretty obvious. We are the time period where the largest generation of Americans (the boomers) are at the retirement, or about to retire point, at the same time the Zoomers, which are a decent sized generation, are
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
I've been thinking about this I think it is the end result of globalization. First we could ship stuff overseas, then we could ship jobs overseas, now people are realizing they can ship their house overseas, and Portugal has a much nic
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
I had to switch over to running Teams in Edge because it was barely functional otherwise. The only thing I run on edge though is Teams so really barely a change for me.
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
I'd argue that not all brains are good at math but that they can be trained to be good at math. That's the problem we treat math like it is some innate talent, it's not it just requires certain ways and forms of thinking. Exa
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Finally, it seems it was a pretty widely accepted idea in society for many years that in general you don't discuss religion or politics in public nothing good would come from it and it would cause hurt feelings all around. In the lat 2
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That's one of the things that always bothered me about cost of living arguments it always seems to be it's to expensive to live anywhere (inside of these several highly desirable locations that I want to live exclusively and are v
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by buscoquadnary 4y ago
You know it seems to me that we are going to eventually end up reinventing the idea of a brand. As these massive online marketplaces continue to allow third party sellers their reputation will continue to suffer, people will be less and les

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