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by smarm52 2y ago
> In the truck he tells me: "No one is fighting war this way - they are learning from us. This will be the future war." Must feel horrible to be a laboratory for richer countries newest war tech. Also, there's an incentive
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by smarm52 2y ago
> "God knows what’s on their minds, but it’s not what I’m telling them. Meanwhile, I can’t get the bloody job done." Really says more about how good a manager this guy is than the person trying to do the job.
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by smarm52 2y ago
> “One of those values being meritocracy, as much meritocracy as possible, so you get ahead as a function of your skill, and nothing else,” Musk said. Wow.
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by smarm52 2y ago
I love how clueless this article is. > Blanchflower says he isn’t exactly sure why young adults seem to be experiencing the most unhappiness ... That one made me laugh out loud. > social media and smart phones "Got to be them soc
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by smarm52 2y ago
https://archive.ph/0BpSz
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by smarm52 2y ago
Shock move? > “The people have spoken and California Forever has been forced to withdraw their hastily drawn, poorly designed initiative, given a surefire loss in November,” Solano Forever, a group that formed in opposition to the projec
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by smarm52 2y ago
https://archive.ph/5VPB5
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by smarm52 2y ago
Just out of curiosity I checked on Scholar when people started to realize and discuss that Chinese the "Belt and Road" (BNR) loan scheme was predatory and aimed at control: https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=belt+
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by smarm52 2y ago
Interesting, but I'm unsure what the focus is for HN. What's the "All that's interesting there."? My intuition is, is that's a pretty standard way to use ChatGPT 4o for learning about a topic; At least it'
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Not just pushing Trump politically, but copying the way he does "business". Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn’t pay his bills https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/..
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Capitalistic businesses are run like little fascist dictatorships [1]. And so it seems natural that owners would have interests that align with fascism. [1] De Mesquita, B. B., Smith, A., Siverson, R. M., & Morrow, J. D. (2005). The log
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by smarm52 2y ago
Really all by herself? Amazing. Wait, she had help?
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by smarm52 2y ago
Thanks for that. From the title one would guess that it's one of those: "Dunk on the young to make Boomers feel good and get views" articles. I love the cynical tone. =D
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Strange, I thought for sure some Amazon warehouses would be using prison labour (in the US).
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by smarm52 2y ago
So we can expect massive outages every summer and winter as Texas catches fire and freezes? Good to know.
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by smarm52 2y ago
This provides several smaller scale examples of similar programs: Lietaer, B., & Dunne, J. (2013). Rethinking money: How new currencies turn scarcity into prosperity. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. With generally positive results.
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https://archive.ph/jBLQg
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by smarm52 2y ago
> There's a lot of earning potential with the end of the world. Fallout https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12637874/
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by smarm52 2y ago
Such a dumb article. First they talk about how some can't make rent because there's not enough work that pays well enough. And then this: > Some are concerned that parents are enabling their children to delay milestones by prov
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by smarm52 2y ago
> about 500,000 acre-feet of water "My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it." The US and they're obstinate use of imperial ...
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by smarm52 2y ago
> Within-families, intelligence predict left-wing beliefs. Which is also supported here: Wilson, G. (2013). The psychology of conservatism (routledge revivals). Routledge. Where they find the opposite is true; Or, that lower IQ is associ
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by smarm52 2y ago
Not a lot of work on this, as far as I can see. One of the few I found: GLICK, P., CONSTANT, L., EDOCHIE, I., & NATARAJ, S. (2020). Online Outsourcing. It looks like the (really) rosy scenario that the article paints may only be viable
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by smarm52 2y ago
An easy way to address it just project based grading. But of course, this needs a lot more graders than just a single professor to work with large class sizes. Which means more money. And it's hard to get money for education in the US.
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Should be pretty democratic, they use a method for proportional representation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Hondt_method The problem may be that the elderly form a voting bloc, which can sway elections. Maybe thi
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by smarm52 2y ago
> "Within a week of actual research, we just threw out the term information literacy," says Yasmin Green, Jigsaw's CEO. Gen Zers, it turns out, are "not on a linear journey to evaluate the veracity of anything."
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by smarm52 2y ago
+1 Also it could be the doctor's. They might induce at a higher rate as it's the end of the year, and they might be tired / burned out from the work during the rest of the year.
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by smarm52 2y ago
+1 This article was very "old man yells at cloud".
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> their value as *independent technologies* could be acknowledged, and they *could be developed into complete technologies* through further research. So "independent technologies" or technologies so early in R&D that they c
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by smarm52 2y ago
Also, might be a way of making sure Russia has less money for war. Russians Using Crypto To Fund War Face An Uphill Battle https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/02/21/russi... and: https
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Not very hard to beat professionals. Famously, a cat did consistently better: Cat Beats Professionals at Stock Picking https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2013/01/15/cat-b... and: https:&#x

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