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by dx87 6y ago
Yeah, PDFs frequently don't work at all in FF for me, I'd be suprised if anyone set it as the default.
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by dx87 6y ago
It looks like both of the authors are academics with no actual experience in intelligence work. Considering how much intelligence work is classified and non-public, their conclusion sounds like the equivalent of claiming that there is no pr
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by dx87 6y ago
I can't find it, but I remember reading a study posted here that said the downsides from sun exposure are outweighed by the upsides of getting enough vitamin D. The reasoning was that the issues caused by vitamin D deficiency aren&#x27
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by dx87 6y ago
"Turn the other cheek" sounds nice in grade school and self-help blogs, but you can't just let yourself get taken advantage of in order to maintain some arbitrary moral high ground.
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by dx87 6y ago
"The top" of the military is very small, and considering the majority of the military is white anyway, it's expected that it'd be mostly white. Anecdotally, I saw much more diverse leadership in the military than I'
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by dx87 6y ago
If the author had stuck to the sentences you quoted, I'd agree. The problem is, they had to throw in the comment about it being a bunch of old white men, as though the color of someone's skin tells you everything you need to know
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by dx87 6y ago
It's not an issue because of that. The author was implying that the military isn't diverse enough, even though the branches of the military work to ensure they have at least a certain percentage of their forces as minorities.
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by dx87 6y ago
It's neither an issue, nor a national security concern. All branches of the military actively try to increase the amount of minorities they recruit, and it's just rediculous of the author to claim that a group of people that is pr
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by dx87 6y ago
Same. I think covid has made a lot of people question the idea of relying on a few large suppliers for all their needs, and expect we'll start seeing neighborhood farms to provide supplemental produce in preparation for future events t
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by dx87 6y ago
I think the speakers aren't diverse by design, but they've made the community very inclusive, so the speakers are naturally diverse by being a representation of the community. I've always thought it's impressive how the
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by dx87 6y ago
In some cases, yes. California farms are having problems finding people to work in fields since border control got tighter, and American's don't want to do the work, even for $15+ an hour. The farm owners said they're switch
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by dx87 6y ago
> Now we have a lot of governors issuing decrees based on emergency authorities that they’ve been using for six months. This is quite simply a conflict with our basic notion of democracy. We do not have rulers, yet our governors are issu
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by dx87 6y ago
> One interesting thing I noticed is my kids who have grown up with touchscreens think that everything is a touchscreen I've talked to teachers who said that they've started seeing young children with picture books doing the zo
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by dx87 6y ago
I thought the same thing, and there's no way using a resistance band feels anything like an actual punch. It looks like what DDR is to dancing, which to be fair, is how I lost a good amount of weight in high school.
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by dx87 6y ago
That worked so well with CHAZ/CHOP...
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by dx87 6y ago
This reminds me of something I read in a book about self love, where it's easy to confuse what you do with who you are. For example, someone who acts shy in large groups of people might start to think that they are a shy person, and th
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by dx87 6y ago
That's rarely the case as it is. The majority of wealthy families lose their money in just a few generations if they aren't actively working to maintain it. https://money.com/rich-families-lose-wealth/
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by dx87 6y ago
I've talked to someone who administers polygraphs, and they said the machine is mostly theatre, but that there is normally someone watching you through a hidden camera or double sided mirror to see how you act when you think someone is
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by dx87 6y ago
Gotcha, thanks for the feedback. I've never done professional software development, it's just something I picked up to broaden my skillset, so it's good to know that the concerns aren't really an issue in practice. Regar
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by dx87 6y ago
Yeah, I've been using Rust for hobby stuff for the past few years, and I never paid much attention to how many dependencies get pulled in. I checked recently with the postgres crate, and that one crate resulted in just under 100 depend
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by dx87 6y ago
This trend towards huge dependency trees has started to turn me off getting serious about learning software development. It seems like unless you want to make a toy program, you end up with hundreds of dependencies, most of which are made b
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by dx87 6y ago
From what I've seen on the mailing lists, he seems a lot like Linus, where he's only rude if he thinks you should know better, or if you make an objectively stupid suggestion. I've regularly seen contributors being rude and i
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by dx87 6y ago
This is the equivalent of saying exercise is bad because "People who engage in physical activities sometimes experience unwanted muscle soreness and joint pain". Dredging up old repressed emotions is one of the first things I lear
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by dx87 6y ago
I think you're right. Unless the thermometer was broken, I remember a couple of days when the temperature was over 130 in Iraq during Summer. It was just one of the cheap thermometers that looks like a big wall clock though, so I don&#
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by dx87 6y ago
Since it looks like you didn't read the article before going on a rant, I'll paste the relevant portion for you. >Death Valley famously holds the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth, which is 134 degrees.
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by dx87 6y ago
I was in Kuwait at the end of July back around 2010, and the temperature was in the 120s. I remember getting off the airplane and thinking that we were walking through the exhaust of the jet engine, until I realized that's just how the
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by dx87 6y ago
It might be something to do with the age of employees. I work at a company where the average age is probably early 30s, and maybe a handful of people would come into the office back when it was still optional, everyone else wanted to stay h
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by dx87 6y ago
Not everyone has to deal with that though; some have supportive families and social circles. It's like when people say that everyone in the military is a hero, even if they have no idea what the person did in the military. People do th
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by dx87 6y ago
I think it depends on how they maintain their social circle. If they spend most of their time in online communities, it'd be easy to surround themselves with people telling them how brave and beautiful they are for transitioning. Abiga
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by dx87 6y ago
> When did he give them what information exactly? He gave them the information when he got to China. > The two sides disagree whether he attempted this. Snowden say he spent tremendous effort trying to report things through the proper

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