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by np- 4y ago
Totally anecdotally: I have to scrub a thick layer of bugs off my motorcycle helmet after every single ride but almost never off the windshield of my car. Though this could also be a function of where I’m going (typically rural back roads o
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by np- 4y ago
Isn’t that a pretty good reason why it’s bad? Alabama is massively failing an entire demographic segment of their society, not even a small segment but something like 40% of it. That does seem like a massive infrastructure and education fai
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by np- 4y ago
How is it ridiculous? This seems like an argument more like because you can do it, you should do it. What if car manufacturers had similar ideas to "focus on usability issues" and recorded every driver as they're driving thei
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by np- 4y ago
Prudishness and Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll are just two sides of the same coin. They both need the other side to exist to stay relevant.
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by np- 4y ago
This isn't about being a legitimate tourist though. That has always been allowed. There are not many jurisdictions around the world where you are allowed to work and not pay any taxes though. Just because there is a loophole where you
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by np- 4y ago
This still seems a bit dubious—-90% of people who view the ad being qualified doesn’t mean in any way that 90% of applicants will be successful. If you have more applicants from that bottom 10% pool who click on the ad to proceed, then it w
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by np- 4y ago
Not OP, but why would you feel bad? Anecdotally, I’ve gone into interviews before thinking it means nothing, and one of the small companies I wasn’t serious about ended up convincing me to join. It’s really on the company to sell their visi
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by np- 4y ago
Assuming that is the appropriate penalty (I know nothing about Chancery law), why exactly can’t they just issue a warrant for his arrest and put him in jail? He doesn’t have a private militia or anything like that
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by np- 4y ago
How is it any different than the standard “Exceeds expectations/Meets Expectations/Needs Improvement” rating system that most companies do?
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by np- 4y ago
> how it feels for normal people who get there shit done My perspective is that once I took a step back and really looked, I noticed almost nobody is getting ANY shit done, and perhaps that’s OK. I was just holding myself to unreasonable
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by np- 4y ago
I suffer from this conundrum too. One thing I did observe is that people who don't actively follow the 24/7 news and social media cycle are still are fairly aware of important major events (Ukraine, COVID, etc), as it would be har
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by np- 4y ago
Large dense cities in certain parts of Europe and east Asia don’t face these issues (and even then, there isn’t really the same concept of large and dense in most of Europe), but I would say chaotic unfriendly cities are the default in most
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by np- 4y ago
Yeah that is a pretty naive algorithm though, especially if you can explain it in one sentence. After all that, that’s the best algorithm they got? If you buy one thing you might buy two. Pretty sure most of us could implement that in a lin
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by np- 4y ago
> “becoming ever more reliable with time, as the algorithms learn“ I mean considering Amazon has put in kajillions of dollars on their learning algorithms and yet now in 2022 those algorithms still aren’t even smart enough to figure out
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by np- 4y ago
Not the op, but to be pedantic, every single international border crossing in the world is an official government “nationality discrimination” department. That’s what passports are for. (Not saying I necessarily agree with this, but it is t
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by np- 4y ago
The employer is the one taking that extra value, so why wouldn’t the “you already have enough money” argument cut both ways? I also assume management is wealthier than the previous year.
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by np- 4y ago
This is completely out of context. He said that before civil rights were realized, and Black Americans were regularly structurally discriminated against. The special thing that needed to be done was to not let things remain the status quo b
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by np- 4y ago
I think that’s the point of the article. If you just look at the numbers like an MBA would then maybe it makes sense. But all of the negative externalities are being bore by the local communities where the derailments are happening, and tho
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by np- 4y ago
100% agreed. Somehow this article manages to redefine mindfulness as just convincing yourself to feel no guilt for anything (“In general, mindfulness seems to calm uncomfortable feelings” is a direct quote from the article, and most subsequ
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by np- 4y ago
> Eng manager here. Honestly not everyone is sold on remote being better much less equivalent in productivity or output compared to being in an office. Ad an IC, I would have potentially believed this if the past two years where everyone
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by np- 4y ago
> it’s AI, we're not there yet. At this point, we still barely even understand what human intelligence is :) But one thing is for sure: we can definitely notice a _lack_ of intelligence, which is why I think the goal posts keep movi
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by np- 4y ago
Not OP, but I don't feel this has anything to do with any specific people, but more an indictment of the system itself that we've created. Historically, there has never been an incentive or compensation structure that exists in co
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by np- 4y ago
While true, there are far more young people than old people dying at least in the US: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2016/... ), and in general there have never before been as many
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by np- 5y ago
The problem is that for every $1 someone is willing to spend to not have spammy results, a spammer is willing to pay $10 for you to see it anyway. And the more "trustworthy" a platform grows, then the going price for manipulating
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by np- 5y ago
We’re all just searching Reddit anyway and it’s just easier to use Google to search Reddit than to use Reddit’s own search tool.
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by np- 5y ago
This video itself is likely meant for Russian consumption. The Russian government doesn't need it to be 100% effective, it's far easier if people get scared and self censor, refraining from mentioning anything about the war, knowi
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by np- 5y ago
That's probably just due to normal staff retention issues that everywhere seems to be experiencing right now. There are still plenty of brand new Whole Foods popping up, plus the Amazon Go technology has just begun to become integrated
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by np- 5y ago
Interesting, even Spain seems to not get a red outline (maybe because of Catalonia?)
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by np- 5y ago
A lot of times I’ve found the amount of time it takes me to solve a problem is about the same whether I’m actively working on it or not. Once a problem has been percolating in my head for a while things eventually “click” and it just become
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by np- 5y ago
> Well, tough luck? I don't think it's that important. Just accept it as a fact of life: you lost access to your email account and can't verify you still own it (you don't, clearly). This case might not be super impor

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