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With the advent of the space force, pretty much every space company is targeting military contracts (at least partially) since that is a huge source of government funding

I was including some of the 34-65 crowd in "elderly"

I think the relevant table is on page 13 "COVID-19 hospitalizations in unvaccinated and fully vaccinated individuals in Washington state by age group, February - December, 2021" It…

I live in a very old studio apartment (built in 1909) and it has a separate kitchen that is the size of the kitchen in most of my friends' single family homes. It is probably ~1/3r…

A new programming language which hides the fact that your code is running across multiple machines from you. Similar to OOP, you'll define some level of structure and the compiler …

Anyone else skeptical of their claim that the benefits of the plug in and the hybrid are the same? It assumes that electricity production remains the same as it is right now, where…

> we could have easily doubled our income if we were both working How would the world work such that this was not the case? I suppose the government could pay one parent to stay at…

Ah yes well known unbiased news source "tri state livestock news"

I also don't understand why there's no lock that integrates with the app. Getting into Airbnbs is consistently inconsistent and confusing.

>it’s really impossible to go anywhere and enjoy it in peace This is only true for a very limited definition of "anywhere". You can go to Yosemite in the peak season and easily fin…

ORM?

This hasn't been my experience at all. There are almost always e-bikes at the Ford stations (per the other comment maybe this was a one off issue) and the Jump bikes work just as w…

Is this due to some special technology or implementation details they used, or just the current going rate of getting your bitcoin transactions confirmed?

Personal anecdote: I had a job offer from Facebook and a couple other big tech companies. The Facebook offer was substantially better fiscally than the other ones and it was clear …

Thanks. Your points are all great as well! #2 is particularly interesting to me, and it's very true. If you're doing well interviewers may often make the questions harder, so strug…

1000s of people dying every year from drug overdoses in the US would disagree with you. In fact heroin and meth, both deadly and dangerous drugs, are used far more often than psych…

I mean he was ordinary in the sense that running wasn't his full time profession and he didn't dedicate his life to it. In order to achieve "greatness" in most any popular sport to…

Those aren't legal in California

1. Frankly, no, but I think it might enable me to be better at and have access to work that I would like to do in the future. 2. Work life balance seems good. 3. Tough to say.

Sorry I assumed the pay would be equivalent between the regions for the same job at the same company. The 5% raise would just be a result of no state income tax.

Thanks! I definitely feel like I'm learning stuff, but I also could probably learn at a big company as well. Most of the engineers at my current company are very inexperienced, for…

All the teams I'd be working on at microsoft are working on at least partially open source products now. But I do have some ethical qualms about the big corporations, although I've…

So a couple weeks ago I got a linkedin message from a microsoft recruiter, one thing led to another, and I just got a "Congratulations" email today. I've been working at a startup …