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Who's hiring outside the USA, along with an emigration and visa pathway? (I am middle aged dev specializing in internal reporting, afraid that Trump is going try to cross the rubic…

Can anyone describe how local party committees work(ed) in the USSR, China, Russia, wherever? I would welcome anecdotes or references, but I draw a blank when I search (yes, Google…

So don't use yelp

Let's add "affluent and white and fortuitously non alcohol addicted" to "1950-1970" and I think you nailed it.

Isn't density not mass the issue? Methane still floats above air using density from the internets, though I wonder about mixing 0.656 kg/m³ methane 1.98 kg/m3 carbon dioxide 1.225 …

How long does it take to charge? Granted 350 miles is a long trip, but some 9f us drive from Seattle to San Francisco and we can't do that in 350 burst waiting overnight for the ca…

I know I would hate him and his shtick if I were a commuter, but I am kind of rooting for his brand of chaos.

It's also true in the US, depending on the situation. And if you are lucky enough to have insurance and see a doctor at all.

I think the point of the thread is a discussion of whether "all human organizations exert control..." You disagree, but I think the statement under question is basically correct. Y…

Control is both enabling and disabling, depending on the specifics; I think that is an important lesson that can come from looking at "cults". Examples of enabling control: Learnin…

One of the best low budget cult/ sci fi movies ever made: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Endless_(film)

I hated Panda Express when I lived urban California and there were 1000s of small Chinese canteens, but now I go twice a week. If they had real China (hehe) I would eat there more …

This year I overseeded with a mix of ryegrass and clover, will keep my lawn mowed at 2 inches and watered. I hope the clover can bloom at that height and make the bees happy. It sh…

Actually, there is a pro-organic, pollinator and wildlife friendly program in my city whose lead I am following. Another reason I don't move.... My only plan for the summer is to s…

Could you describe the sanctuary nearby? We live on a typical city lot, and I am going to try to become a mini-sanctuary over the next few years and would love working examples.

Or like chemistry during the alchemy era.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-bob-ross-every...

One, that's beautiful and makes me want to cry. Two, it speaks to getting over the hump of learning something hard, where you have to work 100s of hours, feeling incompetent, befor…

What if your student really just wants skill and doesn't care about a personal style or whatnot? Personally, I get a lot of satisfaction working as a software developer implementin…

Well, some of us would be quite happy with pretty, and wonder if Art is all it's cracked up to be...

Has anyone run PCA on biggish (~100M rows, ~100 columns) SQL table? Any strategies or pitfalls?

It was 5 years ago, maybe it's better now. I wasn't comparing Julia to python or c+, but to Matlab octave.