trprog

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by trprog 9y ago
There is nothing uniquely American about extreme aggression towards people holding differing views. Although the current state of American society isn't great it can get so so much worse. A couple of examples. 1) The Cultural Revolutio
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by trprog 9y ago
>teenagers are handed an electronic doll to care for for a day or two Not surprised this had the opposite effect. It completely misses what is, in my opinion, one of the most dramatic aspects of being a parent. It doesn't end until
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by trprog 9y ago
You are thinking of the problem in a sciencey, evidence based way. In particular for illiterate, uneducated people there is often a huge weight given to superstition and traditional/existing ways of doing things even in the face of evi
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by trprog 9y ago
Of course it would be simpler and easier but who is going to pay for it? Cambodia is a nation of around 15 million people and a large proportion of them are affected by iron deficiency. You are talking about trying to get skillets/ingo
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by trprog 9y ago
>So a company pays a higher cost - but only has to deal with one contract, which saves them effort elsewhere. They have fewer contracts at any given time but also the contracts can last longer. If I directly hire people to clean an offic
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by trprog 9y ago
That's no way to witch hunt.
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by trprog 9y ago
Why not both? A possible timeline... Machines replace lots of humans meaning the permanent disappearance of a large number of jobs. Wages fall as competition for the available jobs increases. Social services are slashed to reduce government
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by trprog 9y ago
In developing countries you are generally dealing with a user pays medical system. So they don't care if you require extensive medical care as you pay for it.
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by trprog 10y ago
>But I guess it's easy to erroneously conflate Apple's device security with iCloud security. You might be overthinking it. I get the feeling that many people think of "online" as some sort of magical place where they
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by trprog 10y ago
As they say, if you owe the bank $100 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $100 million the bank has a problem.
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by trprog 10y ago
>The statement says the band members were told they did not have to acquire work visas because they “were in no way going to earn money from it or receive any form of payment.” >“They confiscated our cellphones and we were denied the
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by trprog 10y ago
>It won't grow for me It will depend on your specific fund but the funds already in there should be invested in some way. If they aren't doing a terrible job the money will grow even without you putting more in.
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by trprog 10y ago
>Super funds only make sense when you have more people paying into them than withdrawing. It feels a bit like you might be confusing the difference between a pension fund and a super fund. A super fund only pays out to you what you put i
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by trprog 10y ago
>Although you cannot access the superannuation fund until you turn 80 This is incorrect. You can access your super from 65 no matter what. You can also access it earlier under some specific circumstances. https://www.ato.gov.a
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by trprog 10y ago
>The first thing you learn about US visa is that it doesn't guarantee US admission It is worth noting that this is true of every country. A visa does not guarantee entry. Your entry is ultimately at the discretion of the immigration
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by trprog 10y ago
>Firing for mistakes can make sense in the context of a small company that has to pay enough to rectify the mistake that it significantly impacts the budget. If this cost needs to be recouped, it is only fair that it be recouped from the
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by trprog 10y ago
heh, fair point. Command economy advocates aside nobody is saying the free market sucks :)
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by trprog 10y ago
>That is until the free market goes against what I want. Then the free market sucks! I'm not sure anyone is saying that the free market sucks. People are saying that there is no free market in some sectors and that, in the absence o
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by trprog 10y ago
>This science branch seems to attract charlatans. It seems like it is incredibly difficult to perform conclusive research around nutrition, human growth etc without violating a bunch of ethical standards. The relative inability to perfor
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by trprog 10y ago
Anyone who doesn't own a mobile/cell phone?
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by trprog 10y ago
>I don't really know what the job market is there for software development though There is a lot more work in Glasgow it seems. We are considering moving and I get the odd email from some Scottish recruiters I spoke too. Thus far I
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by trprog 10y ago
>prospect buys your product/service- success! I suspect tying payments to actual user actions, in particularly the user buying something, is the best solution. Affiliate marketing essentially. Its easy to verify and very tough to pr
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by trprog 10y ago
>this man had kept this skull he'd found in a cave and then took it across the world >It still had dirt inside of it This is probably because I am Australian but this jumped out at me. Australia is free of many parasites, pests,
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by trprog 10y ago
>I don't like this guy. Why?
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by trprog 10y ago
Similarly, the complete removal from the earth of nuclear weapons could potentially make the world much more dangerous. Without the threat of nuclear annihilation conventional war between large nations becomes more conceivable. It would tak
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by trprog 10y ago
>Don't diabetics already have testing tech that works off tiny pinpricks? Yep. Labs can do more comprehensive tests that some diabetics get done periodically but home testing kits work via a finger prick.
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by trprog 10y ago
Although the medium is new the idea of publishing stuff that misrepresents other people's position is nothing new. Here is a relatively modern example from the very early 20th century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by trprog 10y ago
Its all about spending your energy preparing for more likely damaging events. In Australia little attention gets paid to earthquakes but fire safety standards and preparation are no joke, especially in the country. Maintaining fire breaks a
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by trprog 10y ago
>I'm not sure about cheap labor Cheap labor is possibly relevant. Salaries and the cost of living are dramatically lower in Malaysia so apparently large numbers of Malaysians work in Singapore, often illegally, while essentially com
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by trprog 10y ago
Unless they are in a soundproof room somewhere you still have the problem of background noise coming through the speakers. One of the great benefits of automated or prerecorded messages is that they have no background noise.

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