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by ticviking 4y ago
ADnD called these kinds of dialects, "Alignment Languages." They're a larger form of Shibboleth that provide a filter of if someone is in a particular in-group, and the rulebook actually explicitly calls out speaking an Align
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This is pretty basic negotiation though, ask for more than you think you can get to have something you can give up in the discussion. I expect the compromise to be something like, "there's a dress code but I'm not forced to b
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Every socially conservative pro-labor movement in the USA is rapidly labeled as "fascist" in America, usually because they promote economic protectionism by reducing immigration and raising barriers to cheap imports from countries
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The term is well understood and has its origins in the contrasting positions and approaches of "Progressive" and "Revolutionary" Marxists. It has come to mean anyone who is generally left-liberal and favors achieving tho
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My wife and several of my friends have worked in those. Depending on the area they are insanely competitive, and you need good local industry contacts to get supplies and know the market. But it's absolutely a low cost path to owning y
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As our societies functional literacy has declined we have lost words that gave us nuanced shades of meaning. "Experience with" meaning, "Have dealt with this personally, first hand" gradually became, "has been near
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And you’re missing the point that that large effort was less effort than other ways to get a prompt working
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My concern is we’re going to see the loss of creativity akin to what we see when directors us existing film scores as “dummy scores” to help establish mood.
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There is an open question of what smaller things can you teach someone to do so they can do the next more difficult thing. Music education is full of standard exercises like this that build skills and fluency in them until students can comb
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A failure to yield citation, maybe with an additional citation for negligent or distracted driving is not a major consequence. Insurance tends to cover the monetary cost of the civil suit, and higher auto insurance bills aren't really
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No because the default for all of human existence is that I wear my normal street clothing to walk from my home to my neighbors house, or the market. The idea that innovations demand normal folks to change their way of life is absurd on the
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I think this is the key insight. It is easier to find an abstraction if we lay out what the program is doing all in long functions, that just "do what they do" until you figure out what needs to be abstracted.
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The relentless drive to make our labor available outside our local community in a single global labor market. The trend of interconnected markets has pushed many families and companies to use more and more of their time getting cash instead
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My question is why didn’t US labor try things like that? It seems to me that in the early radio era this was possible.
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I recently had some frank discussions with my parents, and in-laws about elder care. American society doesn't plan appropriately for this and I've seen serious tragedies in our extended family that would have been fairly easy to p
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When was the last time you used them on a $200 laptop like your cousin picked up cheap to take to college? Or tried to help students use an electron IDE on a computer with 8Gb and a 2 ghz 10 year old processor that their dad saved to buy se
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Doing development work on a 10 year old ThinkPad dramatically changed how I think about performance in my software. With a tiny bit of attention to performance you can do insane things
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So have a carve out in the law for additives in customary continuous use
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Or remote proctoring centers will show up as a business opportunity, and the cost of this will be passed on to students, who will pay it with financial aid.
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Why should young men and women be denied the independence and growth of making their own money, learning valuable skills, and being able to save for a car, or further training. I went to college after a summer doing day labor. I knew I was
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by ticviking 4y ago
Revoking their charter and seizing their assets seems just for a lot of this stuff.
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Having a low set point means you have to endure more dramatic deficits to continue to lose weight sure but the basic math in calories remains the same. The remaining problems are psychological.
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That’s at least interesting. I don’t think it would work but it’s definitely interesting. I’m pretty well convinced as a country basically no one charges shareholders enough for their limited liability in their corporation, and making the c
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Because we each individually like the small exemptions we enjoy better than we like the idea of directly subsidizing those things. My home mortgage deduction and the solar tax credits are great examples of popular policies that would need t
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I can rent a weekend in a tiny cabin on a working farm and drink the milk I milked myself while learning how to milk a cow.
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No they pay hundreds of thousands of dollars so they don't have to deal with the school refusing to take action on bullying or disruptive behavior. If schools are unwilling or unable to provide a stable learning environment then parent
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Or perhaps we could try asking schools to do less. Based on my experience in education burnout in "Bad schools" comes from a handful of terror students, and in "good schools" from a handful of overly demanding parents. S
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> 2) People who love teaching and are willing and somehow able to do it for basically charitable wages. Many of these are subsidized by their spouse.
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>More babysitting than education. This summarizes the entire problem with much of our education system. We have not learned as a society how to separate out the many functions we ask the public schools to do, and they manage to poorly al
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Rail workers work under a completely different set of labor laws than virtually every other industry. They do not have the same protections, workers compensation or union rules than other industries do. I’m not an expert on the intricacies

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