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by rKarpinski 2y ago
"Engineers have been spoiled rotten for the last two decades[...] employers offered unlimited PTO" In what world does unlimited PTO spoil engineers? It removes the companies liability for vacation days and shames employees into ta
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A title of "U.S. to probe Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after pedestrian killed on freeway" would in no way imply bad things about the pedestrian who was killed.
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> I don’t think it’s misleading. It’s a tile not some hundred word description of what exactly happened. "Pedestrian killed on freeway" instead of "pedestrian killed" doesn't take 100 words and doesn't give
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
What does that have to do with the original article's misleading title?
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Omitting that the pedestrian was on a freeway meaningfully mis-represents the situation.
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
'Pedestrian' in this context seems pretty misleading "Two vehicles collided on the freeway, blocking the left lane. A Toyota 4Runner stopped, and two people got out to help with traffic control. A red Tesla Model Y then hit t
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
if you wait long enough, obesity actually becomes a protective factor for serious issues; like Falling & Sarcopenia.
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
"thomas hardy Lies, lies, misery, lies, suicide, rape, and corn prices." So true
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
Ok let's look at "destroying the dream of homeownership" since that the most objective. Homeownership rates are almost 66% now in 2024 [1], which is the highest it's been since 2011 [2]. [1] https://www.bankra
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Odd piece. It highlights some hyper-scalers but it needs to work on justifying 'how they ruin everything'. "At scale, they would ruin communities, put restaurants out of business, destroy the dream of home ownership, and even
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
Or say the kingdom of Hawaii which the US (by it's own acknowledgement)[1] illegally took a little over 100 years ago... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology_Resolution
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> Weight loss and metabolic improvements do not explain the longevity benefits of severe dietary restrictions. The overlooked word is "Severe". These studies either restrict a lot of calories (40% for one study in the article),
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
But why is this all blowing up now ? Private equity (SilverLake) bought WP Engine in 2018 and presumably the company has not been paying a trademark licensing fee far longer. [1] https://ma.tt/2024/09/wordpress-eng
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Tax avoidance strategies aren't exactly advertised so it could be a novel tactic; and it probably would require an absurd liquid net worth to be worth pursuing (it might even preclude Texas billionaires like Michael Dell or Christy Wal
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Elon Musk or another person pre-paying some of their future estate tax, don't buy the other angle.
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Not mentioned in the article, but is there any analogous research on the effects of heavy drinking by the father in the 90 days before conception on offspring?
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There is truth in comedy. And the real joke is that it continues about his infant son controls his wife & therefore his infant controls all of Greece via his wife. And not sure how Thucydides' Pericles telling the future widows of
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"Athens rules all Greece. I control Athens. My wife controls me" - Themistocles
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> So I wondered how one could increase the number of mitochondria Lots of Zone-2 training. Inigo San-Milan & George Brooks are the two researchers to look at this for in humans.
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A cutting edge theory is that exercise can interfere's with cancer's metabolism (Warburg Effect) and helps to regulate lactate levels which chronically dis-regulated will promote cancer. "Specifically, we posit that in carcin
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> What's harder, to become the best tennis player of your neighborhood or the best tennis player on the planet? >> When I was twelve, I used to roller-skate in circles for hours [...] One Saturday, a friend invited me to rolle
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
The top 5 countries migrants to Sweden came from in 2023 ... India, Poland, Germany, Syria, China. https://www.statista.com/statistics/522136/sweden-immigratio...
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Are Americans eligible?
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"of the 79,000 metric tons of plastic in the patch, most of it is abandoned fishing gear—not plastic bottles or packaging drawing headlines today ... fishing nets account for 46 percent of the trash, with the majority of the rest compo
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> I later learned she was one of the partners of Y Combinator. > I'm not naming this woman because I think the problem is bigger than me or her Yet they are attacking her in the press and giving a specific enough description to d
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The only thing that should matter is if they are medically claiming the patient "poses an imminent threat to themselves or others", either they did the paperwork or they didn't. And these aren't one of occurrences, these
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Do the patients ever use the phones from these facilities to call the local police departments about being held against their will without cause? At this scale seems like that should happen.
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> Another norm that Telegram does not conform to in the usual way Seems beyond a "norm" if your CEO is jailed for not "conforming"
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China.
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Did they consistently confuse per day and per week? > Sure, it would be great to have big tech $30,000 per day comp packages > consistently growing, consistently profitable, and paying employees $5k to $10k per day at current full com

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