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by jleyank 3y ago
What is a "public thought leader"? Is this something one trains for or gets certified for? Or, did we used to call them celebrities? THere's already a lot of discussion on various scientific topics, you merely have to go wh
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by jleyank 3y ago
Glengarry Glen Ross. The sales critter closed the deal, winning the struggle in the combative marketplace. All the engineers did was type something - no involvement in the difficult work. /s yeah, but sadly, it's the mainstream
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by jleyank 3y ago
I saw a placard yesterday in an upscale cooking store: "My kids asked what it was like growing up in the 80's. I took their phones and turned off the Internet." There was still connectivity (email and IRC burned a lot of ti
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by jleyank 3y ago
What's the risk to a few hundred people vs. keeping the cash flowing? Would it not be safer to have a rigorous training method to upgrade from regional to long-haul jets and to refill the regional pipeline. Or would raising salaries
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by jleyank 3y ago
this is a waste of time given the medium. Essentially nobody will change their opinion, and they'll end up yelling at each other for "entertainment". If the sides are so sure of their facts and their data, participate in th
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by jleyank 3y ago
I would be curious how non-Japanese are coping with this situation. While the workplace might be in English, I would think the rest of the worker's world is in Japanese... Do they have a non-Japanese ghetto where people can find hous
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by jleyank 3y ago
paywalled. I'd say computers happened to California, helping to send the population through the roof and skewing salaries and worker communities. SoCal developed hardware businesses near LA in the 70's and biotech/pharma in
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by jleyank 3y ago
Whole lot of the upper house I thought was as old as the hills?
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by jleyank 3y ago
I would think he would have a chance if allowed to enter, although he's older than a President should be. The US seems to like being a gerontocracy, which isn't always the best (or even a good) choice.
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by jleyank 3y ago
Fungible people considered less valuable than visible extroverts - not surprising. Given that the suits and money people run the place, such people are seen as valuable. The "cost centre", whom are incomprehensible and never see
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by jleyank 3y ago
Thought there was research that they'd have to have some kind of artificial gravity as in the 2001 family of movies? If not brain fluids than bone mass. Also, what's the weight in food that's required to keep somebody alive
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by jleyank 3y ago
Don't google what happens when you cook or eat bacon... The open flame makes gobs of CO2 and H2O, and there's a risk of CO if the airflow sux. Try not to do it in an enclosed space. Impurities in the gas, like impurities in the
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by jleyank 3y ago
I would think it has to be an atypical flame to build up molecules vs burn them to co2 and water. Unless there’s polycyclic aromatics being broken up. LP gas has to do some interesting chemistry to make benzene from raw carbon and hydroge
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by jleyank 3y ago
Is this all vaccines or just the covid vaccine? I would think it hard to argue with the smallpox or polio vaccines…. If it’s only the covid vaccine, which one (as their formulations and mechanisms are different)? Is the causes-autism eff
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by jleyank 3y ago
I’ll bite. What non-stock asset has a chance of surpassing inflation? Not commercial real estate at the moment…. And commodities don’t strike me as the non-stock alternatives they’re talking about. If people have inflation+percent bond al
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by jleyank 3y ago
If we consider anything that is observable as “scientific”, meaning tests could be constructed to understand whether it is reproducible and what might be its cause. Anything unobservable (ie, no direct or indirect effect or measurement) is
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by jleyank 3y ago
Creating a plasma in one's kitchen has all sorts of effects - some useful, some less so. Cooking food using pretty much any method also creates all sorts of effects, gustatory and otherwise. If there's insufficient airflow when
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by jleyank 3y ago
I am staggeringly allergic to this process, as it feels like piecework and shows a lack of trust of the staff. It’s resulted in all sorts of misreporting towards the ends of fiscal years to keep staff paid. If it’s so important to a compa
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by jleyank 3y ago
Was there some kind of performance contract that moderators signed or is this asking for a pony? I would have thought nothing was ever written down or even verbally implied, but what do I know. Like offering “exposure” when asking a band
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by jleyank 3y ago
When (conservative) religious types talk about their true nature, believe them. When X is alien or hostile to their belief system, anybody's belief system really, it's going to be opposed.
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by jleyank 3y ago
Given things like Viet Nam, the Cold War/Iron Curtain, the inflation of the late 80's, a couple of Oil Crises, brushfire wars, ... it's safe to say that people starting out then had various distractions that kept them from do
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by jleyank 3y ago
Is upper management's once-a-week in the office a perk or a chore? While some of them hunker down and work, there's a whole lot of "do as I say, not as I do" going on...
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by jleyank 3y ago
If people aren't willing (or able) to move, then we're back to the WFH vs office argument. We're also damaging the real estate market as people won't necessarily up sticks and move for a job anymore. After much pain, I
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by jleyank 3y ago
Good idea! Piss off the people who do a lot of work on your behalf for free... Guess they're going to get new moderators or just use AI? Or run without moderation?
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by jleyank 3y ago
This little bit of physics, electronics, material science or whatever is my major concern re: EV and why I prefer the hybrid concept (ie, carry one's charger). I do some fraction of my time going elsewhere on a 4-8 hours distance fram
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by jleyank 3y ago
The marketplace will shake this out. If remote heavy companies do better than in-office companies in terms of hiring and retention that will be obvious in a few years. Older workers, those with professional partners, those with kids or geog
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by jleyank 3y ago
IANAL, so by the definition of terms in the law, is messaging social media? It can handle broadcasts, show pictures, …. What about video tools, as they’re capable of multiple participants? These are all things the larger tools like Faceboo
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by jleyank 3y ago
There were no tests except for blood samples preserved by hospitals. People are referring to symptoms that were different than flu, viral pneumonia and (looking back) showed similarity to covid. Might have been a different viral pneumonia
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by jleyank 3y ago
It they give a shit about the environment, companies should have people commuting on foot or bike. This would require affordable housing in the cities somewhat proximate to the offices. This would make cities in the us look a bit more Europ
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by jleyank 3y ago
There seems to have been covid cases in Europe in last-quarter 2019, which suggests it was there or brought there before the outbreak that made the news in 2020. Doesn’t rule out leaks and crossovers, just moves them elsewhere or else when

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