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"Can you explain this gap in your resume?" "Yes, I was using LaTeX and can't change the paragraph spacing."
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I hold at your mouth the gum jabber:
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@JeffreyASachs Gay was a university president. Higher standards.
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@arctanno i really wanna do this epistomologically, japanese swordsmiths had no idea why this worked. important lesson there. plus it's a sword.
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@pityforyourself @NRfan80 his beard game was so strong
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@St_Rev @onefiftyfivemm open source color printer firmware wen
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@kane hard to beat Goodstein's introduction to his stat mech book
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@LatinxPutler wait till you find out what Morgenthau wanted to do 💀
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@ouroboros_outis once heard about a chemistry chad who made steroids in his garage. this discount-bin oppenheimer was soon supplying half of major league baseball. got about ten years in prison.
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@uncle_deluge Lost me at "Wars are always a defeat". I mean dude, look at your own history. Papal States had an army for a reason.
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@JFrankensteiner @onefiftyfivemm what IRS problems do to a man
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@mechanical_monk Go to the beach, start digging a hole.
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@politicalmath The administrations and boards of trustees at most of these places need to be removed and replaced. Start by challenging their 501c3 status. They are all in violation of Section 117 of the Higher Education Act. Every. Single. One. Of. Them.
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@ouranometrian2 learn. to. cook. srsly a decent chef's knife is $100, you need a decent pot, pan, and cutting board. these will last you a lifetime.
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@forthrighter everything around me is engagement bait
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@jeff82874662 "I didn't think the leopards would eat *my* face!"
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@wanyeburkett @mauddweeb 1) the credential is more valuable than the knowledge 2) how many people are capable of effectively making it through this curriculum on their own?
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@ellegist sounds like she shouldn't be married
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@nikicaga He stopped advancing because of a troop mutiny. Also had conquered so much territory he was having trouble governing it.
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@Duderichy He's legit in the same league as Frank Wilczek. There are differential geometry theorems named after him.
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@GrantSlatton Germany is 95% post-45 and 5% from the time of Charlemagne.
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@dissproportion @kitten_beloved @quantyboi I can see at least two problems: 1) People in charge don't understand the technology they govern. 2) She's there to represent the agenda of people who don't necessarily want these tools to work. These problems are not specific to Open AI.
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@TheognisOMegara @upstatefederlst equality or chivalry. pick one.
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@AnechoicMedia_ @VDAREJamesK at least he's not trying to kill anyone?
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@MostlyMonkey Side effect of hyper-competitive, overcrowded space.
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Would you still love me if I were a worm?
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the elites don't want you to know this, but you can just eat the rabbits your dog catches in the woods. you have one rabbit.
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animals going goblin mode
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he's literally just doing his job come on now
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@uncle_deluge Adherence to the conventions of war would have been more realistic. "Be nice" isn't a strategy.
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@shagbark_hick > debt free > modest living Private Equity firms hate this!
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"Can you explain this gap in your resume?" "Yes, I was using LaTeX and can't change the paragraph spacing."
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Boy dinner
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@0xAlaric @colossusofargos At some point the doctors can be civilly disobedient. This is that point.
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@fitnessfeelingz Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was pretty good.
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@caesararum who puts high school on a resume
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@arctanno @turrible_tao stars Scarlett Johansen, Bill Murray, and Tokyo. not about Japan per se. one of my favorites.
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@slurplebrained how do you feel about eggs
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@kitten_beloved Light corporal punishment in schools, policing property and violent crime, and building nuclear power would turn this country around in a year.
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@chinesegon italians too probably every group
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@caesararum Guy I knew raised rabbits as pets for his kids. Also liked to cook rabbit, in view of the pet-rabbit warren. I think about this a lot.
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@202accepted @nomanautomata go one meal without eating an omelette worth of eggs challenge: impossible
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@caesararum this is why i don't get sick
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@Sunni_Labeouf feds who refuse to enforce their own laws how many are we up to? two million a year?
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Would you still love me if I were a worm?
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@EricRichards22 “Start a family young” is good advice. He’s a little mean spirited about it, but if the thread were ugly/short dudes, most of Twitter would pile on.
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@darkyudkowsky I started with "Linear Algebra done Wrong", math book equivalent of a deficit deadlift.
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@powerbottomdad1 don't confuse government strangling a technology in the cradle with a market problem
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@kitten_beloved There was one that swapped “gay” for “homosexual”. Then Michael Gay was in the Olympics. Comedy ensued.
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While Harvard's Extension School is regarded as a joke, the fact that a grad of the "dummy" school took down the university president makes it even more damning.
@realchrisrufo
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
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I see that the Left, desperate for revenge for the scalping of Harvard's president, is resurrecting this old smear piece from The New Republic that falsely claims the master's degree I earned from Harvard as a non-traditional student is somehow not a real Harvard degree. They…
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@postjawline What is he guilty of, besides embarrassing the powerful?
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@LancesLegion @peakeythefjorth we live in the worst timeline
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@Duderichy There were well designed studies by Derek Bok. iirc they found little difference, with the exception of two groups (poor rural whites, inner city blacks). OTOH out of 535 Senators and Members of Congress, ~40 are Harvard grads. Not to mention the Federal Bench.
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What kind of land acknowledgment do you do for a moon landing?
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@GiftsUngiven_ 1) Dresden bombing was months before Berlin surrendered, not "after". 2) It was justifiable on the basis of what was known at the time, even if those assessments were incorrect. Miscalculations happen in war. 3) If you think this was bad, look at what LeMay did in Japan.
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@olivertraldi I know so many people like this. Most of them are smart enough to keep it in the social sphere, before they go back to their day job representing Saudi Aramco.
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@SecretaryPete That extreme weather? Anti-ship ballistic missiles.
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@sylphidian girl i was dating would routinely ask her SATC friends for advice, neglecting her happily married brother who had a large family
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@EricRichards22 they need the screed-tard text so the giffords people don't shut down their company.
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Help me find my frens.
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just knocked over an entire protein shake ama
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@kitten_beloved Not looking good for Open AI, either.
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@sexyRFK @TrueSlazac y2k was god-tier stupid
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@LatinxPutler my most cancellable opinion is situations like this call for either extreme generosity or extreme cruelty. caudine forks rules. we made the right choice (Marshall Plan).
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@arctanno @turrible_tao have you seen Lost in Translation?
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@MostlyMonkey Part of the original SS pitch was "it's insurance". Theoretically benefits were supposed to be paid from defined cash flows, now insufficient. In reality it's a general obligation that will end up getting funded through general revenue, probably.
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@powerbottomdad1 Gonna need an awful lot of battery packs to make this work.
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@___frye How much high density housing could have been built for that amount of money?
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@GarrettPetersen I have it on good authority chainsaws can be made reasonably safeish. Fed forestry department offers safety training.
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@GudistGrug it has to be some damned fool thing in the balkans, otherwise it's just sparkling bloodshed
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No way Dr. Pepper is the king of the carbonated beverages
@Richardst5
Rich Story - Slave to the King☕️🎧🎙✝️
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Photo from a Piggly Wiggly in Pontotoc Mississippi.
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@kitten_beloved tell me more about "child, but stacked"
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@Duderichy Two kinds: night school diploma mills and failed PhDs.
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@PstafarianPrice @kitten_beloved For every Grace Hopper you've got ten John von Neumans. It's like this in physics too - the Maria Goppet-Mayers are real, but for every one you have Oppenheimer / Schroedinger / Bohr etc.
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@ggreenwald @BillAckman The universities have suffered thirty years of rot. Anything that provides chemotherapy is welcome.
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@thewaywardjohn @0xAlaric @colossusofargos i know the baby has already died. but folks, this is going to happen again. gotta be prepared for next time.
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@knrd_z > with no training it takes like six month to a year to walk into a STEM career and perform at the level of its PhDs I very much doubt this is true, and if it is, you're not in a high performing environment. Quals are usually after ~2 years.
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can't come to bed babe arguing land value tax in the gc
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@uncle_deluge Not really surprising. Germanics emulated Rome, Indonesians took quickly to Islam. Emulating more complex societies is lindy.
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@FischerKing64 I once met a former Ambassador. She told me about half of these posts were political, half career. There is a tension because there is a limited number of prestigious jobs. There is only one POTUS, and it was filled by a DC outsider. That is why they hate him.
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@pseudolad worst Feynman diagrams ever
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Three hours behind in group chat. Is it over?
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Get in the gc, loser. We're posting youtube vids of 1950s nuclear tests.
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Gentle reminder “3 nm” devices are tens of nm in size.
@sea_snell
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My 100T parameter model is actually 100B parameters
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@IntelDoge @Orwelian84 If only they cared this much about their own country.
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Pro-tip for all the fellas: if you do stuff like this badly, you won't get asked to do it again.
@dissproportion
Dissproportionately
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Today I sent my husband with a small section of trim to get it color matched for paint. He did great, except he got the paint in eggshell finish. No more trim for him.
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If you're a new nvidia employee working on branch prediction, does that make you a branch newvidian?
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@JohnFeehery Redistricting?
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@olivertraldi @qvnxp @varunramg at a certain point you realize information in the culture does not match reality
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What happens if you live close to the hospital? Can you just carry baby home?
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Until the death of his brother, Bashar Assad was studying Optometry in London.
@willsolfiac
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Think how many children of dictators there are in London right now, just 'studying' or living their lives. Probably the highest concentration in the world.
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@Porter97977215 Lyndon Johnson had the public health authorities scream about how bad eggs were because they got too expensive.
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