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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
No, you're not, you're making a decision to talk about your work experience with the other manager. Coworkers can talk to each other about work, what people work on is not secret information
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
This has not been my experience at any of the places I've worked. All of my managers have been supportive, open with information, and collaborative, including in promotions and in negotiations with other teams for resources. I would ne
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
What does Saudi Arabia have to do with the fact that the Russian and Chinese governments decided to become unfriendly by threatening their neighbors?
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Dude, this is blatant whataboutism. Puerto Rico is in no way equivalent to Taiwan, and I suspect you know that. Taiwan is a sovereign, independent, democratic nation. The Chinese Communist Party has never had political control over Taiwan.
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
China's government wants to attack the people of Taiwan and occupy a sovereign, democratic nation. The U.S. didn't "make" Russia and China unfriendly, they decided to be unfriendly by belligerently threatening their neig
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
It's not protectionism. Most of that manufacturing is not moving back to the U.S., it's moving to U.S. allies like Vietnam or Mexico, that would also be called third world countries. It really is what it says on the tin. It's
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Why not? If you look back, are you glad that your parents let you jump far from swings?
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
In my experience, going to the internet to get whatever random thoughts a search algorithm turns up for me can feel interesting, but is almost always counterproductive. Other people have different circumstances, different experiences, and w
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
I'm not certain, I always assumed the reason was something along those lines too. Haven't ever looked in to it.
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Huh, that's a good nit! And that makes perfect sense as a policy. Shows that my knowledge of the export control law also isn't perfect either.
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Wow, there is a ton of confusion in these comments about U.S. export law, and what this suit is about. U.S. export control law is intended to prevent technologies that have military significance from spreading beyond the U.S. There are two
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
What? This is a routine sort of H.R. lawsuit because SpaceX had incorrectly excluded some people who could work there under U.S. export control
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
This conversation is sort of beside the point. SpaceX doesn't hire any non-ITAR workers, and the DOJ has no problem with that - lots of aerospace companies don't hire non-US persons for regulatory reasons. The allegation is that t
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Asylum seekers and refugees are U.S. persons under current law. ITAR treats them exactly the same as a U.S. citizen or green card holder, even though they are foreigners. So the DOJ action is as a result of SpaceX job postings that excluded
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
It's not obvious to me that video games would be better than watching videos. That's different research question, and unless there's already research establishing a difference it seems reasonable to clump them all together. I
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
I know several people building startups around green energy labor. The impression I get is that the labor demand isn't a policy thing, that solar installers in particular are desperate for more labor and turning down projects that they
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
I don't think that's how labor markets function in the U.S. at the moment, and I think it's an odd critique to make of green energy projects in particular. Not all labor creates the same amount of wealth, and there isn't
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
You could try https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/ . Not sure what the quality is like now but it had some interesting discussions in the 2010s
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Huh! Thanks for the reference. I think that my perception was based on one of the studies the review mentions that found schizophrenics weren't more violent. Wasn't aware of this other research.
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Schizophrenics are less violent than the general population. In general, schizophrenia is not dangerous to others around, even untreated. People who are in a psychotic episode act oddly, which can scare others, but the perception of danger
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
The goal is to maximize the life outcomes and quality of life of people with schizophrenia. I think in the conversation here there are two questions: What should the public conversation on schizophrenia be like? And, how should the medical
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
The brain is really complicated, and all psychiatric medications affect multiple receptors and subsystems. Framing this study as "antipsychotics were off target" is an editorial choice. The title could just as easily have been &qu
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Yup, exactly what I was thinking of.
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
> Somebody must be benfitting immensely it these gigantic solar and wind farms are built Yes, the developers and the landowners benefit. The landowners get license fees or sell the land to the developers, then the developers build solar
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
> No one wants to take a visit to the solar farm and camp out next to the windmills. I do! Wind farms in particular are spectacular and preferable to farmland
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Did you read the article? The author linked many examples of situations where the actions of environmental groups have been aimed at preventing clean energy projects that benefit the environment. It's perfectly legitimate to point out
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Much of the article is about this, about how environmental protection has historically required conservation and resisting development, but now environmental protection requires developing clean energy (and urban housing) as quickly as poss
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
To conserve the environment, the power system needs to decarbonize, and that means solar needs to be built somewhere. No matter where it's built, solar will take up land, so we ought to build it in the places where the sun makes it mos
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Buddy I've got news for you if you think that Russia and China are more virtuous on the internet than the U.S.
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
My understanding for Xenon is that it's huge electron shell means that it has an induced dipole in the presence of other dipoles in the body. It then affects receptors with dipole-dipole bonds. I was also confused by Xenon working as a

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