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Despite the fact the election results in the 45th Senatorial District have been certified by the secretary of state, Senate Republicans took matters into their own hands, and citing a technical rule, they announced Monday that they wouldn’t
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Pennsylvania GOP state senators' refuse to seat Democrat who had won reelection(edition.cnn.com)
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> you and every one of your coworkers would be financially secure enough to quit at the drop of a hat If i worked at Google, where SWE's are earning above 120K at a graduate level. I would hope so. I don't earn that sort of mon
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> and they're free to keep paying me to do something else instead But I am guessing they're not free to fire you, right? So, it's not really "take-it-or-leave-it" but more "take-it-or-choose-something-else&q
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> Isn't that their right? That's a great question. I don't know if it is. Unless they are shareholders of the company (granted, many FTEs are shareholders), what is it that gives them the right to influence a company based
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> it's great that you're in a position to walk to if you don't like your employment situation From a person who doesn't work in Google, or Big Tech, or even in SV. This is one of the reasons why these attempts at unio
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> Go through the Leetcode gauntlet once and get credentialed The issue here is thinking that the Leetcode gauntlet matters at all in most jobs. A certification for Leetcode shouldn't matter when all I do is HTML, CSS, and JS to call
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> They didn't sign up for that stuff I find this sentiment quite weird honestly. The "contract" between the employee and the employer is that the employee does what the employer asks of them, and in return gets paid for hi
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> Those are inherently 'rules based' societies though where government also has an incredible amount of power to intervene. Australia had a lockdown. The state I am in had a complete lockdown where our borders were even closed
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>NoFap How is people recognising that they have a problem and are unhealthily addicted to something somehow a bad thing? High speed ultra hd pornogrpahy desensitises the mind into looking for constantly more "extreme" content l
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In the coming decades, this will start to become a very important question I fear. What happens when "cashing on genetics" is something you can buy. Children being primed with the "best" possible genetics to ensure they&
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and I'll add, It's not just fast, its incredibly beautiful and a joy to browse. Thankyou :) Its added to my list of inspiration for beautiful simple websites.
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I have been looking for a place like this. A small cabin with good internet where I can be alone but also a communal area where I can meet other people when I get cabin fever. It would genuinely be perfect for me.
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Interestingly. There's bound to be more people using Bing in the Silicon Valley bubble than outside it. This is because duckduckgo, the famed privacy focused search engine uses Bing as the back end.
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and like nuclear power, it is the politics that will kill* it, not the technological progress. * - Yes, Nuclear is not dead, but is not being used anywhere close to the potential it has i.e. effectively dead.
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and whatever is there, their need to be child-friendly tends to block or worse, make them edit movies. There was a scene in the 1984 Splash where a naked butt is seen, the re-edited scene went fairly viral where they tired to extend the lon
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I want to mine something. You don't want to mine it. Therefore, pay me and I won't. Sounds like business deal to me. If I am going to not earn money from a resource that is mine because of you, then you need to pay me back for tha
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> We currently have a massive shortage in talent to do the job This is not at all true for the entry level market. This might be case for mid-level or even seniors but the entry level market is so saturated that these tests are bound to
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Sure. But we aren't building more nukes. Breaking MAD means breaking the one fundamental principle/fact that has truly meant peace for quite a few years now. If we could maintain or improve this level so that wars are much less co
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I honestly think this is a great model for other greenfield technologies, that further humanity but wouldn't be profitable enough at the start for the capitalistic system to move into it. I truly believe this is how we will have to sol
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Isn't this essentially triggering another arms race? The US finding a way to way counteract MAD means that the nukes China, Russia, etc have are all useless in an attack against US meaning now there is an arms race to develop something
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> Instagram for things like TikTok or Snap Snap died when Instagram stories became a thing. TikTok is pretty huge, but depending on what the next administration does to it, that should dictate its future.
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> How the hell is it "extremely inaccessible" for "most" people? Because most people don't own Macs. The last Windows compatible version of Safari was back in 2012 or so, and as far as I know, it was never availa
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Anyone who actually reads the article can see that this news is entirely pointless. Mainly due to the following snippet : > As a political appointee, Richwine is required to submit his resignation to President-elect Joe Biden, a letter t
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I am glad that this is a thing but saying it is rivalling Amazon is hyperbole.
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>One problem is that clients hate it I've seen this personally as well. Especially with non-Software clients, the psychology you're battling seems to be that "they're ripping us off" since most of the work you&#x
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> Besides, not having even a drop of water for longer than 12 hours during summer is dangerous, not only to fasting people themselves but to the society as a whole since they drive cars and they have higher rate of fainting during that.
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> I've noticed that once you get past the first "hump" of hunger pangs, famish subsides into the background, and I'd imagine it is at this point where the metaphorical "adrenaline" dosage is injected by natu
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I mean, there's the religious "high". But I think the goal behind it is to allow one to feel how those who are much more unfortunate than us feel on a hot summer's day and so on.
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Islam tends to prohibit things that "affect" your mind, or are addictive, as well as things that might harm the body since the body is apparently "on-loan" from god. That's why I thought Smoking would fall under tha

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