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by tannhauser23 4y ago
Back in college, two of my friends went to a CIA recruiting event. One friend was a native Farsi speaker and the other was born in Korea. Both came back dejected because the recruiter said they could not apply until at least a year had pass
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by tannhauser23 4y ago
Maybe, but that's not what they tested for in the movie.
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by tannhauser23 4y ago
Sometimes the investigation itself is interesting? I read an article once where the author was trying to figure out what plant was the source of street snacks he saw sold everywhere in his city. He couldn't get a definite answer from a
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by tannhauser23 4y ago
The defense also gets to retool its strategy in light of the evidence. Defense also gets to make evidentiary motions. Retrials don't always favor the prosecution. I think the most retrials I've seen (stemming from hung juries, not
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by tannhauser23 4y ago
That lawyer INVESTIGATED Musk. I don't think Musk behaved very well in that situation, but if you are a law firm and you rely on Musk's companies for business, maybe don't hire a government lawyer who went after him?
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by tannhauser23 4y ago
So I get that this is a click-baity way to get people to donate to people living in extreme poverty. But why compare yourself to billionaires? I'm not Elon Musk, and I'm cool with that. I haven't started multiple industry-cha
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by tannhauser23 4y ago
You're thinking firing for cause. These two were probably told that they would no longer run their divisions, here's a nice severance package if you want to leave. What are they gonna do, stick around in a lower role?
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by tannhauser23 4y ago
You're quoting the Nevada chapter of ACLU, now the parent organization. ACLU itself has consistently taken the position that the Second Amendment does not confer an individual right to own firearms. ACLU _has_ supported NRA in its laws
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by tannhauser23 4y ago
This is ridiculous. Businesses should pay what the wages are worth. If that's not enough for some ideal standard of living, government can use social programs and tax rebates to make up the difference. That's what taxation is for.
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by tannhauser23 4y ago
This really isn't the zinger you think it is. It should not be so burdensome to hire one employee, c'mon.
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by tannhauser23 4y ago
People in this thread who are like, "Duh, you should have known that you have to hire a lawyer and HR person and an accountant to comply with all the regulations of California when you a hire a single person from there." Take a st
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
It's a low cost, low probability way to look for advanced civilizations. Chances are low that you'll find anything, but hey the data's already here and we have powerful computers so let's run some calculations. And occas
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
His article, "Warm-Blooded Plants and Freeze Dried Fish", is a classic: https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97nov/space.htm Highly recommended.
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
There are "local bitcoin trading" groups that do exactly this - convert bitcoin to cash at a discount. But obviously you can't do this for billions of dollars and you expose yourself to personal monitoring and capture.
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
The author is not saying that modern movies are artistically worse than old movies. He's saying that CGI, despite decades of progress, seem _fake_ in a way that subtly destroys our sense of immersion: "Consider Ridley Scott’s 1985
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
Your site helped me find a new career! I am so much happier in my new life. Congratulations!!!
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
We all know what initiatives like California's leads to. Parents from middle to upper class families will send their kids to private schools or invest in extracurricular math programs. This will be especially true in immigrant and tech
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
The difference is that private schools teach math/reading/writing at high levels. Otherwise parents would not put up with the political stuff that also gets packaged in.
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
If I were a billionaire I would fund Asia-style 'cram' academies in disadvantaged neighborhoods and make them free. Provide a safe place where students can get extra-school training in music, writing, math, etc. Create communities
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
A newspaper had incorrectly called the race for the incumbent earlier yesterday. Ballotpedia possibly reflected that info.
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
Shout-out to Brian Reynolds, who was the lead designer on both Civ 2 and Alpha Centauri!
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
Not the OP but happy to help! Since you already like Bach, start by exploring his work! Let's start with the Goldberg Variations, which are 30 variations on a theme set for the keyboard. Glenn Gould's 1955 recording is perhaps the
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
Owner might not want to sell?
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
They're asking for 50-ish volunteers ATM.
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
So, umm, how do you test this vaccine? Are the participants expected to have unprotected sex with HIV-positive people?
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
They had to pay $3.4 million and apologize for defaming a secular Muslim critic as an "anti-Muslim extremist": https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2018/06/20/southern-pover...
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
Want to offer a clarification to what you said here. Government doesn't have to prove that the corporation acted with criminal intent - that's impossible since corporations don't have minds. To hold a corporation criminally
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
Financial regulations carry three types of penalties: - Criminal: go straight to jail - Civil Fines: pay money - Civil Injunctions: never work in finance again In the United States there are several entities charged with enforcing financial
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
What's wrong with that? That'll encourage education-focused parents to move to more diverse neighborhoods. Right now parents are trying to cram into the 3-4 best school districts in any given area.
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by tannhauser23 5y ago
The latest episode of the Megyn Kelly Show interviews Lue Elizondo, who headed the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification program.[0] According to the article, the report will say: "...the assessment has come up short of explaining w

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