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by papreclip 7y ago
it's a nice jobs program :)
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by papreclip 7y ago
>I do not have friends or family who have their own businesses, or who could help me find a role in a business they work for. That's rough. When your resume is by default the easiest to reject out of any pile it finds itself in, a p
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by papreclip 7y ago
> people would rather feel nice about themselves Is that really it, or do people get a power trip out of getting plastic straws banned?
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by papreclip 7y ago
string theory doesn't have experiments. that's my point
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by papreclip 7y ago
It's not so crazy to me that we try to maintain the same quality of life. Watching the meter and waiting until 9 PM to wash your clothes is a pretty sad state of affairs. Sweating through your clothes in a heat wave because everyone el
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by papreclip 7y ago
"only makes predictions that can't be tested" has always placed string theory outside the realm of science in my mind
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by papreclip 7y ago
I don't like paying for their stadiums, either
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by papreclip 7y ago
If you buy into some of the logic I've seen kicking around recently that: >housing shortage prevents poor people from participating in centers of high productivity, which reduces their economic output then attracting as many warm bo
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by papreclip 7y ago
Why only $1000/month, why not make it $10,000?
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by papreclip 7y ago
AMA and ABA are protectionist and "America-first", though. The tech unionization movement is full of people who favor open borders and the like
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by papreclip 7y ago
> How can anyone do anything efficiently or be productive enough at work, or even enjoy hobbies, while doing that? by replying every 2 or 3 hours, when you're waiting in the elevator, or have some other idle time to fill >you ca
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by papreclip 7y ago
how about $1 each? i don't want $100 worth of ad impressions (pennies each) blasted at me over the course of a campaign season
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by papreclip 7y ago
The haber-bosch process is the worst scientific advance human beings have ever made, much worse than tetra-ethyl lead, CFCs, or the atom bomb. It's not even possible to grow enough food to support the current world population without i
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by papreclip 7y ago
There are going to be tradeoffs one way or another. You can build a bunch of high rises and fill them with people, and private transportation will become impossible. The experience of going to the beach or some hiking spot on the weekend wi
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by papreclip 7y ago
I open facebook for 2 minutes a week and scroll through my relatives' baby and pet pictures. I don't get how the site is such a specter of misery for some people Twitter I would understand a little better. It's such a tar pit
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by papreclip 7y ago
This doesn't really solve the PR problem for Tesla, though. If people continue to treat their cars like they're fully self-driving (they will), accidents like this will continue to happen What Tesla is doing is like selling a spac
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by papreclip 7y ago
Amazed to see the US attribute anything to China instead of the usual transparent lie that North Korea was responsible
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by papreclip 7y ago
To be clear, the war games had US military playing the part of the fictional middle-east enemy. This story was news to me and you made it sound a lot more interesting than it turned out to be
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by papreclip 7y ago
OP is also being really misled by survivorship bias, ie. the bias that since he was able to accomplish this by what felt like "putting in the time to fix his mistakes", so must others be. There is such a thing as natural talent in
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by papreclip 7y ago
History will look back on mine as the manchild generation. Can't say I'm not doing my part, though
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by papreclip 7y ago
It seems really unintuitive to me that there is enough ice on the globe to raise the sea level by 6 feet (let alone 230). But then if I had to guess the land area of Antarctica, I would have estimated something the size of Oklahoma or Texas
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by papreclip 7y ago
Morocco and Bermuda are pretty naive guesses. Her mother was a "holocaust expert" and her father was not merely an agent for the Mossad but some sort of hero in the organization. She's practically Israeli royalty
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by papreclip 7y ago
the sexual harassment stuff can be pretty invisible if you aren't a target yourself regarding the identity politics stuff, some people live and breath IP and their perception of untenable conditions would be unremarkable to me (e.g. a
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by papreclip 7y ago
>NoSQL adopters often ... ended up with unmaintainable messes learning SQL seems much more straightforward than learning NoSQL. personally I'd like to find a good resource that will help me use a non-relational database without crea
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by papreclip 7y ago
less wasted computation means less global warming
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by papreclip 7y ago
Probably doesn't like that you can't quarantine/astroturf your way to total thought control when people are getting their news and political discussion from their echo chamber of choice, free from external moderation
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by papreclip 7y ago
no relation to the LHC
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by papreclip 7y ago
People will look back on the late-20th century in the future and be amazed that a common citizen had their own car, their own house with a yard, ate meat daily, etc I would much rather live in a drivable SF before overpopulation than cope w
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by papreclip 7y ago
On my previous commute home, the green wave seemed to only work if you travelled 85 or 30 mph (posted limit 55), everyone else got hit with every red
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by papreclip 7y ago
>In theory I don't think so. My understanding is that there's a limit to sound wave amplitude (decibels) beyond which you enter the domain of the shockwave. a shockwave is an irreversible process which couldn't be used to

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