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by ejb999 4y ago
>>If you give Jeff he benefit of the doubt here, Sorry, not giving a virtue-signaling billionaire the 'benefit of the doubt' - he explicitly says that race was taken into account when deciding who to fire and who not to - th
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by ejb999 4y ago
So it is part of Twilio's corporate culture to virtue signal?
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by ejb999 4y ago
What can it possibly mean except when given the choice, they chose people to layoff based on their skin color - so in other words, in trying to show they are not racist, they made firing decisions based on race, not based on seniority or pe
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by ejb999 4y ago
Thalidomide helped with nausea too.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>the problem is that people don't read it. More likely, they probably can't wade thru the noise to find it - search cannabis and health and be prepared to search thru hundreds, if not ten's of thousands of pages of pro
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by ejb999 4y ago
I read the article, and this is what I found: >>"So far, there has not been any concrete evidence that points to Niemann cheating." So question is, did you read the article?
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>I would take a smart doctor motivated by money over a dumber one motivated by caring for people. Luckily we don't have to make that choice, we can have the best of the best - the smartest people who want to go into medicine for
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>There are lot of people who don't go to a doctor when they should. and there are an awful lot of people, even if it is free or paid for by a great health insurance plan that ALSO don't go to the doctor when they should - t
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Oh come on, they could start by accepting everyone with a 3.5+ and decent MCAT instead of requiring that you have a 3.95, volunteering experience, clinical experience, and near perfect MCATs. The path is unattractive because it&#x27
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by ejb999 4y ago
most software billed as having 'ML' capabilities is just basic statistical analysis anyway - but that doesn't make for good marketing-speak.
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by ejb999 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krHkjdnniDE is what you are referring to.
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by ejb999 4y ago
wasting limited resources on initiatives that save less lives per dollar spent vs other initiatives that save more lives and/or cost less per lived saved IS the enemy of the good. my own example - I live in a tiny town at about 1700 ft
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>"Yet some local governments are still not taking extreme heat seriously" Given that extreme heat is not even close to being at the top 50 ways that Americans die on an annual basis, it seems to me that there is much better
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Did this even happen? I cannot find any articles in which miners were told to learn to code. Then I guess you really didn't look to hard: https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>I wouldn't directly subsidize it though, that would become bigger shackles than work provided health care. Correct, factory towns worked out great for the factory owners - not so much for the people that worked there. Having a
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by ejb999 4y ago
He shouldn't worry, that sentence will probably be cut in half anyway, and with another 100 years off for good behavior.
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by ejb999 4y ago
not every country does allow it, but you don't have to buy to cause a problem for locals - just be willing to pay more rent than a local can afford is enough of a problem to price others(locals) out.
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by ejb999 4y ago
correct, it is a steel framed bike, covered with concrete - not a concrete bike.
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by ejb999 4y ago
what an incredibly one-sided and purposefully misleading article; sadly 95% of people will just read the headline, assume it must be true and move on. Mission accomplished.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>While this is true, I wonder if the union is still representative of the workers. In my experience, people negotiating the contract rarely have the best interest of the rank-and-file employees. I have negotiated several union contra
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by ejb999 4y ago
same here - where I live (my town) density is 53 ppl/sq mi - thats what I like - but I also happen to live in a state that has a much more dense population in other areas (one of the top 5 most dense states) - so I live in a dense stat
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>I cannot imagine living in a population density of of 742 people per mi² (287 per Km²). Can't tell from your comment - do you think that is higher-density or lower-density compared to where you are now? That is high compared to
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>You end up with a lot of decisions being made by the minority that (1) feels strongly and (2) is willing to speak up. ...and don't forget to include the wonderboy/girl from the overpaid consulting firms that come in and te
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by ejb999 4y ago
another vote for Brave browser - switched and never looked back.
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by ejb999 4y ago
As someone that works with complex json objects on an almost daily basis, this looks like it will become part of my daily toolkit - nice job.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>A not insignificant portion of our population buys into the myth that government is fundamentally incapable of providing timely and cost-effective services like this. but in this case, they are not 'providing timely and cost-ef
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by ejb999 4y ago
you mean like my kid's class a few years back, where the 'textbook' was about $75, and was written by the person getting paid to teach the class, and was just about 150 pages of plain white paper stapled together with no bind
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Life is very short. If living in a walkable city is a major goal of yours, just move to one now rather than waiting and hoping your not-walkable city will transform itself. I agree, and not really sure why there are so many posts on
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>You’re used to 1G. But a lot of people are used to a lot more and a lot less. Trust me, I am not used to it (at least not yet)- I have only had it for 5+ months - I have been WFH for more than 25 years and only had access to 3Mbs DS
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by ejb999 4y ago
its weird, I live in a tiny little town with about 400 households and I now have access to 1G symmetrical fiber for about $80/month - but we (the town) had to pay for the fiber build out with increases taxes and user fees...well worth

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