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It's vernacular, at least. People say copper conducts electricity well, so something with low conductivity would conduct poorly

Where it's $4-6 for a few hours if you can find a spot, but a flat $20+ for a parking garage after the first half hour. So, Baltimore, DC, stuff like that.

Yes, that means that "Amazon delivery person" is a job that will continue existing. It does not mean it will have the same person in it.

Yes, they're using sarcasm to ridicule their parent comment's claim that someone hired to just unhook a toilet should legally NEED to be a licensed plumber, by comparing it to simi…

NoScript breaks some sites but makes many run faster. Everything defaults to blocked, but I've marked some known ad servers and Google/Facebook trackers as specifically blocked so …

On paper, yes, but in practice, there is significant lag time between a new noem being established and conservatives giving up the old one in favor of the new normal. For example, …

Right, so "write an essay following X structure that's Y paragraphs long as defined by the structure" (eg three arguments for and one countered argument against, plus an intro and …

I have JS default to off (saves big on load times, bypasses some "please buy a subscription" things), and thought this was just a weirdly short list of eccentric things until I saw…

This goes back to structured vs unstructured from elsewhere in the thread. Applying most of the editing tools is unstructured, but navigating the UI is structured. As a result, I'm…

Y'know, you're right that billionaires speeding doesn't affect people who aren't near those billionaires. To wit, here's an idea for a change: Billionaires should be allowed to spe…

The point of prisons is to remove them from society until they can be sociable again. But I see your point, we should be putting more spending towards those who have never been con…

We find it "hard to understand" because job opening descriptions tell us that a degree and/or an excellent GPA are minimum requirements for anything that doesn't pay minimum. And t…

Wage thieves don't flee. There's no adrenaline-pumping chase scene, nothing to tunnel-vision. It's also much harder to see on patrol.

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>they think that it's sometimes fine to have sex with children From what I can tell from the snippets posted here, he isn't saying it's fine, he's saying he's seen insufficient evi…

And that makes this less exploitative, how, exactly? Whataboutism is not useful.

Close, it's the probability of it happening by chance given that the null hypothesis is true. Unless H0 is objectively and absolutely true, it is not the same as "probability of it…

On the face, maybe, but if they qualify and they're desperate, they'll agree to a lower salary and be less likely to seek out a competitor to work at. In contrast, someone who does…

I wish more games had dev commentary like this. It's neat to peek into the minds of the developers, and can give good informal lessons on designing games and levels.

How would you distinguish what job can be a career and what must be a "side gig?"

Advocating an increased minimum wage is complaining about the government.

>So should my 17 year old son flipping Pizza deserve a “livable wage”? Choose one: "yes", "I want to pay higher taxes so independent adults can survive on such a wage via governmen…

So the article goes on to suggest expanding a bus network or other public transportation. In this manner, it increases the convenience of a more traffic-efficient bus and decreases…

Yep, and as mentioned in the article, there's also a he-he. A description is never given of it, but it's a safe assumption that it's a tiny haha, possibly only a couple inches high…

That's probably fine. It drops the number of people who could idle ads from "approximately everyone" to "only people who know how to and want to set up an AHK script/other macro."