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by povertyworld 7y ago
I haven't been following this specific news story, but I remember from my environmental sociology class that fire prevention in forests eventually leads to unnatural states that are then prone to massive uncontainable fires. Have they
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Is data going to be cheaper too? Otherwise, it's not going to change anything for most people. It'll just mean I can blow through my monthly quota in a day instead of a week.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Sounds like every IRC channel ever. The topic is some open source project or programming language, but eventually it just becomes a clique of regulars who stopped caring about the topic a long time ago, and now just tell people who want to
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Most programming is not solving tricky puzzles, but grinding out code.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
I stopped reading Debt when he described the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin as "made of a copper-nickel alloy designed to look vaguely like gold". The Susan B. Anthony dollar is the same color as all the other circulating coinage o
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Maybe that's why IBM has been so incredibly successful after off shoring everything possible to India.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Instead of fighting over the same people for a decade, they could try hiring some junior people and letting them take on increasing responsibility. The guy who made Stardew Valley lived in Seattle, had a CS degree, and couldn't get a j
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Don't you think if those FAANG companies could offshore those jobs they would have already? You think they keep them in SV because they love paying some Javascript guy more than a dentist just so he can afford rent? Please.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Couldn't read past the first section. I'm still feeling guilty for spending $15 getting food from a restaurant last night.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Imagine living in a world were Logan Paul is too big too fail.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
I had hoped Apple News+ would be a way to access and compensate all the great small niche magazines like the stuff you see in Casa Magazines in Manhattan. Instead it was the most generic stuff that's in every supermarket check out line
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Coincidently, I was just reading the M.L. West translation of Hesiod earlier today, and he also used the term "wine-faced sea" a few times.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Finally, these major label "artists" have to compensate the creatives they steal from.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
But then people will just memorize for the test. We've all seen the IT guys who crammed for some certification, but don't know anything.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
As much as I like to believe people can teach themselves anything, if you look at places like Kaggle, there are really no self-taught people. It's just a parade of Phd holders and grad students. I'm sure there are one or two, but
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by povertyworld 7y ago
As someone who has worked in higher ed, part of the degree requirements are to reduce corruption. Otherwise low tier state schools and community colleges would just be packed with the top administrator's buddies. Requiring a doctorate
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by povertyworld 7y ago
People only get the EdD because it's required to be a superintendent in most places. I'm scraping by on a part time higher ed gig, and it's just depressing how the full time staff just see degrees as an obstacle to getting a
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by povertyworld 7y ago
I think Jobs learned from Atari that having an open platform for people to produce all kinds of junk for may not be in your or your customer's best interest.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Octane is supposedly going to release a version that works with AMD using Metal on MacOS soon.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
People only need to own cars because our development was done carelessly. It could have been and can be done differently.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Compared to other countries in the region US gun violence doesn't seem much higher. Gun violence is high in Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Jamaica, etc. I'm not sure it's fair to compare the United States to some nordic count
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Everyone knows someone who was killed in a car accident, and many of us know someone who died of an opioid overdose, but do you know anyone who died of a gunshot? It feels like we do because of the way the news sensationalizes it. Imagine i
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by povertyworld 7y ago
How does the Dunning-Kruger effect affect people with imposter syndrome?
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Skills are nouns, but the list was all verbs. Weird.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Interesting. So why isn't an activist outfit like Generation Rent (the group pushing for this law) working on getting rent control? In the US everyone on the left takes it as a given that rent control is a good thing.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
The reason this is not going to be useful is that every story I've read or personal anecdote I've been told about landlords involves the person's building being sold to a new owner. Usually the rogue landlord buys a rent cont
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Operation Sea-Spray by the US Navy was a good one too. Hopefully for the sake of our fellow commenters the US government won't test bioweapons on San Francisco again.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Nice link. Browsing the related articles is interesting. I wasn't aware that the CIA was alleged to have trafficked opium during their secret and illegal war in Laos. Good to know.
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Yeah, obviously. I meant "beyond" in terms of fashion. One might work at Facebook destroying democracy and the fabric of society, but hey, they follow some food taboos so it's all good! To really go "beyond" veganis
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by povertyworld 7y ago
Oh, it's so nice to see all these rich tech guys are concerned about the plight of Amazon workers. Suppose if one of these Amazon workers applied to be a programmer at your company even though they didn't go to a top twenty school

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