Wonderdonkey

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by Wonderdonkey 3y ago
On a little bit of a tangent, this article made me think about how far we've come in terms of air quality in Southern California. We can and should always do better. But in my high school years, we had up to 160 hazardous/very unh
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by Wonderdonkey 10y ago
Cheating is such a fluid concept anyway, and it's inconsistently applied. Some schools will suspend students for using calculators on a math test; some force students to bring calculators to their tests. Some give out the questions bef
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by Wonderdonkey 10y ago
Same question here.
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by Wonderdonkey 10y ago
Yes! That's great to hear!
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by Wonderdonkey 10y ago
I remember a bunch of "X is evil" sites sprouted up at some point. There was even a site that aggregated them. I did mine when my wife was pregnant with our first daughter back in '96. I had quit smoking cigarettes, and this
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by Wonderdonkey 10y ago
Easily 9.9 out of 10 people won't get sardonicism. My contribution was the Evil of Pippi Longstocking site, which aimed to prove that Pippi Longstocking is the devil. (Anybody remember the '90s?) The Daily Show, which thought I wa
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by Wonderdonkey 10y ago
White type on black background made my eyes disobey my wish to have functioning vision for about three minutes after I clicked away.
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by Wonderdonkey 10y ago
Side topic: As an end user, the worst for me software that only tells you what's wrong with your password AFTER you've done it wrong, and then only tells you one thing at a time even when you've made multiple errors (dictiona
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by Wonderdonkey 10y ago
The trouble is the only thing our state and cities ever do is widen freeways, and that never works. The core of the problem is traffic management, which technology can solve without added tolls. (It's the same with city streets. There
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by Wonderdonkey 10y ago
Freedom of press will easily survive an ephemeron like Trump, maybe even come out stronger for the short-term tribulation. He's superficial. The more insidious statist leaders create deep, subtle, lasting harm. It's the Bushes and
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by Wonderdonkey 10y ago
Both collaborative assignments and assessments of those assignments are often poorly conceptualized in school. Why, for example, do curriculum developers create (or choose to adopt from textbook publishers) scenarios where if one person fai
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by Wonderdonkey 10y ago
Side note: The volume on BBC's media player goes to 11.
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by Wonderdonkey 10y ago
I had kept my Macs at 10.6 for a long time but had to "upgrade" one of them to help my daughter with an iPhone problem (really annoying that you have to update your Mac just to copy files to a phone, but whatever). Everything was
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by Wonderdonkey 10y ago
Came here to see if anyone else noticed that and what people made of it. That was the real revelation in this story. If nothing else, if you followed that one tutorial on running a Tor hidden service using Docker, maybe stop doing that now.
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by Wonderdonkey 10y ago
Don't try that with your Surface Pro!
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by Wonderdonkey 10y ago
I'd been exclusively with Apple since 1989 when I bought my first Mac (an SE with dual HD floppy drives and a whopping 400 MB external hard drive). I stuck with Apple through the difficult years and then even became the editor of a mul
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by Wonderdonkey 11y ago
It seems to me the most unscrupulous businesses in the United States all do their business by the books. No need to fudge it by failing to declare revenue. They just don't pay taxes, and it's all legal. Cash businesses here do exi
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by Wonderdonkey 11y ago
Paying off small debts first isn't just a "natural tendency." Consumer advice sites actually encourage this as a motivational strategy. Every single one of them. Having read this, now I question the objectivity of those types
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by Wonderdonkey 11y ago
Came here to recommend this article as well. It's by far the most informative piece I've ever read on ISIS. This should be required reading for every policymaker and military strategist.
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by Wonderdonkey 11y ago
This article is for people who haven't yet figured out that different stores sell the same things for different prices. This is the way it's always been. Come for the thing that's cheap/on sale, spend your money on somet
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Day Before Bombing, U.S. Asked If Any Taliban Were “Holed Up” at MSF Hospital(theintercept.com)
2 points by Wonderdonkey 11y ago|0 comments
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The Lesson of CISA's Success, or How to Fight a Zombie(theintercept.com)
3 points by Wonderdonkey 11y ago|0 comments
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FBI releasing software for schools, “Don’t Be a Puppet”(nytimes.com)
1 points by Wonderdonkey 11y ago|0 comments
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Police reports illustrated (archive)(thestranger.com)
2 points by Wonderdonkey 11y ago|0 comments
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by Wonderdonkey 11y ago
Ju-On?
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by Wonderdonkey 11y ago
I started reading this hopefully. I liked the idea that seemed to be developing at first — reaching out to people before crimes are committed, potentially saving a human being from a life in prison (not to mention saving any potential victi
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by Wonderdonkey 11y ago
Small point of grammar: AD goes in front of the date. IPv6 will be exhausted in AD 5,395,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, not 5,395,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 AD. Explanation: AD stands for anno Domini, "in the year of our
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by Wonderdonkey 11y ago
I'm with you on the wording. The word "into" is ambiguous on its own and even more ambiguous used with "divide." There's a discussion of that here: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/
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by Wonderdonkey 11y ago
Yes! Every publishing executive in America needs to read this.
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by Wonderdonkey 11y ago
Related to this, I was listening to an NPR program recently that tackled the question: If your pet's doctor can give you a list of pricing options before you decide on treatment, why can't your own doctor do that for you? The answ

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