npo9

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by npo9 6y ago
> My friends would try every angle to weasel their way out of a $100 light hearted bet! I mean, the guy went to court to weasel out of the bet.
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by npo9 6y ago
The US army spends about $700 million on recruitment [0]. While that number has been higher recently since becoming an all volunteer army recruitment has been an expensive challenge. [0] https://www.armytimes.com/news/y
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by npo9 6y ago
I suspect someone joining the military after being in college and private industry has a higher chance of completing the pilot program than someone 18-20 years old which make up the bulk of the military recruits. (Assuming they both meet al
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by npo9 6y ago
> I suspect we'll see a change to WFH, not because workers like it, but because it is cheaper and production doesn't change (not to mention it quickly reveals whose "production" is really just physically presenting in
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by npo9 6y ago
> Interestingly, when I lay it all out like that and add it up, the US monetary policy looks like a big business's bureaucratic system, the kind that'd be ripe for disruption by a startup. Of course, it's not quite so simp
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by npo9 6y ago
Imagine a world where one county underfunds infrastructure because of 5G health fears, but another country does not. Wouldn’t the county that implemented the infrastructure have a competitive advantage?
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by npo9 6y ago
Imagine not paying and losing access to childcare when you need it again.
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by npo9 6y ago
What are the chances that these strikes can lead to a union? I imagine a grocery store workers union could do a lot for the health of its workers now.
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by npo9 6y ago
Look at Trump’s press release today.
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by npo9 7y ago
How is this not an infringement on the right to assemble?
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by npo9 7y ago
Right, the actual number of cases is almost certainly over 1. The parent comment just said Idaho had no reported cases which is factually incorrect. The first reported case was on Friday.
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by npo9 7y ago
Small nit: Boise has one recorded case. It was recorded Friday.
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by npo9 7y ago
(a) and (c) sound like problems that are solved with very common household equipment.
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by npo9 7y ago
I moved from Seattle to the midwest. I’ve seen a lot of very intolerable lines in the suburbs. It’s not unusual for me to wait 15 minutes to checkout at Target or Costco and last December I remember a 25 minute line. I think this is a produ
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by npo9 7y ago
The fake screenshots and the fake videos are both troublesome. How do we know what’s true and what isn’t? How many false facts do you believe? I can imagine a world where false tweets/videos/headlines are generated specifically
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by npo9 7y ago
Sometimes I get conned into buying a game that’s a large series of cutscenes with poor gameplay elements, but there are actually a large number of really good games released every year, even today. In the 90s there were a lot of crappy game
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by npo9 7y ago
I greatly prefer the longer lasting psychedelics — a six hour mushroom trip feels a bit rushed for me. I have a theory that a large part of the benefit of psychedelics is taking some time, attention, and intention into the health of your o
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by npo9 7y ago
Electrical plugs also haven’t had any real innovations since the ground wire. I hope to see innovations in power/data cables to cellphones more frequently than that! Edit: even if the innovations is just faster data transfer and more
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by npo9 7y ago
You say that like writing plugins is hard or undesirable.
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by npo9 7y ago
> Do you think you represent most people? I've seen poor push notification quality increase uninstall and churn rates. I think the lesson is that many people are quickly annoyed with push notifications.
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by npo9 7y ago
Cool! This feature was not available when I last used Spotify, which was admittedly years ago.
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by npo9 7y ago
Can I rip my own CDs and import them into Spotify or am I limited to the music provided by the Spotify streaming service? I think this is what is meant by a “music library”
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by npo9 7y ago
I have a very sparsely furnished and decorated single family home. I felt intense pressure to buy because the cost of houses was increasing faster than my salary. Purchasing a home felt like a closing window of opportunity. I figure I can
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by npo9 7y ago
Or maybe there was a whole lot more fossil fuel in the past.
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by npo9 7y ago
You gave a great answer to my question. Thank you.
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by npo9 7y ago
This is theoretically all the data about a flys nervous system, which would be the hardest data collection part of building a fly simulation.
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by npo9 7y ago
Can someone explain why the modem running closed source blob is not considered a huge problem?
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by npo9 7y ago
Yeah, and I measure best interest in United States Dollars /s
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by npo9 7y ago
“We’re not catching them because they aren’t there” seems like a valid hypothesis, but I’m not sure I fully buy into it.
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by npo9 7y ago
> Perhaps people will value freedom more than security and therefore won't chase those housing values. I value property rights, so I own property. Freedom and security don’t really factor into it.

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