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by mcculley 3y ago
Your guess is partly correct. Jones Act and USCG Subchapter M are bigger parts of the problem. It is not just pay rate. Where I can match pay rates, I cannot match lifestyle. U.S. citizens and green card holders have more attractive jobs av
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by mcculley 3y ago
Obviously, there are strategies to handle the shortage in the long term. Right now, there is a shortage. If there is a shortage of hammers, one cannot just claim that the shortage does not exist because we can eventually make more hammers.
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by mcculley 3y ago
There are specific labor categories that cannot be filled just by paying more. They require more training and experience. So I don’t believe your assertion about “EVER”. I have been running a tugboat company for a few years now and there is
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by mcculley 3y ago
Do these show up in a urine test the same way as inhaling marijuana?
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by mcculley 3y ago
We should obviously be building nuclear plants as fast as possible while recognizing that they present outsize risks. I want more nuclear plants, but not if they are run by the same myopic system that gave us Deepwater Horizon.
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by mcculley 3y ago
Wi-Fi and Internet access in general killed off an enormous revenue source for hotels: pay-per-view porn. They were very motivated to find new ways to get that revenue back.
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by mcculley 3y ago
It has been a long time since I set up my first iPhone, which was in early 2012. I have since been migrating my settings to new phones each time. I don't remember the Maps app asking for permission to get my location or the Contacts ap
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by mcculley 3y ago
Yes. After quitting caffeine I realized I had to be more careful about eating dark chocolate, for example.
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by mcculley 3y ago
Yes. Anything that has an effect outside of the digestive system should be suspect.
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by mcculley 3y ago
It is also fashionable to call any consumption of certain substances “microdosing”, which never seems to have a real definition. By calling consumption “microdosing”, one can rationalize that it is harmless and experimental.
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by mcculley 3y ago
> A machine can help you accumulate facts, but it can't educate you (in the sense that I'm talking about.) We are clearly on the precipice of having machines that can model the human mind and help us figure out where we are blo
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by mcculley 3y ago
It is not clear to me what you are trying to say. There are many humans not getting as much as enjoyment out of life as they could because there was not enough human teacher labor to help them. I, at 51 years old, am making use of GPT-4 as
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by mcculley 3y ago
Ever since I learned of Bloom’s 2 sigma problem, I have wondered how far we can advance humans with the aid of computer tutors. I would never suggest that AI should be a replacement for human teachers, but it could definitely supplement the
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by mcculley 3y ago
Do you mean Russia or USSR? It is unclear if you are asking about a hypothetical event in the past or a hypothetical event in the future after ratification of Sweden’s NATO membership.
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by mcculley 3y ago
An implicit deal we have made with many other states is that in exchange for managing the peace, they will not develop or further develop nuclear capability. To me, that is worth a lot.
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by mcculley 3y ago
https://cglife.com/blog/23andme-sold-your-genetic-data-to-gs...
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by mcculley 3y ago
> “It came from teleco companies” is not due diligence enough for I never claimed this. I replied to the question about how a telecom provider would have PII. My mobile provider knows my legal name and other details. They obviously know
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by mcculley 3y ago
I don’t understand your question. Your telecom provider has your PII.
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by mcculley 3y ago
Assume that these apps can deanonymize you. One would have to go to extreme lengths to not leak identity.
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by mcculley 3y ago
I have some workflows where a SQLite database is built from data sets and then used read-only by multiple processes. I currently implement this by putting the SQLite file into S3 and copying it to the machines that need it. This will save t
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by mcculley 3y ago
Yes, I do this on boats quite often. It is unpleasant compared to showering with fresh water.
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by mcculley 3y ago
Wouldn’t any two party system converge to the same useless equilibrium?
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by mcculley 3y ago
I have no idea how my browsing of Twitter via the web UI is exceeding any rate limit, but I want to thank Elon for breaking my Twitter addiction because now it won't let me see anything. Please keep limiting the ways in which people ca
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by mcculley 3y ago
Maybe vocabulary is a victim of atrophy.
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by mcculley 3y ago
My current AmEx has had chip and contactless for three years or more now. But I wouldn’t want anyone to have to update their priors.
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by mcculley 3y ago
I know it is not accepted in many smaller places. I was reading maybe too literally the nonsense assertion, "accepted basically nowhere outside of the US."
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by mcculley 3y ago
In the last six months, I have used my AmEx in Italy, Canada, and The Bahamas. Where are you having trouble with AmEx?
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by mcculley 3y ago
We have no reason to believe that it will be temporary. Musk using the phrase “data pillaged” for what users intended to publicly post shows us how he thinks of his walled garden.
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Which was OceanGate's business model.
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by mcculley 3y ago
> Bill Gates once said that in some ways Microsoft was lucky to be as succesful as they where, that they had competitors that had better products but to Microsofts luck, could never get a foothold in the market. Bill Gates famously engin

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