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China's Growing Water Crisis(foreignaffairs.com)
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> I don't think this is true in CS. Universities outside of an elite set really struggle to hire and retain high quality faculty. [...] Some of this is due to industry -- high-quality faculty candidates tend to also have 3x-5x offer
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by plonk 4y ago
Not a native speaker so I'm not sure what you call an apartment complex, but I've lived in apartments that were in complexes of multiple buildings and never heard of paying per year. That sure seems to suck.
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Is it common to pay for longer periods at a time? Never heard of it.
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Renting for life isn't the same thing as being indebted for life. You can move out at any time and the landlord doesn't have any hold over you. Doesn't sound much like peonage to me.
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You can disable the auto-skip in your account settings.
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Mandate a reasonable support delay, beyond the 5-to-7-years that seems to be the gold standard today. A computer from 10 years ago can still do a lot of things.
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Push against an immovable wall for long enough and you'll end up tired, no matter how much agency you have.
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The prices are awful too. It's clearly not targeted at random people wanting to stay informed.
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You can download all 3 Witcher games without DRM after buying them on GoG. Did you have the standalone version? I don't understand why they put a DRM in it.
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It should suffice if you disable cloud sync and backups.
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You'd need something like RSS to only download the useful contents. You could probably same a few forums' contents on a 500GB SSD if you stuck to text and used an efficient format.
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You don't want medical advice from reddit though. At least the university websites are trustworthy enough to decide if you need to see a doctor. Maybe a no-filler health info website could be viable if it spread by word of mouth and no
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by plonk 4y ago
Python is only palatable with strict type checking everywhere. I don't see how unchecked dynamic typing can bring anything else than chaos in a large project.
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I like to write impartial and authoritative reviews for things that aren't just a random hobby of mine. Especially on anonymous forums. This could be good, or it could make advertisers start spamming forums with more fake accounts.
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> I was saying you should always be positive and proactive and personal responsible and make moves in-the-small instead of thinking nothing can be done because the sky is falling. Please stop with the "just be positive" answer
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> School, friendships, relationships, reputation, responsibilities, power, expectations.... It's normal to be worried/anxious! You say that like today's teens live in some dull high school drama. There's a loneliness
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> the realization that adults have no idea what they're doing I think that's the worst one. You grow up having to obey the "grown-ups" and not being allowed to question anything they do, then progressively realise mos
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> the overpowering but unarticulated sense of not really having anywhere to 'go' I live in a place like this and it's awful. All you can reach by foot is kilometers of insanely polluted 4-lane roads and and shopping malls.
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Some Finnish guy made a small mark in the history of operating systems a few years back. You might have heard of him.
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by plonk 4y ago
Machine Learning: a Probabilistic Perspective by Murphy may be a better reference. Murphy has more up-to-date books. > Both are freely available online. Reading one book will get you to top 5% practitioners and reading both will get you
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> (Only thing there that fits is the recent demonstration of the Russian government acting like half-arsed movie plots are a good idea in real life). A lot of papers suggested that the war incompetence was because Putin asked for support
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> By doing this, they give FedGov the ability to insinuate that Snowden is (and was) a Russian agent from now until the time he leaves the country. You're right, it cuts both ways. To go back to ben_w's comment though, I don&#x
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That’s not what I meant. Assuming that Snowden had support from the Russian state, his handlers could easily guess how long his passport would last and help him get to the right places at the right time. Nothing public proves it, but neithe
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by plonk 4y ago
What makes you sure that the public story is the real one? It doesn't seem that hard to plan for Snowden to be in the right airport at the time his passport gets revoked, with some support. The fact that neither the US nor Russia went
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That's funny, I have the same nights sometimes and never thought of asking a doctor. Seems it's just what happens when we stay too inactive for a few days or mess up our sleep schedule. Was that the only symptom for the psychosis
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I had a mild one that put me out of work for a week. I wonder if it's really a lack of energy, or just the body deterring you from any activity by pretending to be tired, so the brain can heal faster.
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> However, every impression I have of Snowden is that he is patriotic to the USA, and that the sole reason he is in Russia now is genuinely because of the pressure that the government of USA put on every other government to turn him over
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> But I don't really think it has any real advantage over $(your favorite scripting language); if you are proficient at coding I don't see why you would implement anything nontrivial in Excel given the choice. If you wanted to
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Follow the setuptools doc [1], it's very easy and there's an example you can start from. It links to PEP 621 [2] which seems to be the specification if that can help. [1] https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest&#

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