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by dleslie 4y ago
Alcubierre drive or an Einstein-Rosen bridge immediately come to mind.
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by dleslie 4y ago
This sounds like a nothing-burger. > Taylor was “informally referred to... as the chief scientist as efforts to assemble a larger team were underway," and it was not a full-time position. It's a meaningless title he received wh
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by dleslie 4y ago
Am I missing something? It strikes me that 4% isn't exactly a large layoff; it's more within the realm of regular turnover and corporate strategy realignment. > “As part of a continued planning process where we regularly assess
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by dleslie 4y ago
I have a Lego City police station from the mid-80s that has a jail cell.
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by dleslie 4y ago
Well, FWIW it's impossible to find a Pirate set on a brick and mortar shelf, but Lego Friends and similar are still selling reasonably well.
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by dleslie 4y ago
Unofficial, but compatible, period-appropriate military gear is on brickwarriors.com
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by dleslie 4y ago
What amazes me is that it took you 165 attempts for you to put it away. Nothing within reach of children is of any value in my home. I liken having children in my home to living with rising flood waters, which destroy everything in their re
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by dleslie 4y ago
That's clever! I'll recommend that to my niece and daughters.
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by dleslie 4y ago
I've raised two kids from birth to elementary while working from home, as the parent who did the sick care, before and after school care, and so forth. I'll take their company over that of an office any time. At least my kids res
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by dleslie 4y ago
> I also don't really believe people claiming they are losing productivity in WFH, its most likely that they were never productive to begin with and its becoming magnified. Often such comments frame their productivity in terms of im
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by dleslie 4y ago
BigCos need to justify the expenditure of maintaining an office, and the office culture that goes with it: all those over staffed meetings, the HR and management roles that exist primarily to facilitate in-office culture, the facilities sta
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by dleslie 4y ago
Probably not, no; because to cross the corporate power broker is to invite their wrath. It will make future asks of them impossible, or at least costly.
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by dleslie 4y ago
And here is the table with Nim added; though potentially many GC'd languages would be similar to Nim: https://uploads.peterme.net/nimsafe.html Edit: noteworthy addendum: the ARC/ORC features have been released, so
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by dleslie 4y ago
> So it's not that they are running out of people to hire, it's that they are running out of people who have not yet figured out that working for Amazon is a bad deal. My wife is a Physiotherapist; when we lived closer to a ful
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by dleslie 4y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. The uncomfortable truth is that a portion of the union dues for those employed within the criminal justice system will go towards lobbying for harsher sentencing. Eliminating corporate profiteering
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by dleslie 4y ago
I wonder if we should expect similar regulation, within my lifetime, for alcohol and sugary foods? Both are strongly associated with a variety of common diseases, and alcohol itself is seemingly associated with numerous common cancers.
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by dleslie 4y ago
The http://ai/ works with Edge on Android.
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by dleslie 4y ago
Works for Edge on Android.
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by dleslie 4y ago
American culture is rooted in the Christian fundamentalism of the early settlers; orgies are absolutely still salacious and taboo to many in the USA.
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by dleslie 4y ago
I wouldn't expect to find much business or government chatter on Telegram; it doesn't hold much trust with government adjacent security personnel. Moreover, it sounds like they claim to have targeted specific people and groups; th
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by dleslie 4y ago
The first question when building such a beast, or using one, is whether your mutations should be hygienic or not. And thereafter you can consider if you're seeking a powerfully modifiable reader, whether through macros or other, or if
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by dleslie 4y ago
Easily the best: Dungeon Crawl https://crawl.develz.org/ OpenRA https://www.openra.net/ Battle for Wesnoth http://www.wesnoth.org/ FreeCiv http://freeciv.org/ Endless Sky
623.
by dleslie 4y ago
Proof by example: you won't find most self published albums from before the Internet. One of my favorites, by a deceased Quebecois street musician, is definitely not on Spotify. I have the CD, however.
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by dleslie 4y ago
That's generally only true if you listen to Top 40 and major labels. Basically anything else isn't on major streaming services.
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by dleslie 4y ago
I've been a di.fm subscriber for longer than I care to recall. Great service.
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by dleslie 4y ago
Well now you're barking up my tree! Yes, the media climate is just one part of America's cultural illness that leads to such horrific outcomes.
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by dleslie 4y ago
You're willing to believe that China hides the true extent of its problem. I can't argue with you there, because such a conspiracy theory is not easily falsifiable. So compare America to other the liberal democracies in the G8. It
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by dleslie 4y ago
Based on your link, a country of a billion people hasn't had one yet this year, and had just one last year. The USA has had at least 22 this year. It's not comparable. It's not equivocal. It's not worth even considering
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by dleslie 4y ago
All of this is such Yak Shaving. Oh yes, let's deal with our horror and grief by taking a deep dive into the seedy forums full of expression that is distasteful, and try to imagine that somehow this doesn't exist in other language
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by dleslie 4y ago
It's really not. Where and how the shootings were discussed is ancillary to whether they occurred at all. This doesn't happen regularly elsewhere. It's not Discord. It's not 4Chan. It's not any other social network.

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