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by hguant 4y ago
Superficially, FAANG offering massive compensation packages to anyone who fits their model of "Stanford/MIT degree, willing to suffer through LeetCode challenges", which has a massive effect on the market for SWE, as it chang
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by hguant 4y ago
Dumb answer: because SS and Medicare pay for "real" goods and services and have to interact with the main street economy, whereas FDIC acts in conjunction with the Federal Reserve, and the effects aren't seen by the public -
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by hguant 4y ago
> IceCube Neutrino Observatory (funny name lol) It's also an incredibly descriptive and literal name - the observatory is a cubic kilometer of photosensitive detectors frozen in ice at the south pole. When a neutrino interacts with
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by hguant 4y ago
Or in any situation where there's necrotic tissue! They're incredibly selective about only eating dead tissue.
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by hguant 4y ago
Breaking down the full context of the sentence makes it easier to parse >notionally hedged against on paper, SVB had protection from... >...interest-rate duration risk the danger that rising interest rates would mean it lost money on
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by hguant 4y ago
American Protestantism remains heavily influenced by Calvin and early Puritan groups who had very strict ideas of how one should act. One is only _saved_ by grace, but one should _live_ according to the will of God.
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by hguant 4y ago
...this is an incredibly disingenuous reading of the stated proposal. #4 alone isn't "covid safety", it includes a reinstatement of COVID benefits and pay. "Protecting pay for store closures...and for workers who leave e
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by hguant 4y ago
>They rise from the core mantle boundary, but they're basically temperature features, not structural features. my understanding was that this was not actually a settled topic, and there was ongoing debate as to whether or not they w
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by hguant 4y ago
The argument is that the University, by requiring a DEI statement/commitment, is creating a situation where it's forcing speech. "Forced Speech" is one of those things the First Amendment/government get tetchy about
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by hguant 4y ago
>I'm not sure how it squares with a university's First Amendment right to freedom of association. The short answer from the courts is - if you take money from the federal government, in any way, or have students who take money
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by hguant 4y ago
I know some of the Canadian provincial governments were looking at using airships to provide a means of supplying some of the more remote northern towns - because of weather/terrain conditions, you can't build a rail head that far
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by hguant 4y ago
So you're changing the goalposts here and asking for defense of a statement the post doesn't make. The statement was that "the US surface Navy has...been deferring maintenance," not that it was cutting the budget for mai
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by hguant 4y ago
A good article, and part of what turned me onto this issue a few years back, is this piece by ProPublica investigating the USS Fitzgerald and McCain crashes https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/us-navy-crash..
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by hguant 4y ago
This is an ongoing issue with the US Navy, and mirrors similar post hoc justifications from organizations that use political[1] justifications to rationalize slipping standards - NASA changing their go/no-go criteria in order to achie
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by hguant 4y ago
Because gold is incredibly non-reactive?
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by hguant 4y ago
It's part of the standard nomenclature, and has its origins in mountaineering - there's a point climbing a mountain where the altitude is thin enough that there's not enough atmospheric oxygen to sustain human life. The idea
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by hguant 4y ago
I'd be more for this if Mozilla didn't have a habit of sneaking in actively privacy hostile "updates" and enabling them by default.
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by hguant 4y ago
I view these less as actionable items, and more as character hallmarks. No you don't need to actively be making sure you're doing All The Things by iterating through this every day. Yes these are things that should be captured by
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by hguant 4y ago
Churchill's Second World War books are an incredibly easy read for how information dense they are, as is his "History Of the English Speaking People."
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by hguant 4y ago
>People have lived in Death Valley for millennium, not sure why that one would be at all interesting. _Lived_ in Death Valley is not _self contained and perpetually self reliant_ in Death Valley. My understanding is that those peoples wh
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by hguant 4y ago
>Senior devs are nowhere to be found through regular applicant pipelines. They seem to be leaving as a result of reaching out to friends/former colleagues. Anecdotal, and I wouldn't call myself senior dev (though, with 10 years
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by hguant 4y ago
>Looks like rockets were invented before a global war broke out with peaceful intentions, then the military used that invention for violence, as a global war broke out. This presupposes that the V2 is the first use of rocketry in history
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by hguant 4y ago
I believe you're misreading the breakdown - I read that as "23% of budget goes to personnel costs, which include paychecks (for active duty), healthcare (for military and their dependents until 26), and retirement for vets" I
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by hguant 4y ago
>Being a Disney aficionado, I have to note: the price in the 60s was only to get in the park. You had to buy separate tickets for each attraction once you were in The article literally covers this, both in their infographic for Disney, a
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by hguant 4y ago
The approach Stranger Things (at least, in the first, best, season) uses to suspend disbelief is to invoke a sense of child-like wonder, AND terror. Our protagonists are, by and large, children, or emerging from childhood into the lived bod
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by hguant 4y ago
Oh sure, the in-universe explanation is that the fallen Valar Melkor, who became known as Morgoth the Black after his destruction of the Trees of the Valar, used his might to pervert and destroy the works of the other 11/12 Valar and &
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by hguant 4y ago
>geology science explaining why it's impossible. Mordor is...it just doesn't work. It's a hard scrabble plain with a large inland sea bounded on 3 sides by jagged, abrupt mountains that are entirely isolated from any other
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by hguant 4y ago
Critiquing the Cultural Revolution has been acceptable since 1981 when Deng published/authorized the party's second "Resolution on History," which laid out officially that there were "excesses" during the Cultu
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by hguant 4y ago
>Eyes Wide Shut? Tangent about this: There was a very interesting Roger Ebert review of Eyes Wide Shut that addressed some of the criticism of Tom Cruise's acting in that film. Cruise had been described as "wooden" and Ebe

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