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by jdavis703 5y ago
Community college has also gotten really expensive. I was looking at the price for my alma matter, tuition has more than doubled since I graduated in 2010. The price has gone up faster than my university’s tuition, making the community col
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I call BS on this, at least in America. I went to community college and a middling state university. Pell Grants combined with various STEM and achievement-based scholarships covered my tuition and then some. When I graduated I applied for
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by jdavis703 5y ago
Well when I was in Houston I saw several men in the airport wearing ski masks. I don’t know, I guess they feel regular masks make them look sickly or effeminate or something.
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by jdavis703 5y ago
Even medical professionals don’t mask properly — and I’m talking at big medical centers run by the largest HMOs in the US. It’s not hard to wear an N95 correctly. They come with a manual and the CDC has plenty of supplemental information. W
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by jdavis703 5y ago
I know that security existed before the 90s (obviously due to the amount of armed skyjackings and bombings it was too lax). I don’t know when x-rays, magnetometers and other radio imagining was first deployed at airports. But it was there f
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Yeah my parents were divorced, so yeah I’ve got lots of memories of traveling between them in the 90s.
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There was never a time you could just walk through the airport in my lifetime (1990). There were always security controls. That said, you could bring guests, but even guests went through a security screening.
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Yes, and that it could help inquisitive students? I know in the old days nerdy kids would do teardowns before we even had YouTube. I would assume kids these days still do it.
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I took both high school and university biology. We had two or three chapters on viruses in each textbook. But it was mostly discussed in terms of cellular and chemical levels. It was mostly abstracted from disease and epidemiology. Epidemio
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The government looses money from pandemics, so there’s no profit motive for FDA regulators to prolong the pandemic. There’s both direct costs of coronavirus response, and then there’s indirect costs (lower tax revenue from empty downtowns,
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Because of both founder effects and potentially people taking earlier containment actions, I’m unsure that’s a realistic measure. It’s like how people said Y2K was just a conspiracy theory because most systems kept running — without realizi
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This is the kind of education that needs to be done in high school during health and biology classes. We can’t hope the general public will become epidemiologically literate on 240 character tweets and 30-second television quotes. Heck, my
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Sound engineers and technicians have been controlling speaker group volume for probably a century now. The Sonos patent is more than just an obvious invention. Otherwise the courts would’ve tossed it out.
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You can, but you’d then be personally violating the patent. That’s illegal, and then you too could also be sued.
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We may never know if Google used their special insider access with Sonos to steal technology or not. But the optics certainly don’t look good.
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And they are certainly better than forcing people to live in homeless camps (I write this as someone who’s neighborhood had both public housing and tents).
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If you believe you should reduce suffering, it would be better for you to quickly kill a chicken and eat it. Otherwise, a cat, bird of prey or other animal might kill that chicken. And cats are cruel killers that slowly torture their prey b
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by jdavis703 5y ago
Vulnerable road users have a disproportionate share of crash fatalities. And the commonly accepted safety improvements might reduce crash frequencies for drivers, but it doesn’t do it enough (and have enough impact on major injuries death)
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9/11 policy changes had barely any long-term impact on civilian Americans. Taxes didn’t have to go up. Airports already had security lines, TSA was largely a management change. And the constant surveillance is largely transparent (unle
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In the US far more people have died of COVID-19 than we’ve ever seen of dead bike riders. The bar for the US to change policies because of a “dark moment” is going to be in the millions of deaths, which just isn’t going to happen when bike
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by jdavis703 5y ago
> You can't be "kinda vegan" without leaving your brain in permanent stress due to dissonance. To be honest, a lot of meat still tastes kind of gross to me. Give me fried tofu over baked chicken in a salad. Heck if I’m jus
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After 14 years of eating a plant-based diet my partner got a cat. Then I started buying the cat raw meat. Shortly after I became an omnivore again. I still try to minimize meat for my own health and the climate, but it’s hard to argue about
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I see nothing immoral in a bear eating a human. It’s just being a bear. But just like any other social animal, as humans we’re of course going to kill that bear so it stops eating us. It has nothing to do with us being superior than a bear.
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If you treat a MacBook decently it’ll last for a long time. My personal MBP is from 2018 and runs fine wit no repairs required so far. However my work laptop takes quite a beating from daily commute, work travel, etc and usually winds up ne
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Is there any project or organization that forks non-corporate packages and verifies updates? Rouge developers and hackers will continue to be a problem. If such a project doesn’t exist, would you use it? And ultimately would you pay for it?
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If you’re in university your school probably offers student development classes. One or more of them should cover study habits. You could also consider talking to a mental health professional. I can’t diagnose you, but a few things you ment
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Two weeks is ridiculous. But one of the problems with instant transfers is it makes fraud easy. In fact when Zelle first rolled out, there were several news stories of people who were swindled. Banks don’t just move slow because they’re old
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To be reductionist, the only items in my house that spark joy are alcohol and maybe one or two pills. But to be fair, consider a form of mindfulness called negative visualization. In other words how would you feel if you lose everything (sa
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They’re probably thinking of this wrong. Some people may indeed have trust funds. But the funds come with strings: stop doing drugs, stop being gay, go in to the family business, etc. The liberation is having an autonomous life from control
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There’s nothing wrong with having a few high-priced objects vs. many cheaply priced ones. My dad has maybe a dozen desktop PCs. I have just one laptop, but my 1 MacBook is probably the same cost as several of his PCs.

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