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by perl4ever 5y ago
Compared to who?
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>The only just approach is to apply the standard fairly to all people Surely everybody agrees with that, for everything, except that it communicates absolutely nothing about what is fair and uniform. I have no idea whether someone convic
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by perl4ever 5y ago
"Famously a felon" sounds to me like politics on the face of it. The word "famously" makes it so. Maybe the people to whom you refer just have different concerns about things which they see as different. People see hypoc
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>this story has nothing the hell to do with Chelsea Manning I mean, no need to debate it, who knows, but I think you're exaggerating your certainty. It's possible that this has an additional political dimension, even though sim
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Well, yes, you've cleverly deduced there is no real shortage. There aren't any significant number of people wringing their hands over it for 30 years either.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
A co-worker of mine went to Pakistan and unexpectedly couldn't get readmitted to the US for years. At least the company kept him on, working remotely.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I remember reading that phones are adaptive, so they ramp up the power if they have trouble connecting to a tower.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
My current phone, a Pixel 3, died after about a year, just barely under warranty. I thought later, I wonder if putting it on the top of my microwave while it's in use did anything to it. So I stopped doing that.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
What was a recurring concern? Politics? Psych meds? Commuted or expunged convictions?
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Looking at in.indeed.com, you can make ₹10,00,000 or more per year. Up to as much as ₹25,00,000. ...but that's if you have "3-5 years of Experience in Cobol, IMS, DB2, JCL". I imagine an entry-level job might pay ₹7,00,00
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by perl4ever 5y ago
"millimeter waves have short ranges of propagation, they are absorbed by water vapor and oxygen in the atmosphere, by vegetation, very strongly by water in the tissues of people and animals, and they are readily reflected off, and scat
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by perl4ever 5y ago
If all else fails, you can move to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Q... I'm against 5G for now, just because I don't see what I need it for, and I resent being forced to pay even i
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>Which is not actually a right. It very much depends on who you ask. Some libertarians will say that it hasn't been that long the modern system has been in place. I think since roughly WWI? The lack of a "right" to enter
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>they're only angry... situationally. You don't know, though! I mean, not everybody gets angry that easy, but many are aware that you don't have to commit a crime or do something wrong to be barred from crossing an interna
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I never had much interest in COBOL, but I really liked Hypertalk's pseudo-english code and sometimes wish it had more influence.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>This does seem to suggest a solution... Yeah, some already figured out, if you do that, you don't need people from high wage countries.
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But surely there is a shortage, and you can't just pay more. My mom knew COBOL. She retired in the 1970s. You're going to have a tough time hiring her now.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I thought I read somewhere that there are schools in India teaching COBOL more recently. So I wonder if it's something like manufacturing in China - it's not just cheaper, it's that the expertise has moved. You can't inc
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I would've thought the most practical way, provided there's enough lead time, would be to attach something like an ion thruster and apply a tiny thrust over months if not years.
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"Hoyle and Wickramasinghe viewed the process of evolution in a manner at variance with the standard Darwinian model. They speculated that genetic material in the form of incoming pathogens from the cosmos provided the mechanism for dri
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by perl4ever 5y ago
It's interesting how people completely forget the early attempts and false starts at things. There was a brief period of time when I thought the iPhone had bombed. I'd heard that after launching iTunes, Apple was coming out with
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by perl4ever 5y ago
The people calling the shots may believe that the costs of stopping climate change outweigh the benefits. On the other hand, they may just think there is no political route to stopping it. I have never been an advocate of nuclear power in g
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I was reminded recently that there is a practical solution if people really wanted to get off fossil fuels right now . It's not solar, wind, hydro or fusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor I&#x27
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Picture some American saying there's no point in knowing languages other than English because 99.99% of the people you will encounter know it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Standard_Whitworth
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>its basis focused on the planet instead of on a body part It was based on both, and both measurements are completely determined by the happenstance of life on earth rather than the laws of nature. >which caused major issues when bord
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A meter seems to me linked to the human body just as much as the foot. "The metre was originally defined in 1793 as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle" That factor of ten is b
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Non-profits, at least the sort I've been involved with, have very few employees because they have very limited funding, and therefore all their employees do a huge amount but it's mostly networking, managing events and fundraising
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(I think this is something different, but possibly of interest to people whose imagination is captured by electronic interfaces with the nervous system) "A research team led by a 2018 BBRF Young Investigator, Sung Il Park, Ph.D., repor
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by perl4ever 5y ago
That may be, but do they hate where they came from the same amount and do they talk about it as much?
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Ok, but I was referring to expatriates. Also, you forgot Paul Hogan. And Kylie Minogue. And Nick Cave. Also, while absolutely nothing sticks in my mind about either, the names of Kevin Rudd and Kim Beazley have been retained in my memory.

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