bbrian

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by bbrian 7y ago
I'm not sure that applies in the free market. It seems less scofflaw companies aren't offered the chance to serve the same markets because criminal companies are let off too lightly.
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by bbrian 7y ago
I discovered Udemy's 1.25x and 1.5x speed last week. It certainly helped.
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by bbrian 7y ago
The content is very well paced and engaging. The use of Jupyter Notebook really is a great way to demo code. I took Part 1 online (free) and then Part 2 in person ($2000) and feel the money was well spent. TBH, I haven't used it yet, b
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by bbrian 7y ago
I went looking because I believe it does, and found a Consumerist article, "People Love Their Cars Because They're Lonely", discussing a journal article, "Truly, Madly, Deeply: Consumers in the Throes of Material Possess
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by bbrian 7y ago
Nuclear waste is dumped in the Irish sea, at "regulated" amounts. > In the United Kingdom, spent fuel is reprocessed at the Sellafield facility in Cumbria on the North West coast of England. Waste generated at the site comprise
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by bbrian 7y ago
Yeah, that wasn’t very clear. He hardly lost his job because of the politician action outside work, is that legal? Maybe it caused him to miss too many days of work and that was used to fire him, maybe by management who wanted to appear fai
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by bbrian 7y ago
Some people seem to go vegan because they're emotionally off-kilter. I'm in a few vegan Facebook groups and I've seen posts where people are way over-reacting to food cooked on the same surface, or talking about their emotion
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by bbrian 7y ago
There is a class of drugs called SARMs which are effectively used in bodybuilding but are not FDA approved. Consider too the numerous psychoactive drugs that have been subjectively reported as benign and beneficial, yet are banned. I have n
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by bbrian 7y ago
> The hassle of dealing with traffic has always prevented me from cycling Reminds me of: > Cars are the perfect late capitalist consumer product: an expensive, often de facto mandatory, solution to a problem that the product itself ha
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by bbrian 7y ago
Google are beginning to use it for Tensorflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s65BigoMV_I There's a course currently running in University of San Francisco run by Fast.ai which is using Swift-Tensorflow taught by Chri
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by bbrian 8y ago
This article says _was_ almost always: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-bc7d54e7-88f6-4026-...
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by bbrian 8y ago
Codeine gave me sleep paralysis a few times.
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by bbrian 8y ago
Wow, I'd never heard of Transnistria. Fascinating. Transnistria: A land in limbo: CNN: 3m 22s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAReDKkT9TA Transnistrian Independence Day 2017: A travel blogger who doesn't over-do
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by bbrian 8y ago
US pedestrian deaths are at a 25 year high. Be ashamed. Or don't take the car for short journeys. Be part of a positive change. Or don't take a job that requires long commutes. People want to live in location A and want a better j
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by bbrian 8y ago
My bad. I read it as "since cars pay... transit should pay too".
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by bbrian 8y ago
> Cars pay for roads, maintenance, highway patrol, etc. That's not accurate. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/05/debunking-the...
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by bbrian 8y ago
> their dataset will have EXIF timestamps It used to be the case (still is?) that the dates on uploaded photos weren't applied to the photo album. I remember having to go through holiday snaps and change the date on each from the up
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by bbrian 8y ago
> They're not competitive with animal B12 sources, Interestingly, the B12 people get from animals is probably from supplements they were given. https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/7ujsaf/the_b
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by bbrian 8y ago
My mother had the Freestyle Libre and liked it. Now using a Dexcom which works with her Apple Watch. I just bought her a Dario finger-stick glucose meter for her birthday which plugs into iPhone lightning port ($40!). https://img
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by bbrian 8y ago
Don't eat meat.
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by bbrian 8y ago
Ferdinand Porsche designed the Volkswagen Beetle! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Porsche#Volkswagen_B...
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by bbrian 8y ago
The Facebook post referred to in the article: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1015581190459122... Its replies are widely supportive of the action.
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Activists call for total ban on Airbnb, occupied Dublin offices(irishtimes.com)
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by bbrian 8y ago
I just signed up for the IRS website and their password requirements are: > Password Rules: > 1) At least 8 characters long. > 2) Must contain at least one numeric and one special character (!@#$%&). (and asterisks, which is ru
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by bbrian 8y ago
The report doesn't say loneliness is rising recently. It says technology use is rising and then measures individuals' loneliness, following up with a survey on technology use and a self reported ~"Do you think technology is c
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by bbrian 8y ago
The real culprit, IMO, is the automobile. By allowing people travel further, the frequency your life overlaps with other individuals' decreases exponentially. Relationships with strangers are much easier to start with familiarity. I&#x
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by bbrian 8y ago
Go to eventbrite.com, search (blank) your local area "today" and events are not in chronological order. I appreciate that they show the 'best' events first, but when I just want something to do, it kills me that such a s
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by bbrian 8y ago
Sounds like beta blockers. They’re used in cardiac medicine but abused by people wanting to keep calm.
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by bbrian 8y ago
Skip to page 54 of this book (PDF) for a light read: http://cnqzu.com/library/Philosophy/neoreaction/_extra%20aut... > THE CAUSE OF CRIMINALITY among the white population of England is perfectly obvious to
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by bbrian 8y ago
I use http://wikimapia.org/ when traveling to find out about what's around me. Going around the US by train last year I passed a decommissioned ICBM launch site and a couple of Superfund/nuclear waste sites. Neat.

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