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by maxwell 4y ago
> You only get 15-30 days of vacation per year. This is why I'm glad to have "unlimited" PTO (subject to manager approval + must be requested at least the duration in advance, e.g. 2 weeks notice for 2 weeks off), along wi
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Project Looking Glass(en.wikipedia.org)
10 points by maxwell 4y ago|0 comments
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by maxwell 4y ago
"Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist." -George Orwell https://reason.com/2014/06/18/why-selectively-quoting-orwell...
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by maxwell 4y ago
Thinking of the common CD bullies in New York: https://www.scam-detector.com/article/cd-bullies-in-new-york
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Performance of the Patriot Missile in the Gulf War (1992)(turnerhome.org)
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by maxwell 4y ago
> its real mission The FBI's primary objective in practice seems to have always been "maintaining the existing social and political order" [1], with some swaying justification of national security and preventing violence,
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by maxwell 4y ago
I was slightly misciting Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow (2010), from a presentation she gave in 2011: "More Black men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War bega
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by maxwell 4y ago
In light of Bruen and this one, maybe. But based on Egbert and Vega , there's now precedent for federal agents to perform warrantless raids, seizures, and arrests, without reading Miranda warnings, with no legal consequences.
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by maxwell 4y ago
> You just have a very [U.S.] centric view. [...] I trust the [Latvian/EU] government to not wilfully [ sic ] abuse the data [ sic ] far, far more than I trust any for-profit entity. If unclear why no one in the U.S. trusts federal,
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by maxwell 4y ago
Driving motored vehicles on public roads is a privilege retained by the states under the Tenth Amendment. You can drive a tank on private property, if you can legally acquire one (Commerce Clause). Unclear on explosives. As far as "arm
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Hycean Planets (2021)(manyworlds.space)
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by maxwell 4y ago
> they had a great opportunity to do something interesting and alien with the music In their defense, as a film score alone, disregarding the source material, at least they had a score—unlike most subsequent action/adventure movies,
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by maxwell 4y ago
Looks like he authored 62 Goosebumps books, published from 1992 to 1997. So potentially only a little over a year's labor in total at a book a week.
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R.L. Stine and Ghostwriters (2012)(kathryns-inbox.com)
41 points by maxwell 4y ago|79 comments
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How a Car Works(howacarworks.com)
1 points by maxwell 4y ago|0 comments
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by maxwell 4y ago
Let's get a vote in the House to see where everyone actually stands. My point is that the Democrat majority seems to be against Medicare for All, and I want to see it in a vote. It's not really fair to pin Lieberman's oppos
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by maxwell 4y ago
I'm not talking about passing anything, just taking down a vote of who is actually for and against Medicare for All.
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by maxwell 4y ago
> admonishing Democrats as a bloc for not trying to reform healthcare Incorrect. I was admonishing them for not putting it to a vote.
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by maxwell 4y ago
I'm not talking about passing anything, just putting it to a vote.
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by maxwell 4y ago
> Maybe it fits certain products more than others I think that's the key point being lost in any of these over-generalizations of "software" separated from actual industries and customer types. Building a back-end system f
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The Bold Truth (2015)(boldtruth.com)
11 points by maxwell 4y ago|7 comments
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Unbuilt cities: the outrageous highway schemes left as roads to nowhere (2018)(theguardian.com)
3 points by maxwell 4y ago|0 comments
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by maxwell 4y ago
Why couldn't they quit after taking the money?
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by maxwell 4y ago
Fullscreen API and web push?
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Liberty Dollar Financial Association(ldfa.nl)
1 points by maxwell 4y ago|0 comments
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Why does photosynthesis specifically produce glucose?(biology.stackexchange.com)
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United Nations geoscheme(en.wikipedia.org)
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Bank of Jamaica to launch nationwide digital currency(techxplore.com)
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by maxwell 4y ago
Every pyramid scheme eventually runs out of new suckers.
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Clash of Civilizations(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by maxwell 4y ago|0 comments

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