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by iaw 6y ago
The "both sides" of an argument thing does not work when one side is intellectually dishonest and bases arguments on misinterpretations and mistruths.
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I don't think having more positive stories about a Democratic president makes a publication left-leaning, especially given that Obama is the only president in recent memory not actively involved in some scandalous behavior. This is c
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There is one source of information, Rudy Giuliani. Someone with known ties to Russian intelligence claiming that his lawyer received a surprise hard drive from a computer repairman who has an utterly implausible explanation for his acquisi
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by iaw 6y ago
Carpet bombing can be seen as a rational response to the V2 rocket which was indiscriminate of it's targeting of Londoners. War is often a case of responding in kind. If the Germans had had the capability of bombing London they would
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If the US had not used the atomic bomb Japan would have been split with the Russians just like Germany. It was arguably, speaking realpolitik, the lesser of two evils.
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Wow, I like that article. This line really struck me as an excellent point: "...if you believe you’re a meritocracy and you have numbers like everybody who has released their data, the implicit message is that Caucasian men are better
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I think for 20 years there was a clear cut formula to get accepted to the Ivies that was an open little secret for affluent people. That formula has stopped working largely because too many people are using it. To me this is an effort by p
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by iaw 6y ago
How about this: colleges are seen as places of socioeconomic mobility rather than means of protecting existing stature? Eliminate legacy admissions and make everything race blind but incorporate a generational wealth score. The result fo
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by iaw 6y ago
You're describing founders of companies not software engineer employees.
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Pertinent John Doe line 'When John Doe indicated to Cisco's human resources team that he wanted to file a complaint, he was allegedly told by the department that "caste discrimination was not unlawful".' Pertinent C
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Litvinenko was when I realized that nation states only play by rules when it suits them and break them when they can get away with it. Putin can get away with murdering individuals or invading Crimea without any major repercussions. The U
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by iaw 6y ago
Dead Cells, Enter the Gungeon, Binding of Isaac, Papers Please, Return of the Obra Dinn, Spelunky 2 All fantastic games better than most major studio titles.
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That player goes by the moniker "MitchFlowerPower" and has performed that 'speedrun' live in a race with Stephen Colbert to eat a hot pocket [0]. It definitely is not a trivial procedure but humans can get pretty consist
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Maybe at some employers but what I've seen is deadlines moved forward because of Covid and the need to adapt. So not only is there less staffing but more work to do overall in a shorter period of time. Mind you, I'm not arguing a
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by iaw 6y ago
Officially, no. in practice, yes when there isn't redundancy and schedules need to be kept.
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There seems to be two schools of thought in opposition here: 1) For parents that have excessive obligations to their children outside of work it makes sense for the company to provide them additional time at this time to ease that burden. T
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Energy generation is a national security concern. While all signs point to engineering issues preventing creation of a successful fusion plant, the reality is there are only a small handful of issues left that prevent energy generation fro
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It's probably in the original paper if you have access https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0011516
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Thermal efficiency in the Rankine cycle (which powerplants apparently leverage) is around 30%. So it sounds like there's a lot of potential improvement. Of course, given we're talking fusion and not fission any power plants are p
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There are two failings here: 1) Twitter immediately revealing to the employee that they were under investigation 2) The FBI not considering #1 and being prepared to detain Alzabarah if he attempted to flee. I'm not surprised by twitter
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Early in my life I met a former nuclear physicist who had worked explicitly on nuclear counter-intelligence against the Russians during the cold war immediately post-WW2. The story was that he was being considered for a nomination but decl
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> "Last week, top executives at Uber and Lyft said that, if forced to comply with the ruling, they’d likely have to suspend service in the state while reworking their businesses around the law." >"[The law] once passed,
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> "The first thing to say is that 72% and 89% can correspond to vote forecasts and associated uncertainties that are a lot closer than you might think." I'm with Nate Silver on this one, 72% and 89% are as close as 75% and
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Palantir targeting 3 class voting structure giving founders perpetual control(techcrunch.com)
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Infrastructure is 50+ year investment and everywhere in the country has been slacking in development. Given the growth of the bay area and the increase in hot weather due to global climate change the system gets exacerbated because it&#x27
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Latency runs 31 mS to 70 mS in the speedtests shown. I don't buy their claims that you can game with >100 mS latency, that is not a good experience. This is a great step forward for internet accessibility but I really wish they woul
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I think you're being downvoted because you draw a false equivalency. Fountain rules in the Jim Crow era were uniformly applied to all African Americans. The university question is whether or not race should be included in admission co
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My favorite excel feature is when it randomly flips a 0 to an 8 or vice-versa in really long integers. Took a long time to figure out what was going on with that one.
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Yes, it was the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 signed by President Trump.
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That's a 4% increase from the current top tax rate.

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