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by programmertote 7y ago
Ah...I definitely see the Telecoms recording and hoarding a lot of data without any regard to consequence/implication. I know a couple of coworkers who decided to leave my current employer and work for big Telecoms, and they said it&#x
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by programmertote 7y ago
> Imagine you’re a marketing-degree graduate in middle management. If you’re lucky, you may have done some statistics courses. In your day-to-day, you likely don’t apply these to a great amount. You hear about this great thing called “Ma
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by programmertote 7y ago
In the 'Notes' sheet, it says we can create a copy of this Google Sheet, but I am having a hard time seeing the Menu to do that. Does anyone have success downloading this sheet into CSV or something? If so, I'd like to know h
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by programmertote 7y ago
Can you please share where you read that "the US has some of the cheapest generic drug prices"? My mom, who lives in a southeast asian country, came to visit me in the US last month and I asked her to buy generic antibiotics; ear
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by programmertote 7y ago
I recently ordered an iPad for my mother from Walmart (after comparing prices at Amazon, Costco and Apple store, and found Walmart's one to be $20 cheaper). The iPad arrived literally the next day. The iPad covers, although apparently
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by programmertote 7y ago
I consider myself a fairly progressive person. But I think at least some of the people, who don't like paying so much taxes, don't like the fact that the government is allocating the tax money collected, and it could, according to
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by programmertote 7y ago
Not everyone. My host family parents are both doctors (psychiatrist and anesthesiologist) in the US, and my girlfriend is currently in a residency program in Long Island, so I can tell from my limited observations. My host family father (an
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by programmertote 8y ago
I was born in Myanmar and grew up there for more than two decades. The impact of economic sanctions are felt not by the ruling class (the military generals), but by the average citizen. Looking back, I firmly believe that sanctions simply d
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by programmertote 8y ago
I 100% agree. I was born in Myanmar (Burma) and in the last few years, the news that I've been reading on NYT and BBC (the only two sources that I used to respect) are exaggerated and/or biased and/or inaccurate. Some of the
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by programmertote 8y ago
I have cute aggression. I learned about that in https://priceonomics.com/why-do-we-smother-cute-things/ which was published in 2014. So why does this article say Yale researchers first describe it in 2015?
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by programmertote 8y ago
Back in 2012, I worked with a guy in grad school. He was then a grad student as well--just one year senior than me. He would recruit new incoming grads to 'collaborate' with him on his current projects or whatnot. The way he opera
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by programmertote 9y ago
From my graduate CS classes in the US, most women are from foreign countries. I notice the same in other US grad schools as well. From that, I am led to believe that women from developing nations (which kind of includes China) still choose
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by programmertote 9y ago
Yeah, he told me that he did similar thing in the past before and it worked. Now that trick no longer works for him unfortunately... Thanks for the tip though!
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by programmertote 9y ago
My cousin's iPhone 6 stopped charging a few days ago. Everything works, but it seems like the port for charging is worn out or something and wouldn't recognize/charge when being plugged in. He is visiting from Australia and h
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by programmertote 10y ago
The situation is more complicated than what we usually read in western media, and sources for those news are either people from NGOs or self-acclaimed activists from Myanmar in the western world who have never set foot in the region. My und