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by vee-kay 11mo ago
> In the USA you get ops real fast and doctors can be seen same day. IF the patient has Medical Insurance. Only in the USA, medical insurance seems to be tied to employment. Non-employment driven medicare is unaffordable except for the f
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
This beautiful BBC video about Darwin's Bark Spider (a species that spits the longest silk threads and makes the largest spider webs), narrated by Sir David Attenborough is phenomenal: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gSwv
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
I think you just did another non-sequitur.. What is a graf? Is it journalism slang for "paragraph"?
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
Obligatory XKCD comic reference: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1984:_Misinterpre...
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
Healthcare in USA is a nightmare, from almost every perspective. But a lot of countries like Canada, EU nations and other developed countries (and even in developing nations like India) have free or affordable healthcare systems. So, at le
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
I think the video I have linked above is Google's tribute to this Power Of Ten video (linked below, thanks to user dtgriscom for sharing the link in another comment), a classic video that demonstrates the scale of the Universe from th
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
Awesome, thanks. I think the video I had linked was Google's tribute to this Power Of Ten video that you have linked, a classic video that demonstrates the scale of the Universe from the micro to the macro perspectives in a scaling inc
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
You made the mistake of allowing PIP to be invoked on you for a fake reason given by your manager, and you made the even more serious mistake of getting fired because you "stole equipment". If you were innocent of that dangerous c
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
This old video is a beautiful and astounding demonstration of just how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big the Universe is, and where in all this endless space our dear favourite little Pale Blue Dot (Earth) resides: https://m.yo
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
This old video is a beautiful and astounding demonstration of just how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big the Universe is, and where in all this endless space our dear favourite little Pale Blue Dot (Earth) resides: https://m.yo
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
In my country, no firearm can be issued to any civilian (certainly not a minor), without verification and license from police. In Texas, there is no minimum age for purchasing ammunition beyond federal limits, no requirement for an ammuniti
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
I think we are talking of the same thing, but from different perspectives. If I understand you, you are talking of non-AI-generated social media content posted by and interacted by humans vs the AI-generated junk created by AI bots & sc
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
I humbly disagree. Humans have inherent bias, and politics and ideologies skew their behavior, even if they themselves mistakenly think it is well intentioned when it really is not. Social media and news media, in general, are controlled an
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
> The firms can coordinate by agreeing on a strategy they deem necessary for the future of the industry.. Then, after the strategy succeeds, they have gotten addicted to the higher revenues, they do not allow prices to fall as fast as th
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
You don't need to launch your GOG game via Steam, you can just remove its shortcut from Steam and launch it separately. Then your son can launch and play the Steam game in parallel, so both of you can play coop.
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
Every message on social media is a throwaway, unless if it has some tangible memorable impact on life.
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
US Government (especially during Trump regime) has been actively defunding public schools, school lunches and libraries.
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
Woah, that looks to be jawsome indeed! Thanks for the cool trivia! Here's a bite (pun intended) of nostalgia for you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1TDJoLOEGjY&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5t...
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
Those high-powered toys by the cops are merely for showing off and to victimize the weak. Those toys typically never come into play to protect the citizens. Case in point: during the Uvalde school shooting incident in 2022, when a shooter (
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
The only one selling a lie here is you. You have clearly not worked in any major company in India, Or even other nations (since PIP is a common process worldwide in most companies). Any employee can escalate to the company Ombudsman if they
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
This would be jawsome in VR!!
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
In my experience, the only 2 mobile phone companies whose phones drain battery too fast are Apple and Samsung. Apple does this deliberately for older phones, whereas Samsung has this problem even for new phones. You will not find this quick
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
I know that Apple MFI certified Lightning cables work well with iDevices, but I found that third-party non-MFI-certified Lightning cables to be finicky with iDevices. But I never faced such problem with USB cables for non-Apple devices (And
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
That iFixit guide to upgrade the Max Mini is daunting for newbies. But you've inspired me to gather courage and do the DIY upgrade myself next month during the holidays. No use having a working PC lying unused, merely because it is ver
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
Does this mean finally that the next iPhone will not have that ugly notch at the top of its screen?
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
The only reason Apple ditched Lightning port and finally gave USB-C port in the iDevices, is because EU forced Apple to do so. But do you think your oh-so-common USB-C cables will work with a new iPhone? In my country (India), Apple still d
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
Running 32GB RAM and 1TB SATA SSD with Windows 10, like a mad scientist, on my thus upgraded 15-years-old Sony Viao laptop.. SATA and SDRAM are backwards compatibible so a couple of years ago, I put in a new 1 TB SATA SSD drive in the old S
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
Title topic of "human animal hybrid" and fantastic artwork on the linked site reminded me of the shocking-but-thrilling classic book "The Island of Doctor Moreau", the 1896 science fiction novel, by famous English author
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by vee-kay 11mo ago
There's an open-source Chrome extension (also works for Chrome OS) to show Notification Badges for MS Teams PWA (Progressive Web Apps): https://github.com/devoldoak/msteams-notification-badges For notifications,
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by vee-kay 1y ago
The only fee will be a subscription to AI LLM. AI will do a cheap job of automatically filtering the potential candidates for a hire. A suitable AI LLM can even be leveraged as automation that calls up the filtered candidates and evaluates

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