amyfp214

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by amyfp214 2y ago
there's also a nice movie & book called "Men Who Stare at Goats" - a reference to the fact that they tried to kill goats with their mind as a weapon. Haven't read the book, but have seen the movie docudrama(?) starr
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by amyfp214 2y ago
Gosh that's just awful. "Hi ghshepard, welcome home! Before we unlock your door for you, please watch this 30 second ad! Oh my, once a day you'll need to fill out a survey - what did you think of the ad?" "your c
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by amyfp214 2y ago
ledragonx windebloat tools my friend, your life will become much better. it strips out sooooooooooo much adware. It's like every service in windows from MS, dozens of them, all has telemetry. WHen it runs it's like getting a co
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by amyfp214 2y ago
I agree it's not an easy market. Peds ER & pediatrician offices are already a thing catering to children, so I don't see the innovation there. Additionally it's long known pediatrics reimbursement and costs are just way
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by amyfp214 2y ago
see comment below- " belinder 1 day ago | parent | prev | next [–] I was hiring manager for 3 positions about 4 months ago and the amount of fake applications out there was mind boggling to me. I would say 90% were either entirely fa
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by amyfp214 2y ago
It's even worse in Cali because of something called proposition 13: essentially rent control for property taxes. So you have not just a powerful NIMBY force, but nobody has any desire to sell. This creates a highly skewed market whil
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by amyfp214 2y ago
Well.. I mean Calhoun's "Universe 25" mouse experiment says it all doesn't it. ie. -- "Eventually other deviant behavior emerged. Mice who had been raised improperly or kicked out of the nest early often failed to
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by amyfp214 2y ago
notably that corner of the world, especially singapore, in some ways is opposite to murica's personal independence attitude. more of a "you will own nothing and you will be happy" e.g. everything including cooking is outsour
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by amyfp214 2y ago
ahhh cocaine, the old performance enhancing drug for the thinking professions. "word candy" they call it in literary circles
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by amyfp214 2y ago
the natural evolution of such an approach is to also seemingly advertise a variety of security holes.. and maintain a blacklist silently that feeds actual production systems as a firewall, should said hacker reach that point
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by amyfp214 2y ago
The picture is great. The senior manager on the right has a bit of a grimace in realizing yet again he'll need to smooth over Shockley's antagonism. The guy on the left has more of a smile and nod, and everything will be okay, t
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by amyfp214 2y ago
There's two sides to that. Police accidentally ruin lives most days and generally have a degree of immunity for example. Arguably the needle has moved too far with doctors - they treat every medical note as a legal document, almost a
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by amyfp214 2y ago
My favorite part is the part when they say "Aha! It's camoflauge! It LOOKS like an aeroplane but in fact it's a disguise!". I mean, what's next, a helicopter is chasing a drone and they say "Aha! The alien c
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by amyfp214 2y ago
That is absolutely true, even no matter the government, even a non-capitalist socialist commune must allocate and there's no right answer. It can become insidious in capitalism. We have organizations like Kaiser who say "we&#x27
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by amyfp214 2y ago
>So the wider the beam, the better the outcome? I looked into it, this "beam search" is nothing but a bit of puffed up nomenclature, not unlike the shock and awe of understanding a language such as Java that introduces synonyms
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by amyfp214 2y ago
The brilliance of reddit was "anyone can create a reddit that they run for any topic" so the "community" was handed to the people and the site managed infrastructure. In the time-honored tradition of virtualization, I wo
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by amyfp214 2y ago
I second this. It's a wonderful read. I particularly enjoyed learning the history of various unix commands, for example, I was unfamiliar with the grep family of commands until the book explained it clearly. It also gives in more de