nyokodo

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by nyokodo 1y ago
> do direct deposits to many millions of people, every time there's new settlements paid I wish I could easily donate my tiny settlements to a good cause. It might make it worth the time to register for the class.
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by nyokodo 1y ago
> And North Korea is going to win, simply by continuing to exist. Except their fertility is below replacement also and as a poverty stricken repressive regime that relies on food aid from South Korea, China, and probably Russia lately th
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by nyokodo 1y ago
> make large percentages of a student's grade come from in person tests One possible solution is to remove technology but then you’ll need to detect smart glasses and other hidden devices. Another possible solution is to expect the
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by nyokodo 1y ago
You’re always welcome to come back.
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by nyokodo 1y ago
> Or for some industries back channel checks in network Even in small-world industries, assuming they occasionally accept outsiders, they will still encounter some form of this problem.
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by nyokodo 1y ago
Or, we can just start doing interviews in person again.
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> In other words, to the religious, the use of the building for non-religious purposes is "shrug". This isn’t accurate except for perhaps certain parts of Protestantism. To Catholics, Orthodox, probably portions of the Church o
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> It's spooky to know that it will outlive Earth and likely be the last remaining physical evidence that humans were ever here. Although eventually a rather obscure form of evidence as it'll gradually become a melted blob of co
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> I think it’s Eurocentric to imply that China is morally inferior to the US. Apart from the genocide of the Uighur, the brutal oppression of Tibet, the complete lack of even the pretense of democratic rights, the total lack of freedom o
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> Have to be more productive, more efficient Most people on their deathbed would counsel you to focus on relationships rather than productivity.
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> the mines are going to be in China anyway, right If you had read the article you’d know they have their own mine: “Hardly any firms, even in China, do what MP is attempting: produce finished magnets starting with ore that the company m
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> to crash the economy The quote is “markets will tumble” by which he clarifies that it will be a temporary market overreaction not “crash the economy” like it’s 1929. Those are qualitatively different things.
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> It seems to me DOGE is about crashing the US economy and/or world economy to attempt wild and radical Silicon Valley theories about alternate societies I see absolutely no evidence that the DOGE crowd wants to crash the economy an
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> massive cuts of workers That is what Trump is doing via DOGE so the burn-it-down camp seems pretty well served, more than anytime since the post-war demobilization anyway. The impasse, if it occurs, is more likely to be with those in
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> Not in my lifetime Were you alive in the mid to late 90s? A string of balanced budgets and surpluses. There are new problems and no dot com bubble right now but most Americans were alive the last time we had balanced budgets. It is qui
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> or whether it's a backtrack after the 'bad optics' after the Washington, DC, crash. Either way you have a plan that wasn’t well thought through or thoughtfully executed. Having said that, at least they’re not (ultimately
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> the current administration is asking them to resign en masse, not hiring more While they did initially receive the resignation memo the Office of Personnel Management clarified that Air Traffic Controllers aren’t eligible for the resig
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> this is the perfect excuse for evil in humanity to continue to govern Historical facts, like the Church and her teaching being invincible to the attacks against her over the millennia, has no relation to what ought to happen. Facts a
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> the answer to which is an emphatic, "No." Which is why Protestantism exists in the first place. Early Church scholarship makes it impossible to maintain the Protestant contention that the teachings have changed in their essen
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> Because evidence (schisms, actual errors from the Church institution throughout time, not the least sex scandals we are not done with yet) shows that if God was actively directing the Church in the past and today, oh boy… Except all th
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> why should I accept what one specific council of European priests 600 years ago or whatever decided is to be considered holy canon? Well, firstly the canon doesn't just come from the decisions of Europeans and bringing race into i
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> How could they know? I can’t speak for any religious leader but in terms of Catholic leadership: because in many matters God spoke through the Prophets and then He came down and told us directly which is preserved in Holy Scripture and
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> this how all those useless executives operate Being visible in a positive way to the right people is 100% necessary for career advancement inside companies. The fact that this is abused by otherwise incompetent people is unfortunate, b
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> I have done this and received no confirmation or anything after more than 6 months Sue them, make it a class action.
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by nyokodo 2y ago
Well, Musk hypocrisy aside and assuming the scale of this intervention is the same on X as pre-acquisition and assuming it’s as egregious and petty as then, he won’t have the infrastructure to force his views across all social networks like
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by nyokodo 2y ago
Also, crucially, this was an operational test by BO whereas Starship and Super Heavy are still in developmental testing. New Glenn will now start launching commercial payloads assuming the outcome doesn’t reveal any problems with the ov
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by nyokodo 2y ago
They’re roughly 25 years old, they now have the largest operational orbital rocket ever built even if it’s likely SpaceX soon blows them out of the water with Starship and Super Heavy. They’ve taken a long time to get to orbit and haven’t q
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> I don't think I've ever seen a rocket build up its speed so slowly. New-Glenn has a low thrust to weight ratio vs other rockets and lower engine chamber pressure than some other engines to put less stress on the rocket and e
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by nyokodo 2y ago
I recently spent some time in the ER in a criminally underfunded and understaffed public healthcare system. People in quite severe pain were languishing waiting their turn but the nurses went out of their way to show a semblance of care and
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> that seems worth it to me How much more energy efficient is it? If it's a tiny efficiency gain vs the negative effects of blue heavy white light then I would suggest it's a bad tradeoff. Some studies have suggested that blu

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