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> If I need someone to move some furniture it might only need an IQ of 85 but that doesn’t mean AI is doing it any time soon. The article and discussion are literally about machine…

> A felon is commonly used to refer to a person who has been convicted of a crime and particularly (but not only) whose sentence is not yet completed. Not, though. According to Wik…

My understanding is that different states have different definitions for the meaning of “felon” and the applicability depends on possible jail time, not actual jail time. Given tha…

Please engage on a substantive level. I look forward to learning about the positive aspects of using “felon” to refer to a person.

That’s nonsense. Startups are only for the young and unencumbered? I’ve had several successful startups and managed to combine that with a family life as well as time off for R&R a…

Referring to people as “felons” is such a terrible and dehumanising practice.

I don’t believe all taxes are equal, or bad. But some are terrible, such as this one.

No coercion? Try not paying it.

> This access is considered a taxable income. Sounds like this meets the definition of racketeering

> I think in Europe no one holds back in the grades, school will push a kid forward. That is hilariously incorrect. I had an adverse childhood, my dad died when I was 8, and my mom…

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Yep, that’s right. Its a great rule though, and as explained in the article it works at any speed, highway or not. Personally I keep 4 seconds.

Only a fool breaks the two-second rule: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-second_rule

> I apologize for any flame wars this creates, since people find driving to be deeply personal and any findings which may criticize their driving habits is generally frowned upon. …

Clinical trials of toothpaste va other methods are welcome. Can’t find any. I do have anecdata, which is that I go to the dentist every year and no caries for the past 15 years. “T…

Toothpaste is a fantastic and cheap abrasive that makes short work of cleaning up hard metals. I don’t want that stuff anywhere near my teeth.

You must be trolling, right? Right?! Programmer resources should not focus on security? Credential isolation doesn’t matter?

> nobody wants to maintain your mess of shell scripts. Have you seen the scripts in question? Are you in any kind of way able to make such a value judgement over this persons work?…

Thabk you for your kind words. I used to live in the UK and had several businesses there, and can confirm your experience.

> Elsewhere in Germany, bureaucracy tends to be tedious but functional. Data to back up your assertion that it’s only Berlin? I can speak for Düsseldorf, which is a total nightmare…

> Everybody is processing Ukranians and Arabs. That’s nonsense. The Ukrainians go through an expedited process. Before the war we put in an application for my spouse - 3rd party na…

I founded a business in Germany, and the tax departments decided to asses me for 2024 to an amount of 100% of my combined 2020-2022 turnover. Instopped trading halfway through 2023…

Replicating the bits of hardware destroyed by radiation in the correct place and to the correct degree may be bit tricky.

Not really, and they (op) are rather specific, pointing out the issues specifically and directly

It all boils down to “we don’t like talking” and im sure it’s a great place to work for some folks, but to me it sounds exhausting.