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by learc83 5y ago
We don’t understand the biological processes behind depression, and there is no lab test used to diagnose depression. It is just as the passage says, a categorization of symptoms. That doesn’t mean there aren’t biological processes at work,
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by learc83 5y ago
The “local government” are my neighbors the Sheriff and the County Commissioner. Then there are freedom of information requests, journalist, whistleblowers working for local government, and whistleblowers working for hotels. If the Sheriff
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by learc83 5y ago
Where did you get this from? US hotels most definitely do not “register (resident or non-resident) guests with the local government”. A few states require hotel guests to present an ID at checkin.
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by learc83 5y ago
I’d be very careful how much you read into this because it’s begging for confirmation bias. There’s also a difference between working remotely and being thrown into working remotely at the last minute during a pandemic with no prior experie
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by learc83 5y ago
Very true. I have a 2 month old and I’m tall enough that the bassinet we bought was uncomfortably low. I ended up building a platform to raise it.
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by learc83 5y ago
If I had my way, I’d get rid of the PM title and call them Customer Advocates. It’s fine for non technical customer liaisons to have input, but putting non technical people in charge of a product doesn’t tend to work well in my experience.
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by learc83 5y ago
Yeah piss off Joe Manchin so he goes independent and caucuses with the Republicans. That will definitely allow the Democrats to pass a pro abortion bill. With a 50/50 Senate, Democrats need Manchin more than he needs them. He’s also th
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by learc83 5y ago
They don’t have a 60 vote majority in the Senate, and legalizing abortion isn’t likely something they can pass through reconciliation. They also can’t end the filibuster without Joe Manchin. The Senate is split 50/50 so the have the sl
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by learc83 5y ago
> I probably was more of a “temporary employee” than a contractor. But what’s the difference at that point? If you’re a temporary employee, the employer is responsible for payroll taxes, and has additional obligations to you (depending o
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by learc83 5y ago
One of the legal guidelines for whether or not someone is a contractor (vs an employee) is whether they provide their own tools. It’s not a hard rule. It’s just one of a number of tests. But contractors are generally expected to provide the
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by learc83 5y ago
SOC2 isn’t prescriptive. SOC2 is just a certification that you are following your own internal policies. If the company made the mistake of creating a policy that they use this software as one of their controls, then the auditor will ding t
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by learc83 5y ago
In the case where an ER doctor isn’t employed by the hospital, they are likely employed by a physicians’s group. These used to be ran by physicians, but now many of them have been bought up and consolidated by private equity. The doctors li
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by learc83 5y ago
We have contractors in the US as well. But we also have labor laws that govern who can be considered a contractor, as do other countries. It’s more complex than this, but in general treating someone like an employee and paying them as a con
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by learc83 5y ago
>They are not problem if you do hiring directly and select right people. Hiring directly in other countries is difficult for all but the biggest companies (who probably already have offices in those countries and have been hiring in thos
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by learc83 5y ago
It's more a question about degree. I don't mind an app having a few well vetted external dependencies. When it becomes common and accepted for a small application to contain thousands of 3rd party dependencies, I think we've
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by learc83 5y ago
An npm like ecosystem sounds absolutely horrible. It’s also not what I thought you were talking about. Many (most?) software engineers (most?) cringe at the state of the npm ecosystem—even if they hold their nose and participate in it. I de
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by learc83 5y ago
You can have almost all of those benefits without using network calls as your boundary. Nearly every benefit you listed is a consequence of having enforced boundaries, not of microservices specifically. Microservices do provide technical be
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by learc83 5y ago
I think you could, but I just don’t know how long it would last. The real benefit of microservices in most cases is that the network acts as an externally enforced boundary layer. There’s no reason the vast majority of time that you need to
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by learc83 5y ago
> I also think you're over-estimating how much of a "beast" you need as a minimal structure for building a game around. I have built a lot of hobby games, and if you're not trying to make an AAA game, you can get real
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by learc83 5y ago
The bachelors is the whole pink part not just the bump. It looks like more volume overall than the masters. It’s meant to represent the additional breadth. But yeah masters programs do vary widely. When I was in undergrad there were student
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by learc83 5y ago
When my wife and I were picking names for our son earlier this year, I pulled down a list of the top 1,000 names from the social security office. I removed the top 20, and then we kept making passes removing more names until we were down to
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by learc83 5y ago
Company property is a completely different issue. Whether you do it during business hours or not is irrelevant. If you’re salaried, you’re always on company time, so whether the company owns it or not is up to the laws of the state and the
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by learc83 5y ago
If you’re salaried, there’s no such thing as company time, so that’s not a meaningful distinction.
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by learc83 5y ago
In the US, it’s common to refer to university as school.
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by learc83 5y ago
I don't pay any federal income tax on the first x dollars of income I earn either. This is nothing but a recognition that money has diminishing marginal utility. The issue is that there are too many people earning less than x.
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by learc83 5y ago
In most of the rest of the country we manage to build new roads and new transmission lines without the extreme issues you're describing. Over the last few years, I can think of hundreds of homes and businesses near me that were moved t
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by learc83 5y ago
It happens very regularly. Roads and utility corridors are built and expanded every day. Eminent domain doesn't generally directly impact enough people to make a serious election issue, unless we are talking about either very local ele
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by learc83 5y ago
There's only so much a landowner can. Roads and utility corridors are built and expanded every day. It's a fairly common occurrence. Oil pipelines are bit different because there are tons of people and organizations outside of tho
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by learc83 5y ago
Not to say that what you’re saying isn’t a problem, but that’s what eminent domain is for.
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by learc83 5y ago
Someone needs to pay for the storage and additional generation—both the direct costs and the externalities. Why not let the market figure out who pays for it? If factories can’t afford to pay those prices, they’ll have to rework their busin

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