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by topkai22 6y ago
Doh, I can't believe I read that wrong. Mea cupla, and thank you for the correction.
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by topkai22 6y ago
How about an all electric Hummer? Seriously though, GM does make plenty of electric cars. Or are you suggesting they should use the Edison brand?
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by topkai22 6y ago
I dual majored in Computer Science and Politics. While I didn’t expect my politics degree to be particularly useful in a programming/engineering career, I’m finding that after rising in seniority the “liberal” skills that I learned (wr
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by topkai22 6y ago
I’ve met plenty of empathic “geniuses” (as the article defines them), they just aren’t as noticeable.
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by topkai22 6y ago
I’m beginning to think that a lack of ability to label and understand argumentation techniques like those mentioned in the articles is a major failing of US English education.
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by topkai22 6y ago
The problem is no given retailer has the sort of market power Amazon does. There are at least a dozen grocery reatailers in my smallish city, and dozens nationwide. In fact, merging grocery store chains are frequently forced to divest of st
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by topkai22 6y ago
There are all sorts of “meetings” that are optional- largish seminars/brown bags/trainings, meetings sent to multiple members of a partner team with the expectation that only one representative attend, social events, etc. I’m not
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by topkai22 6y ago
The average annual salary in 1900 was in the range of $450. That's about $14k today. What's worse, that when norms dictated a ~60 hour week and households, even at the low end of the spectrum, were often single earner. While &quot
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by topkai22 6y ago
While their is much reasonable debate about what "true" poverty level rates are, this study uses a threshold of $20k/year for a worker. That's significantly higher than the federal rate set by the Census bureau at $14k&#
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by topkai22 6y ago
Not sure without lots of details, but this was probably a work for hire from LucasFilm or Fox- The author never held copyright, but had a contractual interest in the copyright.
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by topkai22 6y ago
Not inconceivable, but a third party is unlikely to be able to garner the involvement of the SFWA or as much public sympathy. The discount is probably below what he can recoup himself. Heck, it’s not inconceivable that the other entertainme
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by topkai22 6y ago
I think most US hospitals have offer in house newborn photos. I know ours did :)
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by topkai22 6y ago
Misleading headline. From the abstract of the underlying study: "Interest fit significantly predicts overall job satisfaction." What the article and the paper's abstract (because I didn't pay for it) say is that it IS a
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by topkai22 6y ago
The tax reforms during the Trump administration largely eliminated the marriage tax penalty, expect for couples earning more than $600k/year. Prior to those changes, married couples would generally pay more tax in their combined incom
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by topkai22 6y ago
You are right, and it is a very good thing they do, but all that information is not something that at least as significant minority of students are going to know ahead of time. For those students, there is perceived stigma going to the admi
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by topkai22 6y ago
Fly to Reno, pick up a uhaul truck. $140 for a 1 way ticket, about $300 in gas and mileage to get a huge truck back to SF. Of course, its also about 6 hours of your time, but hey.
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by topkai22 6y ago
That's not true in the US- CDC statistics are ~72000 OD deaths for 2019. The worst numbers I've seen are a 50% increase in OD deaths, so we can probably expect the 2020 numbers to come in at 105,000 or less. There are 220,000 COVI
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by topkai22 6y ago
You mean for people, like me, who know you can ask, feel no shame doing so, and believe it won’t hurt their reputation by doing so? Oh, and possibly pay for expensive third party testing. It would be better to just provide tons of padding t
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by topkai22 6y ago
Yeah, I have slow hand writing. In one class I took a midterm and got marks for every question I answered, but ended up with a low C because I couldn’t physically write fast enough to finish the test. I thought that was ridiculous, went to
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by topkai22 6y ago
No, but it’s a very nice tool to have. I work primarily in windows but needed to run some tools in Linux. I just fired up my WSL terminal, ran my commands, and got on with my life.
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by topkai22 6y ago
That is really insightful and kind of brilliant. I agree what would be a great way for these programs to differentiate themselves.
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by topkai22 6y ago
I’ve lived in, worked in, or visited lots of the Midwest. It’s fair to generalize about the Midwest- the region has a distinct group of related cultures. Same is true of the west coast. Sure, it exists on a spectrum and is far less true of
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by topkai22 6y ago
I’m quite happy when sites don’t use YouTube. That site has WAY too much of the Internet’s content already. Agree on playback speed though.
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by topkai22 6y ago
GitLab also has to comply with DMCA complaints. A quick search brought up their procedure: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/security/opera... They'll still take down a repo and block the use
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by topkai22 6y ago
Surprisingly hard to find a simple explanation from FSF, but here is a "proof by contradiction" explaining why should use GPL instead of the LGPL- https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html Basically, th
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by topkai22 6y ago
I think your memories may be merging over time. Win XP didn't come out till 2001, so it was probably win 98/98 SE running in your classroom. One of the things I remember about school computing in the 90s was how varied the equipme
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by topkai22 6y ago
Sounds like a great way to get a multi sport IOC ban. Those athletes that win medals will get intense international scrutiny, I suspect consistent faking of records will get found out eventually. Anyways, just because some participants may
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by topkai22 6y ago
Just because it’s owned by a private entity doesn’t automatically exclude it from being a common.
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by topkai22 6y ago
As a team lead, my project sees them about once a quarter. This is on a project that fundamentally does form based data collection on a limited set of users. The most recent one was where a dev used an array scan to find a piece of data in
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by topkai22 6y ago
You are paying for opportunity cost- there are many places that people take RVs where there are no equivalent options or only sketchy ones. I agree the way most people go about buying RVs seems sub-optimal, but hotels or even cabins are not

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