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by zasz 5y ago
Reservoirs are expensive. The commenter you are replying to was careful to use the phrase "economically plausible."
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by zasz 6y ago
If unionizing is so pointless, why did Google suspend her for even talking about unionizing? Also, the article states quite explicitly that management did not want employees talking about wages. Now employees can. Is successfully protecting
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by zasz 6y ago
It does say in the article it could be a helpful treatment for people who have tested positive for covid. Do you think that's just hype, or could it actually be helpful?
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by zasz 6y ago
I thought that was the result of a company naming contest, but the original link is making me doubt everything I thought I knew.
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by zasz 6y ago
Oh please, it would've been extremely easy to title it "The Life of Einstein's First Wife, Mileva Marić," and thereby make it clearer she was a notable person in her own right, not for merely being Einstein's wife,
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by zasz 6y ago
Fountain pen technology has come a long way! I've never had any problems with leaky pens. You can get some very nice fountain pens for around $20 these days.
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by zasz 6y ago
Considering the median price of a house in Palo Alto is now 3.1 million dollars, it's a plausible assumption this professor is indeed a millionaire.
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by zasz 6y ago
Bill Gates's mother was on the board of IBM, which helped lead to IBM making a deal with Microsoft. This isn't very different from landed aristocracy marrying only other aristos to maintain power and wealth within their networks.
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by zasz 6y ago
Truth is a public good and ought to be treated as such. If lies about the coronavirus are free, but the truth is costly, people will die, and indeed they are dying right now.
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by zasz 6y ago
Yes, fortunately most people agree that stopping covid lies on the unacceptable side of the line.
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by zasz 6y ago
Not every international student has a good internet connection at home, and collaborating with students in the US could be extremely different if they come from a very different time zone.
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by zasz 6y ago
> * the obesity crisis, and the related food deserts > * specifically for the black community, the lack of academic achievement Those are both related to a history of redlining. A huge factor in the wealth gap is due a lack of home ow
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by zasz 6y ago
Systematic exclusion of black people from social programs, like the GI Bill and Social Security, and redlining, which prevented black Americans from building up wealth through homeownership the way white Americans were. "The Color of L
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by zasz 6y ago
I have grown up with Shanghainese as my second language, and never in my life have I, my parents, or my brother ever uttered anything remotely like "huh." Seems like a silly bit of clickbait.
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by zasz 7y ago
There's evidence coming out that ADHD is at least correlated childhood trauma, so it's possible trauma causes ADHD: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28477799
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by zasz 7y ago
Yes, actually. Animals in the wild don't experience _chronic_ stress. I recommend Robert Sapolsky's book "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers."
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by zasz 7y ago
You very much can exert control when it comes to policies on the local level, but you'd have to be actually civically engaged to do so.
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by zasz 7y ago
> When you send your (surplus) taxes to the city or state (or feds), you don’t get to earmark it. I don't know where you're from, but in California, we regularly vote on ballot propositions to levy taxes earmarked for specific
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by zasz 7y ago
Haha the bottom of the site says that too: Unfortunately the system isn't very accurate at the moment, but you will quite likely be able to tell whether you are saying the right tone by looking at your vocal pitch contour and comparin
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by zasz 7y ago
I'm very pro-labor union, but life as an actor or screenwriter is considerably more precarious. Each job you get lasts only as long as the movie you're currently working on does. Once the movie's done, you're out of a jo
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by zasz 7y ago
That's a fair point, but for some mental disorders, the brain is wired into a state of permanent anxiety, wherein it becomes extremely difficult to 'learn' that normal situations do not deserve heightened stress responses. Th
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by zasz 7y ago
Most women I know would want to meet at a very public place for safety reasons. If a guy comes on hella strong and suggests you meet up at his house and doesn't understand why meeting at a public, neutral place is a good idea, that&#x2
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by zasz 7y ago
> I don't know exactly when we decided that serial killers in suits are perfectly acceptable to us, but even the companies themselves who allow this sort thing to happen are rarely punished enough to offset the gains they made explo
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by zasz 7y ago
Well as someone who goes through a pod every few days, I appreciate having at least _some_ kind of heads up. The article's plenty useful to Juul smokers--knowing that the mint flavor is the contaminated one means that I can switch to a
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by zasz 7y ago
Child malnutrition rates in India are worse than in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, actually: https://www.deccanherald.com/state/top-karnataka-stories/mal... Impressive GDP growth aside, persistent malnutrition
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by zasz 7y ago
As a fellow Asian whose parents also sacrificed a lot, I'm sympathetic, but I would urge you to consider a couple things: 1. Like it or not, plenty of families in America have had it worse than you had, and would not find it at all imp
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by zasz 7y ago
That's ahistorical and just wrong. The government saw an opportunity to selectively target its most dissident elements during the 60s and it went for it: https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-
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by zasz 8y ago
It's not "just" gossip. There isn't exactly a smoking gun for something like a psychiatric diagnosis, and until we can diagnose these with the same precision that we can identify a particular kind of cancer, the point th
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by zasz 8y ago
Would you be open to sharing the name of your friend's company?
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by zasz 8y ago
Don't be silly, "just a simple man" is clearly meant to be sarcastic.

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