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by pasttense01 2y ago
"Quiet quitting is really hard to tackle, largely because the employees concerned are doing their jobs; they are just not willing to go above and beyond." Employees are generally willing to go above and beyond if employers are wil
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Intel used to dominate the U.S. chip industry, now struggling to stay relevant(cnbc.com)
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by pasttense01 2y ago
The countries with high percent of renewable electrical generation mostly had massive hydropower resources--and that mostly can't spread to the rest of the world.
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by pasttense01 2y ago
The fossil fuel industry requires massive continued investment. So it's not clear that renewables would be more affected by high interest rates than fossil fuel investment would be.
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by pasttense01 2y ago
No. We need the same legal protections whether the risks come from AI, traditional computer programs or human beings.
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by pasttense01 2y ago
Clickbait title: there is no information on how Mandisa died.
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by pasttense01 2y ago
"Long-acting drugs are likely to be an even greater boon in populations that have long been hard to reach: patients who have spotty access to health services, or who have trouble taking daily pills because they have unstable housing or
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by pasttense01 2y ago
"For comparison, the typical full-time U.S. worker earns a median $60,000 per year, according to Labor Department data." This doesn't make any sense. Explanations?
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by pasttense01 2y ago
No, tobacco products kill a lot more people, in the U.S. about 400,000 people a year--three to four times as many as alcohol.
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by pasttense01 2y ago
There is no ranking there: a teaser of a few lines and then presumably you have to subscribe...
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by pasttense01 2y ago
This was published in 2019, so the technology may have changed.
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by pasttense01 2y ago
So you didn't have any trouble finding financial institutions which allow software or hardware based MFA?
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by pasttense01 2y ago
Look at this chart of Productivity Change in the Nonfarm Business Sector 1947-2023. https://www.bls.gov/productivity/images/pfei.png What you would expect if you read all the media hype about new technology is tha
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by pasttense01 3y ago
The big money is not going to be the type of chat services the article talks about; the big money is going to be romance scams.
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by pasttense01 3y ago
AI spam has only been around a year or two--but the decline in search engine quality has been going on for much longer.
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by pasttense01 3y ago
It's a question of what has the most bang for the buck. Using wind to generate electricity via big wind turbines has a vastly lower cost per ton of avoided carbon pumped into the atmosphere than using wind to move very small capacity s
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by pasttense01 3y ago
Less energy turns out to be a relatively minor consideration in the world; for example cost of labor is vastly more important.
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by pasttense01 3y ago
"We aren’t anywhere near running out of space for landfill. The Earth is huge and we are good at digging deep holes. Space will never be a meaningful constraint." While true in general there is a very big problem called NIMBYism (
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by pasttense01 3y ago
It might be a reason he was caught: the reason the hospital got a detective to investigate him was probably because it was worried he might engage in ransomware or other security breaches against the hospital.
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by pasttense01 3y ago
Since I have a couple Chase credit cards my immediate question is how do I shut off these targeted ads?
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by pasttense01 3y ago
This is crazy. Simply having some road congestion perverts the meaning of the phrase "state of emergency".
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by pasttense01 3y ago
It depends on the crop. Corn and soybeans are massively mechanized so you need very little labor so often it is the farm owners doing the fieldwork.
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by pasttense01 3y ago
Climate change shows its effects over decades--not over a year or two as has happened with cocoa.
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by pasttense01 3y ago
"Commodities such as food and beverage goods, electronics and household goods are top targets of thieves." Why bother with low value products like food and beverages?
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by pasttense01 3y ago
I very much doubt that it is just older adults who are being tricked.
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by pasttense01 3y ago
What kind of gun do you carry in your car? Is this the same one you carry on your person?
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by pasttense01 3y ago
This surprises me. When a state like Mississippi has lots of poor people you would expect credit card companies to simply not offer the poor credit cards--instead Mississippi has a 39% delinquency rate in contrast to a 13% delinquency rate
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by pasttense01 3y ago
No. Musk is going to move the incorporation state of Tesla from Delaware to Texas--and when there will reinstate the pay package.
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by pasttense01 3y ago
Why not start a new account? See: https://www.businessfirstonline.co.uk/advice/how-to-open-a-n...
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by pasttense01 3y ago
"Target is turning to its competitors' playbook for a reason: Walmart CEO Doug McMillon told investors on the company's earnings call in February that Walmart+ members spend nearly twice as much as non-members and buy more ov

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