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> I'm perfectly fine with people not being able to pronounce my name... I'll give it my best shot, but if it's not happening, it's just not happening. It's hard to square this with all of the frustration you'
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1y ago
YouTube Music still supports uploads. https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/9716522
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> Google Play Music: I had uploaded thousands of MP3 files there. They killed it. I won't waste my time uploading again. You can argue whether it's as good as GPM or not, but it's false to imply that your uploaded music di
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1y ago
It's worse than that, as the linked TC article links to an explanation of his ban-worthy views that, if applied to everyone, would lean to a ban of probably 85% of the US. (Purposefully not referencing them here. The question is not wh
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>Same question. 14m people who are being excluded from labor, are they not free to attempt to generate income via means other than labor, lest they suffer the judgement of Abraham? This makes no sense. Is it really your claim that 14 mil
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> OK, so what is to be done when access to labor is gatekept? The unemployment rate in the US is 4.3%. Before you say anything, the U-6 rate is 8.1%.
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1y ago
Ehh... language learning drop off rates for all methods is really high. It's a subject that people view as attractive, but it's really hard.
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> And the State Department's FSI estimates are unfortunately pretty accurate for hours to fluency [1]. It's worth noting that the FSI estimates are hours of direct classroom instruction, and that FSI cares a lot more about inpu
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That intro... Yeah Dyson's are pricy, but is it really necessary to put on a hair shirt just to write about it? If you are really troubled by what someone will think about you for writing about an expensive fan, maybe work on caring le
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1y ago
This is such an uncharitable interpretation. They're college freshmen, not guidance counselors.
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I never thought I'd hear someone say the people were a plus for Seattle. It's quite famous for being closed off to newcomers.
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The UAE just brought some new nuclear online (with a lot of help from the South Koreans): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_Ar...
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I still get annoyed when I think of this tweet by French Green party Senator Melanie Vogel after Germany shut down its last reactor: https://x.com/Melanie_Vogel_/status/1647352302171308036 > Sex is good but hav
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1y ago
Honest question: is there any apology that you would have accepted?
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> The group bought the land from two billionaire Texas brothers who’d kept the public locked out of one of the only western access roads into adjacent public land, There's something uniquely evil about locking the public out of publ
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1y ago
Just proving that nobody* really cared about their stances on cancel culture except as that they could use it as a cudgel for their existing views, as we see the "accountability culture" and "free speech absolutists" mea
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> Any more emotional investment than that is going to cause pointless unhappiness. Agreed 100%. If you're writing 2,000+ word blog posts out of anger and exasperation, you should take it as a moment of self reflection that just mayb
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> Do you regularly read the writings of farmers and roughnecks? If you count Facebook posts from high school friends, yeah. I grew up in a very rural environment.
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I found the article anodyne enough, so this is not a knock on it, but something I've noticed as I've gotten older that I find a bit amusing and curious. What is it that makes people in tech in their late 20s and 30s write about li
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My brother, if you are taking 40 hours to get to the state where you're warmed up, maybe look into that first.
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Indeed. The closest I've ever come to "arguing" (quotes very much intended) was when a recruiter called to give me feedback, and followed up by asking if I would like a call back if a more junior role opened up. I told her th
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I hear this about lawsuits a lot, but it doesn't really track for me. If a hiring manager says, "we decided to pass on you because you didn't go in depth as much as we hoped on how you would handle latency," why does tha
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Even sometimes if you do have a personal connection. I've had twice now where I've had a warm intro to the hiring manager, jobs where I had done the kind of work before, and the hiring manager didn't even reply to my emails.
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This comment has a real big, "it doesn't exist, but if it does they were asking for it" energy that you wouldn't see for other groups.
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> Pomona High in Arvada Pomona High School is in Jefferson County. It's still the same one. I'll grant your point that it's at least not entirely settled whether it's for a drill or for an active shooter.
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I really can't tell if you're trolling or not. Did you read my comment? It talks precisely about Jefferson County in the late 2010s. This was the only known official case, and it was about lockdowns, not drills like you claimed.
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That wasn't the argument. The argument is that they aren't _available_.
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Well, while we're talking about anecdotes, my neighborhood in a poor Texas town also had a free tennis court. There were a couple more down the road. My in-laws suburb has walking trails end basketball courts.
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You're just making things up, just like those people perpetuating the litter box hoax. > The only known official instance of cat litter being placed in school classrooms for potential use by students was in the late 2010s by the Jef
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> parents have instead decided that the better thing to fight for is their children having cell phones so they can hear the child's last words when the school shooting happens. What's a ridiculous appeal to emotion. Between 202
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