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by floor2 3mo ago
Given that police routinely assault peaceful demonstrators, journalists and random bystanders, wearing body armor if you might be anywhere near a protest (whether as a protestor or just because you live, work or transit through such an area
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by floor2 3mo ago
As soon as FAANG starts hiring people in Utah, Arkansas and Minnesota for the same roles at the same wages as they hire in the Bay, then people will move. As soon as VCs start funding founders in Boise, Kansas City and Chattanooga, then peo
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by floor2 3mo ago
What you are misleadingly calling "evidence" here is constitutionally protected free speech political materials. It's only "evidence" that he disagreed with the president on immigration, not anything related to a cr
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by floor2 3mo ago
> when the effects of climate change are undeniable I understand your meaning, but kind of a tragically funny statement given that really that's just... now. So, it'll just be a continuation of the same insane talking points as
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by floor2 4mo ago
> A CC-BY license permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the work, including for commercial purposes, so long as appropriate attribution is given This is a good thing. Building upon the published research of others is
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by floor2 4mo ago
I'm a hiring manager. We post jobs on our website, along with LinkedIn and probably some others. We review applications from that, and interview and hire those people. We get a lot of bots, but the software itself filters out 99% of th
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by floor2 7mo ago
I never voted for any of the copyright laws, and hope those archaic tools of oppression get tossed out entirely. If given the option to vote for this, yes I would absolutely vote for an exemption. But also, this is clearly "Fair Use&qu
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by floor2 10mo ago
Maybe it's time to do away with license plates. Police could switch to using VIN for tracking of warrants and such, which can be obtained after a car is pulled over. Modern technology allows for every citizen to be tracked more compreh
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by floor2 10mo ago
Peter Attia is a graduate of Stanford medical school and spent 5 years in surgical residency at Johns Hopkins, and his podcast is largely using his expertise to give context to recently published research. His opinions are always pretty dir
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by floor2 10mo ago
Often, there's a recruiter or HR person (or piece of software) that's doing an initial screening against those "requirements" though, often with zero understanding or context. Recruiters hiring for a Java role will pass
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by floor2 11mo ago
As a non-aphantasia person, this just seems like a really, really bad "test". Famously, there's a psychology experiment where a person in a gorilla costume walks through the middle of a scene and beats their chest before walk
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by floor2 11mo ago
> just send the cops after you > > that's clearly a good thing You might want to read up on how interactions between police and various groups in the US tend to go. Sending the cops after someone is always going to be dangerou
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by floor2 11mo ago
> Am I wrong? As a naturally curious person, who reads a lot and looks up a lot of things, I've learned to be cautious when talking to regular people. While considering buying a house I did extensive research about fires. To do my j
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by floor2 1y ago
I'd imagine for most of us, our professional lives are less interesting to the general public than other things. If I were writing about my life, there'd be roughly a single line saying "I worked in tech, which gave me the di
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by floor2 1y ago
> they are free to do anything and everything they like with their lawns In this case, what they're doing is clearly going beyond their lawn and negatively impacting you. It's weird to suggest that "spraying poison on you
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by floor2 1y ago
> Sometimes, communities are angry landowners hosting infrastructure will be paid, but neighbours and those further afield may not Hilarious. When a fossil fuel company started fracking near me, not only did I not get paid, but I also go
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by floor2 1y ago
> it’s generally accepted that requiring some level of skin in the game from those that benefit does a decent job of doing this "Generally accepted" by who? Based on what? Sometimes the reactions on this site are silly. We&#x27
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by floor2 1y ago
> then the effective definition of the word "oppressive" being able to be "interpreted" by executive agencies I don't get how this could ever be resolved though. You can complain about how "oppressive"
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by floor2 2y ago
Serious question, where do they post to? As far as I can tell, Mastodon was briefly hyped on HN but nobody actually uses it. Bluesky seems to have a few people within a fairly narrow political range. Truth social is just for Trump. Reddit i
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by floor2 2y ago
The kids being hurt didn't vote for this. A bunch of kids are going to die before reaching voting age because of this.
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by floor2 2y ago
Perhaps it would help if you considered concepts like "more and less". Without DEI measures (as implemented by many American institutions in recent years) such decisions would be more meritocratic. There's still nepotism an
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by floor2 2y ago
> I’ve never seen a proposal win or lose, or even change positions in a tie break, based on that content This is an absolutely wild statement, because my experience has been the complete opposite. I've seen a zillion times where a s
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by floor2 2y ago
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but both your comments in this thread really, really scream that you need to step away from the internet and go interact with real humans in the real world. Nobody except you is talking about woke com
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by floor2 2y ago
I've been using the plain free ChatGPT for all sorts of things of value. It's like having the world's greatest tutor available on all subjects at all times. Ask it to recap the key characters and themes of a book and it does
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by floor2 2y ago
You might consider something like the Lego Mindstorms robotics kit. It gives you an accessible starting point, but is a fully featured programming language and has a variety of sensors, motors, etc which can be made into increasingly comple
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by floor2 2y ago
This is absurd. Is your car sitting in your driveway right now? Someone else could be driving it, it's immoral that you don't leave the keys sitting on the roof. Is your bed or couch empty right now? Someone else could be sleeping
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by floor2 2y ago
Except, America does acknowledge it, essentially 24/7 and ramped up around holidays. Almost always to exaggerated and misleading degrees. Ironically, modern Americans have skewed views in the opposite way of what you're suggesting
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by floor2 2y ago
Intent matters. A doctor prescribing you drug X because they think it's the best treatment for you is different than a doctor prescribing drug X because they get a kickback for doing so or have a lot of stock in the company. A car cras
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by floor2 2y ago
> Prices are a function of supply and demand, not of access to capital. And easy access to debt massively shifts the equilibrium point on the supply/demand curves. Cars, houses, college, even cell phones or furniture can have far hi
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by floor2 2y ago
> their customers all hate them, they have the worst reputation Maybe worth pointing out- that's a feature, not a bug. The value Ticketmaster provides is taking the anger from fans for high prices. The performers (and producers&#x2F

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