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And neither of those will affect your US financial credit score

> half of the US is living in abject poverty Anyone who believes this has absolutely no concept of what abject poverty looks like.

> an actual war against China, as if that were a reasonable scenario. Most modern military planning considers it a foregone conclusion. Whether that's accurate or not is arguable, …

I'm really frustrated by inflation numbers because there doesn't seem to be a metric that makes sense. CPI ignores the reality people feel (and swaps in cheaper items that aren't n…

> so the Democrats are interested in addressing it They're not any more interested in addressing it than the existing administration - it's just a talking point like everything els…

How are you going to know the appropriate pronoun on your first email to "jsmith@company.com" or "ppatel@company.com"? Are you going to send an email to ask their pronouns before y…

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19720005243 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19720005243/downloads/19...

> How many kernel devs does the world need? A dozen or two? You're low by several orders of magnitude. "The 2025 development cycle saw 2,134 developers contribute to [Linux] kernel…

> If I'm writing an email or a chat message, I will typically have to use a pronoun. It's not that hard to just avoid it. I send emails to a lot of people I haven't spoken to and d…

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Same. The responses are consistently "but they only restrict bad speech"

> The unemployed/underemployed American programmer that can actually keep up is a myth. Is your argument that the H1-B folks are better? That hasn't been my experience.

3D printing is probably the easiest entry point in today's world. You can assemble already designed components into a structure and learn about how they work, tweak them for custom…

Most folks in government service are making significantly less than that. That's midrange GS-15 pay.

> build bases where if you ask nicely, rather than having to invade How much of that actually came from soft power rather than "hard power", like USA actions in WW2?

That same video shows him spitting on an officer.

> Hell, Trump even said in response to the Pretti shooting that only criminals walk around carrying guns in public. If you were paying any attention at all, you'd see pretty much e…

> taking away the ability to create PRs to begin with. > your users don't deserve hostility from you either! No one has the right to demand my time to review their PR to my code an…

> far more reliable than any other power grid worldwide to the point that most houses and business do not have backup power plans What modern power grids typically have backups for…

> adoption is low for business travel – is it too expensive Yes. Most companies won't even spring for business/first class, which is 10-20% the cost of a charter. Unless your time …

Refusing to return escaped slaves used to be illegal. Inter-racial marriage used to be illegal. Gay marriage and even gay relationships used to be illegal. Crime is not necessarily…

Composites in that style are also typically very durable, often more than the original material. I think GP was more likely talking about constructions of pressboard and plywood wh…

20 people out of 350MM is pretty damn safe, even factoring for the relatively low numbers of people who actually interact with cattle. We as modern humans no longer have any sense …

> There's a Zero Retries article recently with a critical review of meshtastic Do you have a link? I went through recent ZT issues and didn't find what you're referring to