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by ch4s3 2y ago
The size of the federal workforce has been remarkably stable for decades[1]. It hasn't dipped below 2.7 million since 1967 ad only recently cracked 3 million again. [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES9091000
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by ch4s3 2y ago
The real issue with fruit juice is that you can easily consume the juice of several pieces of fruit all at once and in a form that makes the sugar rapidly available so you get insulin spikes. The serving size for children of juice is 4-6oz
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by ch4s3 2y ago
Specialization has it's down sides as even Adam Smith noted. Doing the same thing every day can feel mentally dull even for knowledge work. If you specialized in sweeping, grinding through a software bug might feel like a great and nov
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by ch4s3 2y ago
I think you also need travel to be available for a class of people who are both expected to change clothes every day and did not have porters carrying their luggage.
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by ch4s3 2y ago
I think there are numerous small changes that all come together at the same time. It wouldn't have taken much to build wheels into steamer trunks.
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by ch4s3 2y ago
I think the difference is that flight opened up quick trips where you might want a bag with just enough clothing for a few days. I also think the 1970s also hits a point where peoples' clothing had become a good bit simpler. Wheeled ba
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by ch4s3 2y ago
It's a bit off topic but the drop ceilings and wall to wall carpeting in that gallery are so redolent of churches from the 1990s that I could have almost guessed this was at Bob Jones University from the photos.
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by ch4s3 2y ago
More importantly, prior to airline deregulation in the 1970s only the wealthy and business travelers were flying and someone else carried their bags for them. It is the middle class traveler who lugs their own bags.
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by ch4s3 2y ago
The remains found in modern Tunisia shared genes with people in what is now Morocco and Spain. It’s more likely they paddled than walked the long way around.
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by ch4s3 2y ago
There weren’t anatomically modern humans the last time the straits of Gibraltar reopened 5.33 MYA.
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by ch4s3 2y ago
That’s not what Gerrymandering means, which refers to a process of carving up improbably shaped constituencies to create safe electoral seats by choosing the voters. The senate is just plainly 2 per state as a compromise to keep large popul
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by ch4s3 2y ago
The caching is atrocious and seems to not correctly restore our cache randomly in parallel jobs in the same run. It’s the worst CI that I’ve ever used.
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by ch4s3 2y ago
There really isn’t. The number of unarmed people killed by American police every year is close to 10. This happens across millions of interactions.
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by ch4s3 2y ago
Right I just meant to contrast the relative danger of the benign sounding markets vs say visiting NYC.
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by ch4s3 2y ago
I meant to contrast those things, you could be run over by a truck at a German Christmas market because it has happened a lot(relative to the size of Germany) of times but almost no tourists to the US are ever shot by strangers. You only he
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by ch4s3 2y ago
Sure, that’s what I’m referring to in the other comment about truck attacks. Germany on average is less violent but has outbursts of random violence targeting places tourists frequent, yet no one says don’t go to Munich.
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by ch4s3 2y ago
This really misses the point.
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by ch4s3 2y ago
It's vanishingly rare for tourists to be murdered in the US. Per FBI data 90+% of US murders are committed by an acquaintance of the victim. A large percentage of the remaining 10% is from altercations that escalate to shootings. The E
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by ch4s3 2y ago
Gun violence in the US is highly concentrated in places you'll never go as a tourist.
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by ch4s3 2y ago
One imagines the the large number of Indian and Chinese H1B workers at large tech companies are multi-lingual or at least bilingual.
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by ch4s3 2y ago
The rate of violent crime in the US has not increased since 2014[1]. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/191219/reported-violent-...
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by ch4s3 2y ago
Just imagine the mess in Belgium!
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by ch4s3 2y ago
This is the worst. I was in France recently and tons of mobile websites were just suddenly in French. It was a real chore to read through them, and I can only imagine how frustrating this is when you can't read the language put in fron
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by ch4s3 2y ago
That maybe makes it vaguely less anti-social but still imprecise and frankly invasive. Typing by comparison is great. You can visualize the thoughts as you compose something and make edits in a buffer before submitting. The input serves as
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by ch4s3 2y ago
What’s the value prop here? That seems antithetical to actual education. Shit writing on a white board has better physical feedback than some janky smart board.
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by ch4s3 2y ago
This seems arbitrary. What is the limiting principle here? Should there be no 100 billion dollar company? How about after 50 years of inflation?
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by ch4s3 2y ago
The EU tech space is a barren landscape of technological dross pumped out by Siemens and some other big consultancies, so I’m not sure I’d want to apply their terrible laws here.
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by ch4s3 2y ago
That’s fine then, there clearly exists an open alternative that works for people.
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by ch4s3 2y ago
> Is this stifling competition? This is incredibly vaguely defined here. Saying that apple stifles smart watch competition by not actively working to make iphone more interoperable with non apple smart watches is ridiculous. You'd n
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by ch4s3 2y ago
This is a goofy argument. Telephone lines are a natural monopoly, cell phones are not. I have no interest in a poorly secured grab bag of bullshit blue-tooth add-ons, and there's no government interest in enabling that.

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