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by keernan 2y ago
Some (most) large corporations designate VP titles to non-vp work as a means of attempting to bypass labor laws protecting overtime payments to workers. It is a mostly illegal practice but violations tend to be overlooked and the practice h
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by keernan 2y ago
>>I would rank self-actualization Why should I (or anyone) care where you (or anyone) rank anything? I'm pretty comfortable with my ranking of things. What someone else thinks about how I decide to live my life is pretty much at
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by keernan 2y ago
Maybe you talking shit causes some of us to experience stress which results in medical issues that impacts society. We could go on that merry-go-round forever. Just ridiculous.
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by keernan 2y ago
>>not striving to keep a healthy body and healthy mind, not working on developing yourself, on elevating yourself, not wanting to become better, IS a moral failing Whoa. How is it any of your business how I live my life so long as I a
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Authorities Detect 50 Drones Fly from Atlantic Ocean into NJ(old.reddit.com)
3 points by keernan 2y ago|1 comments
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by keernan 2y ago
Yesterday afternoon, during a Congressional Hearing, long time NJ US Congressman Chris Smith advised the committee that Sunday night a unit from the Ocean County, NJ Sheriff's Department Department detected a flight of 50 drones flying
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by keernan 2y ago
Linked post is from Dec 1st. There is much more recent news. A Congressional Hearing was held today in which NJ Congressman Smith provided some rather incredible information: - A fleet of 50 drones were detected by authorities on Dec 8th fl
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by keernan 2y ago
The drones only appear after dark and bright exterior lights blunt efforts to see beyond. It's no accident they only appear at night.
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by keernan 2y ago
Anyone with a billion dollars only owes taxes as a result of changing how an asset is invested... which only happens because the new investment will generate more wealth after taxes than before.
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by keernan 2y ago
>It's paper wealth based on stock prices. All wealth is paper wealth. The value of anything and everything changes with the wind and, as such, can only be measured at a moment in time. The ridiculous mantra that wealth isn't tr
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by keernan 2y ago
Many people forget the history of health insurance in America. Prior to 2010, you could be a good and loyal customer, always paying your premiums, but if you had a heart attack or got cancer, your health insurance company would refuse to re
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by keernan 2y ago
>LLMs cannot truly adapt to novelty because they have no ability to basically take their knowledge and then do a fairly sophisticated recombination of that knowledge on the fly to adapt to new context. I find the semantics to be very mis
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by keernan 2y ago
>The other one I'm seeing lately is a semi-stealth "service charge" on the bill. I've yet to come across it. But when I do, I will refuse to pay it and I will also refuse to leave any tip. And I will never return.
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by keernan 2y ago
This only protects your windows 11 logon password. I have a 100 passwords. I suppose it's nice to get a warning if I type one of them into notepad <sigh>, although to accomplish that windows has to store my password in its memory
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by keernan 2y ago
>You might be tempted to shake your head at Birch’s confidence in humanity... (cue in global warming here) When coming to reasons why I doubt humanity's ability to care for others, global warming is too abstract to even register on
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by keernan 2y ago
To suggest that morality is less than it was completely disregards the constant irrepressible lack of morality that has existed from the very beginning of the slaughter of the indigenous Indian population and theft of their land - to the re
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by keernan 2y ago
By way of expanding upon my comment above...let's try to remove ethics and morality from the discussion. All animals that live in groups have 'rules' that protect the group from behaviors that threaten the group's existe
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by keernan 2y ago
Good and evil is an interesting discussion all by itself. However, philosophy aside, certain things are suggestive of biological/genetic factors involved in murder. Start with the fact that murder is committed by males at a much higher
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by keernan 2y ago
The beginnings of what I've been waiting for? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39306077
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by keernan 2y ago
A very interesting subject. I especially enjoyed some of the references linked in the article. Thank you for posting.
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Ask HN: Does culture mean humans lack critical thinking skills?
1 points by keernan 2y ago|2 comments
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by keernan 2y ago
>"With Python in Excel, you can type Python directly into a cell, the Python calculations run in the Microsoft Cloud, and your results are returned to the worksheet, including plots and visualizations." I interpret that to mean
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by keernan 2y ago
Seems to me stock buybacks would be quite beneficial to corporate executives holding stock options.
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by keernan 2y ago
Why would Trump want to adopt Federal oversight of an industry dominated by MusK? Obviously Trump would not do that on his own. This isn't Trump deciding the industry needs to be regulated. It is obvious that Musk is the one deciding t
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by keernan 2y ago
States don't realistically have options unless the Feds want to allow them to have options. The Feds do this by controlling the purse strings of Federal money. The Feds have the right to deny State X federal funds if State X refuses to
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by keernan 2y ago
"Hey, Let's think of something that will make Netanyahu less likely to continue the military attacks. And maybe persuade the world to think of us more sympathetically."
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by keernan 2y ago
Before I commented, and did a search to read about Alpha Genesis. Their website says one of their services is conducting experimental research on monkeys as designed by the customer. I am not saying you are wrong. Your comment suggests you
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by keernan 2y ago
I thought the first part of my sentence referencing it being a research facility provided the context to understand that natural disease wasn't the focus of the comment. Oh well.
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by keernan 2y ago
> it seems like the left and right might really agree What difference would that make if they do? The last time around the public hated Ajit Pai's running of the FCC. If that didn't change anything back then, what makes you th
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by keernan 2y ago
I know nothing about Geico's IT but I find your comments surprising. GEICO is one of the most profitable insurance companies in the world which, of course, is the end goal of every company.

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