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by dwater 5y ago
I was a teacher for almost a decade. I had a fulfilled sense of purpose and was miserable doing it. I was also paid poorly. For the past 6 years I've been doing data work for government contractors. I feel no sense of purpose with the
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by dwater 5y ago
I work less than half as much over the course of a year as a senior tech consultant than I ever did as a public school teacher. No question. And my salary doubled within 2 years, is set to hit triple now in year 6, and my stress is so much
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by dwater 5y ago
I was a teacher and my experience was that I always felt administration as a whole was counter productive, but almost all of the administrators I could think of were really great. They were great teachers who had great relationships with st
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by dwater 5y ago
I first became a US urban biker in 2003 before urban bike infrastructure really existed in the US, and I always felt and still feel safest riding on streets that have lots of traffic and no bike lane. Most US bike lanes are just paint betwe
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by dwater 5y ago
Arithmetic (mental math) is a skill that must be practiced like juggling. I used to be a high school math teacher and spent a few hours a day working problems on the board. I got to the point where I could work through stats problems with 3
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by dwater 5y ago
Of the 700+ people charged for their participation in the January 6th Capitol riot, 11 have been charged with seditious conspiracy. 225 people were charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or employees. More than 75 of those
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by dwater 5y ago
It has a linear scale not a log scale, and it's also not relative to anything, such as GDP. Here's an alternative that shows debt relative to GDP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Public_debt_percent_of_GD..
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by dwater 5y ago
That sounds exactly like what MLK was describing: "Often the Negro does not even want what he takes; he wants the experience of taking. But most of all, alienated from society and knowing that this society cherishes property above peop
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by dwater 5y ago
What do you think is different now from how offshoring has been done for the past 20+ years in the tech sector? Or 50+ years in manufacturing? My employer has thousands of engineers in India, and yet they are still hiring as many US based e
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by dwater 5y ago
US Route 1 is already an interstate highway with 4+ lanes through the area you're talking about. Development was encouraged down the I95 corridor since its creation and the density that has resulted pretty much makes this unavoidable.
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by dwater 5y ago
I think the layperson wants the fine to be big enough that it disincentivizes the bad behavior that resulted in the fine and behavior like it. JP Morgan recorded $12.1 Billion profit in 2020, so a fine of $125 Million is about 1% of their a
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by dwater 5y ago
tqdm & click make a nice CLI pairing for taking a simple idea and turning into a reusable tool that you can feel good about sharing in minutes.
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by dwater 5y ago
Yes, and it's an increasing problem for coastal communities. https://www.miamidade.gov/global/water/conservation/saltwate...
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by dwater 5y ago
Slavery was abolished unilaterally, not as a reversal of the political polarization, and it could be argued that although the explicit practice of slavery is no longer polarizing, Jim Crow laws and their modern antecedents such as The South
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by dwater 5y ago
Lead is still popular in alloying metals because it's ductile, easy to work, and easy to machine. I would assume if I was buying a brass product made in China it would have lead in it. I try to buy copper and brass plumbing products ma
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by dwater 5y ago
When I searched for the definition of indoctrination I get this: "The process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically." What I see in your examples does sound like teaching a set of beliefs, but there
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by dwater 5y ago
When the forums went paid and semi private, a few boards were created for sharing music, porn, and torrents. AFAIK you could never see they existed without a paid account. The last time I logged in with a paid account was more than 15 years
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by dwater 5y ago
Can you explain what non-fungible digital assets are? Because the reason I think NFTs are a scam is that I think of digital assets as inherently fungible.
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by dwater 5y ago
FYI Ubiquiti slashed their US based employees a couple of years ago, both engineers and support. Don't expect similar treatment in the future. You can see the change in responsiveness looking at their support forums.
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by dwater 5y ago
Highlights • Cigarette smoking contributed to 11.7% (more than $225 billion) of annual healthcare spending in the U.S. in 2014. ... Conclusions Cigarette smoking exacts a substantial economic burden in the U.S. Continuing efforts to impleme
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by dwater 5y ago
Can you explain what you mean by "the natural state"? Your argument assumes an understanding of what that is, but the picture I have in my mind when I read that phrase is not scarcity of everything.
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by dwater 5y ago
I was never a big writer, but in middle school in the mid 90's I certainly exchanged notes with my girlfriend that were over a page in length daily.
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by dwater 5y ago
I've seen this dynamic play out in my small city with breweries. The wealthy class opened breweries in order to revitalize neighborhoods they had bought large amounts of property in, and they ended up making profits on the scale off $1
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by dwater 5y ago
My first installation in 1995 or 1996 was from a set of about 12 overwritten AOL floppy disks my friend had built from his installation of Slackware onto a 386SX. Later I got a 486 with a first gen 1x Sony CDROM drive that had it's own
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by dwater 5y ago
The sharpest segment on that graph is since July 2020. If you bought any time other than November 2004 - November 2007, it was cheaper than it's been in the past 14 months. If you already own a home and have equity you are probably fin
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by dwater 5y ago
I have an acquaintance who I know made ~$1500 in 2 weeks, just after work occasionally. She had been on the site already, the only reason I know the amount made during that time is she did it as a fundraiser and donated it all to a non-prof
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by dwater 5y ago
Because this piece is an op-ed, they've only told their side of the story. It is also true that the number of Black students admitted went from 6 to 33, an increase of 550%, and Hispanic went from 16 to 62, an increase of 288%.
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by dwater 5y ago
When I took the TJ test ~25 years ago it was much like every other standardized test I took in school like the Iowa tests and the SAT, which are generally regarded in the field of education not as measures of mental capacity or scholastic a
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by dwater 5y ago
More effective than caffeine but not as effective as adderall, with the unwanted speedy feeling side effects also being in between.
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by dwater 5y ago
I interviewed a guy for a dev job a while back who had written software for a consumer embroidery machine just because he had one and wanted it to work better, that had turned into a pretty good side business and it sounded like he had the

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