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by vba616 4y ago
What causes you to believe in the premise other than it being repeated a hundred times a day? I don't understand why people waste electrons making comments that cannot even be right or wrong without specific data and defined terms.
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by vba616 4y ago
It makes sense to me that this should be the case, without any conspiracy, because physical things require lead time and inventory. But have you looked at a chart that proves this claim that everybody makes and assumes is true?
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by vba616 4y ago
If powerful forces control prices, why do they go down? I don't believe in the gouging rhetoric because interested parties benefit from not only high prices, but stable prices, which we haven't seen. Unstable, skyrocketing pri
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by vba616 4y ago
There's a Lukoil station near where I live. The price they are charging doesn't differ much from say Exxon/Mobil. Is that because they are colluding?
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by vba616 4y ago
I'm sure it is chaotic, but I'm wondering if the WARN act issue might be kind of overblown. That is, if they pay people for 60 days or whatever the requirement is, haven't they fulfilled the letter and the spirit of the law?
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by vba616 4y ago
"the whole captain simulation system hadn't really been explored before" There was a science fiction story a long time ago, probably from the 70s or 80s that I don't recall well enough to identify, but in the story peopl
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by vba616 4y ago
>And this is with great pay and perks How do you know the pay was great? Because you were offering twice what existing employees make, as one does? And as far as "great perks", does that mean healthcare with almost no out-of-po
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by vba616 4y ago
Seems like I have been hearing (FM radio) and seeing (online) ads touting Amazon jobs like in the warehouses.
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by vba616 4y ago
>gravestones on boot hill "Here lies a programmer. Killed by a fatal error." https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Source:NetHack_3.6.1/dat/epitap...
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by vba616 4y ago
>The one critical thing about subtlety versus overtness is that the former may be understood by a smaller chunk of your audience than the latter Every time I read a paraphrase of this, I think for a second they're talking about Hein
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by vba616 4y ago
>(In normal arithmetic of course, multiplication and division aren't reversible because of zero.) "In the beginning, zero was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move..."
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by vba616 4y ago
A MacBook looks to me like every other brushed metal laptop on the outside. Therefore I shall assume nobody else can tell the difference.
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by vba616 4y ago
Suppose you wanted to hire a driver for an armored truck that contains a billion dollars on an average day. What kind of person would you look for and what would you pay them? Would you try to find the most intelligent person, with the best
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by vba616 4y ago
c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosis_(figure_of_speech) `Other examples "The Pond", for the Atlantic Ocean ("across the pond") '
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by vba616 4y ago
> There is something about all of them that is definitely not human My "gut" says that current AI is very similar to some part of the human (or other species) brain, but that the (organic) mind substrate is not just more of t
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by vba616 4y ago
It's probably uncommon to deal with a human at Vanguard. I know I never have. Plus, I have my own story about Robinhood - they couldn't or wouldn't change my email address. I think they expect users to upload pictures of ID a
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by vba616 4y ago
>It is shit you put in your mouth and eat /happy gilmore
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by vba616 4y ago
Ok, right, it was a typo/thinko. They both begin with T! And the point of this item is that Musk is confusing the two!
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by vba616 4y ago
Tesla has no board of directors. Did you hear, did you hear this, they got bought out. As far as the owners' opinion, what about the customers ? More of a leading indicator, no? Why would GM suspend advertising? Because they're j
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by vba616 4y ago
I don't know when the word "cruft" started being applied to people, but I don't like it and think it should be prohibited.
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by vba616 4y ago
I am really not certain whether recruiters genuinely see their job as filtering rather than sorting, or whether it's a façade. Since you cannot generally hire the same people for full time positions as the next recruiter, how can you b
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by vba616 4y ago
This thread is old, just want to mention for anyone who runs across it, there is a FreeCAD workbench (like an extension) that is not installed by default I recommend checking out: it's called "Curves" and it is a huge improve
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by vba616 4y ago
There are many contexts in healthcare where it's considered socially acceptable not to be strictly honest and accurate. Psych drugs commonly say, or used to say, in the info leaflets something like they "correct imbalances of cert
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by vba616 4y ago
>Citation needed. I read (ok, skimmed) an academic study that attempted to compare post-war populations with different histories, and failed to find evidence of an effect; if anything the reverse. I dislike your sophistry about 50% of th
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by vba616 4y ago
Notice that the article is dated April 1st. Also, I think you are missing some context from bygone days. In the 1970s, a writer for a magazine like Cycle World would not have thought it shameful to learn from another culture, and therefore
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Rikuo: Harley-Davidson and the Birth of the Japanese Motorcycle (1978)(magazine.cycleworld.com)
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by vba616 4y ago
Mental illness is a social phenomenon. There are lots of physical explanations for symptoms similar to psychosis - drugs, infection, immune disorders, chemotherapy, professional head trauma addict, but when nothing else clearly fits, "
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by vba616 4y ago
> Bipolar disorder is genetic It is not. The question has been settled on a huge scale by historical events. If illnesses like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia were meaningfully caused by genetic factors, then the Nazi genocide of menta
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by vba616 4y ago
>nd these Parler people are scamming him. I read that unlike Elon he didn't sign a binding deal to buy for a set price. Just an agreement to consider a purchase. So if he's "sick", apparently not as much as other pe
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by vba616 4y ago
I have no interest in owning and operating a printer, but e.g. Shapeways is expensive and slow, so I wish there were more service providers near me.

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