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ShadowDV t1_j56os79 wrote

Reply to comment by RaderH2O in Greetings everyone! A lot of people say reading books is beneficial for you, though... by RaderH2O

Because most are using 60,000 words to say “Take time for yourself, spend 30 minutes a day exercising, eat nutritious un-processed foods, limit your alcohol intake, get enough sleep, and be nice to people”. That’s 90% of self help in a nutshell. If you need more than this, you probably should be getting advice from a qualified professional, not a book.

Oh, and financial self help books are crap too. There is no credible advice there that you can’t get from the r/personalfinance wiki.

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ShadowDV t1_iycttqh wrote

Reply to comment by peptalks93 in Job offer and counter-offer by peptalks93

being in the beginning position at the new company gives you more room to grow than being a senior supervisor at the current one. Sounds like at the current job you will likely be red-lined against future salary increases due to the bump now.

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ShadowDV t1_itr9jbz wrote

Reply to comment by Fearlessleader85 in Rather than heralding a new era of prosperity for rural and remote regions, remote working, inspired by the pandemic, is exacerbating the global urban-rural divide in the digital platform labour market by giuliomagnifico

Siklu mmWave wireless... As long as you have line of sight, that stuff will reach miles with speed and latency of fiber. Cost a few thousand, but way cheaper than running fiber.

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ShadowDV t1_iqyh7xc wrote

Reply to comment by MechTheDane in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo­-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog

Yeah, the mechanism wasn’t discovered until the US started dragging magnets all over the Atlantic searching for German subs during WWII (very simplified explanation)

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ShadowDV t1_iqy2jvl wrote

Reply to comment by a9dnsn in Solar power world record broken with ‘miracle material’ by NickDanger3di

Public transportation doesn’t magically solve the problem. I live in the downtown of a midsized city, and the nearest grocery store is 5 miles away. Nearest hardware store 4 miles. In fact most of the business I frequent are between 4 and 10 miles away. I’m not walking to the bus stop, waiting for the bus, going 5 miles, turning a 10 minute drive into a 25 minute ride, getting several bags of groceries, and then waiting outside in the snow for the next 20 minutes for the next bus to come.

Now, I’ve lived in Chicago without a car, so I’m not against the idea in principle. But all the businesses I needed on a daily basis were available within a 15 minute walk from where I lived, and an EL stop was 10 minutes away. This is all possible because the population density is high enough to support businesses clustered in walkable neighborhoods.

In most of middle America, the population density is typically not high enough in an area to support these types of walkable communities. So everything is spread out, designed for communities with POVs.

It would take a massive redesign and rebuilding of communities for the public transportation thing to be viable.

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