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by travmatt 6y ago
Justin Kan created a legal business that attempted to be more efficient than a traditional law firm, but it seems that venture folded. I’d be interested in a post-morten and if he thinks there is any innovation on the current law firm busin
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It’s an idea that is studied in political economy. If the idea resonates with you there are a lot of discussions around it: https://www.theregreview.org/2016/07/07/lupo-a-resource-list...
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I don’t know why I thought he passed for. But yea, hpv can lead to cancer in both genders.
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Michael Douglas died from throat cancer contracted from HPV, as undoubtedly other men have. There’s reason for men to become vaccinated as well.
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He does a good job of showing a broad swath of the Byzantine empire, not just the intrigue among royals.
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If you enjoy podcasts, then Mike Duncan's History of Rome is an excellent piece of work. Similarly, his book "Storm Before the Storm" is very good, focusing on the events that began the collapse of the Roman Republic: Sulla,
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Once you’ve defined merit, there are plenty of problems in measuring merit. The ideal way to measure a teachers efficacy would be measuring their students adult outcomes relative to other teachers, but that timeframe doesn’t work in the sho
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Off-topic, but I wish GitHub had more functionality with starring repos. That and search seem such neglected parts of their platform.
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There are costs to being exposed to high levels of ambient noise though: https://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/136466/...
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There’s a world of difference between speaking your mind and needing to be right.
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I was interested enough in the etymology to do some googling; terrific has its roots in ‘terror’, much like horror/horrific. It was used as a generic intensifier, often hyperbolically, which became common enough that it lost its negati
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It means Congress is shortly going to renege on yet another treaty they made with a Native American tribe.
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It factors into parole release and other calculations
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The Sacklers were able to keep their business relatively disconnected from polite society for a long time as well.
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There were some subreddits that were taken over by the people they made fun of, /r/gamersriseup started like that before it took a turn IIRC
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Irony has always been a tool of the far right, from the nazis to the Christchurch shooter. How 4chan and t_d use it is not especially different.
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They also have a very young population, which may mean they have more asymptotic/mild cases.
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https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/9/9/12864328/wiki... Assange censors whistleblowers against the Russian government who he openly collaborated with. Do you think this is ethical behav
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Don’t worry, he doesn’t publish everything he’s given. https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/9/9/12864328/wiki...
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The better question is whether he’s buried true facts in order to help public figures. There’s strong evidence he’s censored whistleblowers leaking damaging documents about Russia involvement in syria[0], along with his pretty open partners
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https://theintercept.com/2018/01/03/my-life-as-a-new-york-ti...
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You didn’t even mention their piece de resistance - killing a story on a nationwide illegal mass surveillance program, then being scooped by their own reporter years later as he’s publishing his story on how the NYT is complicit in keeping
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This is my approach. Except three days later I suddenly realize a cleaner approach and I wonder why my original plan was so ugly.
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These types of problems, ones which can only know how to solve by solving them, are known as wicked problems. Software design is well known to be a wicked problem.
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I learned networking through reading the book recommended in this website, and playing around with wireshark along with some other stuff. The book itself was about 800 pages, but breaking it down by sections made the task much more manageab
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My favorite saying about zerohedge: “They’ve predicted 8 of the last 3 downturns.”
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I really enjoy vscode. It has a pretty shallow learning curve for the amount of tooling it provides.
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When do you think SPA’s are the best fit?
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teachyourselfcs.com
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Because the ACLU has a professed interest in defending freedom of the press?

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