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Comment · 1 year ago
This was about 15 years ago
Comment · 1 year 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 single word in a copied paper with a synonym. I'm talking "perhaps the utility is not flawless, but the use of this utility allowed for the apprehension of a pupil who..." etc.

I was surprised at the level of effort

Comment · 4 years ago
I would scale it back as an autocratic ruler even if hurt GDP. It would be nice to see more of the night sky
Comment · 4 years ago
Does loss of value via quantitative easing count?
Comment · 4 years ago
maybe he's just tricking game devs into applying their work ethic to other product lines
Comment · 4 years ago
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 closed 2 months ago
Comment · 5 years ago
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%
Comment · 5 years ago
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 their favorite toy away
Comment · 5 years ago
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
Comment · 5 years ago
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.
Comment · 5 years ago
To be fair, I haven't met anyone who drinks as much juice as soda drinkers drink soda
Comment · 5 years ago
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 developing and weaponizing chlorine and other poisonous gases during World War I, especially his actions during the Second Battle of Ypres.

but more importantly,

>Nearly 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber–Bosch process. Thus, the Haber process serves as the "detonator of the population explosion", enabling the global population to increase from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 7.7 billion by November 2018

Anything past 1.6B is overpopulation, and is driving the holocene extinction, global warming, pollution, etc... all of our big problems scale with population, and removing this natural limitation on our food supply has allowed us to blow the suspension out on all of them

Comment · 5 years ago
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.
Comment · 5 years ago
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

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