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  • What tech/science communicators do you follow that you feel are unbiased?

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  • The best communicators are ones that stick to their own field. Neil Degrasse Tyson is kind of a bad one for that, as well.

    There's a lot of fields and subfields, so that means not any one particular person, unfortunately.

  • Have you ever solved a Rubik's Cube? And how?

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  • Yes, by looking up how to do it and then practicing until I could actually implement the instructions.

    That Rubik himself figured it out with no guide is impressive as hell.

  • o(1) statistical prime approximation

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  • I mean, an application could exist where this isn't even wrong. Maybe as a "subroutine" of another algorithm that only needs a truly composite number most of the time to work.

    That this reads as a joke says a lot about what application we're intuitively expecting.

    Edit: Not sure why this is being downvoted.

  • Do you think that blue collar work should come under the category of skilled work?

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  • Same story as a retail job, basically. Anyone can do it at a basic level (and lots of people do jump right in professionally), although speed and quality will improve with practice. Compare that to tiling a shower or putting in electrical, where substandard work will lead to damage or actual injury.

    They get paid way less than other tradespeople as a result.

    It was the least skilled, modern and Western blue collar job I could think of. Most of the rest have been partly automated, which blurs the line with white collar jobs. For example, a crop farmer can stay perfectly clean and comfortable all day.

  • How come people want to work?

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  • Yeah, avocation and vocation can both fill that hole. It is a hole that most people need filled, though.

  • How come people want to work?

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  • When people do retire, something like this usually happens. Either they solve it by joining into so many activities and hobbies they're actually busier than before, they end up finding another job for the hell of it, or they decline into misery.

    Doing nothing is like a covid lockdown that never ends, basically.

  • How come people want to work?

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  • Yeah, YMMV, I guess. When I was in school I took it deadly serious. It definitely took energy, and it definitely was 5 days a week.

  • North Korean POW in Ukraine: 'There is nothing I can do if they don't take me'

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  • Yeah, this article feels like it's trying to imply a tension that doesn't exist. Ukraine has no motive to send them back to NK, there isn't a legal basis for, and nobody in here actually says it's being considered.

  • US envoy Mike Huckabee says it would be ‘fine’ if Israel took all Middle East land

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  • If you had said Catholicism you might be right, for all I know, but that's actually a big part of my background. US (and Canadian) protestantism is an amorphous mass; it doesn't really have heresies, exact rules are up to today's pastor. It does have tribal symbols, though, and Isreal is one of them (despite the typical belief that Jews go to hell).

    Prosperity gospel? They have that. Charities? That too. Cults where you have to give everything away like the desciples? They're around, although they can't compete with pastors that say what people want to hear.

  • How come people want to work?

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  • I mean, isn't school a bit like that?

  • How come people want to work?

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  • Or sad, unemployed people.

  • US envoy Mike Huckabee says it would be ‘fine’ if Israel took all Middle East land

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  • And then the middle kingdom is China, and New Zealand is Middle Earth, all while being further east yet.

  • Do you think that blue collar work should come under the category of skilled work?

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  • It's not clean - debriding an abscessed bowel is about the grossest dirtiest job I can think of. It can be very physical, particularly when working with bone.

    Those are the two criteria, the idea being that a white shirt (collar) would be ruined. Obviously, it's not just a synonym for unskilled work, or OP's question wouldn't even make sense.

  • North Korean POW in Ukraine: 'There is nothing I can do if they don't take me'

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  • However, if there is credible risk of torture or persecution, repatriation against a prisoner’s will is prohibited.

    That would be a nasty oversight, but it doesn't actually appear to be the case.

  • North Korean POW in Ukraine: 'There is nothing I can do if they don't take me'

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  • Something like that is actually pretty clever, but it appears it's not neccesary.

  • Do you think that blue collar work should come under the category of skilled work?

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  • The tone of this makes me think you spend a lot of time looking for ways to be mad.

  • Do you think that blue collar work should come under the category of skilled work?

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  • On day one is a bit steep. Most unskilled kinds of jobs, like retail, include a week or two of training where you're only sort-of useful to your employer. Really really simple jobs (breaking rocks, digging trenches, turning wheels) have mostly been subsumed by machines.

    From an employment market perspective, a better question is if you need to have training already to get hired, and if it's on-the-job kind of training (aka. semiskilled) or you spend significant time as a student.

  • Do you think that blue collar work should come under the category of skilled work?

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  • Surgeon? Yes. House painter? Probably not.

  • US envoy Mike Huckabee says it would be ‘fine’ if Israel took all Middle East land

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  • Ah, but his personal interpretation of god didn't okay aggression against him.

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    Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

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    What about AT protocol?

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    So how is not buying American going for you?

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    Preventing child sex abuse must involve treating pedophiles, even past offenders, say experts - CBC Radio

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    Is there a precedent for a really delay-tolerant command line interface? (A bit off-topic)

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    What's the issue, specifically, with Lemmit federation?

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    What are your opinions of Guix?

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    Can you add new instances here usually?