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4y ago
They might be hiring as many developers as they use to
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4y ago
This was populalism with a dose of nationalism. Not a dictatorship, more in vain of Trumpism.
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wesleywt
4y ago
Sorry. That looks like a typical scammers email. They are not authentically written.
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4y ago
All of this post is pure speculation with zero evidence to support it.
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wesleywt
4y ago
It's justified fears. The government has complete control over your body now. Why wouldn't they use apps to regulate you.
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4y ago
A good question that will be answered in a few years. Will the pre-RoeVWade crime rates return to some American states. Rich women in abortion illegal states will still get abortions. Poor women won't.
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4y ago
Normal. Science is not perfect. It proceeds one PI death at a time.
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wesleywt
4y ago
But Elon in particular should not be firing anyone if HE believes in free-speech. It is hypocritical.
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4y ago
Free speech absolutionist, like you, also seem to be against the consequences of that speech, such as being "cancelled". I am for both free speech and getting cancelled for it. In this way, standards acceptable to our society can
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4y ago
The bail out tools available during the 2008 crisis is not available today. The 2008 can was kicked down the road with few safe guards to prevent what happened, happening again. You are in for a rough time. I recommend EconTalk Podcast to f
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4y ago
You don't go to Harvard for an education, you go there for the network you will build. Grades mean nothing when you are friends with a guy who's Dad owns billion dollar companies.
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4y ago
Having written my thesis in LaTex, I can say it is wonderful and a wonderful waste of time.
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4y ago
Who knew that Egypt was so progressive that guys can take off when their wife or daughter has a period.
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4y ago
Back in the 80s I use to do this. I also had a random guy take a polaroids of me in the park. Still have those photos.
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4y ago
The best thing to happen to South Africa was that booze ban. This is the primary cause of assaults and murders in this country.
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4y ago
South African here. Wash you mouth out with soap then eat some tasty Marmite with margarine on toast.
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5y ago
Not sure why people think that Putin would make himself look weak delibrately. The military is failing because of years of being a corrupt state. It should not be that surprising.
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5y ago
I still don't understand: 1. How you would prove this? 2. That it matters until you can prove it happened Lab safety does matter though. Signed -> Me a lab scientist.
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5y ago
Good. That is the idea.
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5y ago
Citation needed. I see plenty of pro Russian commenters saying this.
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5y ago
Having spent some time in Germany I realised a key aspect of learning the language is to get your brain adapted to hearing people speak it. After a few weeks in Germany, I started to hear the individual words rather than a stream of noise c
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5y ago
Strange comment.
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5y ago
Salty is a five letter word.
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5y ago
Malawi is quite far away from Pakistan.
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5y ago
You missed the word I wrote "should". Funding agencies want to fund only "practical" research. But studying the migratory patterns of a single species of butterfly should be funded as much as the latest biotech fad that
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5y ago
Research should NEVER be limited by whether it has practical value or not. Because we don't know if future generations will make it practical.
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5y ago
You tracked what you ate was the key difference. Not the exercise. I did an experiment on myself. I deliberately did not do any exercise and changed my diet. I loss 5kg quicker on my diet than I did when I was running 10km regularly. I thin
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It is great that the kid is involved and interested in these technologies. Whether it works is another issue. You are going to need metrics such a LODs, LOQs, sensitivity and specificity to determine if this beats the gold standard tests.
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5y ago
Specific, sensitivity, limits of detection and limits of quantitation is more important than a video.
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5y ago
No it doesn't damage anything. You are suffering from bias. So anything challenging your world view will be suspect.
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