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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... That said, the actual article do
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
> who are more likely to find themselves abandoned at a time when they are increasingly unable to cope on their own That often happens rapidly, and in many cases putting the Alzheimer's patient in full-time care is the only option -
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
RenPy is the VN software that gave us, among others, DDLC and Katawa Shoujo.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Interesting. I've used a notepad++ "spellbook" of one-liners and useful commands (Cisco & Juniper especially). What would this offer that a well-backed-up N++ doc doesn't? Sell me.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18805315
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
This has been a discussion thread I've heard of before. I.E. the mountains full of rare earth metals, lithium, etc. in Afghanistan, and how we need to secure it ASAP before the Chinese do. Read like Bush-League propaganda and was usu
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
For the folks who have web filters that block reddit: ----- Due to an amendment in December 2018 of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act in Japan, certain gaming-related activities and services have now been declared illegal. This includes
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
The case study at the end seems overly modest. Even relatively unimpressive internal promotions can bump you up 7-8% or more; jumping ship to new jobs can often add 50% or more.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
> GAN: Generative Adversarial Networks, a specific kind of deep learning algorithm that can train a neural network to generate realistic imagery. Whilst GANs are not integral to creating synthetic media, they represent the most signific
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Nitpick: I believe that's "lede" as in "burying the lede".
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
I do consulting work. My role originally promised 40-60% travel to customer sites. For a while, that was true. Now 95% of my work is webex or hangouts or go2meeting, etc. If I need physical goods somewhere quickly then flying is a must, b
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
More like his neighbors became "those people"
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
> Wtf is going on in California. Forreal. As someone in Canada watching the weed thing play out, my prediction is that Cali would legalize and then utterly dominate. Like the medical and recreational stuff is there, the weather is great
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
That is debatable; burning leaves or burning anything can mess you up with extended amounts of exposure. Firefighters have above-average rates of cancer, including lung cancer. This suggests that inhaling lots of smoke from ANYTHING on the
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Helping to stimulate the economy of the next county over...
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Buying a house with an HOA to keep the property values up, setting up NUMBY committees to keep new developments out, google buses as someone mentioned, corporate recruiting pipelines that pull from a handful of select schools, etc. Same gen
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
> I am on 100% remote team now for past 3 yrs and remote teams lack any human connection, team culture or shared struggle. Sure I know where everyone lives and how many kids they have but I don't have any real connection with any of
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Deleted it in 2008 -- before it was cool! ...but ended up creating 2 accounts for businesses in ~2015-2016. Still on linkedin, reddit, HN, twitter, and tumblr. No whatapp or insta.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Fairly certain the notion of an Ivy League University has to do with college football; the elitism came more from being "college boys" at a time when most folks didn't go to university.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
> spending the largest portion of its budget on undemocratic means That is just simply not true. The largest part of the US budget is ~1.25 trillion USD spent on Social Security and Unemployment, after that it's ~1 trillion on Medi
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
The planning equivalent of Thoughts and Prayers. To speak to the parent's points -- WW1 happened and the League of Nations failed to prevent an even worse conflagration. Say what you will about US v USSR, or the post-Cold War US hegemo
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
In VA that was $2.13/hr + tips, with tips to be declared at the end of the shift. Obviously, you could declare lower tips than what you made, but if the customers paid by credit cards then you could get nailed if/when you got aud
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
"In [Father of The Bride, George Banks [Steve Martin] heads to a local market in order to cool off after having had a bit of a meltdown over his daughter’s impending wedding. While there, he has an even bigger meltdown over the fact t
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
> cannabis, LSD, and mushrooms are far less destructive than alcohol Alcohol is tied, heavily, to crime. As much as 70% for domestic abuse issues, and closer to 30-40% for fatal accidents, assaults, etc. The stats below are from the 90
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
I'll echo this. Keto did wonders for my skin. But it's a hard diet to maintain, both in terms of managing cravings and consumption, and also because we put carbs (corn syrup, et al) into bloody everything. I found cheese/yo
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
The Australian NBN was taking tenders and explicitly booted Huawei due to questions about their manufacturing.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
While social media usage is lower in France[1], it's laughable to say that it's not a force. Nor is agenda & social-media driven journalism less of a thing, it's just mitigated by government fairness doctrines[2] -- but
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
The BBC is state-owned media that makes a profit, via things like Dr. Who syndication and OutBrain clickbate articles -- softball is their modus operandi.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Depends on risk tolerance and how flashy they want to be. Donald Trump, if his public finances are to be believed, would have roughly the same net worth had he just invested the money his dad gave him in mutual funds. Instead he managed to
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Has it really slowed, or just been putting out shady statistics for a while that show growth that isn't there?

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