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3,803karma·1,305submissions·September 15, 2021
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> Even the employers no longer believe a degree serves critical thinking. It just says you have debt, are willing to work for less, and will be easy to push over. I’ve been told (by employers) that…
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> I think you might be confusing support for vaccines as support for pharmaceutical companies, when that's actually far from the truth. I think the OP is still accurate, as people have been ve…
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I want to, but I can’t afford getting my email silently swallowed when I’m contacting attorneys, etc.
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And this is what is slowly happening
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Depends on the projects in your time sheets. My time sheets were various businesses (customer) that I was billing time against
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Some vaccines don’t eliminate. Some vaccines don’t prevent transfer
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Amazing, but how often do you transfer your entire wealth across borders? Because if we’re talking about thousands of Euro then I’m not impressed
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There is a book behind this whole event called the Perfect Raid (iirc). And a movie
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Many talented engineers do not live, nor want to live, in California
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They track you with pixels around websites regardless
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But if he wants you to open tech debt tickets, rather than spotting/fixing security issues immediately, this will not save the company time or money.
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> the problem is that people can’t deal with uncertainty, and fill in too many blanks in their minds with over-simplistic assumptions. No, the problem is that this was communicated in imperfect way…
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> So I don't think it's fair to blame these companies if their vaccine wasn't effective on new variants as they initially promised. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't …
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> That's not a normal behavior that healthy people do, it's a symptom of some other problem in their life. Not necessarily. Not when social media and gaming companies hire psychologist Ph…
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That's one impressive extrapolation from an anecdote. I won't point at the significant amount of research that disagrees (since that would be ironic considering the parent of this thread) bu…
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He was governor during the financial crisis wasn't it? Sounds like it was necessary measures since Indiana can't finance debt per its own constitution.
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It’s about time politicians and school administrators start taking control of costs and tuition. We shouldn’t call them tightwads for it.
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Is there an organization that sues on behalf of OpenSource/GPL software? FSF? EFF Maybe?
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Can we just unionize against _this one topic_ and not the other baggage that unions bring?
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Is it? Usually I see people post replies apologizing and including the truth
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Agreed. Imagine the unemployment if all the retirees want to come back to work to pay for their extended-life vaccines. And what for? If I retire, I want to enjoy it… the last thing I want is to go ba…
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Is there a way to report this to NPR? Perhaps someone in charge of of journalism integrity
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> Even if we assume 10% of housing is consumed by people intentionally holding their property vacant (what is it that would motivate them to do this exactly?) would that really move the needle on a…
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> Disagree with the notion they won't be shutting people out of the network when needed, that's not grounded in reality Facebook is the only one with access to write to this chain correct…
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Well not 25 years of use though
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From conversations with medical professionals: Antibiotic “misuse” is one of the most frustrating things in the field. They’re taught about antibiotic resistance in school, but then contribute to the …
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How do you pull in the old trello boards into Obsidian?
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