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by papreclip 2y ago
This was about 15 years ago
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by papreclip 2y ago
The one student who got caught for plagiarism when I was a TA was busted by turnitin. Maybe the tool isn't perfect but it caught this student who had painstakingly replaced every single word in a copied paper with a synonym. I'm t
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by papreclip 4y ago
I would scale it back as an autocratic ruler even if hurt GDP. It would be nice to see more of the night sky
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by papreclip 4y ago
Does loss of value via quantitative easing count?
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by papreclip 4y ago
maybe he's just tricking game devs into applying their work ethic to other product lines
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by papreclip 5y ago
I had the same experience with AWS ec2 free tier that ran out after a year and started billing me. They bill me $17/mo now even though the machine was shut down and AWS account was closed 2 months ago
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by papreclip 5y ago
harder to make 100k 23 years ago than it is today. by the time you finish a 2k/mo journey you begin today, 1.25M will be no longer be the cutoff for top 10%
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by papreclip 5y ago
The worst part is the outrage part is downright addictive. Trying to get people who are plugged into this loop to take a step back and consider others' perspective is like taking their favorite toy away
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by papreclip 5y ago
I use old.reddit on mobile as well. Personally I prefer panning & zooming on the desktop version of a site to the mobile design in general
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by papreclip 5y ago
The biggest difference is that you're thinking about a very nasty 0.1% of twitter that use the platform to harass, whereas harassment is the primary purpose of this site.
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by papreclip 5y ago
To be fair, I haven't met anyone who drinks as much juice as soda drinkers drink soda
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by papreclip 5y ago
I would say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber blows him out of the water >Haber is also considered the "father of chemical warfare" for his years of pioneering work developing and weaponizing chlor
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by papreclip 5y ago
Public vs private funds. If you told me some private resort with $800/night rooms paid their lifeguards this much, I would think nothing of it.
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by papreclip 5y ago
Being an SRE is a little more of this and a little less scheduled work. You still have standup and plenty of other meetings, though
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by papreclip 6y ago
It's not a UBI experiment until the taxation part of the equation is also included in the experiment. Injecting outside money like manna from heaven is not UBI
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by papreclip 6y ago
Seems like the "bogus" part of these bogus charges is that she was successfully staying ahead in the cat-and-mouse game to change which synthetic cannabinoids she was selling faster than the legislature could identify and ban spec
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by papreclip 6y ago
What's new here is that the sales pitch about shorts needing to be covered has more truth to it (I think, not an expert) than the usual vague promises about a huge turnaround being right around the corner. Usually the argument that oth
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by papreclip 6y ago
Hopefully google will come to their senses at some point and stop creating roles within the company where the job description is to tie the company's shoelaces together
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by papreclip 6y ago
>How old is the account? How much organic-looking activity has the user done across other subreddits? these kinds of policies are the death of the throwaway account. many subs don't even allow you to post in the first place now if y
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by papreclip 6y ago
Industrial agriculture has had disastrous consequences in the form of overpopulation, we just haven't felt them yet. Global warming and every other problem caused by overpopulation are all a result of industrial nitrogen fixation and l
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by papreclip 6y ago
just another crypto pyramid scheme
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by papreclip 6y ago
>I'm fortunate to have a solid WFH environment at home I feel this is pretty important. I am only renting a room (not making FAANG money) and as such quarantine has me spending nearly 24 hours a day in my bedroom. I can't follo
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by papreclip 6y ago
very fun, the game-within-the-game was neat, too
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by papreclip 6y ago
I'd rather get hit with a switch a couple times than be prosecuted for a crime myself, but it's a terrible direction for society to take. You will never be able to restrict police, who are only human, to physically assaulting peop
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by papreclip 7y ago
people really should be stocking up on psyllium husk powder (metamucil). one roll of TP will go a lot farther when your bathroom is experience isn't "like wiping a felt-tip marker"
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by papreclip 7y ago
it is accurate. i don't know if it's helpful to the antidepressant drug user, though. placebos work better than nothing, but not if you know they're placebos
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by papreclip 7y ago
half of green tech can be thrown out under this kind of scrutiny. there are so many shell games to gobble tax money that ultimately originates in the great wealth fountain that is fossil fuels the blinders people put on talking about this s
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by papreclip 7y ago
turning tax money subsidies into watts
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by papreclip 7y ago
think about the 2d equivalent - a ball rolls down a hill because the potential gradient directs it that way. a ball sitting on a flat pedestal isn't being pulled in every horizontal direction at once by some forces that are proportiona
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by papreclip 7y ago
Suppose you want to unit test some function you've written that makes use of a library that doesn't implement interfaces. You can either write a wrapper interface for the library and inject this wrapper as your dependency, or you

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