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by tejohnso 3y ago
> so I can't put all the blame on a 17 year old Oh there's plenty of blame to go around for sure. The banks, the schools, the government. Even the businesses supplying the job market with opportunities that over emphasize post
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> It was pitched to most kids as a panacea for poverty. Late high school years in the mid 90s, I remember looking into job placement rates that were part of the pitch from higher ed schools. We knew that the purpose was to get a job, not
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> She earned a master’s in religious studies in 2017, with dreams of teaching at a college. > But she couldn’t find any jobs in her field when she graduated Why the hell would you expect to find a job in religious studies? If you&#x27
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> An upgrade to windows 11 is a big downgrade. I've heard a similar refrain about every windows release since XP. Not saying it was or is wrong.
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My guess would be not adhering to the "keep right except to pass" signs on the highway. I don't tail gate, but I do find it rather annoying when people block traffic by driving right beside another vehicle rather than passing
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> Because they actually care about the patients and the work is critical? That's not a good reason to be overworked to the point of extreme misery and possibly suicide. You can care about your patients, do critical work, and still h
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> I had worked in a hospital where I was oncall 24/7, 12 days out of 14. I had fortnightly weekends off. Why would you do this? Some of the most basic labour jobs have better employment terms than this. > You might ask, why can’t
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There was also concern about ethnic and cultural genocide of ethnic Russians in the eastern Ukraine regions. Promises broken.
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Who were the top level executives while this was going on? Why don't these articles ever lay blame properly? And what are the consequences for those individuals? And what is being done to ensure it doesn't happen again?
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> "Whether you hate me, like me or are indifferent, do you want the best car, or do you not want the best car?" ... only works when you're making the best car. There are a lot of very competitive EV alternatives now.
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> possible even some arm of the U.S. govt. Possible. But why mention U.S. specifically? Is it more likely than Russia, Iran, China, France ... ?
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> There are plenty of breaks during the year including all of summer. When everyone else is doing the same thing. If you do it at a different time you could benefit from reduced costs and reduced traffic. You can also provide your child
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We are increasing the energy imbalance in the earth system. A large part of that energy is absorbed by oceans. And at the same time our temperature buffers like the arctic sea ice, are disappearing. I think we're seeing the same thing
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Everything I've seen indicates scientists are completely flabbergasted with this six sigma warming. For example https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/06/14/record-war... Your theory is mention
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Probably just trying to frighten or intimidate. Someone else could easily have been fooled into thinking they needed papers. The guy could've berated them into tears. Probably just about all he was attempting to do.
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Not even sure how you'd start off hating the idea. Less noise, less pollution, shorter commute, cheaper infrastructure, more green, more walking, improved health...I mean...just off the top of my head I'm thinking of tons of advan
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Try putting a pillow under the shoulder that your mouth is closest to. A slight lifting of the shoulder might relieve the neck strain.
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Seems so. Those friends did have to contend with the enjoyable part of their job disappearing. Whether they called it cheating or not is doesn't diminish their loss.
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> Kia, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Honda and Acura enable drivers to turn off data collection relating to on-road behavior in their apps. > A Ford spokesperson told the Times that the company “does not transmit any connected vehicle data to
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Meta's Dangerously Carefree AI Chief(nonzero.substack.com)
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Reminds me of Falsehoods programmers believe about time: https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b... Also...Rounding errors: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions&#
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RBC: Rounding, leap-year, and day-count averaging errors result in discrepancies(rbcroyalbank.com)
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> Demand for air conditioning is expected to more than triple by 2050 Which further exacerbates the problem. Another unfortunate feedback loop for us.
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I don't know about countries, but I'd look into a ground source off grid heat pump.
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Certain members of congress have been briefed and are on record as being very concerned. Something is up. Whether they are called Aliens, or UFOs, or otherwise, something is there that is being kept from people. "Today the Pentagon and
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> When the FanDuel founders raised funds, two key investors received a liquidation preference that entitled them to the first $559M in an acquisition. Founders and employees would be paid only if the acquisition exceeded $559M. > The
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> In terms of dollars, ebooks represent less than 7 percent of the entire U.S. book trade. This is surprising to me given the quality of e-readers out there now. The experience is quite nice, and you don't end up taking up a bunch o
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> if we want to usefully operationalize the question of whether computers are capable of understanding we should jettison the consciousness question and focus instead on questions like this: Do computers process physical information in b
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Yes, AIs 'Understand' Things(nonzero.substack.com)
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Not a single mention of Bernoulli. Bravo!

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