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7y ago
> ... presumed to be worthy of permanent citizenship. Your tone seems to imply you do not believe he should be granted citizenship. What requirements do you have for granting citizenship that this guy doesn't meet? He's spent n
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8y ago
> When activism competes with brunch, Instagram time, and the necessity of a high-paying job to settle student loans, it’s a tougher sell. Brunch and instagram aren't the problem. Working two jobs to barely afford rent is.
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8y ago
That's not the same as productivity monitoring. It's really really not. Cameras for asset protection and building security != your boss looking over your shoulder while you work.
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8y ago
> I've never had to take a drug test for any of the sub $10/hour jobs I've worked, I've had to take one for every single software job I've worked. Interesting. My experience has been the opposite. Haven't be
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8y ago
> Whether they're in a office of a company that rents two floors of a 350,000 square foot office tower in a downtown of a major city, sitting on their couches in a single family home in a suburb playing videos games on their xbox, a
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8y ago
> Not sure how it’s any better... this looks like it's half the size of those two... so that's at least somewhat better.
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8y ago
I mean, yeah - that sucks. But it's not what the thing is designed for. I watched a man stand slightly behind a construction sign on a downtown Seattle sidewalk and relieve himself in full view of a half dozen people yesterday. I bel
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8y ago
Oh god. The second weekend after it launched I had to go to the local mall. That was the most infuriating walking experience of my life. Nobody was looking where they were going and would stop randomly. Looking back, it was pretty cool how
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8y ago
Say what you will about Kraft singles, but they melt like nothing else. Kraft doesn't belong everywhere, but it has foodie applications. [0] [0] - https://www.seriouseats.com/2016/07/whats-really-in-american..
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8y ago
Its not like there are black clouds of smoke hanging in the air or anything... Your average person is more likely to have allergies and asthma, but it's not like breathing the air hurts or your skin burns or anything...
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8y ago
> The same way "fired" became "laid off." Fired and laid-off are not synonyms. Fired and terminated are synonymous. However, laid off generally means the position is not continuing. That being said, "voluntary se
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8y ago
I've never once worked a job where we got Columbus day off.
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8y ago
For Windows XP?
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8y ago
> What will be the unintended consequences I wonder? I don't know how unintended, but I would imagine that cost of imported goods will go up, since the costs are usually passed onto the consumer
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8y ago
I don't need to put up any videos, there's plenty of LGBTQ videos on Youtube that get death threats from Christians daily. You want to believe that there is no christian extremism, go right ahead. You're just wrong.
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8y ago
Replace bible with quran, and savages with "savages from the US south" and you have an equally repugnant statement (with the same level of whatever accuracy exists there.) Extremist fanaticism exists in all religions - and your ga
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8y ago
I mean, you're arguing a term that's used in physics isn't physical. Raycasting is often used when solving EM equations. Are you purporting that photon streams don't follow a ray? And when they interact with a surface th
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8y ago
The wave-like nature of photons does not exclude the particle behavior. Light is both a particle and a wave. Physicists still rely on snells law. Optics courses still includes path tracing when studying refraction and dielectrics. Exclu
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8y ago
What is your qualm with calling ray-tracing physically based? Don't most models even include transmissivity and refraction? I mean, unless you're expecting them to calculate absorption/re-emission at every bounce... It still
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8y ago
> slowing down only the initial navigate probably wouldn't deter anyone.. Keep in mind, time to load actually impacts user retention on most sites. If a user is savvy enough to notice that it only happens in Firefox - the result co
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> Couldn't you argue that instinct doesn't "intend" anything - it's just adaptive, because evolution selected for it? You can argue that if you want. I'll argue the opposite: If a dog growls at me when I rea
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8y ago
They absolutely are not recyclable[0] [1]. Almost all curbside programs and most commercial programs will treat straws as "contaminants". Plus they have additional problem of causing significant wildlife impact. [0] - https:/
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8y ago
> I don't think so. I get angry occasionally. I don't intend to, nor do I like it. However, my anger is communicated to those around me. You're distinguishing conscious intent and latent or subconscious intent. Your body a
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8y ago
And then your freezer turns on and dumps a bunch more heat into your environment. Better only use store bought ice for this trick.
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8y ago
If you are poor, you do not have a higher tolerance. If you are poor, you have significantly less agency to effect change to remedy your situation - so you have no choice but to tolerate things like these. A rich person can move, install so
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8y ago
I mean... under that definition isn't all media propaganda? At that point does it just depend on whether or not you choose to use the term in a pejorative manner? If any biased claim can be called propaganda - then it seems the word lo
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8y ago
Well.. supposedly AT&T is the capture, right? So passing the AT&T network would increase the odds of your packets being read.. right?
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> Yes, give enough time and energy, we could build a technological hell on a perpetually wandering spaceship. I think if there was a decent amount of profit to be had behind it, that "could" becomes a "would" pretty f
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If the controversial citations in the article you cited are true (which I haven't read in detail, but seem questionable at a glance.) - unless the predominant amount of individuals immigrating into Spain/Norway are coming from c
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8y ago
>... I expect immigrants to have a lower IQ than natives. Do you have any reason other than Xenophobia for expecting this?
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