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They aren't being exploited, at least not in the normal way. The Chinese government insists on a zero Covid policy, but they also want to keep the economy running. So you can keep your business running if no one leaves. The alternative
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by prewett 4y ago
I have had a number of times where static typing would have saved me a lot of time in both Python and Javascript. I have a recursive-descent parser for a non-trivial language in Python, so when you pass something incorrect down in the botto
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by prewett 4y ago
I'm not sure that you can just multiply those probabilities (are they both uncorrelated? Can autistic people even become psychopathic?), but, 0.027% * 300 million people in the US = 81,000 hypothetical autistic psychopaths, which is ov
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"Society made me do it"? He had no agency in this? Nobody ever told him that these sorts of things hurt people? Well, even from that perspective, "society" is giving him some strong feedback that this is not acceptable.
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Let's just suck out the energy that powers the internal convection that powers the magnetic field that prevents the solar wind from stripping the atmosphere of water, what could go wrong? On a small scale, no problem, but "powerin
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The so what depends on your perspective. If you think of Linux as a hobbyist's operating system, and you get to join the party and tinker around, well, sure, this is just people's spare-time project, sure it's going to have b
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by prewett 4y ago
9 is the recent low, but presumably GP would consider 10 to be a good deal, too. Typically companies with a solid future making a reasonable profit are about 20 - 30; historically META is about in this range. If META still has "normal&
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I suspect a lot of these flus are Covid... I just got Covid recently, but I only felt ill for maybe two days. I only tested myself because I'm in a choir that requires testing for certain rehearsals, otherwise I would have figured it&#
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by prewett 4y ago
It's not VR, but there's a whole bunch of high-dpi 15 inch portable "gaming" monitors out there for $300 or so. I bought one a couple years ago for an Intel NUC, and the whole thing is about as thick as a laptop. I'
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As a species that has thrived from conditions as diverse as Arctic cold, desert heat/dryness, and Himalayan elevations, I really doubt that Homo sapiens is going extinct any time soon. I don't even think nuclear war would do it, s
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We have about a century of empirical data that says that automation does not cause widespread unemployment. Automating horses took away all the horse-care jobs and business, but they found other things to do. Computers automated computers (
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Paying to conserve the Amazon is just blackmailing yourself. Every year you're going to have to keep paying otherwise "oh no, they'll cut down the Amazon". Then once it's been going on a while, they'll start de
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by prewett 4y ago
I'd like Markdown if things were non-arbitrary. Is asterisk or underline italics? Does the href go before or after the link text? And I have no idea what the format of lists is, I guess you just put "-" or "1." and
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Well, you can also loose a democracy by governing so ineptly that the country falls apart or gets invaded. Also, Plato foresaw democracy descending to the point where people elected a dictator to bring order to the chaos, although that&#x27
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by prewett 4y ago
A lot of the visible homeless are not suffering primarily from lack of wealth but from mental health. Another segment chose that lifestyle to be free of responsibility and don't want to change. There are, of course, also people that ar
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by prewett 4y ago
This is completely incorrect, at least for the US. As I understand it (not a lawyer, but did take an IP law class a number of years ago), all creative works get copyright by default. A list requiring no creativity, such as a complete alphab
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by prewett 4y ago
So you want a bunch of people with no experience running the country? How many times in history has that not been a disaster? Merely being in power for a long time does not create a "swamp", bad ethics does. Bad ethics is known to
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by prewett 4y ago
Hopelessness and unfulfillment might be considered symptoms of depression if you think that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance. But if hopelessness and unfulfillment create an emotional response by imbalancing chemicals, then the
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by prewett 4y ago
The post describes turning down a lot of qualified people because they had not encountered any applicants of required race/gender yet. In fact, they ended up not hiring for the position at all because they never encountered applicants
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There used to be this concept call a "usability study", where you got five or ten people who'd never used your product in a room and watched them use your product. It didn't give the benefits of a panopticon, but it solv
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by prewett 4y ago
I don't use earphones on my phone that much, so non-wired earbuds would either be on their charger and inaccessible outside the house, or in my bag but out of battery because I forgot about them last time I came back. I can put wired e
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I don't think diplomatic solutions are possible when one side says "this land that we don't currently occupy is ours", especially when the people in charge view admitting they were mistaking as a existential personal fai
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I don't think a mental health startup would be effective, revenue or no. Individual problems require customized help. Some things can only be addressed one person at a time.
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PC's also had an unending stream of viruses. I don't want to have to deal with exploits on my phone. And from a technical standpoint, high performance browsers enabled the world to misuse HTML + JS to create applications, instead
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This is really a sequence of seven games of totally different genres, which is definitely going to increase the difficulty and time commitment! It looks like an interesting game, though.
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Probably not what you're thinking about, but book three or four in the Ender's Game series (Orson Scott Card) has a community of very OCD people (women?), which are revered as being holy. During the book it is discovered that the
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by prewett 4y ago
It's great! Except for those used radioactive materials taking hundreds of years to become safe, and a documented failure of modern human society to handle long-term problems, and especially to maintain a culture of safety longer than
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I think US "mainstream media" does have a left bias, although not necessarily very strong. (Disclosure: I consider myself probably a slightly right of center, but definitely left of Fox) Personally, I consider "mainstream med
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> 23. Place #else, #elif, and #endif in the same file as the matching #if or #ifdef. Oh my. I bet that one has an interesting history! That thought has never even crossed my mind, and I did some fun stuff like include a header twice with
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Did you get "accept things because God" from reading the Bible or from conservative American Christians? In my experience conservative Americans Christians have a tendency to be threatened by questions, I think owing to a fairly s

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