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by mac01021 6y ago
How many rental units does a typical "small time" landlord have?
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by mac01021 6y ago
Are you a freelancer? In a couple of years I would like to start gradually scaling down the number of hours I work. But right now I am a salaried employee and I have no freelance experience, so I'm not sure whether that is the right
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by mac01021 6y ago
> lower-income essential workers who are parents are currently facing a major childcare crisis because they have to return to work despite schools being closed Because I live in a middle-class bubble, I wonder what most of those folks do
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It depends a lot on the nature of your work. I have a young child and, over the last 4 months, have probably spent less time than ever doing work for my employer. At the same time, just by having the right idea/insight at the appropria
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by mac01021 6y ago
I might agree at the municipal level. I'm not sure people need any more authority or engagement than they already have in making decisions for people 1000 miles away.
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PG's essays are always thought provoking even when factually questionable. This one is probably both. I don't disagree with him about the need for advanced societies to protect free inquiry and independent thinking. But the psycho
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by mac01021 6y ago
Maybe? If the Supreme Court has made decisions which many people think constitute an obvious, willful misinterpretation of the constitution. I think it's reasonable to say, if that's your take, that the constitutional authority do
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by mac01021 6y ago
Any law nerds (or even real lawyers!) here have thoughts on if and how this bill fits with the powers granted to congress by the US Constitution?
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by mac01021 6y ago
What was your basic strategy for training a 1-year-old or an 18-month at literacy? Put her in an environment that she can only navigate by reading signs? Flashcards and the conditional withholding of food?
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Well I'm fortunate to have a six-figure income and a job that affords a reasonable amount of flexibility. So throughout the school year I work 9-15:30 and then make up the last hour or two after my kid's bedtime. In the summer s
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People who can afford to live there and enjoy the variety of cultural attractions and outside dining. The number of such people may not be enough to sustain the cities, though.
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Will that still be true if there is no office, or if nobody is in the office regularly?
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I can't get any work done with my kid around either. But the difference is not that I'm home instead of at the office. The difference is that she's at home instead of at school.
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What do you now find yourself doing or thinking about doing instead?
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If you find 90% of his statements to be obvious, maybe all that means is that you're a deep and powerful thinker too?
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> still don’t know if I understand what this presentation is about 1. The simplicity of a system or product is not the same as the ease with which it is built. 2. Most developers, most of the time, default to optimizing for ease when bui
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by mac01021 6y ago
I'm still wrapping my head around the meaning of those overshoot days. A person's ecological footprint is a multifaceted thing for which I think a single number cannot necessarily provide a very meaningful summary. But here's
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by mac01021 6y ago
> The bottom 85% (in income terms) of the global population contribute very little to unsustainability. Is that true? What percent do they contribute?
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by mac01021 6y ago
Thanks! Under what circumstances would you expect someone to discover your book (they can't buy it if they don't know about it). If I want to learn a particular software tool (Kafka, Kubernetes, git). I might go to Amazon or Googl
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What are the implications of this for non-tribe-members who live and have business on the land in question?
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by mac01021 6y ago
There's a lot to digest in this article and I have yet to digest most of it. But I don't think Doctrow understands the nature of immanent technological unemployment. It does not depend on the development of General AI, as he see
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by mac01021 6y ago
I expressed myself poorly on point #1. I did not intend to ask for a reason behind the axis power thing so much as amusedly draw attention to the coincidence. reply
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by mac01021 6y ago
I expressed myself poorly on point #1. I did not intend to ask for a reason behind the axis power thing so much as amusedly draw attention to the coincidence.
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They say treating 1/2 of global farmland with basalt dust would offset the current carbon emissions of Germany and Japan. 1. Why did they choose the two axis powers to draw their comparison? 2. What would be the cost, in additional c
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by mac01021 6y ago
This sounds like what most internships are intended to be? How much does it cost to employ one of these apprentices?
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by mac01021 6y ago
There are only 10 cities in the USA with populations equal to or greater than the size of Quito's. I suspect, living downtown in any of those, your furniture-buying experience would likely be quite similar to the Quito experience in te
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How can I tell if I have aphantasia?
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What does reddit do based on psychology?
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> The Earth was scheduled to return to another ice age in about 500 years— with ice two miles thick over Boston, Chicago, Paris, and many other places. Can that really be true? 500 years seems awfully short for such a change.
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So... Reddit?

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