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by xienze 4y ago
> Birth rate in the industrialized world has plummeted and the demographic wave initiated by industrializaton has crested. We can expect carbon emissions for the next several hundred years to peak soon. Except population is exploding in
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by xienze 4y ago
You know there’s official Spring docs, right? You’re complaining that Googling for something shows links to random blogs and Stackoverflow questions. That’s not exactly a phenomenon unique to Spring.
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I work remote, and will continue to do so. Not impossible to manage that situation. Just let the old job know that you're giving your two weeks for brain dump.
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by xienze 4y ago
In previous jobs I’ve always given notice after receiving an offer. In hindsight, I realize that was pretty dumb, but it was a different time, long ago. Going forward I will absolutely wait until my first day on the new job to give notice
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by xienze 4y ago
Germany wasn’t exactly known for having reasonably priced electricity before Ukraine though.
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by xienze 4y ago
The use should have always been to simply note which sources are affiliated in some way with a state government, not to be a subtle attack on sources that Twitter doesn’t like. Affiliation doesn’t mean “controlled by”, it means there is a
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by xienze 4y ago
> The intent of this label was to highlight government propaganda outlets and distinguish them from news organizations. Then Twitter should have, from the beginning, attached a big “propaganda warning” label on such sources instead of tr
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> Whether you agree with content on NPR or not, it doesn't change depending who is in power. Well first, we don’t exactly have wholesale government purges at the federal level. Second, how is it inaccurate to say NPR is affiliated
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by xienze 4y ago
SAM itself _is_ open source: https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything ASL 2 license.
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> Immigration is an entirely separate issue. Conflating it with the fact that hard working Swedes can’t secure good housing How do you figure the two are unrelated? The native poor are competing with an influx of poor immigrants for the
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> but the rate of optimisations being achieved is almost unbelievable. What has everyone been doing wrong all these years cough sorry, I mean to say weeks? It’s several things: * Cutting-edge code, not overly concerned with optimization
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> quite literally waiting to be called in Why weren't they called in? If it's all to be believed, the operation was succeeding beyond anyone's wildest dreams and then...? But more to the point -- I guess January 6th prove
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Yeah kinda funny how the same people who claim the Second Amendment is useless because "you stand no chance against the military" also think the government was >this< close to being overthrown by a bunch of unarmed yokels.
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> So there is precedent for indictments for this particular crime Sure, but boy does it seem like a Plan Z attempt by Democrats to get literally any kind of charge to stick to Trump after 7!!! years of trying. And this particular case i
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by xienze 4y ago
> I dislike the lack of separation between home and work, and how it makes my children feel like I’m “always working.” I’ve never really understood this “lack of separation” argument. Are your children at home all day long? If not, the
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by xienze 4y ago
How come probably the most important intervention, building sea walls around Manhattan et al, isn't happening?
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by xienze 4y ago
> Hardly a realistic risk there. What? No it's not. Here's an example of a payment processor that got sued for being the payment processor used by a debt settlement firm that merely "overcharged consumers, took untimely
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by xienze 4y ago
> That's a circular argument though No it’s not. Whatever moral judgement the government assigns to a crime is irrelevant to a company who is staring down the barrel of a lawsuit for being party to said crime. In the end, all it wo
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by xienze 4y ago
> Financial providers shouldn't be issuing moral judgements. Have you considered that this may have been a decision based on “we might get sued for being party to human trafficking” reasons?
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> What are web developers designing ads for online casinos contributing? In the context of this discussion, they're contributing tax revenue. Very important for pension plans!
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by xienze 4y ago
This comment is much like the article, lots of detail about how Medicare Advantage is a terrible deal and yet there must be _something_ enticing about it or at some point it would be common knowledge that MA is just Medicare with an insuran
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by xienze 4y ago
> Looking at the history this doesn’t seem abnormal, and it hovers around 49%. Notice that the "historical data" goes all the way back to... 2014-2015. I'd put money on this percentage being significantly higher 20, 30+ y
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> or if the accusation appears to be fraudulent or in bad faith. How are either of those things determined? “Bad faith” seems to be a tool used to dismiss accusations without any objective basis, and determining if a claim is fraudulent
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> What is the government there but a representation of it's citizens? Situations sometimes come up that the people don’t exactly get a chance to vote on. For instance, no one in the US in 2018 ran on a “if there’s a dangerous respi
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by xienze 4y ago
> but isn't that a sunk cost fallacy? Maybe? But it's human nature to feel a little better about shelling out cash on something if it actually gets used. To make an analogy, let's say your kid insisted you buy them a car.
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> They must have some data that shows people are more productive I think it comes down to not liking the idea of paying $$$ on lavish offices that are ghost towns. And I also wouldn’t doubt cities are “encouraging” companies to force BT
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Well, they weren’t lying. No one will be returning to that office, after all.
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> but I guess there’s a decent business in trying to build the analogous technology for “spinning up and shutting down” employees. It’s called contract employment.
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It was a little bit more than that depending on circumstances. First check was $1200 per adult, $500 per kid. Second one was $600 per adult/kid. So for a family of four that's $3400+$2400 = $5800 in freebies. There's more
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by xienze 4y ago
> The solution here is to drive more black people into the tech field What's funny is everyone will agree the pool of available candidates to choose from is incredibly small due to (among other things) issues in education, but those

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