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by donw 6y ago
Do you have a direct link to a source for that? The candidate's twitter feed or blog, an uncut youtube video, etc.? Emphatically not Fox News, MSNBC, NYT, etc. The lot of them have fully sacrificed their credibility over the past decad
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by donw 6y ago
> Fire extinguishers require regular inspections/refills that, I fear, many home users won’t do. One of my habits is to put inspection dates for things like fire extinguishers, fire alarm batteries, emergency water, etc. into my cal
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by donw 6y ago
Or you go to their manager and to your HR department. Good companies provide more than one escalation path.
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by donw 6y ago
Weird, must be me. I, once again, stand corrected. :)
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by donw 6y ago
Doesn’t appear to be clickable on mobile (or at least not iOS, just tried)
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by donw 6y ago
I know what I’d add: a link to the project from the article. :)
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by donw 6y ago
The takeaway here is that businesses below a certain size should face less regulation. This makes sense, both because regulatory capture is a real problem, and because smaller businesses have far less legal and economic leverage. Modulo EBI
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by donw 6y ago
Because people are often irrational. Dilbert's pointy-haired boss resonates with a lot of office workers for a reason. We've all had, or at least heard about, that boss who was utterly incompetent, who masked that incompetence i
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by donw 6y ago
I honestly think something like this makes a lot more sense. First year or so, you're in a probationary period. Unemployment benefits will kick in, but you and the company are still feeling each other out. After that, you get certain p
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by donw 6y ago
Buildings in Japan tend to have names as well: Mori Building, Takakawa Building, etc.
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by donw 6y ago
Credibility goes right out the window when you say "No large gatherings! Unless they're a protest/riot for a cause we support! Or a funeral for a late supreme court justice on our side." If you want people to follow rule
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by donw 6y ago
> 6. If your sense of self-worth and purpose is derived from making meaningful contributions to the family, community, and society, you're no longer pidgeonholed into the role of being a child. As such, I think a lot of the tensions
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by donw 6y ago
I’ve incorporated in CA before. Top poster is correct.
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by donw 6y ago
> They paid big money for it, and the universities were happy to grab the money fast And how. International students in the US pay outrageous tuition fees. > Some of this people were forced to go after their student visa expired. Th
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by donw 6y ago
And to ensure that manufacturing moved to China! Or at the very least, proximate to its geographical sphere of influence. Honestly, it was a brilliant move on their part. Everybody seems to focus on university, but there is a lot of very ha
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by donw 6y ago
And then you get the Replication Crisis[1], in which we find that a shockingly large number of studies in the social sciences failed to meet the bar for scientific fact. There are plenty of "actual facts", spoken by "experts&
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by donw 6y ago
I stand corrected! Pretty sure it holds for hominids, though.
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by donw 6y ago
It does. We can see a very strong correlation between brain size, and overall intelligence within the animal kingdom. The larger the brain, the smarter the animal. Effectively, GPT-3 has a bigger brain.
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by donw 6y ago
People do all kinds of things for different reasons, and when talking about large groups -- network engineers, security professionals, &c -- you really can't boil down the group and distill the traits of the individual. Early in my
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by donw 6y ago
The biggest issue is the lock-in. Most people can't move to get access to good schools. It's like "you live in a McDonalds area, so tough luck, that's what your family gets to eat until you are rich enough to move somewh
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by donw 6y ago
No. We spend more per student than nearly every one of our economic peers and get drastically worse results. Results have gotten worse over time, even though we have increased funding. This is a portrait of total failure, and we need to
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by donw 6y ago
Both "Forgotten Weapons" and "In Range" are fantastic. Forgotten Weapons introduced me to a lot of firearms history of which I was totally unaware. Things like the Liberator[1] and 2-Bore rifles[2], although with the lat
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by donw 6y ago
> It's not as dangerous as the media portrays. I strongly suspect that is a universal truth.
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by donw 6y ago
As a mathematician, I heartily agree.
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by donw 6y ago
I would actually call this a bit of an antipattern. `accuracy` seems fine to me -- although a more descriptive function name than `FuncName` might suggest a better parameter name as well. Digging through the dictionary to find the perfect w
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by donw 6y ago
Work remotely.
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by donw 6y ago
What’s wrong with a clever person becoming a truly amazing welder? Or a dentist (professional tracks do not require university)?
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by donw 6y ago
I have met plenty of absolute morons with university degrees. University is, for most people, a massive waste of time and money. Not because they are stupid, but because going to university does not further their life goals. It certainly di
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by donw 6y ago
Yup, I spend a lot of time in Utah. And what your sister is doing is actually illegal in Utah, but also largely unenforced. Which is also another topic -- too many laws, most of which aren't enforced, and need to go away.
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by donw 6y ago
I don't think that UoP is being disparaged -- it just sounds a bit odd to tie a virtual university to a physical place. On the other hand, "University of 4Chan" doesn't have the same ring to it.

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