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California Keeps Losing Tech Jobs(apricitas.io)
9 points by rufus_foreman 1y ago|1 comments
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
A bunch of people with tinnitus in their left ear. That's kind of weird. That's what I have. Anyone with tinnitus only in their right ear? And yeah, I've had it since the early 90's and it mostly only bothers me now when
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> Wearing a MAGA hat in this specific political moment is a a statement of callousness and overt approval of military and masked goons in our streets In other words, it is free speech. Should free speech be met with violence?
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
I looked it up. Male penguins are physically different from female penguins, they have different behavior and different vocalization methods. Are those social constructs?
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> The media releases one of the biggest ever leaks, completely embarrassing the government The Pentagon Papers covered the period from 1945 to 1968. Nixon took office in 1969. If the leaks were embarrassing, they were particularly em
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
That section does not restrict reporters, it restricts government employees at the Pentagon from releasing information without authorization. The section of the memo that pertains to reporters losing badge access only mentions classified an
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> news organizations were concerned that signing the rules conveyed agreement with them, including to a restriction that they not report on any news — even if unclassified — without official approval Where in the memo does it restric
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
Yeah this. We had to build plenty of stuff that had already been sold. I think one of the salespeople got in trouble for it, once. One salesperson, once. Do I hate them? No way, I don't hate them, I kind of wish I had some of the socia
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
I've owned cars since the mid-1980's and I don't think I've spent $50k on all of them put together. Probably getting close to that now.
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> Old people dying of heart disease or cancer or whatever is not actionable "Almost half of cancer deaths are preventable" -- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02355-x 600,000 people die of ca
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> it bars the press from reporting any information unless they get it approved for public release by an appropriate authorizing official No, the rules don't pertain to reporting any information, they pertain to unauthorized repo
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> To be profitable shorting, you have to not only be right about the direction of the market but you have to time it precisely. It's even worse than that, you also have to get the price right. If everyone wants to short the same
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
There's an XKCD where the person who did the file download dialog for Windows visits some friends, https://xkcd.com/612/ . "I'm just outside town, so I should be there in fifteen minutes...actually, it&#x
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
Did the passive voice suddenly start being used in 2009? Because otherwise, it does nothing to explain the increase in accidental deaths of pedestrians.
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> The two main reasons to me are: 1. Drivers don't look for pedestrians, and 2. pedestrians expect drivers to follow rules. If that is the cause, why did the number of drivers not looking for pedestrians suddenly start increasin
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
"Upper-middle class teenagers go to college, and typically major in things with no obvious commercial application like English, art history, or computer science."
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> The Presidency is term-limited by the Constitution. Trump cannot run for a third term. The Constitution says "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice". It doesn't say no person shall
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> I know it's popular to blame landlords, but this isn't a serious take Guys, I found the landlord.
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
"I was 12 years old when I got my first computer, an Apple II Plus, and I’ve never stopped loving the freedom of having my own computer and being able to run whatever the hell I want to." Pretty much the same here. Kick against th
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> Seems like the worst of both worlds Before the Silicon Mac chips, installing Linux on Mac hardware was the best of both worlds. Asahi doesn't work for me so far, sadly.
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Canis Familiaris? Maybe Less Than You Think(biographic.com)
3 points by rufus_foreman 1y ago|0 comments
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
Be greedy when other people are scared. Be scared when other people are greedy.
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
Another recent book along the same lines would be "Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress and How to Get It Back" by Marc Dunkelman: "When he looked into the history, Dunkelman realized that progressives have long swung back
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> There was a time that a bonkers deficit, violations of personal freedoms, domestic troop deployments, and expansive executive power was antithetical to conservatism President Eisenhower sent 1,000 soldiers from the 101st Airborne D
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
Governments are not limited by the Hatch Act, civil service employees are. And the limitations are mainly around elections, so for example under the Hatch Act a civil service employee may not "use his official authority or influence fo
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> Fox News would not have been born with an intact fairness doctrine Fox News launched exclusively on cable. The fairness doctrine applied to broadcast TV and radio, not cable. There are local Fox stations now on broadcast TV but Fox
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> What is it with Microsoft and confusing product naming schemes Old but still relevant, Microsoft redesigns the iPod packaging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k .
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
I have heard people claim that cracking down on immigration will increase labor costs for farmers in California who rely on immigrant labor to harvest their crops. That would be a contradiction of your study that you cite. Can you find an e
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> The highest level of economic growth (GDP), and total factor productivity growth, was between 1929 and 1973 That's also the time period that immigration to the US was at its lowest. The Immigration Act of 1924 strictly limited
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by rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> I don't think Spotify and streaming killed the music subculture, it's still very much alive but requires more intention to find No, I think music as a subculture is dead. When I was a kid in the 80's I would sneak ou

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