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The section on performance management is at least five pages long, and it covers compensation, leveling, job titles, PIPs, and firing. Perhaps you mistook the introduction to the section for the entirety of the section?
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I think you might be missing a lot of history about US intervention in Latin America. A good place to start might be with the history of the United Fruit Company, particularly in Guatemala.
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One of my current models for LLMs is that they're compression algorithms. They compress a large amount of training data into a set of weights. A query is a key into that compression space. Hallucinations happen when you supply a key th
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If this was really about cleaning up government, or balancing the budget then it wouldn't have started with small potatoes. You would immediately cut the low hanging fruit. Say, oil industry subsidies. That would get you something like
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I appreciate the effort you've put in above, but I think you're defining both gene and genome from too narrowly. Both terms predate our understanding of the structural mechanisms of heredity. A gene is a unit of heredity. The geno
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Gene and geneome are expansive terms. The genome refers to the sum total of all genetic material in an organism. Epigenenetic markers such as methylations are part of the genetic material, and are therefore part of the genome. You seem to b
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There is only one public key that installed on the servers. That key is the same everywhere. You have a self-serve system that generates short-lived certs to users.
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The USA restricts the number of positions for medical schools and residencies. It's a problem that money could solve.
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> There's no reason to shift to that broader category except willful obfuscation It's to point out the earlier argument that the mere presence of a virology lab in a large city should be a point of suspicion. > An unconfirme
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I'm pretty sure that there are still people around who believe that to some degree.
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managing the forests to reduce wildfires > Notice that you said "Green trees don't easily burn." Coastal California has two seasons: green and brown. Brown is in the summer. Green is in the winer. Normally it rains in LA
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Coordinating medical information is notoriously hard, particularly when the government doesn't want to acknowledge something. Let's take Florida as an example. There was a point at the beginning of the covid pandemic where the go
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It hasn't been confirmed.
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Actually, my first though would be that there were other outbreaks, but we only documented the one in Atlanta because the CDC happened to be there. We should expect that the first outbreaks documented are those that happen to be close to fa
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In the run-up to the second Iraq war there were a steady trickle of articles documenting the corruption of the intelligence process.
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There have been two other spillover events from coronaviruses in the last 30 years. One of those (SARS) was from Chinese wet markets. Wuhan has a population of 13 million. It would be surprising if the city didn't have a lab doing viru
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My first night in Switzerland there has a 5+ earthquake.
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The problem is the houses. In lots of pictures from LA, there are green trees right beside burned out houses. The video in this NYT article is a great example: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/15/us&#
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That happened six years ago: https://www.businessinsider.com/severe-rainfall-hits-new-yor...
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The Netherlands has been planning for the impacts of sea-level rise for decades now. At least twenty years ago the government broached the idea (with TV commercials) that they were going to have to abandon some are areas to the sea.
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Yes, exactly. Because people in power decide to keep wealth for themselves and people who look like themselves, and because when minorities start to gain power, then the majority crushes them.
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My ex-partner was a consultant at a FANG. It was her first engagement at a customer site after six months of very successful work internally. She was placed in a group overseen by another consultant. He was from the same firm. In fact he wa
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One thing to pay attention to is how you influence those around you. I'm guessing, doesn't put up with that kind of shit. People who act like that probably don't act like that when you're around. Because of that, you get
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I'm assuming you are not familiar with this study: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/lkatz/files/chk_aer_mto_04... It shows that if a poor family moves from a poorer school district to a richer school d
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Suggested solutions: Suitably positioned and serviced trash cans and public toilets.
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The most effective policy for fixing homeless is, surprise, giving people places to live. It's hard for people to address any other problems in their life unless they have a roof over their head, if for no other reason that the homeles
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> Christianity is uniquely welcoming in a way that neither Islam nor Judaism are. That's not been my experience at all.
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It is a German conference. It was started by Germans. It is organized first and foremost by Germans. It happens in Germany. I find it arrogant to think that presenters should speak a language other than German.
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I think it works exactly that way. It's doubt that protects you. If you think you're too smart to fall for it, then you've now got a blind spot that can be exploited. Assurance makes you a sucker.
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I know of people who go to church for social reasons, but are complete non-believers.

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