FullMtlAlcoholc

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by FullMtlAlcoholc 4y ago
> It's just so painfully obvious that these kind of articles wouldn't be getting published right now if the US government wasn't angry with Saudi Arabia about crude oil production. It seems to me that the timing is the poi
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 4y ago
I think what your mentor meant was don't be bored. I have some misgivings about this advice though as I think it should be more nuanced. It's ok to be bored. With all the gifts modern society has given us, one of the costs has bee
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 5y ago
For any cryptocurrency experts out there, is there any way the Bitcoin protocol could be altered (or temporarily halted while being updated) without compromising the blockchain so that instead of guessing for some hash/key combination,
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 7y ago
"There wasn't much thought put into how it was supposed to play, but Epic 100% did not see where this was going, nor did the community at the time. And that was very much instrumental to it's success. Had Epic saw this coming
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 7y ago
Hmm...chortle would likely be most appropriate as it is specifically a breathy laugh. Chuckle or titter would also be appropriate :)
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 8y ago
Former smoker as well. What else are you going to do with a cigarette butt? Most cars don't have ashtrays anymore. If there is a proper way for me to dispose of a cigarette within a one block radius (some sort of trash receptacle) I wi
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 8y ago
After seeing so many past failed attempts at revitalization (New Center Area, People Mover, etc.), it is refreshing to see a sustained turnaround. What was most surprising on my last trip back was the amount of activity in the downtown area
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 8y ago
> If you talk to them a few years later they long to return to the Midwest and they want to do a startup. As a biological Michigander (Detroit) that now identifies as Californian, my friends and I have anecdotally experienced the opposit
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 8y ago
> Therefore I would be quite happy to have something built in my car that checks I'm not drunk before I turn on the engine If that's truly the case, it's trivial to get a voluntary interlock ignition device installed on yo
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 8y ago
You seem to underestimate how annoying modern air travel is, at least in America. One has to stand in at least 3 different lines (baggage, security, boarding) before getting on the plane. Whether in the terminal or on the aircraft, the seat
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 8y ago
Look at my comment history. I'm a real person who benefitted from these courses. Not everything on the internet is a shill or a scam
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 8y ago
Logged in just to say that anything Tyler McGinnis does is more than worth it. His React Fundamentals course (free at the time) was so much clearer than any other online training courses as his presentation style makes things click immediat
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 8y ago
Facebook was already on a decline as it was becoming the social media platform for senior citizens. I do wonder how this will affect Instagram, which is where most of my peers and friends are.
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 8y ago
Discussions about Elon Musk and, specifically, Tesla has become quite the lightning rod around here with negative sentiment rising. Here's a little tidbit of info that I think partly explains it: a lot of it is driven by schadenfraude.
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 8y ago
Auto Close Tag Auto Import Auto Rename Tag Beautify Better Align Quokka Color Highlight Custom CSS and JS Loader (for font italics and ligatures) Debugger for Chrome * GraphQL for VSCode Highlight Matching Tag Path IntelliSense PrettifyJS
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 8y ago
I'm not a doctor, but I believe cancer is what we call it when cells that evade apoptosis proliferate to reach a critical mass. They metasttisize when they are able to survive a journey through the blood or lymph systems to invade othe
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 8y ago
I should add that a couple of years ago, I received a check in the mail for several hundred dollars due to a class action settlement launched on behalf of the Claims team. Management really pushed for employees to hit that 3 claims a day m
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 8y ago
This is far from being unique to Amazon and from my experience constant pressures like these are prevalent in many low to mid-income paying jobs. I briefly worked as an Insurance Claims Representative for Farmer's Insurance. At the tim
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
For me, it depends on whether I'm listening to a fiction or non-fiction book (also, the ability of the narrator to draw me in is key). I was completely immersed in the audio version of the Three Body Problem and wager that I could reca
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
Is this worth reading if I loved Transmetropolitan?
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
I've read that the microbiome can and does influence our sense of taste, altering it in such a way that the foods that certain species of bacteria prefer to metabolize end up tasting better. Although I've anecdotally found this to
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
Arrogance is rooted in self-importance. In fact, if one can glean common themes from science, it's that there is a distinct lack of self importance, that humans are special . The Earth is not the center of the universe, the sun and sta
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
Noam Chomsky is the father of modern linguistics, and his theories hold that the principles underlying the structure of language are biologically determined in the human mind and hence genetically transmitted. The 1984 Nobel Prize laureate
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
Because the concept of the conscious self being just a small part what constitutes one unit of homo sapiens has been part of philosophy for thousands of years. As I see it, philosophy is there to ask the big questions, having a say in the p
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
The boundary at which the self ends and the environment begets another philsophical point that Alan Watts spoke at length about, essentially stating there is no dividing line, it's all a spectrum upon which we place arbitrary boundarie
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
Only one quarter of algorithms was required at Stanford. However, I did end up taking a class on computational mol bio algorithms and I believe there were at least 3 other electives that focused on specific classes of algorithms in discrete
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
It pays far less even when accounting for the cost of living benefits in the Midwest. However, in my experience, there is less to spend money on, but those savings do not come close to the higher pay on the coasts. Another issue, at least i
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
Or your fate may hang in the balance of the time the decision is rendered. The person who has their case heard right before lunch generally is given the least amount of sympathy and understanding
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
Another counter-argument is you're still learning about frameworks in general which should help you pick up new ones quicker or provide a more comprehensive base of knowledge to draw upon when developing your own.
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
Everything has flaws. Exhibiting an institutional insecurity by making a take it or leave it response upon criticism, reducing the world to binaries, shuts down any attempt at improvements.

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