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> our space is inherently non viral There are communities on the internet that are specifically for these issues. Light advertisement with the consent of various moderators would not be bad idea. /r/NoFap comes to mind specific
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It's hot, arid, and just terrible place to live generally. Except in the Lake Eyre Basin and more eastern areas, generally, the soil is utterly infertile. The land has had no mountain building since the Precambrian, and no Glaciation
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On the other hand, the only platform that provides me with good recommendations to watch things seems to be TikTok. They are not asking me to rate individual videos, and so on. Clearly, there is a way to do recommendations without "rat
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5y ago
Ah. We are only considering physical advantages then. There can be many other advantages that are not physical.
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> fairness (should male born people get female scholarships, compete in women's sports?). A FtM is not hurting anything or taking any opportunities away from anyone really fairness is an issue when considering MtF, but not FtM? why
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Similar situation in Australia. They're called the Stolen Generations, children who were removed from their Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent parents by state agencies and church missions. This happened until the
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> Well this one may differ if you ask a Sunni or a Shi'ite. Prophets are the same in both denominations. I am not sure why you think otherwise.
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> Is it going to become a ceiling roomba What would be the point of a ceiling roomba? Are ceilings ever that dirty to require regular vaccumming?
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I did a degree, and I am jealous of how much stuff is packed into this one. Kinda wish I could take this one to be honest.
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Yeah. I think there's a lot of startups who are sort of emulating the FAANGs because it is "norm". I personally think that's good because I'd rather have everyone have a similar process than have very different proc
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> In Australia I have fortunately not encountered a company that uses these puzzles in interviews. The big ones are definitely doing it. FAANG of course, but also Atlassian, Optiver, Xero, Akuna etc. I am not sure, but maybe it's mo
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6y ago
> event data silently and without consent It's neither silent nor without consent since you were told about it.
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> I can give you examples of rich countries that have lots of unions. Just curious, who would that be? I am guessing some Scandinavian countries, maybe?
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> India is even more democratic than USA, so it's never going to happen. Not according to these folks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index USA is 25, India is 53.
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Honestly, I also took it as throwing shade. I had to read the whole thing and realised that GP clearly wasn't throwing shade. I am wondering why I initially thought that. Maybe a mindset of inherently better software created by Teams t
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>US will be one of the first countries back to normalcy I live in Australia. The country has been to normal for a long time now, and my state specifically had a lockdown at the start of the pandemic, and since August 2020, we have not ha
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This right here. If people look at the actual study, they'll see the number of caveats and various exact conditions where the study proved something, whereas the media tends to pretend that those caveats or conditions don't exist
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This is pretty sweet. I feel like the only thing is that Windows Hello, and other fingerprint/face scanning tech is pretty slow compared to typing in a password, so doubt i'll be using it anytime soon. This is still very interesti
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> I wish we could fund NASA more, make it more risk tolerant, more agile, and more efficient. The Titan boat drone to explore the lakes, last I heard, couldn't be scoped due to resources. Working there requires great patience. I won
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Yet the code targets all links, not previews, just links. This is a cash-grab.
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> The root issue is that media companies no longer make $$$ from ads, instead google does and they want that money back. This is "silly" law to accomplish that goal. The problem is that Media companies didn't lose their re
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I think the point was that we didn't seem to mind that consolidation nor the censorship/biased reporting in those media sources yet want to ask Twittter/Facebook to hold themselves to a new standard. Is it more because it
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Depends on how you look at it. It's tech that has allowed millions to work from their homes during a pandemic, something that has saved thousands of lives that would not have been saved if those people had to go out and mingle among so
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The amount of misinformation and lack of research in this article is very obvious from one example. The article mentions the below: > Even as recently as 2015, El Faro, a cargo ship with 33 on board vanished in the area. First of all, th
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> It's just that none of them will come close to any star for a few hundred thousands of years. I don't believe we have sent anything explicitly for the purpose of reaching another star? Right? Exploring our Solar System with p
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>our civilization already has the technology to send a probe to another star system. Yet we haven't sent anything. Maybe aliens are the same. Maybe they don't have the political will to send anything. Maybe they have their own
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Hm. I don't think I was lecturing anyone. I saw a statement that wasn't logically sound based on my thinking i.e. that what Congresspeople said matters in this discussion. and then I read the speech, and quoted exactly what was &q
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Possibly a typo. I am guessing you mean "Why not then tell us". Australian :) However, again, not sure why that matters. I thought the disclaimer would help to ensure that I don't accused of being a dem or rep or whatever els
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Disclaimer : I am not American, and could care less for your politics. > Can you point to a place where he specifically encouraged trespassing or violence in a way that is more egregious than the ways in which various Congresspeople enco
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> I don't think anyone has ever seriously suggested that the CIA has tampered with the vaccines. They merely co-opted the inoculation process in order to gain a biological sample. Its not about CIA tampering with the vaccines. The a
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