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> doesn't understand how most parents decide on these things > your dogmatic approach is not ... supported by parents Your dogma here is that you assume all parents take the zero-sum "ok for thine but not for mine" appr
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> "Does foreign investment ... make workers better off?" ... "Yes, vastly." This argument didn't survive the 2010s, the elephant graph argument has since been thoroughly trashed as the rentier-class propaganda it
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Another analysis is to go ahead and consider video gaming primarily as a compulsive & addictive pastime. If so, it is one of the least harmful ever. If video games are scratching some dark and antisocial itch leading to hours spent with
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One qeustion is whether cheap cloud services even make sense for an AWS, as opposed to a Dreamhost (targetting smaller businesses/individuals specifically) or Hetzner/DO. I would imagine AWSs profit is in servicing large clients u
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Alemania(SP)/Allemagne(FR) for Germany -- must be related??
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I don't know how Uniswap founders got rich before UNI, as all the fees went straight to liquidity providers. UNI probably did get them rich through the usual insider-y mechanisms, but as I recall they were almost forced into it by SUSH
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The fact is, it was only "100% remote" being forced into existence by the pandemic that is allowing us to even have the debate. Outside of tech almost nowhere allowed remote before. Musk represents the old guard who liked making p
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Don't get too excited, this is medicine right? Surgeons literally cut people open -- don't try this at home. CAR-T these days is indicated after hugely toxic therapies like BMT have failed. Plus they understand the danger of the c
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> Which other unfair advantages? If you're unaware of how this issue negatively affects salaries for women and other minorities, I respectfully suggest you do a little more research on this topic. Here's a quick google hit, but
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Even if your argument is sound, as an employer, it is in your rational self-interest to oppose this regulation for all the _other_ unfair advantages it gives you. Thus your argument is already suspect because apparently, you're at a mi
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That's because being anti-mandate is effectively being anti-vax from a public health policy perspective. By construction, effective public health can't be about individual choice, and the astonishing efficacy of vaccines in histor
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> One can be absolutely pro-vaccine, want to drive down vaccine hesitancy rates and still think that mandating vaccinations is not the way to go. One would then be quite ignorant of the history of how vaccines are rolled out. https:&#x2
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There's a huge difference between a Dropbox and an Uber here. Dropbox is a technology company. This is famously a place where deeply technical leaders can achieve competitive advantage. The whole company exists to support the tech, so
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> If you then ask, why not have REST calls that give specific pieces of information, ie have sorts and filters within the query parameters, and be able to take a table and ask for specific columns in that table, then congratulations, you
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> I think what people resent isn't the fact that there are black elves, it's the forcing of it, and that everything is scrutinized at a microscopic level for alleged "racism" (e.g. [1]) Who exactly _forced_ Amazon to
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> The primary risk presented by AGPL is that any product or service that depends on AGPL-licensed code ... _may be_ subject to the virality of the AGPL license. This is aggressive scare tactics. It's very straightforward when this i
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This is a non-sequitur. EU has shown plenty of effectiveness enforcing consumer-facing regulation especially in tech/internet. Dieselgate is a case of corruption in Germany, a particularly horrific and embarrassing one sure. But the ex
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While of course this points to crypto's weaknesses, there are also elements of good old hedge fund skullduggery here too, especially since it was their secrecy about their leverage that drew in so many creditors (even their own employe
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Maybe unicorn is not the right word? If your app has millions of DAUs choking your DB, you should at least be tacking your next big investment round or some other success milestone. Otherwise, your product is on it's way to failure, so
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> the 1940s was a long fucking time ago And yet we're still cleaning it up :) > In 2007, the Hanford site represented 60% of high-level radioactive waste by volume managed by the US Department of Energy and 7–9% of all nuclear wa
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The Hanford site is a horror show of the reality of how the US handles decommissioned nukes: > The DOE later found water intruding into at least 14 single-shell tanks and that one of them had been leaking about 640 US gallons (2,400 l; 5
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> NuScale has been and is still being massively subsidized by the USDoE Given the longstanding cozy relationship between the NRC, the DOE and industry it's hard to feel confident in this approval being sufficiently stringent, e.g. o
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Uhh, renewables are here today. The parent was refuting that "solar wasn't ready" by making the point that the progress in renewables is attributable to increased industrial activity and funding. Reagan took the solar panels
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Contradicting hard medical evidence about reduced negative outcomes of the COVID vaccine that the entire medical industry has consensus around is just crank stuff at best. The vaccines are unreasonably effective given how radically the viru
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Making the statement "The most populous states were likely over-reporting deaths" is alarmist to say the least. Upon challenge, dialed back to "over-reported cases" or even "under-counted a lot less than many other
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The Dreaming is off the hook wild, a truly experimental album that is still enjoyable as pop. Makes Peter Gabriel look timid :) Never for Ever is really good too though. The range represented in those three consecutive albums (NfE/TD&#
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I would argue that it's not about "songwriting" per se as much as a total commitment to expression that exceeds almost anybody else while still being pop. That, combined with her fantastic voice -- which is way too high for m
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I thought it was to create consumers for Mr Ford...
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Where all of these fall over is data migration, which I wasn't surprised to see was missing from TFA. Having a runtime data model that "serializes itself" is lovely until you have to change the model of an existing dataset. I
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> ensure you have a recent enough version of Java installed Now we know why TFA thinks clojure is the only lang to innovate wrt state problems :) Joking aside, I no longer have a JDK in any of my builds and couldn't be happier. Orac

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