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by tivert 2y ago
> maybe he's not as competent as he thinks he is I'm not going to let industry off the hook by blaming the victim. It's not the defense industry, but I know a very qualified person who's been having a lot of trouble b
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> The eastern Orthodox church refers to itself as the "Catholic Church" in internal documents. After the west fell in 476, they continued to present themselves as "the" Catholic church... Is that really so odd? Doesn&
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>> How is BND screwing the little person? > It’s not, but credit unions don’t either and they’re more “left wing” ideologically. Are you just being idiosyncratic? "State-owned business" (like the BND) sounds pretty "
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> Okay, I want to be super clear on this one: Do you have to pay for the coffee once you pass security / they know you work there? Or is that coffee shop not part of the company and just so happens to be onsite? Don't know abou
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> Home has chores and errands and 'fun' and all kinds of other Not Work stuff to tempt me away from working. Plus once my kids come home from school, quiet concentration time is effectively over. It's funny how serving one
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AT&T and Amazon have the right idea. Conference calls with offshore teams are far more effective when done in an open office environment, surrounded by people from unrelated teams doing the same thing. The collaborative energy of hundre
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>> How many wonderful niche products would be around if their owners had tried for a small business instead of a 'huge business' with 'hyper growth'? > People say that but as someone trying to actually do that,
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> If you never take big swings and big risks and are happy with small wins and stable growth you'll never win the big prize. And while this might be healthier for you as an individual, it's bad for the Economy. Correction: it&#
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> Websites are, and always have been, allowed to decline being crawled and indexed by google at any time. That may be so, but they never had a real choice. Google has also lost an antitrust case that found its search engine was a monopol
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> Ars pretending like they and other publications don’t have a strong bias is a huge part of the problem. The thing about bias is that it's always a problem with the other guy, somehow.
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>> I don't know about you, but a PIN is pretty much a password in my book. > Then your book is filled with misunderstandings of what the PIN function in Windows is actually doing. The "PIN function in Windows" doesn&
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> While almost everybody including me shares this perference maybe it should be something that browsers could do? After all why put the burden on countless various websites if you can implement it in a single piece of software? If I reca
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> I have a few folks who I felt wronged me significantly in my life's travels, and they take a bit of rent-free space in my head every once in awhile. Do you have grudge against those people, such that put effort into trying to unde
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> In this study, the researchers asked about 200 non-lawyers (native speakers of English living in the United States, who were recruited through a crowdsourcing site called Prolific), to write two types of texts. In the first task, peopl
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> Even if I was close to my grandparents' generation, I only have four of them and that number doesn't increase over time. The scenario I was thinking of to get to more than "five or six" funerals by age 16, was to ha
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> I've attended the funerals of my enemies just to pay my respects for the rivalry that we had. What? You have enemies ? Like the Joker and Batman or Lex Luthor and Superman? Honestly, to me, that word describes a kind of relation
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>> By the time I was 16, I had been to five or six funerals. > Is it just me or does this actually seem kind of low? Not for someone who's young and mostly disconnected from their grandparents' generation. In my case, my
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> How does a research ban even work? It seems to me that at some point someone is going to research it; at which point everyone is left flat footed by having not researched it. Someone's going to need to work it out, because if the
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> AI can already do everything you can imagine, and more Just like https://zombo.com/ .
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> For example, you'd assume that games that let children socialize would help them develop social skills, games that let them be creative would foster creativity, games that force them to think might benefit their reasoning skills,
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> What was the purpose of this clemency grant? I know it is something about people who were granted home arrest during covid, but I don't follow why that group of people was selected as deserving clemency, as opposed to say people w
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You've missed the point. It's plenty easy to find articles that clearly explain what the point is (in relation to this ban), so I'm not going to waste the time trying to explain it again myself. I'll just note that the a
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> If apps are acting like spyware then the government should pressure Apple and Google to fix the issue at the OS level. If you think that's the issue, you're mistaken or confused.
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> If you or I killed a half a million people, we wouldn't be facing 20 years in prison. We'd be lucky to not be facing a firing squad or a noose. Yeah, Martin Elling made 2 million in political donations over the years: https:
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> Regarding life without vaccines, the life expectancy could then be very low. Whether this qualifies as "thriving" is subjective. The life expectancy would not be "very low" without vaccines. It wasn't especial
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> It is nothing like vaccines. Zero. I can easily imagine a thriving world without copyrights, but I cannot without vaccines. For the record, the world can and did thrive before vaccines were invented, so you don't have to imagine i
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> Even if so, that's still showing awareness of what his critics are critical of. Mere awareness is really that meaningful. >>> and he actively empathised with the protestors. >> https://www.simplypsycholog
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> The issue first surfaced on X after founder Sudarshan Sridharan of Pipeline posted about his struggles trying to cancel, writing, “I’m speechless at how anti-founder @cartainc is. They make it impossible to cancel your subscription or
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> Then we’re going to need to spend waaaaay more money on policing, if we don’t allow any paperwork shortcuts. Imagine 2 hours per report for a 2 hour incident - we’d need to double the staffing versus a no paperwork force. > Or just

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