lsiebert

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by lsiebert 7y ago
/Uear/Year/
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by lsiebert 7y ago
Competing goverments sounds like the world of the novel SnowCrash. That was a shitty world, though a fun read.
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by lsiebert 7y ago
the so called "death panels" were Politfact's Lie of the Uear. They were AARP supported voluntary sessions, paid for by Medicare, where people could discuss stuff like living wills and other end of life issues. https:/&
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by lsiebert 7y ago
There are costs to changing it, just like there are costs to rewriting an app in a new language. Only rewriting something from php to python 3 doesn't potentially leave senior citizens on fixed income homeless. That doesn't mean p
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by lsiebert 7y ago
Yeah Prop 13 passed when the state was much more republican leaning. Remember both Nixon and Reagan were from California and Schwarzenegger won the governor's race. Arguably the state only went democratic because anti immigrant effor
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by lsiebert 7y ago
See but we know that things like nutrition, toxins like lead, education, wealth, family structure, infection rates, and other factors that also differ between nations affect intelligence. That's not even getting into Differential item
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by lsiebert 7y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe you could argue that such a statement was intended to keep people from doing charge backs or demanding refunds. In any case you probably have enough to begin discovery, and given the cost of a lawsuit a
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by lsiebert 7y ago
Does China have any antitrust protection?
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by lsiebert 7y ago
Nope, they are deleting everything
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by lsiebert 7y ago
The best predictor of income, more then academic performance, more then having married parents or educated parents or going to pre school, is parental wealth. And this is true whether your folks won the lottery or earned their money through
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by lsiebert 7y ago
Agreed. Plus so many opportunities for people bypass the working poor. Sure, a full time bootcamp might be tuition free or offer a scholarship, but it doesn't pay rent or buy food.
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by lsiebert 7y ago
A poverty wage like the one company's pay many people keeps people trapped in jobs like cashier at mcdonalds. When you are that poor, you need every hour of work you can get to make rent, buy food etc. You can't take time off to i
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by lsiebert 7y ago
I think this is one of those things that is going to vary cross culturally, and trying to come up with a single perfect phrase that works well for all situations, for all people, from all cultures is going to be impossible. Plus how did you
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by lsiebert 7y ago
Not a FBer myself, but I do know that people do worse things for less pay.
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by lsiebert 7y ago
I mean, I get the concern, there's definitely ways this could go wrong, just like there are ways that many things can go wrong under the law in this country. But as long as there is rule of law (and that's questionable in some pla
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by lsiebert 7y ago
Simple, don't use fake accounts? Or if you are a company, don't astroturf. As for Parody, looks like you are fine. https://singaporelegaladvice.com/law-articles/singapore-fake...
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by lsiebert 7y ago
Trigger warnings are incredibly important for PTSD sufferers, and every time people criticize them or make light of them, they forget about the victims of CSA, the veterans, the disaster survivors, and others who struggle daily to manage th
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by lsiebert 7y ago
You can always set a boundary with friends not to tell you their problems. "Hey, I appreciate you wanting to share with me, but I'm probably not the right person to just talk about problems with. I'm happy to listen if there&
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by lsiebert 7y ago
How to do various knots comes to mind. Square knot, A sheet bend, clove and trucker's hitch, prusik, the alpine butterfly knot, and bowlines can all be learned rather quickly, then practiced so they can be remembered easily. http:&#x2
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by lsiebert 7y ago
And anyway, you should tell people to install mini conda, not conda, unless they know they'll need everything it includes by default.
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by lsiebert 7y ago
I think that's a separate thing from what I was talking about, though you can certainly do both at the same time.
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by lsiebert 7y ago
I mean, that's how many employers may want you to think, but I suggest you actually look at the laws, both federal and state, surrounding overtime and salaried positions. Just declaring a position is salaried doesn't mean that yo
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by lsiebert 7y ago
"we have provided thousands of pages of written responses and hundreds of thousands of documents" I see that all the time when people haven't actually provided the requested info, whether a company or a local, state, or feder
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by lsiebert 7y ago
Well there's usually a gas fee if you haven't filled up.
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by lsiebert 7y ago
what is matrix? Other than a pretty great action movie, I mean.
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by lsiebert 7y ago
I use vi key bindings in bash and in tmux for that matter.
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by lsiebert 7y ago
To do this without providing any tool for exporting data is proof of a lack of good engineering culture.
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by lsiebert 7y ago
Sex regulation isn't going away. Look at SESTA/FOSTA
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by lsiebert 7y ago
There are absolutely huge regulations around what people can put in others though, even tattoos and piercings.
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by lsiebert 7y ago
I take your point, though counterfeit goods aren't necessarily made of substandard materials. There are plenty of ways to skimp and then take advantage of the brand's existing reputation beyond shoddy crafting.

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