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by mabub24 5y ago
This is deeply commendable work and a real public service. Access to public transportation is an issue for a lot of people, and outside of the usual issues of cost, often comes down to people finding the PT systems difficult and hard to use
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by mabub24 5y ago
I think the Public Service in Canada also suffers from extremely opaque hiring practices. Unless you're aware of what they're looking for in a resume or the PS style cover letter, you're just sending in your resume to the voi
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by mabub24 5y ago
I don't really know if it explains why America became "less liberal" in that period, but it is also the period when the Republican party took back control of Congress in the 1994 election, which is known as the "Republ
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by mabub24 5y ago
TicketMaster might actually compete with Comcast for the most universally reviled company in NA. It's as if every single component of their business has been designed to piss off their customers. I'm aware that, for TM, it's
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by mabub24 5y ago
It will probably change the types of things a programmer does, and what it looks like to be a programmer. The nitty gritty of code writing will probably get more and more automated. But the architecture of the code, and establishing and s
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by mabub24 5y ago
These are very common for a lot of "Thought-leader" or influencer types. They are just social clubs/memberships. So a portion of the money goes to him, and the rest goes towards organizing these "special projects" (
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by mabub24 5y ago
It seems inevitable that Tesla will have to start catering more in the future to a upscale/luxury market (even if they are technically already, despite the popular perception that works in their favor that EVs = Tesla's for many p
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by mabub24 5y ago
> it is awkward to draw things with Bézier curves I guess? I think most designers are so used to using the pen tools and problem solving with them that they start to become intuitive after a while. There's a bit of a learning curve
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by mabub24 5y ago
> Giving everyone the same coding interview is one of the most effective ways to remove interviewer bias. I'm sympathetic to the hiring side argument. But, I don't think the parent comment is insinuating that no technical quest
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by mabub24 5y ago
Most of the provinces have been engaged in pandemic response theater. The core issue is hospital capacity, and the provinces across the board have failed to improve or address the issues in their healthcare systems. Quebec has adopted a par
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by mabub24 5y ago
The Louvre is one of the few places where I actually felt like I could get lost in a building. It simply goes on forever. The sheer amount of works, objects, and information, presented to a visitor is astounding and hypnotic. For modern pai
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by mabub24 5y ago
Many of Van Gogh's, when seen in person, are almost more like relief sculptures because of the incredible depth of his strokes. I loved going right to the sides of the frames and looking across the paintings to see how each little va
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by mabub24 5y ago
If you think about how LaTeX has little to no use outside of certain sciences and maths in largely academic settings, then it's pretty obvious to understand that most people in publishing have very little interest in learning something
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by mabub24 5y ago
CNN also has the lite version: http://lite.cnn.com/en
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by mabub24 5y ago
Very cool, I was able to get the word after 3 guesses. I guess learning French has actually been paying off for me!
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by mabub24 5y ago
A lot of universities are openly hostile to tenured professors, unless those professors are gigantic names in the field they can use for marketing. Many Universities would be a-okay with ditching tenure all together. The reality is many uni
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by mabub24 5y ago
I like to see a return to technicolor vibrancy in some media IP. Some directors, like PTA, still use it to great effect, but when you watch some old Powell and Pressburger films, or Bad Day at Blackrock , or even Purple Noon , you see the
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by mabub24 5y ago
I think it helps to understand that classic literature is not always the same as a book that is just fun. There can be overlap, and many people would say that those are their favourite books and often the best books , but often classic lit
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by mabub24 5y ago
Do you fly with kettlebells? Isn't that very expensive?
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by mabub24 5y ago
Tbh it's a pipe dream for essentially everyone else as well, even 95-99% of Americans. For instance the American President makes 400k/year. That's a wild annual salary and only possible for an exceedingly small smidge of the
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by mabub24 5y ago
This was an interesting article, but I found this editorial warning a little odd: > Please note that this article includes images of human remains. I don't think I've ever seen a warning like this before in any anthropological
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by mabub24 5y ago
The thing with Tyler1, and anyone who is aware of him and his persona on Twitch also knows this, is that when the guy plays or does anything other than League of Legends it is incredibly entertaining and fun. The man has excellent comedic t
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by mabub24 5y ago
To be clear, the term is used and has been used. But the idea that it's a concept that everyone agrees on, or that everyone agrees must be used, is not at all true. The debate is alive and well in philosophy and in the sciences. Pers
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by mabub24 5y ago
You're really referring to genetic ancestry, which is regularly used in biology without any issue. The term "race" is really not used anymore, except in a social/historical/statistical (population) context for human
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by mabub24 5y ago
Most people get by with pseudo-touch typing. They have most of the speed down, and look down at the keyboard occasionally, but they do not have the accuracy that is displayed in true touch-typing.
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by mabub24 5y ago
You have to watch out about some of these linting tools, though, in case you get slavishly attached to their prescriptions. Some of these tools insist that you can never use passive voice, for instance, and that can lead to some truly bar
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by mabub24 5y ago
If you are using uBlock Origin, you can turn on the filter for "annoyances" and as far as I can tell it blocks those newsletter popups.
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by mabub24 5y ago
What client are you using for messaging/email? Not that I'm a huge fan of Outlook, but it has a "delayed delivery" option that schedules when the emails leave your outbox, and an "Urgent" option that highlights
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by mabub24 5y ago
There's an article from the New Yorker recently on the doc, and it touches on how Paul especially was almost a workaholic. He eats, sleeps, and dreams, songwriting and can't help himself. Apparently they'd finish songs, and g
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by mabub24 5y ago
It's probably tied to their actual work agreement/contract. If one of your explicit work requirements is to be on-call, then it's likely fine. That way employees can also argue that they should get paid for that time as well

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