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by derbOac 3y ago
There is a reason HR departments generally just verify past employment. It's a recipe for lawsuits and abuse.
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by derbOac 3y ago
Although I agree antiaging interventions need to be pursued completely — I'm aware of arguments against them but am not sure there's any serious opposition to them? — there are systemic physical reasons to think there might be har
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by derbOac 3y ago
I can see how it would be difficult to evaluate empirically well. On the other hand, this describes my experience in one workplace extremely well over a period of extreme change. Even there, it was accompanied by changes in personnel but it
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by derbOac 3y ago
It seems the US is even lower in physicians per 1000 people than the UK: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/physicians-per-1000-peopl...
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by derbOac 3y ago
I don't know why this is allowed to go on. It's been going on for years with almost no consequences. At one point relatively recently they threatened to cut off one generic manufacturer from the US market but then backed off, as
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by derbOac 3y ago
I see this all the time as well in a different area, and am really concerned about it. It was on my mind today as I was biking. I know what you mean about there being two types of ebikes, and agree: one is basically a regular bike with assi
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by derbOac 3y ago
So many economic analyses of social and environmental problems are full of these "hidden cost" factors, and they're baked into why so many things occur in the first place. "Capitalized profit, socialized risk" is ju
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by derbOac 3y ago
To be honest, this imho is what the EFF should be doing, hiring laywers to counteract this kind of thing. If they were doing this (or some whatever strategy they decided would be most effective), I'd probably donate more money to them.
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by derbOac 3y ago
10 years is a long time in tech. It's hard to say what will happen in that kind of timeframe. I suspect RISC-V won't have taken over datacenters by then, but I could see it being an emerging, stably growing phenomenon. Without s
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by derbOac 3y ago
Wouldn't this have information-theoretic implications?
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by derbOac 3y ago
I think what I'm thinking is usually closer to property dualism although I think those positions are similar enough they all make sense to me as possibilities in some form, to the extent I remember them correctly. I've generally c
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by derbOac 3y ago
My guess — and this is a guess, not an assertion — is that the hard problem is one of physics and not cognitive science or neuroscience per se.
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Bagheera_kiplingi(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by derbOac 3y ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 3y ago
For me this is a complicated example with regard to regulation. I agree it's a reminder of why it can be a good thing but am not sure how I feel about it as an example of the need for regulation. I'm outraged at OceanGate and feel
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by derbOac 3y ago
It also sounded to me like dodging the question.
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by derbOac 3y ago
So, I had a similar reaction. I'm about as libertarian as you can get with drug regulation, but found it odd that the article seemed to ignore the public health risk management arguments for drug regulation. Still, we allow plenty of d
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by derbOac 3y ago
I think Amazon used to use the lower bound of a CI to sort? Or it used to be an option, then some sellers sued or threatened to based on the argument that it discriminated against smaller sellers?
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by derbOac 3y ago
Bitcoin is puzzling to me, in that a commodity usually has some value outside of a trading market per se. That is, it is usually consumable in some abstract sense. I'm not sure what you would "do" with Bitcoin other than as s
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by derbOac 3y ago
This is one of the more reasonable pieces I've read about this, something everyone monitoring the situation for whatever reason should be mindful of. It never occurred to me before reading this but I probably fall into the category of
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by derbOac 3y ago
I wonder if there's an easy way to set it up on a Linux server/Nextcloud-type system?
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by derbOac 3y ago
My general impressions are so far mostly (probably in rough order of ubiquity): 1. They're not migrating. 2. KBin (also Lemmy because they're interoperable, although I'm seeing more communities I frequent popping up on KBin s
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by derbOac 3y ago
I almost think this post should be upvoted because of that comment alone, and the possibilities it points to. The interesting thing about it to me is this opens a huge swath of "plausible deniability" actions on the part of Reddit
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by derbOac 3y ago
Similar processes have been at work in other countries as well; this piece is an interesting counterpoint to an earlier one about tea ceremony in China and Taiwan: https://anthrodendum.org/2019/12/08/inventing
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by derbOac 3y ago
> They've had a career of treating patients. I think they've satisfied the moral imperative already. No offense (really), but speaking from professional experience, I think this is naive and contributing to a lot of reasons why
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by derbOac 3y ago
Part of what you're touching on is a general problem with rent-seeking, regulatory costs to entry, and monopolization in general, in the US at least. With physicians, this is kind of a consequence of a system their professional organiz
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by derbOac 3y ago
But the question is confusion over product in the same product area. It seems absurd to me that a reasonable person would confuse that dog toy parody with an actual Jack Daniels product. Also, unanimity per se doesn't necessarily mean
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Paul Ehrenfest and the Dilemmas of Modernity(researchgate.net)
1 points by derbOac 3y ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 3y ago
Looking forward to this. I hope it goes well. I read through those threads a bit, but I'm wondering if you can say a bit more about why you didn't use the nostr protocol as is? I'm not trying to pull for criticism, I'm c
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by derbOac 3y ago
Hmm. Yeah being able to see which posts you've upvoted seems undesirable to me. I guess someone might argue that it would increase the consequences of voting and make people more careful? More anonymous voting seems better to me, if yo
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by derbOac 3y ago
It's really unclear to me how Kbin is different from Lemmy other than UI and not being Lemmy — which is fine but unclear. Just another ActivityPub implementation? Honestly the more I read about Nostr the more it makes sense to me. It w

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