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This was about 15 years ago

The one student who got caught for plagiarism when I was a TA was busted by turnitin. Maybe the tool isn't perfect but it caught this student who had painstakingly replaced every s…

I would scale it back as an autocratic ruler even if hurt GDP. It would be nice to see more of the night sky

Does loss of value via quantitative easing count?

maybe he's just tricking game devs into applying their work ethic to other product lines

I had the same experience with AWS ec2 free tier that ran out after a year and started billing me. They bill me $17/mo now even though the machine was shut down and AWS account was…

>"In this message, we have avoided airing specific grievances beyond unaccountability. We've chosen to maintain discretion and confidentiality. We recommend that the broader Rust c…

harder to make 100k 23 years ago than it is today. by the time you finish a 2k/mo journey you begin today, 1.25M will be no longer be the cutoff for top 10%

The worst part is the outrage part is downright addictive. Trying to get people who are plugged into this loop to take a step back and consider others' perspective is like taking t…

I use old.reddit on mobile as well. Personally I prefer panning & zooming on the desktop version of a site to the mobile design in general

The biggest difference is that you're thinking about a very nasty 0.1% of twitter that use the platform to harass, whereas harassment is the primary purpose of this site.

To be fair, I haven't met anyone who drinks as much juice as soda drinkers drink soda

I would say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber blows him out of the water >Haber is also considered the "father of chemical warfare" for his years of pioneering work develop…

Public vs private funds. If you told me some private resort with $800/night rooms paid their lifeguards this much, I would think nothing of it.

Being an SRE is a little more of this and a little less scheduled work. You still have standup and plenty of other meetings, though

It's not a UBI experiment until the taxation part of the equation is also included in the experiment. Injecting outside money like manna from heaven is not UBI

Seems like the "bogus" part of these bogus charges is that she was successfully staying ahead in the cat-and-mouse game to change which synthetic cannabinoids she was selling faste…

What's new here is that the sales pitch about shorts needing to be covered has more truth to it (I think, not an expert) than the usual vague promises about a huge turnaround being…

Hopefully google will come to their senses at some point and stop creating roles within the company where the job description is to tie the company's shoelaces together

>How old is the account? How much organic-looking activity has the user done across other subreddits? these kinds of policies are the death of the throwaway account. many subs don'…

Industrial agriculture has had disastrous consequences in the form of overpopulation, we just haven't felt them yet. Global warming and every other problem caused by overpopulation…

just another crypto pyramid scheme

>I'm fortunate to have a solid WFH environment at home I feel this is pretty important. I am only renting a room (not making FAANG money) and as such quarantine has me spending nea…

very fun, the game-within-the-game was neat, too

I'd rather get hit with a switch a couple times than be prosecuted for a crime myself, but it's a terrible direction for society to take. You will never be able to restrict police,…