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by dzamie 6y ago
It's vernacular, at least. People say copper conducts electricity well, so something with low conductivity would conduct poorly
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by dzamie 6y ago
Where it's $4-6 for a few hours if you can find a spot, but a flat $20+ for a parking garage after the first half hour. So, Baltimore, DC, stuff like that.
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by dzamie 7y ago
Yes, that means that "Amazon delivery person" is a job that will continue existing. It does not mean it will have the same person in it.
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by dzamie 7y ago
Yes, they're using sarcasm to ridicule their parent comment's claim that someone hired to just unhook a toilet should legally NEED to be a licensed plumber, by comparing it to similarly low-skill tasks "needing" to be hi
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by dzamie 7y ago
NoScript breaks some sites but makes many run faster. Everything defaults to blocked, but I've marked some known ad servers and Google/Facebook trackers as specifically blocked so I don't accidentally unblock them. Also, sett
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by dzamie 7y ago
On paper, yes, but in practice, there is significant lag time between a new noem being established and conservatives giving up the old one in favor of the new normal. For example, being against gay marriage (as opposed to it being a non-iss
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by dzamie 7y ago
Right, so "write an essay following X structure that's Y paragraphs long as defined by the structure" (eg three arguments for and one countered argument against, plus an intro and conclusion) is fine. "The paper must be
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by dzamie 7y ago
I have JS default to off (saves big on load times, bypasses some "please buy a subscription" things), and thought this was just a weirdly short list of eccentric things until I saw this comment. So, add "JS is required for cr
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by dzamie 7y ago
This goes back to structured vs unstructured from elsewhere in the thread. Applying most of the editing tools is unstructured, but navigating the UI is structured. As a result, I'm very fast at navigating menus and switching tools in m
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by dzamie 7y ago
The point of prisons is to remove them from society until they can be sociable again. But I see your point, we should be putting more spending towards those who have never been convicted than we are now.
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by dzamie 7y ago
We find it "hard to understand" because job opening descriptions tell us that a degree and/or an excellent GPA are minimum requirements for anything that doesn't pay minimum. And to pre-empt the inevitable "5 years
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by dzamie 7y ago
Wage thieves don't flee. There's no adrenaline-pumping chase scene, nothing to tunnel-vision. It's also much harder to see on patrol.
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by dzamie 7y ago
>they think that it's sometimes fine to have sex with children From what I can tell from the snippets posted here, he isn't saying it's fine, he's saying he's seen insufficient evidence to form an opinion - and i
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by dzamie 7y ago
And that makes this less exploitative, how, exactly? Whataboutism is not useful.
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by dzamie 7y ago
Close, it's the probability of it happening by chance given that the null hypothesis is true. Unless H0 is objectively and absolutely true, it is not the same as "probability of it happening by chance."
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by dzamie 7y ago
On the face, maybe, but if they qualify and they're desperate, they'll agree to a lower salary and be less likely to seek out a competitor to work at. In contrast, someone who doesn't feel pressured to take this job or else w
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by dzamie 7y ago
I wish more games had dev commentary like this. It's neat to peek into the minds of the developers, and can give good informal lessons on designing games and levels.
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by dzamie 7y ago
How would you distinguish what job can be a career and what must be a "side gig?"
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by dzamie 7y ago
Advocating an increased minimum wage is complaining about the government.
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by dzamie 7y ago
>So should my 17 year old son flipping Pizza deserve a “livable wage”? Choose one: "yes", "I want to pay higher taxes so independent adults can survive on such a wage via government assistance", "people who work
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by dzamie 7y ago
So the article goes on to suggest expanding a bus network or other public transportation. In this manner, it increases the convenience of a more traffic-efficient bus and decreases the convenience of the less traffic-efficient car.
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by dzamie 7y ago
Yep, and as mentioned in the article, there's also a he-he. A description is never given of it, but it's a safe assumption that it's a tiny haha, possibly only a couple inches high. Interestingly, if this is accurate, it mean
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by dzamie 7y ago
That's probably fine. It drops the number of people who could idle ads from "approximately everyone" to "only people who know how to and want to set up an AHK script/other macro."
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by dzamie 7y ago
>But... it's the column section? It's not journalism. It is, however, a piece of work that the paper stands behind. If it were not, it should not be there; newspapers are curated, unlike, say, YouTube or a comments section. &gt
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by dzamie 14y ago
If I understand this correctly, someone who claims copyright on a software can sign up for an alerts system on a P2P, at which point any infringement of copyright is automatically forwarded to the ISP. The ISP then reprimands the alleged
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by dzamie 14y ago
This might be a bit petty, but I find the frequent bold-text rather visually unpleasant and distracting.