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Print a paper wallet from https://www.bitaddress.org and transfer some Bitcoin to that wallet. Write the amount on the wallet and give it to them in a envelope.
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I would argue that effectively using tools you don't fully understand is one of the primary skills of software development. If that were not the case, we would spend about 95% of our time taking online courses and following tutorials a
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By infection you mean people actually getting sick, or just dead virus DNA fragments detected in the nose with PCR?
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Surprisingly, YouTube comments can have a high signal-to-noise ratio.
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Look up short-term insurance. If you're young and healthy (or, just avoid seeing a doctor for problems they already admit they can't solve), you can probably find decent health insurance for a whole year for $1,000 USD (meaning, &
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Ergonomics (meaning, learn how to do your work comfortably without interruptions). Management skills (meaning, managing others). It might not be your cup of tea, but not having them after a certain point devalues you. Hobbies. Being proacti
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In some places in East Africa, ideas we might marginalize and call "conspiracy theories" in America, like COVID being a fake pandemic, are considered common sense knowledge [0]. Ideas and beliefs aren't supposed to influence
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Link to the study is present in the article: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar... > In this cross-sectional analysis of 26 823 adults from the population-based French CONSTANCES cohor
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Some interesting points I gleamed from skimming the draft: 1. The way “small-to-medium” and “large” businesses or “entities” are defined. The bill separates entities into 2 classes based on any of 3 factors: annual revenue, number of users,
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> What's wrong with your process that you need more than three steps? Thank you. This needs to be said louder, and repeated more. A phone screen, a tech screen, and a brief in-person interview is enough to hire someone. If your in
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You can't deal with everyone in your life the same way. If you're feeling isolated due to other people not taking a nuanced enough approach towards issues you need to discuss, try to find at least one friend you can discuss those
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I don't think either side has a solution. But, that doesn't mean they can't detect an obvious subterfuge from outside the community.
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This is probably what would have naturally happened if the CDA were never passed. Instead, we've turned internet companies into geese that lay golden eggs for the government.
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If you’re worried about a gap in your resume, then everybody has that problem. The reason for the hiring crisis is that the A/T/S software that companies use filters people out who have a gap, and everybody has a gap. Maybe you ca
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You don’t actually have any offers on the table so you have no opportunities at the moment. Don’t get ahead of yourself, but don’t get discouraged either. If the places you want to work at require higher technical skills, then getting a mas
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How challenging it is, and how easy it is to sell a product that apparently does not meet the challenge.
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That's a long-ish article that I don't have time to read this instant, but it doesn't seem to address the specific points I brought up, so I don't know how relevant it is. I'm still interested to know why you think
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There's a difference between repeal and reform. Multiple executives at Facebook, including Zuckerberg, have appealed to the public and directly to Congress to reform Section 230. Specifically, what they want is for Congress to add
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I totally agree. If Congress really had a problem with the lack of accountability, then they can repeal the CDA. Presto, now not just Facebook but all tech companies are accountable. If it were really about the children then why don't
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> Eleven patients died of Covid in the first half of September at his hospital in Mount Pleasant, population 16,000. Typically, three or four nonhospice patients die there in a whole month. So, the rate has gone from 0.0002 to 0.0013. Ye
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Yes, many times. Usually not positive. I've found that with programming, people either follow along or they don't, and it becomes obvious which one is the case fairly quickly. The first type of person will ask you a question, and
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Automated hiring systems and lack of training named as causes of talent shortage(theregister.com)
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It's also possible you get neither.
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My point was not about who was really responsible for the rebellion. My point was that the everyday people were blamed for what transpired, then they were massacred, and this was the end of democracy in Athens for a long time.
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A vaccine is a medical treatment.
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That's the problem with democracy. The people are not truly in charge but yet we get blamed. > Athenion struts on stage before the crowd, then displays the sloganeering skills of a modern politician, saying: “Now you command yoursel
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Vaccines are for healthy people, so it's a larger market.
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Any time you use the government to force people to do something against their will, you have made the issue political. Politics is the business of force.
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> until COVID mutates into something less deadly perhaps. How do we know that that hasn't already happened? If we don't know, when will we know?
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Okay, so if the binary thinking is wrong, why stop at three? Why stop at all? Does the science say we just blast our bodies with as much mRNA as we can get away with?

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