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2 votes
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Why the search for dark matter depends on ancient shipwrecks
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Have a Nice Life - Sea of Worry (2019)
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Tell us the most uninteresting thing you did today!
I'll start: I have two keys in my keychain that look exactly the same. I always pick the wrong one. Today I rearranged my keys to prevent that from happening.
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Examples of wildfire mitigation working
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Hazbin Hotel (Pilot)
13 votes -
Yang vs. Warren: Who has the better tax plan?
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Here's what we know the shadowy X-37B was up to during its record 780 days in space
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Lost Ember | Release announcement trailer - November 22, 2019
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UK Parliament approves snap general election on Dec. 12
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Inside the iPhone 11 Camera, Part 1: A completely new camera
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More than 100 tons of manure from 370 horses at the Helsinki International Horse Show was used to create 150 megawatt hours of energy
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive container keys can no longer be traded or sold on the Steam Marketplace, due to extensive use for money laundering and fraud
11 votes -
Moto Hagio has been awarded as this year's Person of Cultural Merit by the Japanese government
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H&M is the latest fashion brand to test out the concept of clothing rental
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‘OK boomer’ marks the end of friendly generational relations
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Untitled Goose Game is a funny video game about an asshole goose. Its power is in its simplicity.
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What’s inside Skinner’s Box? How using an exploit in the learning systems of our brain creates pleasure
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A piece of kitchen art sold for $26 million. A long-lost painting by Italian pre-Renaissance artist Cimabue had been hanging above a stove in an elderly French woman’s home.
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The cybersecurity firm Tiversa dominated an emerging online market—before it was accused of fraud, extortion, and manipulating the federal government
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The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes (2006)
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Sony will shut down its PlayStation Vue streaming service on January 30, 2020
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The Mandalorian | Official trailer 2
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The Washington Post is the latest mainstream media outlet to dedicate resources to covering games. Past efforts at other publications have failed—why is this time going to be different?
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Recent Study Estimates That 50% of Websites Using WebAssembly Apply It for Malicious Purposes
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?8 votes -
The world’s largest 3D metal printer is churning out rockets
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Can you turn a grape into a "meat berry"? - Tissue recellularization
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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How to live like Jane Austen
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Disney Is Quietly Placing Classic Fox Movies Into Its Vault, and That’s Worrying
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EA Access and EA Games on Steam
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Is it OK if someone wants to live for years on a bench?
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The material science of metal 3D printing
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The 1619 Project by the New York Times
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Blizzard confirms departure of veteran developers amid cancelled projects
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Twisted - Kevin Macleod
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‘Star Wars’ setback: ‘Game Of Thrones’ duo David Benioff and D.B. Weiss exit trilogy
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Why your cell phone is silent: Federal Communications Commission says 874 sites are down in California. They lack backup power
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Text Editing Hates You Too
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Why palladium is suddenly a more precious metal
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fornclake is developing an open source GBC Zelda clone with online multiplayer
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Migrating Russian eagles run up huge data roaming charges
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Letterpress business card printing with five Pantone colors
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Financial incentives are weaker than social incentives but very important anyway
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"#GameofThrones was basically an expensive film school [for us]"—David Benioff & D.B Weiss
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One Year of ProtonDB
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House Will Vote To Formalize Impeachment Procedures In Ongoing Inquiry
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What do you want to do/be when you grow up?
"What do you want to do/be when you grow up?" is a question we've all been confronted with, willingly or not, throughout our lives. It's intercultural, except for the increasingly rare instances...
"What do you want to do/be when you grow up?" is a question we've all been confronted with, willingly or not, throughout our lives. It's intercultural, except for the increasingly rare instances where it's culturally or familialy expected that you'll continue a family trade.
And then there are those of us who just can't pick the one true direction, or thought we had it right for a while, then abruptly got bored/burnt out and had to find a new career or calling. I've personally had no fewer than eight different or only tangentially related "careers", sometimes overlapping with hobbies, and I'm floundering a bit to find the next one.
I was just introduced to the "multipotentialite" concept today - see the TED Talk, Why Some of Us Don't Have One True Calling for details, and https://puttylike.com/ for the speaker's site and book information. As the video mentions, polymathy was once highly respected in the Renaissance, but it's been devalued in favor of increasingly narrow specializations in the industrial and information economies.
This thread is for the bewildered, the career peregrinators wandering with or without aim, who've been branded as flakes or losers, or are suffering anxiety/depression because the heavens haven't opened up and rained down purpose and meaningful work.
Tell your story to the extent you're comfortable, ask questions and seek support.
- What is it like to discover a passion?
- What is it like to find yourself losing that passion?
- How did you accommodate the change?
- What carried over successfully from prior careers?
- Did you experience pressure to stay with just one thing?
- Have you had disrupted relationships with family, partners, or friends as a result of these changes?
- Do you feel that you've made unique contributions due to broad experience and/or interdisciplinary knowledge?
- Do you feel discriminated against in the job market for lacking a clear career path?
- Did you suffer damaging mental distress before or as a result of making a career change?
- Is it exciting or frightening to make a change, and has it become more or less so with repeated changes?
This is also open to the people who were seemingly born knowing precisely what they wanted to do - were you successful in pursuing it, or did you have to make accommodations, perhaps discovering something else?
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The most gender-switched names in US history
9 votes