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by rmah 1y ago
The key phrase is "the broader labor market has not experienced a discernible disruption".
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by rmah 1y ago
While I have not read the quoted book, the first quote "Because European colonialists saw no jails, police, lawyers, judges, or courts in African indigenous societies, they mistakenly concluded these cultures had no way to address soci
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by rmah 1y ago
newsflash: permeable materials are permeable
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by rmah 1y ago
Has anyone used both kson and hjson? We use hjson as a more forgiving json-like config format and really like it. kson seems more feature rich, but I'm a bit concerned about things like embedding code in configs. So any thoughts vs
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by rmah 1y ago
There are herds of wild deer a half hour outside NYC. Deer seem to be able to thrive anywhere as long as there aren't many predators. The continental US (i.e. excluding alaska) has some 20+ mil wild deer, 200k bison, 1 mil bears, 3-4
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by rmah 1y ago
I have to strongly disagree with this. From what I've seen, it's very rare that positions espoused by those being called "nazi" have anything to do with fascism.
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by rmah 1y ago
Calling people who hold beliefs you find wrong "evil" is, IMO, counter-productive and will lead not only to conflict but to worse outcomes for yourself (even if your side "wins"). The root of cultural differences (both
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by rmah 1y ago
The 70's isn't really a fair comparison because PC's did not exist yet. Thus, it was very rare to find programmers with experience anywhere.
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by rmah 1y ago
I'm in my 50's and I feel smarter than I did in my 20's. I'm less energetic certainly, but I can focus better now. And I feel like my knowledge and understanding of mathematics, politics, economics, sciences, history,
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by rmah 1y ago
What the hell?
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by rmah 1y ago
Software distribution control didn't start with phones, it started with game consoles.
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by rmah 1y ago
The random website cannot access arbitrary files on your computer's file system and send it somewhere else. An html file with javascript running locally, if trusted, on a typical personal computer could do that.
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by rmah 1y ago
This is exactly what I meant when I said I was mystified.
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by rmah 1y ago
The other religious texts you mentioned are not part of the western civilization canon and did not have much effect on western literature. Thus, while I think they should certainly be available in school libraries as they are important wor
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by rmah 1y ago
To me, it's disheartening to see this sort of knee-jerk reaction to the grandparent posting (and to see that post be down-voted). What btilly wrote is not a defense, it's reasonable and, more importantly, practical advice in comb
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by rmah 1y ago
If you set a recurring meeting, every Friday at 10:00AM, New York time, the time in UTC varies (either 14:00 UTC or 15:00 UTC) depending on the date. Further, what is displayed depends on the viewer's location (because daylight saving
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by rmah 1y ago
Isreal proposed international peacekeeping forces in Gaza, but Hamas has rejected it. If I may quote Izzat al-Rishq, a member of the Hamas political bureau, "We stress our people's rejection of the presence of any non-Palestinian
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by rmah 1y ago
Yet the left (democratic party) nominated a self-avowed socialist for the next NYC mayoral race. One who literally talks about seizing the means of production and opening city-owned groceries that won't have to pay rent. Let's
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by rmah 1y ago
One of the key components of metal movable type printing presses is an appropriate ink. The concept of using a press to print on paper was well known for 100's of years across the world from China to Europe. Movable type had even bee
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by rmah 1y ago
Why should they help media companies?
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by rmah 1y ago
Apple did this back in the mid 1990's (before OSX) with AppleScript. Every application was supposed to ship with metadata that described its object model along with methods that could be invoked on them. AppleScript was an sort of a
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by rmah 1y ago
War. It's called war. In ye olden days, military forces pillaged farms (for food) and sacked cities (for loot). Rarely, there have been short eras of formalized military v military conflicts within various cultures, but this was not
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by rmah 1y ago
This article is full of guesswork and supposition unsupported by evidence. I don't understand why people upvoted it. Further, the author doesn't seem to understand that "the state", with its institutions, legal systems,
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by rmah 1y ago
The primary problems with tag-based organization are that 1) tags are difficult to organize hierarchically and 2) discoverability of existing tags tends to be poor. However, if you have multiple overlapping hierarchical organization, common
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by rmah 1y ago
We (humans) have not only survived but thrived. 200,000 annual deaths is just 7% of the 3mil that die each year. More (as a percentage) probably died from access to the best health care 100 or 200 years ago. The fall in birth rates is, I
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by rmah 1y ago
In my experience, contract software development client acquisition is based mostly on reputation, referrals and personal contacts/networks. The biggest risk that clients face is not the cost of the project per-se, but missed delivery
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by rmah 1y ago
Hospitals in the US already use specialized washing machines that use much higher heat levels under OSHA and FDA guidelines. There are also special procedures for what gets washed with what and when.
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by rmah 1y ago
>> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Except for package management, of course. There, we need lots and lots of ways.
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by rmah 2y ago
It doesn't matter how accurate the models are, it's not a "data set" (in the scientific sense), it's more of a conclusion set. Maybe the conclusions are spot on. Maybe not. I have no idea.
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by rmah 2y ago
As I read it, he's not denying the effects either. He's just saying that not everything bad that happens wrt climate and weather is due to "climate change". Sometimes, it's just variations, which have always hap

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