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Along with this, California is phasing out ICE cars. Which will only make the power issues worse. Who is working to make the California power grid (and the other grids in general) capable of handling the shift away from ICE cars?
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Docker Desktop vs. Rancher Desktop
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FYI, the scientific studies have shown that the people who live the healthiest and longest (with good health in old age) primarily eat plant based. Read up on the blue zones to learn more. This is even in places in the US where they have ca
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A healthy amount of cholesterol is good for you. Too much LDL is bad for you. Your body makes the amount you need. Too much more of it leads to health issues like heart disease [1]. This is why doctors put people on LDL lowering medications
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High cholesterol is directly linked to heart disease. The negative side effects take years (decades really) to become an issue. Doctors know enough about it now to describe what's biologically happening. High cholesterol (and what caus
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Taking a single food alone is bad. You should look at a full diet. For example, wheat/grain paired with beans, lentils, and other foods that provide a variety of needed proteins. You also need to look at the downside. Eggs have a lot o
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> With a decent response time and hierarchical menus, it's easy to make a system that is navigable without looking. There is a difference between working with a touch screen where you can focus on it and using a touch screen where y
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> Do countries with less corrupt lawmakers pay more than the US? I doubt that... This assumes ones level of corruption has to do with income. Is that true or are there other factors?
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> they don't get to own stocks or real estate So, they can't own a home in a location they represent? I don't see that going over well. Your primary home is real estate. So is that little family cottage. Also, congressiona
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> I do see it as important in K-12 education Academic freedom of teachers teaching a 2nd or 3rd grader how to read? Or of teachers of 6th graders learning geography. This is where we get into politics and agendas. What happens when teach
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7th Day Adventists have food and lifestyle differences from the surrounding population. They are the ones living longer. There have been a bunch of ongoing long term studies on them. One of the findings is that diet matters. They’ve looked
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The researchers questioned these details, too. Any place labeled a blue zone has to have excellent records they could trace. One of the blue zones is in California. It’s worth looking at their process
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In modern times it dissolved due to diet changes. Looking at the blue zone in California is one of the most enlightening because they can control for so many factors, the records are excellent, and the people seem to be generally open to be
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To qualify as a “blue zone” they have to have good records. Now that they know about these places, scientists have spent a fair amount of time studying and publishing about them.
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I did some digging and found that we’ve had more people leaving the work force than entering it where I live. This is hitting jobs on the bottom end of pay first.
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Fast food restaurants are an interesting example. Where I live there have been problems with them sitting down for periods due to lack of staff. Are the kiosks to replace people or due to the lack of people?
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To add context (nothing more)... there is a call out for occupants of the same vehicle and what they can do (they can record as long as they are not also interfering).
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The text of the bill identifies the case for both those who are the subject of the "activity" and those that aren't. This is targeted at those who are not the subject and those who are (or are in a vehicle with the subject) h
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4y ago
> IMHO it's turnover that's the problem. In software I've seen this to be a huge problem. In other disciplines my observations are that it's not as bad. The turnover issues is something that could use a lot more explo
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That's unfortunate. People aren't cogs in a machine. New folks have a lot to learn. Even experienced people starting at a new company need to learn that company with its nuances. New people to an industry have SO MUCH to learn. Co
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> I suspect it’s harder for a junior to succeed anywhere today vs 2012 When I was a jr engineer I was paired with some senior people who showed me the ropes. They expected it would take some time to come up to speed and intentionally wor
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About 90% of serotonin is made in the gut [1]. This is one of those things that helps us with being happy and an unhealthy gut produces less. So, this makes sense. [1] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/
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It worked yesterday. Something broke in the meantime.
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Most of the people I talk with about data collection aren’t aware of what’s collected about them. People I’ve shared details with sometimes think I’m nuts. They just don’t believe it.
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A few thoughts... 1) Kubernetes is an infra platform for the ops in DevOps. If developers need to spend a lot of time doing Kubernetes it takes away from their ability/time to do their dev. So, there are a lot of platform teams who pul
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I suspect this is due to their chip suppliers or something like that
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An elected official isn’t just your official. They represent everyone in your district. Even the people you disagree with on something. This is a big difference from your analogy. They are going to listen to the squeaky wheel in their base.
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People are going to lobby for the things they want. If they are targeting more money they will lobby against laws that hurt that. Feedback is important in politics. How to reps know what their people want? What they need? The people of NC w
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Some of this situation is bad advice up front. I know numerous people who were guided by guidance counselors, schools, and loan folks to think that taking a large student debt would be just fine. Only to later have issues with it. Schools a
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There are trade offs to something like this. Some downsides… It’s not going to cover you for a multi-day outage very well. Where I live that happens every few years. You can’t use the truck to help people out (can happen in outages, especia
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