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by jobu 2y ago
Same. I would look at that every time I was in the bathroom and wonder how they died. Did they suffocate from toxic gasses while exploring a cave? Maybe it was more gruesome like falling into a hot spring and getting boiled to death... It w
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by jobu 4y ago
> The feds doing this for airfare was the best thing to happen for consumers shopping for flights. They need to redo it for airfare, because the airlines have figured out how to workaround it by splitting out things that used to be inc
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by jobu 4y ago
It's really a treatise on good leadership and management from the perspective of a showrunner. There are a bunch of great quotes, but this bit from 4th Law (Make decisions early and often) really hit home for me: > But you know wha
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by jobu 4y ago
Other sources I've seen are blaming the dramatic heat during the summer of 2019. It "scrambled the broader marine ecosystem" causing die-offs and migrations for many species of fish. Snow Crabs are primarily deep water scaven
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by jobu 4y ago
The senior architects and principle engineers at my company have started scheduling focus hours as well as office hours for people to drop in and ask questions. They were getting stretched pretty thin by being invited to design meetings for
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by jobu 4y ago
> The bipolar-level manic highs and depression/lows are very real. I've had to be very careful about NOT using those terms when talking to doctors and psychiatrists. As a layperson that description seems to fit, but it causes
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by jobu 4y ago
It's changed a few times over the years because of insurance, but right now it's Focalin XR and 5mg Ritalin as needed up to 2 times a day.
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by jobu 4y ago
As the parent of a child with ADHD that is medicated, it seems completely plausible that it could cause depression. When my kid has had too high a dosage (or accidentally takes a double dose) she's like a zombie, completely flat affect
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by jobu 4y ago
According to a coworker that had worked at IBM for a couple decades it was a great place to work until sometime in the mid 2000s. It was like they suddenly noticed how shitty Oracle was and decided that was the business model they needed to
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by jobu 4y ago
> Baseline demographic, lifestyle, and dietary data from the UK Biobank were used This data is from the UK where coffee is still significantly less popular than tea. Would be interesting to see the mortality risk of coffee vs tea drink
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by jobu 4y ago
> you can break the trip up into "daytime travel", stay in a city like Chicago for a few days, and then "overnight" to the next city My limited experience with Amtrak in the West or Midwest is that it's imposs
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by jobu 5y ago
Data-journalism is actually a thing, and bigger organizations like the New York Times have done some pretty impressive work building tools and training programs for their reporters. https://open.nytimes.com/how-we-helped-our
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by jobu 5y ago
It's not like there weren't issues then as well - https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/steve-jobs-says...
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by jobu 5y ago
Yeah, the headline could easily be flipped with the subheading and most people's reaction would be drastically different. Overall I think a single-payer system is for the best. Having healthcare tied to your job creates another anchor
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by jobu 5y ago
LastPass was great for almost 10 years until LogMeIn bought them and they've been messing around with the business model and pricing ever since. I paid $12/year for several years to get mobile access. Then after they were bought I
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by jobu 5y ago
According to the article, education (particularly for women) seems to be the biggest factor: > The strikingly different fertility rates in different regions of India reflect the role of education, says EM Sreejit of the International Pl
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by jobu 5y ago
* lightweight AR glasses
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by jobu 5y ago
It seems like AR is the key to making the Metaverse a thing. VR is neat, but the current experience reminds me of 3D TVs from a few years back - gimmicky and awkward. Even if parts of the physical and digital worlds bifurcate, I still think
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by jobu 5y ago
> Above a certain threshold, every veneer of civilization vanishes no matter what the country (some have a higher threshold than others). > At this level, only power matters. And the first rule of power is: Don't embarrass the
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by jobu 5y ago
> If you want a better conspiracy... Honestly, that's not very far out as far as conspiracies go. Zuckerberg has been asking for more direct regulation for at least a couple years [1]. Then listening to some of Frances Haugen&#x27
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by jobu 5y ago
Microsoft flat-lined for over a decade after the antitrust lawsuit. They completely missed mobile and nearly missed cloud. They've had to do a 180 on open source and they've had to offer some tools free of charge for small or inde
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by jobu 5y ago
That's interesting. As a developer I've often felt outright hostility coming from Apple developer relations, and maybe it's this lack of a partnership mentality. They generally treat end users really well, but it's like
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by jobu 5y ago
We had this happen to our truck when I was a kid. The exhaust pipe was packed from the catalytic converter back through the muffler. It took a bit to figure out what was going on and then I had to get under and cut holes in the exhaust pipe
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by jobu 5y ago
> However I would argue that 1:1 is the one area you shouldn't try to minimise It should also be a scheduling priority. A 1:1 may not seem super important, but it's often the only time an employee will have to talk with their
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by jobu 5y ago
It definitely was until ~5 years ago. I think the 2016 election was the turning point. There has been a stream of negative PR for Facebook since then, and it seems like everything they've done for damage control only made things worse
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by jobu 5y ago
In my experience the only concrete distinction between "Frontend" or "Backend" has been whether you touch CSS or not. Everything else has been a grey area.
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by jobu 5y ago
There was also Lake Agassiz[1] in central North America. An ice sheet collapse in the northeast may have caused a sudden drainage of the lake leading to an estimated 0.8-2.8 meter rise in ocean levels worldwide. It's also believed this
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by jobu 5y ago
Wages are a huge part of it, but right now these companies are trying to go from < 25% capacity to > 100% capacity in just a few weeks. Companies got used to being in an employers market for the last decade or more to an employee mark
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by jobu 5y ago
It's a combination of weak social safety net and people living paycheck-to-paycheck (or worse). Roughly 1/3 of US households have a hard time covering monthly expenses, and another ~1/3 are a paycheck away from disaster. If y
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by jobu 5y ago
There was a piece about this on NPR (I think earlier this week, but I can't find it right now). It sounded like they're making some assumptions because the mRNA vaccine causes most people to produce a higher level of antibodies fo

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