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by prirun 4y ago
I believe there is a shortage of nurses in general, likely because of the crazy hours and not-that-great pay. I asked a nurse recently if she liked her job. She said she did, but she made more money when she worked as a barkeep.
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> And then you leave the company. So it's not really at all in the best interest of the company for you to take longer to get up to speed. Maybe it would be in their interest to pay more, so you don't leave. If average tenure
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> I doubt any big company actually tried (or tried very hard). Cost of implementation becomes a kind of implicit test here, because companies like things cheap. So if an individual unpaid volunteer spends their time doing a 2nd implement
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If a new banking system comes to be, please add a layer of indirection to account numbers so that I can have a "household bills" account, setup ACH transactions, and use whatever backing bank I want. If I decide to change banks
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In the case of my accident, the driver was clearly 100% at fault and did not dispute that. She should permanently lose her license for all the damage she caused.
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> thinks we need to be tough on on <class of petty misdbehavior> I can see your point, so instead of increasing the fine for texting, I would be fine with losing your license permanently if you are using a phone while driving (talk
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Agree. www.healthcare.gov If you get confused during the sign-up, call on the phone. They have very good phone agents that understand the policies and can give you advice on the best one for your situation.
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Most people think handsfree is okay, but it's bullshit. The problem with phones is that drivers' brains are distracted from driving, not that their hands aren't on the wheel (although that too is problematic). I had a friend
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Prime minicomputers had decimal arithmetic in microcode & hardware in the early 80's to support PL/I and COBOL "picture" data types and packed decimal. They also had sophisticated editing to pictures like ZZZ,ZZ9.99
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> I believe this distortion is largely the product of the fact that the justice system has simply not grown in order to keep up with the growth of the U.S. population I believe this distortion is because small crimes like being caught wi
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Realize that software dev is a sedentary job and make sure to get regular exercise outside of your job.
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> while the Nim compiler is essentially a community hobby project that has made the concept of a "compiled Python" a reality already. I checked out Nim a few years ago because I have a large Python project that I'd like to
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> How does this affect the risk decisions made by other banks, knowing they will be backstopped by the public if, like someone with a bomb strapped to their chest, they promise to take everyone down with them? This is a key question, and
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SVB successfully lobbied Congress to get bank safety rules weakened for their operation, on the grounds that it would hurt the economy if they were regulated like other banks. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023&#
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> About 6 percent of people who took metformin later developed long COVID-19, as determined by a medical diagnosis. In the placebo group, 10.6 percent of participants developed long COVID-19. > This meant that overall people who took
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It's gone both ways. In the late 90's, I was a co-founder of Ruby Lane and we had an agreement with eBay to spider their site and they paid us for traffic. When they decided to end the contract, we removed them from our search e
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People's out-of-control eating habits will overwhelm any drug solution.
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Thought experiment: could we ever have a journal article titled "Pioneering White American Women Chemists and Pharmacists"?
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> The Inflation Reduction Act, enacted in August, set a $35 price cap on insulin products for Medicare recipients. > In 2018, the average price of insulin in the U.S. was 10 times higher than the average price in other wealthy countri
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by prirun 4y ago
As others have said, first make sure your posture is correct, keyboard height is correct, you are looking straight out or just slightly down at your monitor, etc. What I did is put my laptop on the desk, blanked the laptop screen, and put
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The thing that bothered me most is that while we didn't have good evidence for or against any theory on the virus' origin, anyone who thought it came from a lab leak was immediately and harshly dismissed as a nutjob.
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Yes, and banks routinely charge $35 for each transaction on an overdrawn account. This is particularly easy to do if multiple people share a bank account with a low balance.
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> the thing they're doing has almost nothing to do with the problem. That's the one thing a leader should never do.
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It's Microsoft and Google: who is going to change what they decide to do? No one. They're like all other corporations that will do whatever possible to increase their profit margin, no matter the consequences. We already have Ch
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I am still friends with my high-school computer science teacher, who is now probably 75 or so. In the last 18 months he has lost 70 lbs, from 240 to 170. How? He is diabetic and got a continuous glucose monitor. Before every meal, he&#x27
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> honors English classes that were eliminated because they didn’t enroll enough Black and Latino students. What gripes me about this is that if they offered a Black History or Latino History class that didn't attract many white kids
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I loved this theme in the movie Prometheus.
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Instead of having all these complex pricing strategies, it would be much more attractive IMO to use simple, lower-cost metered pricing without all the gimmicks. Google is right: companies don't know their requirements ahead of time. B
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You can use swap / virtual memory. The tricky part with that or any db is to make sure that your array accesses are as sequential as possible, because in the worst case, each memory reference could turn into a disk access. Make sure
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Had the same thing happen to me 2 years ago while waiting at a red light. A woman blasted into me and the 2 cars in front of me. She ended up in the oncoming traffic lane and her car did a 180 so she was facing the opposite direction. Th

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