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by ciphol 4y ago
More like: Designers won't have jobs if web sites never need to be changed. So they create work for themselves by inventing the necessity of a redesign.
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by ciphol 4y ago
This is how journalists are taught to write. In a "pyramidal" style where the key facts come first, followed by elaboration, followed by more elaborate elaboration.
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by ciphol 4y ago
Are there any other pieces of software you want to write? Depending on your financial situation, see if you can quit or take off your job for a year and write it. The years aren't going to come back to you, and you don't want to d
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by ciphol 4y ago
One EEG suggesting memories, out of one EEG which possibly could have suggested memories. Sure, it would be nice to have more than one data point, but I think when that data point corroborates what many people have reported based on their e
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by ciphol 5y ago
Usually when you change your environment ("tickets to Bangkok" as you say) the depression comes along with you. If you have a specific stressor like a horrible job or abusive family member, leaving that situation can vastly improv
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by ciphol 5y ago
Kerouac's demographic at the time (young healthy adults) do pretty well in relative poverty. Other people, like the elderly and families with kids, do much worse. The War on Poverty was focused on those groups.
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by ciphol 5y ago
He isn't complaining about lack of money, he's complaining about lack of WFH. He should ask for that.
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by ciphol 5y ago
1) Doesn't an LED have only a single band gap, determined by its main materials, thus no "side bands"? 2) Even if other wavelengths are produced, they just need to be produced in lesser quantities than in say sunlight. 3) #2
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by ciphol 5y ago
With names like that, I assume that was the intention
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by ciphol 5y ago
It's not change for change's sake, it's change to provide housing and schooling and so on for a growing population.
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by ciphol 5y ago
Very little of California is 3-5 floors, it's mostly 1-2. This "environmental" law is preventing the construction of 3-5 floor buildings.
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by ciphol 5y ago
Their skin is too dark. (/s or whatever the appropriate way is of disassociating myself from this idea)
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by ciphol 5y ago
If your state doesn't like that, they can switch time zones.
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by ciphol 5y ago
Kharkhiv hasn't been captured. It hasn't even been surrounded. [1] You are probably thinking of Kherson (a much smaller city, population 300k, in southern Ukraine). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russi
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by ciphol 5y ago
There is plenty of education already. It's just not Ivy League education. I don't see why we need to increase Ivy League enrollment at the expense of other schools, since the Ivy League is mostly a positional good (it marks you as
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by ciphol 5y ago
6 hours charging is more than enough for work/school/shopping. On the rare occasion that you want to drive all day, you can add a night charge to that (before or after the drive as appropriate). Overall, the large majority of char
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by ciphol 5y ago
There won't be massive famines tearing through the third world. Much of the third world consists of net food exporters, not importers. As for the importers, food prices will increase due to missing Russian and Ukrainian supply, but foo
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by ciphol 5y ago
Fukushima has killed only a handful of people. Fossil fuels kill hundreds of thousands of people every year.
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by ciphol 5y ago
Most people don't drive all day long either. They drive half an hour at a time several times a day, going to work or school or the mall and back. The remaining ~22 hours a day are available for charging. If a country has abundant solar
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by ciphol 5y ago
One person can click to see different subforums on those sites, and often does. One FB/Twitter, you can only see stuff posted by your friends, friends of friends, specific people whose names/usernames you know and have searched fo
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by ciphol 5y ago
They'll also make you start having "old age" diseases at a younger age, on average.
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by ciphol 5y ago
FB/Twitter are not one community, they are a million different communities that mostly don't see each other.
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by ciphol 5y ago
Judging by previous flights, the chance of a Columbia problem occurring on any given flight (like that of Atlantis) was around 1/200. Would you take a 1/200 chance of losing your life to save someone else's? Many people would
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by ciphol 5y ago
What do you mean by "despotism"? As for gender discrimination, who says it's done in a way that is bad for profit? From what I hear, young women nowadays earn more than young men, and only when women have kids are they discri
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by ciphol 5y ago
How do you distinguish between genuine personal experience (even assuming personal experience is reliable) and lies invented to promote an ideological narrative? Generally they can't be distinguished. Thus Wikipedia disallows both.
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by ciphol 5y ago
Pretty much all large organizations still have hierarchies, even in competitive marketplaces where the most effective model can be expected to win out. I don't know all the reasons for this, but I imagine one reason is that someone nee
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by ciphol 5y ago
Is it RE-tard (noun) or re-TARD (command)?
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by ciphol 5y ago
That's funny, I don't think it's immoral but it is a sure way to repel anyone from your religion.
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by ciphol 5y ago
Sounds like a conspiracy theory. I think polio actually became more of an issue in the early 20th century because hygiene improved, which meant that people tended to get polio during childhood, rather than in infancy like before. And polio
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by ciphol 5y ago
I think by "the past" they mean "before social media".

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