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by raducu 4y ago
> it is illegal to discriminate based on familial status. I think the point was why you can't find 4 bedroom apartments for rent. People don't want to rent to families, they don't buy 4 bedroom apartments and they don&#x27
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Could you be more specific about the first part? I think that why choose a missile over guns is a legitimate question. As the author also later finds out, and only suggests it, perhaps using guns might have also worked, but just seems riski
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Anybody tried mixing cloud + self hosted k8s on hetzner or is it too complicated to do?
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I have two EXTREMELY vivid recollection of UFOs that I saw. One as a child of ~6 years of age which I know is true because another witness said it was a signaling flare before I knew what signaling flares were, and as my grandpa correctly
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Happiness is not enough! I demand constant euphoria!
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As someone not familiar with ChatGPT APIs -- what would prevent Open Ai to do to their customers what Amazon does to independent sellers on Amazon -- that is look over their sales numbers and just copy the products that work, but you know,
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That's a really good point, but not 100% in contradiction with the main point. It certainly is an issue regardless of causal direction when you feel strongly about something that most "healthy" people aren't that bothe
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I came back to the comments to say this! I'm quite tolerant (perhaps overly so) but I can't stand bullies, un-professional people or unpolite people in the workenvironment. I'm 100% not on one of those. What the author i
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> who get all this stuff "easily" (previous practice, exposure) I've graduated in Eastern Europe, my experience might be different, but I CONSTANTLY heard my peer bitching&moaning about the materials to be hard. I f
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> better methods than training our models to intentionally say untrue things That's what we do with children and propaganda.
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Isn't it hypocritical to dismiss that argument, though? Arguably if you cared about animal wellbeing you'd start with the farming industry. I'm not saying shutdown animal-cruelty cops because the farming industry is far worse
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> Not anywhere close to 1500, this is criminal. 10 billion animals are killed in the USA each year, but 1500 is criminal?
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There are dozens of stories that show Musk is at least a narcissist with very little empathy, not necessarily a sociopath, but it's the same for the rest of the world. Elon's callousness is legendary -- read what his first wife ha
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I'm familiar with generational trauma from a psychological perspective, but wouldn't a genetical/physiological aspect of it have to be self limiting? I mean, I'm sure we all have millions of years of trauma in our gene
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> The big different between the people who go through this and don't is not ability but desire from my experience. I know 4 developers that work for FAANG companies, I don't know why, but all 4 of them are women. One is a brill
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> For example, suppose it costs 50% extra to replace someone who leaves. In retrospect, sure, giving the sole employee who leaves a 10% raise each year to retain them makes sense. But if you have to give all of your employees a 10% raise
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I'm in the process of changing jobs, not an employee, but I don't think it's HR's fault, but that of managers -- they should know the best what value people bring and what are the consequences of losing certain people be
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> Almost all of the companies I worked at hired senior positions from outside the company instead of promoting from within. It's one of those things that goes by "Yeah, yeah, we know the studies, doesn't work that way in r
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> wish they explained why the moon being that much closer would have such a dramatic effect on the day length. Can someone explain this? Seems off to me, but I'm very physics-naive Earth-Moon momentum is conserved. Think of a pregna
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I'm sure they do but I only have anecdotal evidence from people that tried a number before the "ahaaa" moment. I don't take them (well, except for sleep with a low dosage of Trazadone (which I can't anymore because
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It's not just anecdotal evidence, the whole anti-antidepressant hype seems to re-emerge every few years, like a plague. After trying a few different anti-depressant the vast majority of people do improve. And the people bashing ant
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The track record is not abysmal: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-y...
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> but a cast does not heal a broken arm I don't know why people take such reductionistic stances. There are dozens of anti-depressants, I think most people get significant improvement after trying a few.
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> Except, Tesla removed radar from their cars If I had to guess and be mean, even though I like Elon Musk, I'd say that was one of his directives; I liked watching Elon talk about rocket technology, but one day I stumbled about his
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Actually I was just trolling with the "Russia must be split". Giving parts of a country to another country is a bad idea. Greater autonomy and less central power was what I actually meant.
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> attempted to mitigate the phenomenon of hereditary nepotism via the policy of enforced celibacy among the elite class That just tells us nepotism is bad. We have much better ways of dealing with it -- strong independent institutions,
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> and they want to paint that as a bad thing I would think it's obvious to anyone that the bad thing is the creation of a caste system and lack of social mobility.
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> Why does she support the invasion of Ukraine then? Mostly because she thinks the jewish nazis were killing russians in Donbas, but that's the only thing she can articulate to someone from outside. If I was to speculate, I'd t
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> brainwashed by state propaganda I know a russian woman, very well off, well travelled, well educated. She hates Putin but is 100% supporting the invasion of Ukraine. With the invasion of Ukraine, Putin went to the core of ruscism that
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> I genuinely believe HN is being inflitrated by Russian bots left and right This is ruscism -- a revisionistic, psychopatic, hateful, denenerate, cleptocratic, idiotic, savage, uneducated fascist state. These people have been brought so

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