wildgift

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by wildgift 10y ago
I wouldn't say it's a "whole other discussion" when the changes are causing the unemployment. When globalization was pushed, the government passed laws to help retrain workers. Maybe it was just a band-aid, but, it was
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by wildgift 10y ago
Secretaries still exist, but the job's divided into two broad categories. Receptionists, who don't make much, and executive secretaries who make middle class salaries. The latter do well because they assist people who are powerfu
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by wildgift 12y ago
True. I think most people want the lowest price for a specific branded product. They start off by deciding, more or less, on getting a certain level of perceived quality, and then finding low prices. The price is secondary to making the
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by wildgift 12y ago
Those are called "price controls."
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by wildgift 12y ago
I think the answer is "sell the house and move somewhere cheaper."
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by wildgift 12y ago
LOL, so true. I'm starting to get the same feeling about Georgists. They're in a bubble of their own making, in denial about their own reality, and prone to making up new definitions for common words, making it difficult to comm
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by wildgift 12y ago
At LATTC everyone knew about financial aid. It was the default situation. I haven't been there, but I've been to CC in a low income community, and the assumption was that you'd get financial aid. Being middle class, middle
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by wildgift 12y ago
At the school my partner went to, LA Trade Tech, it seemed like most students got financial aid. There were multiple offices involved in doing all the paperwork involved (in a multi-story building, too). The school was located in an area
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by wildgift 12y ago
If a single wealthy person is, non-anonmously, going to be allowed to electioneer, that's actually the price that should be paid for restrictions on associations. People can judge the message by the speaker. When billionaiare Meg Whit
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by wildgift 12y ago
The rules were limited to corporations, associations and unions. Individuals were not restricted in this type of speech. Citizens United was a nonprofit corporation.
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by wildgift 12y ago
The issue was who made the political speech and whether it was electioneering (promoting a candidate). Before CU, corporations, associations, and unions could not spend their money on buying ads or air time to do electioneering. I think th
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by wildgift 12y ago
The main problem with his posts is that he's equating opiate addiction with psilocybin use. These are two different drugs, and the latter is being used as part of smoking addiction therapy. There's some irony to the fact that his
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by wildgift 12y ago
As I understand it, things like schizophrenia are primarily hereditary, and the trauma pushes you over the edge. So, people with a family history of schizophrenia or related conditions shouldn't do these drugs.
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by wildgift 12y ago
If psilocybin can be used to get people to stop smoking, drinking, or using heroin, it could seriously reduce healthcare costs. People in the drug underground use it to treat OCD and depression. I've heard of people saying they use it
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by wildgift 12y ago
Also, this story is about treating addiction with psilocybin. Perhaps it could be used to treat opiate addiction.
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by wildgift 12y ago
I'm doing an application that runs scripts for a REST API. Using Django REST API to build the service.
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by wildgift 12y ago
There are tools, at least on Unix, to add guis to command lines. gtkdialog and zenity are the ones I've seen. You need to write a shell script that runs commands to display the gui, and then execute the command.
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by wildgift 12y ago
They could join another nonprofit.
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by wildgift 12y ago
I think it's a good idea. Cert prices vary, and there are reasons for it, and companies would rather pay for stability than save money.
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by wildgift 12y ago
I think the relationship is desirable, which is why some people will pay a higher price to have a relationship with a vendor, with the understanding that if s transaction goes wrong, the vendor won't balk at fixing the problem. There
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by wildgift 13y ago
This is also a problem with javascript. Javascript should do automatic variable shadowing but also throw a warning.
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by wildgift 13y ago
Mobile car bombs? Is that what these are, ultimately?
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by wildgift 13y ago
What about "howto". There's already a vast culture of writing howto pages. howto curl howto cc howto network
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by wildgift 13y ago
Yes. Geek culture isn't about being a bro. When I think about "bros" I think about guys who party, and then let someone else do the work. It's about power disguised as being carefree. Geek culture is about a kind of
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by wildgift 13y ago
Also a Big Lebowsky reference.
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by wildgift 13y ago
It's not that simple. I think it originated in surfer culture, as a kind of appropriation of Black American culture to call each other brother and sister. In the 90s, on the west coast, it was common among white hippies, deadheads an
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by wildgift 13y ago
I saw the name, and thought it was web pages for "bros". Right off the bat, that seemed like an idiotic idea. It's right up there with "let's make tv shows about white people." Then when I read the short descr
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by wildgift 13y ago
I thought the name was stupid. "Bro" brings up a lot of negative stereotypes about guys.
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by wildgift 13y ago
Please. I know activists like the Google bus protesters. I'd call them protest enthusiasts, and usually less than half work for professional activist outfits. Most have regular jobs and just love to protest. The "astroturf&quot
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by wildgift 13y ago
Rather than barriers - create talent tiers, and have professional associations control the tiers and education.

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