dwater

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by dwater 3mo ago
Let's not forget 1MDB, where $4.5B of government money was looted under the pretense of investment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1MDB_scandal
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by dwater 7mo ago
It was passed into law by congress and signed by the president: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein_Files_Transparency_Act
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by dwater 1y ago
Can you explain explicitly what problems you have with the design in this screenshot?
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by dwater 1y ago
And if you have line numbering on you can y123G. I learned enough Vim 25 years ago to be good enough and I'm happy I did. When I was writing code every day I picked up a little more but I've lost most of it, and what I'd want
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by dwater 1y ago
That's a very Spinal Tap argument for why it will be more than just an incremental improvement.
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by dwater 1y ago
How much of the time do you interact with federal workers?
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by dwater 1y ago
Blowing on fire extinguishes it by removing heat. This device "agitates the air enough to separate oxygen from the fuel, starving the fire."
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by dwater 1y ago
Yes, the president has made it clear through his actions that $1m will make him reconsider who's an enemy and who's a friend and any corporation that hasn't made a donation yet is probably calculating what the ROI would be an
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by dwater 1y ago
The trend for decades has been shrinking the public workforce and replacing them with contractors, because Republicans have said that the private sector is more efficient. So the average government office worker is not a tech, they are a co
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by dwater 1y ago
I've always found Wright's work beautiful and was a fan for some time, but after reading more about his life and work, and happening to visit Fallingwater on a very rainy day, my opinion has changed. His buildings are beautiful ar
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by dwater 1y ago
What laws are a North Korean subject to that they have broken? Who decides when a transaction was cheating or stealing without a central authority and enforcer?
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by dwater 2y ago
I found that page, but it is labelled as editorial guidelines and not an editorial article, which is what I was expecting to find from the previous description. From my reading then, what is being labelled here as "forbidden territory&
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by dwater 2y ago
I can't find a publicly available copy of the Nature Human Behavior editorial. If you can share it I'd be happy to read it and form an opinion on it. I personally won't take City Journal's opinions at face value.
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by dwater 2y ago
For me personally I require more evidence than a few quotes that do not appear to actually be direct quotations to accept his conclusion that the reason he was rejected was PhD programs were too "woke". It is possible, but it&#x27
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by dwater 2y ago
Yes. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/about-us/our-story
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by dwater 2y ago
Many scholars argue that the US uses Israel to destabilize the region so that all other countries besides Israel are unable to form a bloc and resist US hegemony, but perhaps that's what you meant by "keep the region in check&quot
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by dwater 2y ago
"Education only camouflages stupidity, it does not remove it." You are arguing that low intelligence is innate, unchangeable. Which sounds very much like saying stupidity is genetic.
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by dwater 2y ago
Which as the link describes is the traditional glass used for serving Kölsch in Köln. When I visited the typical service was to have servers constantly circulating with kranz trays, delivering cold beers every few minutes, so that your drin
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by dwater 2y ago
TCPA and CAN SPAM. https://www.fcc.gov/rules-political-campaign-calls-and-texts
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by dwater 2y ago
Seems like splitting hairs to me. If the estate is put into an LLC or similar then the death of a member doesn't involve movement of money. If the estate is owned by an individual and then inherited by their beneficiary then money move
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by dwater 2y ago
Federal contracts have staffing requirements, so the government does hand down education and experience requirements that the contractors must meet when staffing. If you search jobs at federal contractors they often state the position requi
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by dwater 2y ago
I was in college when Sparks was first released and it became an indelible part of the college party experience for a few short years. I saved a few packs after the ban and brought them out for a 10 year reunion. People were jubilant to get
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by dwater 2y ago
My first semester of college in Fall of 1999, I wrote a paper about cyber warfare and the summary was that the superpowers were already doing it, and the only thing expected to change in the future was the resources that were online and sus
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by dwater 2y ago
Yes, in an alternate universe it would be gratifying to see a high court that wasn't captured by far right ideologues that was willing to take another look at precedent establishing decisions of the past that rolled back freedoms and p
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by dwater 2y ago
Teachers do not expel students, administrators or districts do. Teachers have very little recourse for dealing with "really bad kids (or parents)".
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by dwater 2y ago
Countries that fund education more can pay enough to attract a larger pool of candidates, and then choose only to hire the best of that pool. Unlike the current state of most school districts in the US, who will hire anyone that can meet th
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by dwater 2y ago
When I left teaching my salary went up 50% on day 1, to 100% after about a year, to 150% after 2 or 3 years, and has continued climbing significantly since. If I had stayed my salary would have lagged inflation. The pay for performance bonu
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by dwater 2y ago
When I was in my teaching Masters program, we talked a lot about intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation is when you want to do something for yourself, e.g. you enjoy the satisfaction of solving a problem. Extrinsic motivat
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by dwater 2y ago
When I worked in a relatively well to do suburban district I had class sizes up to 35 students. Because I was a math teacher, administration did their best to keep our class sizes under 30, teachers of other core classes were more likely to
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by dwater 2y ago
The school district I worked in had impoverished students but high per pupil funding, which is pretty common. What reinforced the inequality in that district was that teachers who were able to, self-selected to have the best behaved student

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