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by warbler73 4y ago
Being promoted until you are no longer competent (or happy) is a long recognized corporate antipattern dynamic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
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by warbler73 4y ago
I really dislike USB-C, they have failed at a higher rate than previous USB connector styles.
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by warbler73 4y ago
> I'd study for any test that was consequential to my future. When I was really little a teacher referred me for a Stanford-Binet test, which was administered one on one by a psychiatrist. I did not know at the time what this test w
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by warbler73 4y ago
The tests are a lot different than school exams based on coursework that you study for. Those exams you are taught content and told what will be on the test and how to prepare. There may be weekly quizzes, a midterm, a final, essays, graded
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by warbler73 4y ago
Wow! Fantastic article. With AI generated stuff I expect we are going to see 99% of the book market saturated with generated nonsense, then collapse as a market for lemons.
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by warbler73 4y ago
How does it compare to peyote?
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by warbler73 4y ago
Wow thanks for that, really good. Love the alligator.
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by warbler73 4y ago
Wow her family was profoundly evil. https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2020-04-21/ty-article-magazin... > In March 1945, it said, just before the end of World War II, Margit held a large party in the town of Rechni
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by warbler73 4y ago
GE owned NBC from 1986 to 2013.
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by warbler73 4y ago
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case
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by warbler73 4y ago
As Nelson in The Simpsons would say: "Ha ha!" In other words, this was a foreseeable consequence. > Without SAT and ACT scores, he explained, the job of admitting students had become more subjective and more time-consuming. It&
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by warbler73 4y ago
It's not proven at all. He takes speculative jumps to close gaps: > My conclusion is that his younger sister, Queen Nana (AD 295–337), married King Mirian III of Caucasian Iberia (AD 290–362). In a footnote he admits that the ancest
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by warbler73 4y ago
Have to ask... do you log or otherwise save ip address and usernames and if so what are your future plans for this info.
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by warbler73 4y ago
Was going from memory. Official number was $2.7 billion in 1991 dollars. So now it's $1000, or someone said $299, 9 million times less.
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by warbler73 4y ago
To be clear 23andMe does not do sequencing. They check for certain markers. However full sequencing IS available and runs around $1000. If I recall right the first human genome sequenced cost about $1 trillion. But we now have much better a