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by wnissen 4y ago
The total of base compensation and benefits are already more or less required by law to be 100% of the market rate, as justified by surveys in the private sector. However, that does not include any stock compensation or bonuses. So governme
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by wnissen 4y ago
The point of anesthesia is to shut down all the conscious parts of your brain and many of the unconscious ones. It's a fundamentally difficult task, and by a lot of standards you are in real trouble during it.
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by wnissen 5y ago
Does anyone have some context around this decision? If literal Hitler wasn't enough to make the good 'ol Confederatio Helvetica break its neutrality, why do so when figurative Hitler rolls out the tanks? Is it the apparently unpro
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by wnissen 5y ago
I don't know that USC was that prestigious outside of the sports/marching band arenas. But charging the same price for online is horrible. Honestly, though, it says a lot about CSUs that you can go there, borrow two thirds less, a
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by wnissen 5y ago
What I always wondered is why they didn't start with a $999 base model (like the original iBook) that was cheap, but big and slow. if you wanted premium performance/expandability/ports/screen, you could pay $2K for the P
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by wnissen 5y ago
Given that the newspapers watched Facebook first co-opt their content, and then their revenue, and continually jerked them around with misleading or even fraudulent metrics ("pivot to video!"), I think they have been remarkably re
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by wnissen 5y ago
I have to admit that I am relieved this appears to be merely a difference of belief, and not related to disgusting behavior of any kind.
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by wnissen 5y ago
I work with many physicists. They are some of my most beloved colleagues. But man, physicists! Amirite?
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by wnissen 5y ago
The thing is that it also reduces the risk of certain systemic risks. Recessions (and even worse, deflation) happen when production is too high relative to demand, but no one has noticed. In the 80s if demand for cars dropped, everyone from
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by wnissen 5y ago
Banned in every country, except the U.S. and New Zealand.
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by wnissen 5y ago
I tried that, multiple very thin coats, and it all flaked off down to bare metal. Flaxseed is too hard. Regular old canola oil works great. I make scrambled eggs in mine when we go camping. I got a nice, food-grade flaxseed oil. The other m
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by wnissen 5y ago
This reminds me of the market for DVDs, which found a big disconnect between the shows with big ratings on live TV and the shows that sold a ton of DVDs. The former tended to be anodyne comedies, the latter were niche shows with a harder ed
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by wnissen 5y ago
I think a big part of that price is that it's almost impossible to send a newsletter to a significant amount of people with a personal email account. Craig could never have started his list today without paying for Mailchimp.
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by wnissen 5y ago
You're not missing anything. We already did a huge natural experiment with the analog phones of the 1980s. They put out a full watt of power, and headsets weren't so common so it was going straight into peoples brains. Then we swi
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by wnissen 5y ago
Just a reminder that California has a ton of water. Plenty to supply all the people and lawns and a bunch of agriculture. What it doesn't have is enough to send a million tons of alfalfa overseas at $200 a pop. Each ton uses more water
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by wnissen 5y ago
What you're saying is true to a large extent. But numerically the most interacted posts on the platform are not just right-wing, but far, far right wing. See https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10 which posts them every da
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by wnissen 5y ago
How do you think scientists get interested in plants in the first place? I'm a recreational scuba diver, which means that my hobby is to to go underwater and try to see stuff that is neat. Of course I want to see the pretty colorful fi
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by wnissen 5y ago
In this case technically correct is not the best kind of correct. An N95 mask is about 95% effective in preventing spread indoors. Isn't it critically important to know that being outdoors is apparently roughly as effective as one of t
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by wnissen 6y ago
Yes, this is what's being left out. The standards are not designed for someone who is capable about writing an essay discussing the tradeoffs and and evidence for various standards. The standards are designed for someone who is not cap
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by wnissen 6y ago
I know what you're saying but the discoverability of such tools, especially on DOS, was poor. Everyone I knew was buying compilers or, ahem, downloading them from other than authorized sources. It was unreal when I was able to buy a Re
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by wnissen 6y ago
Some of it is relatively benign cosmetic items for your avatar, like Fortnite. There is definitely a stigma associated with having "bacon hair" which is the default. Or the ability to play on a server with just your friends. Other
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by wnissen 6y ago
Yes, I think his recommendation to prefer push_back is wrong for that reason. I can't imagine it's easier for the compiler to reason about std::move and destructors compared to inlining the constructor.
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by wnissen 6y ago
Dang. I don't begrudge them requiring companies to buy licenses, the LGPL version was really great but we will pay if needed.
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by wnissen 6y ago
This is an unreviewed preprint, treat it with considerable skepticism. Very scary if true, "COVID brain" could be Lewy Body Dementia, even in the asymptomatic. I hope not.
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by wnissen 6y ago
It's a free government service in the US. 711 is the number for the relay service from TDD - voice. Unfortunately it is sometimes abused.
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by wnissen 6y ago
The difference is that there are 250 million documented user engagements with confirmed Russian propaganda pages. Those are the numbers provided directly from Facebook: 76 million on Facebook and 187 million on Instagram. That's a lot
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by wnissen 6y ago
I agree that there are difficult tradeoffs here. Essentially ever official has said that there will be no enforcement, so the order effectively only applies to the persuadable. My kid's scout troop is still meeting, kinda sorta complyi
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by wnissen 6y ago
Do I ever feel this. I've created 50 Wikipedia pages and I still feel that way. I was attempting to midwife a good, but poorly formatted and sourced page, the "too much time and effort" you describe, and it still got shot dow
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by wnissen 6y ago
Based on my long experience in California, I have no idea what you could be referring to. I am given ballot(s) in an opaque folder, mark my choices in a booth enclosed on three sides, and feed the ballots into the machine myself. There&#x27
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by wnissen 6y ago
This reminds me of the time I needed to generate some names for testing, and I simply combined the Social Security list of most common first and last names at random. It turns out that the vast majority of possible name combinations are ter

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