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by mter 7y ago
Japan is extra special in this regard. My brother who is japanese, married a japanese national, speaks japanese and lives in japan is not "Japanese". That's what the article is referring to.
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by mter 7y ago
Where is over here? The US leads the world in volunteering. https://www.oecd.org/els/family/CO4.1-Participation-voluntar... You can also look at BLS info: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf&
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by mter 8y ago
> It's not about one being better than the other, they both have very useful things to teach. Did you do a humanities degree and a cs degree? I did a psychology degree then went back to school later to get my cs degree. The intellec
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by mter 8y ago
Be the average american male who is too fat and medicated to serve, or be in a skilled job that is important to the war effort. Do keep in mind that 90% of the jobs in the military aren't fighting on the front lines so chances are, you
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by mter 8y ago
I work under 40 hours a week with no pressure to work more, I get along with my coworkers and look forward to going to work in the morning. I have worked a crunch time that was pretty terrible, but that was a once off. It's been almost
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by mter 8y ago
I've been to a VA hospital. My brother/dad/uncle have been to the same VA hospital. Our experiences have all been poor. If you were told that you'd get an appointment some time in the future and they sent you a notice ra
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by mter 8y ago
> But some of them truly do offer superior care to a typical private hospital Which ones? Because that has not been my experience at the hawaii facility. From my appointment time being written down on a piece of paper then they send me
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by mter 8y ago
The thing with the VA isn't that it's all bad. It's that the percentage of completely inept people seems higher than in a normal hospital. Normal hospitals don't have multiple scandals of reusing insulin pens on differen
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by mter 8y ago
The secret isn't fewer friends, it's only having actual friends on social media and not following/friending random people. My facebook feed is usually things I care about as a result. Except for 1 guy, who is a great guy but
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by mter 9y ago
It upsets pele. I'm totally serious. Google for why do native hawaiians oppose geothermal.
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by mter 9y ago
We make enough money to live in the suburbs instead of the city and can afford a house where we can store food, water, books (the dead tree kind), tools and firearms. If you put a machine/wood working shop in your garage + you do your
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by mter 9y ago
Filling the tub provides you with drinking water and water to flush the toilet. It's standard practice in hawaii when a hurricane/tsunami is inbound.
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by mter 9y ago
I'm not sure if it's just the people I work with, or if chase has a problem because credit card ownership has changed. I don't use credit cards in the same way as parents where I'd have 1 card then make all of my charges
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by mter 9y ago
Restaurants/travel are 3x points and transfer easily to airline partners. The travel bonus is $300 dollars and incredibly easy to get (uber/toll/planes/whatever all count) making the card effectively 150 dollars a month
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by mter 9y ago
It's because normal people see the money that we make as ours, then the government takes their cut. "Benefits" are our money redistributed to people who don't work. At no point do the people receiving benefits actually c
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by mter 9y ago
Interesting article. I didn't know the Ainu still existed as a group. If you're interested in this sort of thing, there has been more written on the okinowan experience which is similar.
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by mter 9y ago
Does anyone know when we decreased the age for recommended mammograms to 40? My assumption is that it's in the time range of the article. I can only find references to us raising the recommended age to 45 in 2015, controversy over rais
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by mter 9y ago
> while flash hiders just make it difficult for authorities to spot the location of a shooter. Flash hiders vent gas to the sides/down instead of straight out so that the shooter isn't blinded as much while firing at night. It
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by mter 9y ago
Most interesting thing about SC is Amazon has a game publishing arm and star citizen is using lumberyard. I hope that AGS has an interest in keeping it's most high profile client alive. Some of my most nostalgic childhood memories are
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by mter 9y ago
Wouldn't a 51% attack means I could lose my house? I seem to be missing how this would work or why this would be desirable.
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by mter 9y ago
This is not a valid comparison because there is literally a federal law protecting gun manufacturers. There is not a similar law protecting twitter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerce_...
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by mter 9y ago
Once an officer hits their unit, they have someone with 5-10x more experience to supervise them for their first 5-10 years. It would be like a new manager getting a senior engineer to work with 7 days a week to help guide their bad ideas. A
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by mter 9y ago
Find out how many senior engineers are on that team and are participating in the oncall rotation that you will be a part of. Or, find out how many SDE IIs with 3+ years are on that team. If you don't have either, then you should be con
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by mter 9y ago
At worst the officers will get a paid vacation then will be back to work after the police investigate if the police did anything wrong.
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by mter 10y ago
> You're 20 times more likely to get killed by a gun in the US This is very misleading because this audience is primarily middle class/rich white/asians employed in the tech industry. There are 2 primary factors in homicid
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by mter 10y ago
> Managing people is difficult and if there's an organization who has had more experience organizing people to execute objectives than most anyone else, it's the military. They are damned good at it and there exists a lot of ma
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by mter 10y ago
This is going to sound like an advertisement but I don't know a better way to state it. Chase reserve is 300 back in "travel" expenses which include parking/tolls/flights/uber. Assuming you have any of those ex
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by mter 10y ago
The amazon way is not always friendly to normal humans. That's just the truth of it. My team has taken pains to not be that way. The company is trying to change the culture and frankly, have done some mind blowing things. No one would
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by mter 10y ago
I have no insight into their world so I cannot speak in any way to the truth of their working conditions. I only know that for most of the devs, it is fine. It's not perfect, I'm not even sure I'd tell people that it's g
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by mter 10y ago
I've been reorged quite a few times. More than most people who have spent 5 years here. > You may find that you got extremely lucky in where you first landed. I have 3 other teams with previous coworkers who are currently having goo

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