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by topkai22 5y ago
Flawed, but better than not having a WHO. IMO China’s influence is more because they did a great job at committing hard to diplomacy and working relationships at WHO at the exact same time the US pulled away. It turns out diplomacy and lead
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Yes, those salaries will generally include by health insurance- the overwhelming majority of full time US workers do have access to health insurance through thier employer ( https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ebs
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No, US devs really do make a very large amount of money. Both the mean and median wage in US are over $100k. That number is probably on the low side too, as the government BLS data doesn't seem to account well for stock grants, bonuse
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by topkai22 5y ago
Not as a profession, but I worked with our sale/pre-sales side people a fair amount. I can say, generally, they liked the pace, challenge, compensation, and that they constantly got to do new things. Quota was complained about, as was
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Given that description, you might want to consider consulting or technical sales/architecture as well. I did it for years in the services arm of a big tech company. The bureaucracy is going to be a lot higher, but a broad skill set wi
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The not sure about the multi purpose thing- it might be prohibited by zoning in a lot of spaces by master plans, but it’s been actively encouraged for the last 10-20 years most places I’ve been, at least in infill areas. Also, the lack of
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I’ve been getting some sort of advocacy ads using wildfire maps on Google as an example of something that pending US legislation would take away. The details eluded (the ads may need work.) But I suspect this article is tied to that. campai
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I don’t particularly romanticize brick and mortar retailers. There were/are good ones but there are also terrible ones. The best create a shopping experience that makes going in an enjoyable experience in and of itself or consistently
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A December 2020 journal article I was using ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7751056/ ) gave an r0 range of the original of 1.5-6.68 across various studies. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih
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Smallpox is roughly as contagious as SARS-Cov2 Delta and therefore more transmossible than the original variant. However those numbers are the unmitigated numbers. Public health and other authority figures have some advantages in fighting
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I haven't truly been on the job market since 2010, but when I have casually looked take homes before the interview stage were a huge turnoff. The issue was I never felt the employer had "skin in the game" for the effort it wo
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I'm a bit ignorant of smart contracts and I'm not a lawyer, but presumably the service provider would have to take whatever action would invalidate the subscription. It gets weird with escrow though, because it's possible the
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Nah, it's beyond that. I know a dev that is the most brilliant ux dev I've ever met. He can create beautiful, dynamic, understandable UIs literally 20x than I can. However, he is just medeicore at must other tasks- constructing a
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Companies asked spend a ton on retention- your salary, benefits, and VR ping pong tables are all in place to keep you there and working. That sgock vesting schedule? Retention technique. If all those things aren't working and an IC has
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by topkai22 5y ago
@bananabat, congrats on launching your game and on your beautiful write up here. It made me remember Randy Pausch‘a famous “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, better known as “The Last Lecture.” ( https://youtu.be/ji5_M
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by topkai22 5y ago
A cursory look at the data says that bikes are more dangerous than cars in the current environment. The US Bureau of Transportation Statistics says that in 2017 806/37473 fatalities were cyclists, or 2.2%, but the NHTSA data indicates
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Be careful there- renters will generally cover theft with a low enough deductible to make it worth it, but homeowners deductibles can easily be near or higher than the cost of the bike.
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I've for years argued that the iPhone didn't succeed because of the technology (or at least technology in solutions had been sufficient for a while). It succeeded because it was an iPod a phone- a logical progression of somethin
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No, but as others have said I've seen it with multiple people in different parts of the same document. Demoing 3 cursors on screen at the same time expresses the capability of the product in a couple seconds, explaining how you should
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I don't think that is true. I know of intra-family sales where that definitely didn't happen and a quick search found nothing. There may be some internal rules among Realtors (who own the MLS- it isn't a public service) that
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This- Even if your work allows you to set your own schedule, there many other aspects of society that don't. Schools and daycares, in particular, can dictate the schedule of parents. If you can't start off to work because the bus&
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Me too, it was personal, whimsical, and serendipitous. It was also a lot of work, and visions of “success” were different. On the work side, creators had to work to produce the content, but consumers had to work harder to find it. I had a
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US software developers are 19.4% female. Also, a same profession couple counts twice, so only roughly 1/3 off the female population is required to marry 6% of the female population and get to an aggregate of 12%. Same sex couples compl
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No idea- I always forgot to get a costume ready and just threw something together at the last second. Mine sucked period (one year I cut up a cardboard box, taped the ends together, held up this structure with some suspenders with duct tape
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I suspect the OP was making a historical analogy to the past experience of the ECU transition. The ECU transition was disruptive and caused pain for both mechanics (who had to reskill) and consumers (who had to deal with a market full of me
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That one put a ton of snow in the mountains as well, this one is going to be too warm to put the same amount of snow into the mountains (although there will be some). Snowpack functions as a massive reservoir, so that matters. That being sa
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I’ll disagree with you- Linux very much took off because it’s license is cost free and there was/is an influential FLOSS software philosophical movement.
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First, there are almost certainly many people like you at your university, feeling like they aren’t making any friends. By our nature we see the groups hanging around having fun, not the other individuals heading back to their apartments a
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Not a Googler, but I’m my experience 25 person managers can work (barely) if they are just their to keep the HR stuff in line and people actually transactional work with other teams or if there is an informal team structure beneath the mana
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I live in a county with emissions standards. Vehicles over 25 years old are exempt. There are reasonable ways to implement rising standards by exempting older ones.

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