derevaunseraun

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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
> Oof. Seems like an open and shut case if that last quote (or others of its ilk) can be proven to have been said. If he was in a one party consent state for audio recording, he should've recorded it.
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
> It's always struck me as exceedingly odd that Panama is the terminus for all land-borne transportation. Might be because there's this chunk of Panama/north Columbia that's run by Guerillas and is one of the most dan
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
> Story time: either a huge challenge they overcame to become the great success they are today, or trying to make the most basic common sense sound like some insightful breakthrough. Just sounds like LinkedIn. But I always see this kind
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
I've been avoiding buying anything from Amazon, not because of the reasons you listed but because of the horrific things I've heard about their WLB (not only white collar but the warehouse workers specifically). That and also I li
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
that might be because some Dalits choose not to identify as such, could be a bit more
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
> that people seem to care very little about privacy in general, or perhaps have been guided gently in the direction of doing so by those who stand to profit the most strongly from it. It's not just that they don't care: it&#x2
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
> Seems like a lot of people want the market to crash. Or, everyone is trying to time the pop. This same sort of article has been posted here a couple times in the past two weeks. Some news outlets seem incredibly eager to report this st
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
I'm convinced that whenever people feel the need to say a news source is right, left, or center, they're usually trying to redefine "the center". The way that someone classifies a news source politically is almost always
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
This is a platitude that gets parroted way too often. It's like saying the highest function of humanity is eating and shitting The point of a political position is catalyzing political change, developing consensus, and holding interest
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
> Current or past generation cars are comparatively "open" with lots of repair and maintenance options, which gives owners the benefit of choice and competition. Not necessarily. For example BMW and Mercedes will design their v
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
I agree with you, but also most of the time when people ask each other for help it isn't to help understand a concept. It's usually for source code. In the class I mentioned above, the prof and TAs weren't pissed off about pe
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
> How hard it is to pass a class should be an absolute. It should be, but profs and TAs change from semester to semester. The coursework changes also. Also the profs, TAs, and coursework of prerequisites change too > It shouldn't
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
it depends on the curve. "curve" is kind of vague here, sometimes a prof will curve by adding so many percent to everyone's grade to get enough people over a certain threshold but also the prof will know if the class is full
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
I think that curves discourage cooperation and encourage zero-sum thinking. Curves are only really necessary when the professor is out of touch with the class and/or prerequisites. I don't think that people would typically go to t
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
I can imagine some people cheating not out of selfishness but just to get by. In the case of a curved class (which has its own set of ethical dilemmas), if nobody cheats then people will be OK on average. But because some people decide to c
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
This happened to me in undergrad with an autograded class. I remember soloing the class and thinking that the assignments were super hard. They would post grade averages for assignments and I was doing worse than usual. I remember a TA post
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
> One issue with social media is because of US laws most networks are age-restricted. Some to 18 and over. Others to 13 and up. We all know that people lie and use them anyway. Where does responsibility for this lie? With the companies?
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
Exactly. Then we'll have abolished the nuclear family and the problem of generational wealth. There will be an equitable distribution of wealth and disparities along racial, sexual, and economic lines will have evaporated. Without gene
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
This seems like something Cicada 3301 would use I wonder how many random videos like this are floating around that are encoding some super secret data...
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
> "On the other hand, if you can point to specific data about the program you're interested in, and the marketable skills or credentials it develops that can lead to a higher-paying job, it might be worth the investment. For in
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
> Irrationally, a high school science teacher typically has massively more "education" coursework than science. Source? All the science teachers I had from middle school onward had genuine qualifications. One of them left the c
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
> I feel that the Economist is resting on its historic good name but has become a simple liberal rag that people use as a virtue signal. You mean liberal as in economically liberal or liberal as in woke liberal? The magazine doesn't
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
I always thought the point of "staying informed" wasn't to have the news inform our everyday decisions but just to have something to talk about. Imo "good news" is the kind that tells us stuff we hadn't known p
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
> Such perks are now the subject of derision. Tech employees who were once encouraged to bring their whole selves to work are publicly mocked as woke crybabies by venture capitalists who see Musk as the leader of a righteous cleanse. ???
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
This topic is something that's been generating a lot of hot takes recently. Personally I think the way to solve it is teaching people to be more mindful of their own emotions. e.g. if seeing someone's artificial presentation of th
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
The CDC doing this (or any public agency for that matter) doesn't bother me, to be frank I think it's expected in order for them to make well-informed policy decisions. What bothers me is that if this data is not anonymized proper
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
Username checks out
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
Considering how the federal gov handled the whole HealthCare.gov fiasco, I doubt the Copyright Office is even capable of deciding on standards for the rest of the country's technical infra. Even then, there'd likely be easy workar
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
Why exactly would someone spend $10-20 on a notebook with fewer pages than the $3 one you can buy at the department store? Like you're just paying over 3x the cost for something that's essentially a commodity It just sounds like p
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by derevaunseraun 4y ago
> I feel the norm here is for the author to be neutral and use quotes and data to express the point. I think if we're bullshitting ourselves about (all) news media we can say it's neutral. But really it's just a bunch of a

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