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by eszed 2y ago
> Today, we engage with poems less as aesthetic objects worthy of sustained attention, and more as convenient units of online discourse. The medium is the message. Again.
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by eszed 2y ago
> TSLA has made your ETF appreciate the same amount That's no guarantee. I mean, yes, the ETF price reflects its proportion of Tesla stock, but the market as a whole might have declined - even in bear markets some individual stocks
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by eszed 2y ago
Ah, fair point. My 2008 graduate school loans were 6.8%, when the prime rate was 3-something%, so I'm reacting to old grudges. (And, of course, much higher interest rates, which I still haven't thoroughly assimilated.) Looks like
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by eszed 2y ago
I know any number of people with STEM degrees who are unable to think critically or reason from first principles. STEM are also, I think, the wrong field(s) in which to rely on critical thinking to, _broadly speaking_, be taught. The techni
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by eszed 2y ago
As a graduate from and former professor at small private liberal arts colleges, #3 is spot-on. Don't even consider it. The rest of the advice is excellent, as well. Unless the world is very, very different ~15 years from now (and God,
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by eszed 2y ago
> close to the prime rate Where do you get that? Federal loans are currently 6.5% for undergraduate, 8-something% for graduate. Private loans are higher than that.
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by eszed 2y ago
That's the very article I remembered, but couldn't find, when I wrote my comment.Your google-fu is better than mine!
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by eszed 2y ago
You'd want to have cash on hand to cover your short position or you risk having to sell (potentially a lot of) your ETF to cover, which loses out on future whole-market upside. Still seems risky to me. Or am I thinking about it wrong?
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by eszed 2y ago
The lie I was told: "it has more electrons than it can stably accommodate, so it will give some up to anything around that can accommodate more°". What's the next level where that breaks down? °Though the Benjamin-Franklin-re
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by eszed 2y ago
TIL: > Suffrage was available to most women and African Americans in New Jersey immediately upon the formation of the state. The first New Jersey state constitution (of 1776) allowed any person who owned a certain value of property to be
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by eszed 2y ago
Indeed. However, parliamentary democracies have a better track record of stability than federal structures (modeled after that of the US). Adjust for cultural and historical differences as you see fit, but the US has heretofore been an outl
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by eszed 2y ago
I don't think michaelt was confused; I think he was making the exact point that you are.
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by eszed 2y ago
~35 years ago, my mother worked in a clinic in central America. One of the more-memorable patients was a 15-year old who arrived without a left index finger. Unlike most people who'd have appeared in that condition, he was jubilant. He
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by eszed 2y ago
Agreed. The company I work for has fought off two "ADA trolls" in the past ~3 years. I'm fully behind accessibility, and we design/develop our website specifically to conform with best-practice; I get, and generally ac
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by eszed 2y ago
I genuinely do have at least one memory from the age of two, because it was a completely banal event that no one told stories about (my grandmother moved to a new office, lol), nor certainly photographed, that I (because I remembered it) as
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by eszed 2y ago
Lidar scanning to create a 3d image model, for those of only here for the "tech" question. The article is worth a read, though.
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by eszed 2y ago
Indeed. And there are formal procedures to, and both legal and administrative oversight over, those investigations. It's not appropriate for the Chief Executive (far less an unappointed private citizen, in charge of an ad hoc advisor
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by eszed 2y ago
I once saw an account from one of the early European expeditions to the area (possibly Portolla's, but I wouldn't swear to it) who made the mistake of camping atop (what was later named) Mt Davis, only to be kept awake all night b
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by eszed 2y ago
It's totalitarian if the government does it. Private citizens are allowed (Free Speech) to make private judgments of this sort, even if their reasoning / conclusions are ludicrous or unsavory.
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by eszed 2y ago
A "weaker" version of this is to ask your driver personal questions. Obviously stop if they make it really clear they don't want to talk at all, but there's a psychology about talking to strangers you know you won&#x27
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by eszed 2y ago
Yeah, that's because climate control is crap. When I get into the car and it's 45° I want to a) get some hot air on my feet and hands, and b) warm the cabin up to a comfortable temperature ASAP. The standard climate control system
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by eszed 2y ago
They especially want to gut the IRS. Look at how understaffed their enforcement division has been, for years.
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by eszed 2y ago
I'm having a difficulty understanding your last point: > If you don't think morality and truthe[ sic ] are real and goodness is a part of nature you are still living in violation of that and that's probably why you have a
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by eszed 2y ago
Dropbox claims that it can achieve HIPAA-compliance, and I personally know two (large and serious) organizations who use it as such. https://help.dropbox.com/security/hipaa-hitech-overview In keeping with the theme of
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by eszed 2y ago
You may not have been able to find that saying because its more-usual version is "Katy, bar the door": https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/katy-bar-the-door.html
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by eszed 2y ago
China is homogeneous?
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by eszed 2y ago
> It is a very young forest That's what I meant - sorry that wasn't clear. I remember being taught, '80s -' 90s, that the Amazonian rainforest ecosystem had existed in basically its present form for thousands of years
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by eszed 2y ago
It seems extraordinary to me that in the past ~decade the idea of Amazonia being this primordial rainforest has been demolished. I'm now curious whether there's any trace of this in the ethnology and folklore of the native people
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by eszed 2y ago
This one got me, y'all. I'm sitting here imagining how it would feel to cram everyone you love most in the world into a poorly-provisioned plane, point its nose towards the ocean, and - with their lives measured by fuel in the tan
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by eszed 2y ago
> I struggle with every word in long form writing. So does every good writer. A full workload for a fast fiction writer is ~1000 words a day. That's, like, an aspiration for most full-time professional novelists. There's a (p

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