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by maratd 9y ago
> If you 'contract' to just one employer you're an employee for both tax purposes and protections. That's not the case in the US. Our laws bar the contractor from having set hours, a set place of work, and a myriad of
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> College is incredibly useful, I fail to understand why detractors insist that it has no value. This black and white approach is silly. Of course it has value. The question is whether the value that it provides is sufficient to offset t
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> There's less selection pressure now because there's less mortality. There are two pathways to selection. You're only focusing on one. Sexual selection is alive and well.
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> Specifically, if it were true, we would see all sorts of genetic correlations where one good trait systematically boosts a bad trait. And what if it's true for a short period of time until a new mutation arises that eliminates the
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Let's agree that this is happening. Is there any evidence that this is going to "undermine the foundations of social stability, wreaking havoc on tradition, religion, and robust civil associations"? People have been saying na
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Thank you for this research. There is an unfortunate simplistic perception of the evolutionary process where if an adaptation evolves, it's all positive. There is no reason for it to be that way. You can easily have mutations where you
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> ever-more-powerful market forces actually undermine the foundations of social stability, wreaking havoc on tradition, religion, and robust civil associations Is there an actual example of this? I can't think of a single one.
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> Nowadays it seems like there's nothing missing. There's lots of things missing. There's just nothing missing in established categories. Why would there be? Start your own category, create software for it, then convince e
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> Most people in tech don't work 12 hours... it is not the norm. I've seen it almost everywhere, that's been my experience, but that's anecdotal. I do primarily work with startupy companies and large corps with aggres
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> Whatever is holding women's participation in our field at or below twenty percent is artificial, and a travesty. The overwhelming majority of kindergarten teachers are female (over 97%). Is this a travesty as well? Why can't
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Really? That’s depressing. Money can be anything you want it to be, so how about this. Money = thank you points You give it to people you’re thankful to, who either did something nice for you or gave you something you wanted.
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Square foot costs are only given by a GC, so that's already included. > I know people who GC the projects themselves to save a great deal of money. Do not do this unless you know what you're doing. One bad contractor (and you w
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> But the time we spend improving efficiency is hugely elastic. In the context of the above posts, "elastic" is an economic term used to refer to the demand curve. There is no supply/demand curve when it comes to internal
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> Unless demand is fully inelastic It's mostly inelastic. People don't buy resources unless they need to do work. Alternatives, such as on-prem hardware, are affected as well. The only work that would be affected would be the w
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> What if you have a product, that integrates best tools in any given category? Slack, GitHub, etc? Can this solution beat Jira? No, it can't. Atlassian's tooling is used by large teams. It doesn't make sense in a small te
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Why are you conflating SpaceX and Tesla?
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> And we have a number of innovations in battery technology vying for the opportunity. No, we don't. We have lots of news articles about amazing breakthroughs and absolutely nothing in actual production. > It's starting to f
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> If you’re lucky you’ll get what you were after. No, if you're lucky, nothing happens. The majority of the other alternatives are just death. Just imagine a complex codebase and then you start changing parts of it randomly. What ar
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Ok, so how do you bring up the control center now?
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It was necessary for the wireless charging.
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> their support for ES6 features beats all the other browsers This is deceptive. They purposefully do not support critical features that other browsers do support. As a developer, if there's one browser that consistently gives me he
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> No secret battery magic going on. They have a complex cooling system. Your laptop battery definitely doesn't have that. If it did, it wouldn't need to be replaced every few years.
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> One thing I would love someone to explain is how can people assume cars are going to be automated soon when both planes and trains haven't been automated for various reasons. Planes are mostly automated, except for liftoff and lan
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> We've tried for 70+ years and have as yet not succeeded to use nuclear as a financially feasible energy source. Nuclear is used widely. It is definitely a feasible energy source, by definition. It is becoming financially infeasi
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> many people take weed to relax or relieve anxiety and believe that those things are helpful for their studies They believe it's helpful to their life in general, which this study isn't measuring. Nobody in their right mind sm
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> That is simply not possible once an operation exceeds a certain size. A good argument for not getting too greedy and keeping things small. It's the nail that sticks out that gets hammered down.
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> they're having supply issues with battery packs. They are building a huge factory for making battery packs in Nevada. That's already operational and will be more so by December. I imagine that's part of the solution.
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> At what point can we stop encouraging that? At no point. That's how science works. Those who are opposed will bring up the best arguments available, even if those arguments aren't new. They'll get evaluated, rebuffed, ac
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> Unless you he scrutiny is biased and meant to discredit the science that is. The entire point of scrutiny is to discredit and of course it's going to be biased. That's the point. If the science is solid, it'll withstand
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Why wouldn't it? Humans prefer living next to each other, creating dense clusters.

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