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"Middle class" historically did not mean middle income. Middle class was literally that, people who were of the class that sat between serfs/peasants and nobility. That is, guild master craftsmen (not the apprentices and wo
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LucyLabs | NYC area or remote | Full-time | https://lucylabs.io/ LucyLabs is a cryptocurrency hedge fund focusing on quantitative investment and trading strategies for institutional and high net worth clients. We are seekin
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He's certain because of energy budgets, weight constraints, safety reasons and more. The history of the automobile vs aircraft shows he's right. To move something in the air inherently uses more energy than any sort of ground tra
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Yes, according to the US gov. I imagine that according to the Ugandan gov, it's ok to hack phones of foreign govs but not of the Ugandan gov. In fact, I strongly suspect that for any nation X, it's ok to hack non-X gov phones bu
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Many teachers/professors I had in my youth asked the class to read the material before lecture so the lecture could be a summary and then most of the time spent asking questions/discussing the topic. Few students actually did so.
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Perhaps revenge is just a survival instinct that humans sometimes try to suppress through "logic".
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Um, as I understand it, dark matter was not posited by equations but by how observations differed from the the equations. And essentially, this is still the state of things. To wit, the standard model doesn't match observation unless
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People know of da Vinci because of his execution, not the random tech thought experiment sketches. He painted perhaps the most famous painting of all time, the Mona Lisa, and the most famous mural of all time, The Last Supper. Many of his
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The gender ratio is changing for the worse. In 1984, women made up something like 37% of CS students. Now it's under 20%. Reference: https://jaxenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/women-in-com...
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I only skimmed a few of the articles but as far as I can tell it boils down to: 1) He says that the ideas of "deliberate practice" is wrong 2) Describes "deliberate practice" as repeatedly following instructions... whic
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Crypto prices have stopped rising since inflation spiked up. So... not so much that retail investors are piling into crypto as an inflation hedge.
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I have screened or interviewed hundreds of people over the past three decades. That is not a strong claim, it is simple truth. There is a large minority of so-called "professional" software developers who literally don't kn
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In the US anyway, as the parent said, yes you can deny service for any or no reason except for specific protected classes (e.g. sex, race, religion, etc.). You can, for example, deny service to anyone wearing red. Or anyone who is not a
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The key question is this: how are votes enforced when they impact non-blockchain related actions? That is, Who pays the taxes on the people that get hired? How is non-blockchain income distributed? Who do you sue if a vote violates a labo
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LucyLabs | NYC area or remote | Full-time | https://lucylabs.io/ LucyLabs is a crypto hedge fund focusing on quantitative analysis driven investment and trading strategies. We engage in crypto asset management, spot tradin
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I don't understand how anyone can reach early adulthood and actually take such drivel from a corporation at face value. As you say, clearly such people exist. It just mystifies me.
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Haha, this is funny. On one hand, I can't help feel a bit of schadenfreude for Google being harassed with this frivolous lawsuit because of their obviously self-indulgent motto. On the other hand, it is a bit sad that the county even
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On the NYC public transit system (subways and busses), there is 4 to 6 felonies per 1mil rides per year. That means, if you ride the public transit system twice a day, every day... you will, on average, be assaulted once every 274 years. I
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It can't be fixed industry wide. I guess it could be partially fixed at individual companies. But those are just band aids. It's just how it is. If you're not face to face, the relationships will be at arms length. In add
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If you think serfs did not know how destitute they were because they were "illiterate and uneducated", then you have a far too rosy view of history. If you were in their shoes, you would have clearly known how desperately poor you
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This sort of attitude does not help expand the adoption of better security measures by organizations. It's the cybersecurity equivalent of "just say no", "this is your brain on drugs" or "all sex before marria
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It's only true if you don't get caught.
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Understood. But that doesn't happen in 1632.
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IMO this book does a rather good job of that. And the problems you describe is an ongoing theme throughout the series. For example, they learn that they cannot even make WW1 level weapons (they settle on a sort of hybrid civil-war era ri
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This book is definitely an example where judging a book by its cover leads to very wrong conclusions. The cover looks silly and implies amateurly written dreck. But it's actually very well written. Interesting premise and gripping p
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Global PPP uses USD purchasing power in the US as the baseline.
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Why don't they just call it head of sales? Since, you know, that's what it is.
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I'm pretty sure it would be illegal for RobinHood to actually delete information about you after you are a customer. They are required to keep a history of your activity and transactions in case they get sued, audited or come under in
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He sounded at least a bit put out to me too
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The tech lead started out by complaining about...When he finished complaining... My manager doesn't know anything about the code, my project, or the release project. IOW, your team has no leadership and no management. Your team le

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