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by starwind 4y ago
There have been a couple times where I've said something like "I'm sorry, I'm not seeing what's so funny here" when people are laughing about something serious. You can either look like a humorless dick or you
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by starwind 4y ago
They were farming some crops but wouldn't have been as dependent on them as Romans would have been and would have had a lot more variety including meat in their diets
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by starwind 4y ago
Good call. I mean "citizen" in the general sense like "person who lives under Rome" but wasn't thinking that "citizen" had a very specific meaning in the Roman context. I edited my answer
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by starwind 4y ago
And also rely on a lot less infantry so casualties are lower. Even with as brutal as Russia-Ukraine is, the total number of military men killed is comparable to a single decent-sized WWII battle
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by starwind 4y ago
The Romans were also up against some adversaries who fought desperately to not be Roman. Somewhat off topic, but I’ll bring it up anyway, it must have been better to have lived in a Gallic or Germanic or Iberian tribe than to have lived as
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by starwind 4y ago
The best boss I ever had asked me to whiteboard factorial recursively. I don't think it needs to be much harder than that to see if someone can solve a basic problem and knows—at least basic—CS stuff. I won't work at a company tha
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by starwind 4y ago
Pretty good I gotta say. More emphasis on business/economic issues than the Times
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by starwind 4y ago
I'm early-30s and found out this week that the tendonitis in my foot that the doctor swore would clear up "in a month or two" with ice, ibuprofen, and stretching, is actually arthritis. My hair's getting a little thin to
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by starwind 4y ago
I have subscriptions to the Economist (never had a problem pausing or canceling my subscription), the Athletic for sports (they always give me a huge discount when I try to cancel), and since the war in Ukraine started I have subscriptions
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by starwind 4y ago
"Coming Next in the Pixel Hunt Series. This children's hospital network is giving kids' names to Facebook." That's as good a teaser as I've ever seen
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by starwind 4y ago
> Former regulators, health data security experts, and privacy advocates who reviewed The Markup’s findings said the hospitals in question may have violated the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The law
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by starwind 4y ago
How do you make a defense side gig work? From my experience, it's a very 9-5 sector
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by starwind 4y ago
The answer always seemed obvious to me. There is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Huma
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by starwind 4y ago
As I understand it, the stinky bacteria feed off some of the stuff in your sweat so I assume a lot of them would die
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by starwind 4y ago
Not that I've noticed
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by starwind 4y ago
> Run for office Many counties and cities also have boards that normal citizens can join. It's usually not too hard to get on it if you can make a good case like "I live in the community, this is important to me, I have experie
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by starwind 4y ago
> Surgery for appearance or comfort I'm kind of a sweaty guy so I got miradry in my arm pits. They lasered out something like 80% of my sweat glands under my arms and it makes a big difference. I don't sit somewhere feeling abs
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by starwind 4y ago
I've always done well at big companies because I'm good at going around and talking to people trying to smooth the friction. Consider looking at the friction like some detective work and the opportunity to get some exercise
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by starwind 4y ago
Have you gone into your bank and asked about additional security measures? For my credit union, I have a call center password I have to give them and mom's maiden name is not mom's maiden name. I think—I'd have to double chec
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by starwind 4y ago
Policies can inform judges decision which inform precedent so I don't think this is worthless
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by starwind 4y ago
There’s this Western conception of Buddhism that stripes away a lot of the religious beliefs—Siddhartha wasn’t divine at all, there is no Amitabha, Ksitigarbha is a folk tale. The emphasis is all on practice. Meditation, the 4 noble truths,
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by starwind 4y ago
Not just guns but spy satellites. You can spend your whole career in defense and be directly responsible for exactly 0 weapons, just helping to find things in satellite images or make sense of signal data or help naval vessels communicate b
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by starwind 4y ago
For older workers it can actually be easier because people move a lot in their 20s. A worker in their 40s might only have to list 3 addresses where a kid 2 years out of college might have to list like 5--one for every dorm and their parents
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by starwind 4y ago
Tangential to this piece: if you're worried about ageism, consider going into to defense and aerospace. Lots of older developers because of the clearance requirement
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by starwind 4y ago
My favorite is the one he did at 25 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/... Abstract, but not as crazy as the ones he did after he turned 50
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by starwind 4y ago
I think you can say this about a lot of 20th century artists. Most of them could paint like the masters if they wanted, but point has changed somewhat. Where a famous picture of Napoleon was painted to commemorate an like this https:/
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by starwind 4y ago
I use an S10e. Love it. It's not small-small but def small by todays standards. Probably switching to an iPhone here soon
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by starwind 4y ago
70% would be fine because you don't need to run desalination all the time. We can store water in watertowers and draw down when we need it
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by starwind 4y ago
Desalination, yes. But we don't need nuclear to power it. A bunch of the energy can be pulled from the ocean through either tidal stream turbines or wave power. Renewables work well here because you don't need to store the energy
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by starwind 4y ago
> The FAA is in a lose-lose position. Be conservative and everyone bitches about how they're holding back progress. Be "flexible" and allow the MAX and everyone rips them a new one saying "they should have known&quot

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