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Because speech pathologists are generally working with patients that have mental issues, speech issues are generally neurological, and those patients may not have the same emotional self-regulation and self-control as the average person and
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2y ago
> We know that proofs and reading are required. They do not. In the context of you saying this after sharing a link to an article around difficulties at HBCUs, I'm trying to find some charitable way to interpret your statements as s
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2y ago
This section of the linked article was in the context of the 1950s prior to the introduction of this invasive species of rat to Alberta. So, yes, at that point in time nobody had been exposed to them, because they didn't exist there.
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2y ago
This entire argument is weird. My website is relatively rich in content, in different contexts, including (now out of date/deprecated) interactive tutorials. Every single thing on my website is statically generated from Markdown. Not
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2y ago
>As though by building more housing the only possible outcome are poor people doing drugs next to my kids' school. Guess what, there's already people doing drugs next to my kids school, even in "nice" neighborhoods. Y
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2y ago
This is an accurate read of my statements. I am not trying to impose anything on anyone, but I also don't want to be imposed upon. I have worked very hard to be able to afford to live in a gated community and put my kids in private s
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2y ago
> Yes, we can see that here. It's unfortunate that you've taken that position. I am not taking that position at all. I don't know what your position is, but you've implied in your replies to me that you /do/
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2y ago
Let's be clear, many folks in this country are perfectly happy to make the world more equal by dragging others down rather than lifting others up. If there's no way to escape the ills of humanity, it means you're stuck in a
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2y ago
> "neighborhood character" (read: keep out them poors). As somebody who has spent a lot of money to live in a high-value area, not because of an investment in the property, but to avoid having my family exposed to inappropriate
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2y ago
78% and 75% are pretty close to 80%, it may not be an exact Pareto distribution, but it's "close enough for government work".
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2y ago
Isn't this the plot to the episode "Nosedive" of Black Mirror? Isn't the outcome of such a system obvious? It's very clear that allowing people to rank one another in a way that results in dire economic outcomes r
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2y ago
Same here, I went out with a sizeable budget and tried out many cars and ended up with a 2024 Mazda 3 Premium last November because it was the only vehicle that had every control available in a tactile way. I love the car still a year late
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2y ago
Yes, this likely explains part of why the Norwegian police behave like professionals who are trying to do their job with high standards of performance and behavior and the police in the US behave like a bunch of drinking buddies that used t
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2y ago
> It feels like it incentivizes the police to minimize their understanding of the law so that they can believe they are following it. That's a bingo. That's exactly what they do, and why so many cops know less about the law th
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2y ago
There are three things I refuse to do for any company. I have never had a problem finding a job, even in "down markets". It does greatly constrain which companies are a fit, but I think understanding your own boundaries and bein
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2y ago
> Then I'm really not sure what exactly you are arguing for or against. If it helps, neither do they. Given that they are already suggesting Postmodernism provides a valuable philosophical and analytic view to understand the world,
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2y ago
Same, I'm still rocking an older Kindle because it fits in my hip pocket on my cargo pants and so can always be with me whenever I get a quiet moment day-to-day to read.
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2y ago
You're right, but you're treating that as a net-negative. The reality is that the government regulations structured taxi services in most cities in the world into cartels that operated in a way that was to the detriment of their
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2y ago
> And one of our super old offices has an 80s style wired green/yellow/red light indicator outside of the door, that presumably used to connect to a switch on the desk. These light trees used to be (and probably still are in so
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2y ago
Clicking on this page tries to XSS to a domain hosted in Russia (looks like an object storage backend) which is blocked by NoScript.
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2y ago
Only for consumer-grade stuff, which is basically disposable garbage that's obsolete the day you purchase it, which is about what you get for $350 at Walmart. For any actually decent laptop designed for enterprises/businesses, th
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2y ago
This is mostly a consequence of the complexity of all the abstraction layers between "conference call" and "physical routed and switched connection". At best you might be able to identify that the visible/audible s
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2y ago
Cisco ThousandEyes | Technical Product Managers | London, San Francisco, Austin, NYC, and Denver Cisco ThousandEyes is a digital experience assurance (DXA) SaaS platform which applies machine-learning capabilities on top of synthetic active
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2y ago
I think that's a fair strategy. Strong PMF generally overcomes weak execution, the challenge is that when you have hard dependencies on entities like Google or Apple it can easily become existential. Even if you choose to move forwar
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2y ago
I would have liked to see a bit more of 5 Whys here. It seems like a consistent lesson that startups have to learn over and over is how to manage external dependencies, and particularly the dangers of having Google as a dependency. This i
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> The interesting question then becomes: what is the deviance that has become normalized so broadly? Welchian management. "Greed is good". It's so infected the American psyche that people believe corporate management has
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2y ago
This seems overly complex assuming you are trying to prove something when you control both aspects of the process, or are engaged with the party that does. It should be trivial to use backend records or a significantly less complex client
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2y ago
This decision is ridiculous. It essentially codifies, once and for all, that buying a physical book conveys more rights than buying a digital book, to the buyer. Previously this was de facto the case only because of DRM on the digital boo
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2y ago
I have a reMarkable 2 that I use pretty regularly. I have had the same pin nib breakage other folks have had, but ate the $130 to replace my pen. Since that, I haven't had any issues. It's generally a great device that I enjoy
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2y ago
Not necessarily. I sometimes get higher framerates on Linux via Proton than I get on Windows for the same games and same system.
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