ideonexus

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by ideonexus 11mo ago
The Saturday editorial "Trump's undertaking is a shot across the bow at NIMBYs everywhere," was the final straw for me. I can forgive an editorial defending Trump's actions--no matter how misguided, but the fact that the
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by ideonexus 2y ago
This is a 5-year-old article, and it's still very pertinent. This past summer I did a lot of bike-riding around Loudon County surveying trails for the Park Service (volunteer) and it's like riding through a cyberpunk future out th
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by ideonexus 2y ago
Just a few examples: 1. Sugarless Protein Bars: just last week I found one they claimed 30 grams of protein on the front of the package, but hidden in the nutrition facts is that it has four-times the daily recommended saturated fats. These
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by ideonexus 2y ago
It's not just the UPFs, we need scientifically-backed truth-in-advertising for all foods. For years I thought I was eating very healthy, but then my blood tests got worse and worse until my doctor wanted to put me on medications. I ask
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by ideonexus 2y ago
"if you can afford to bike in Loudon" I don't follow your reasoning. It costs nothing to ride a bicycle in most of America. We have bike paths everywhere that are free for anyone to enjoy. You also don't have to live in
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by ideonexus 2y ago
What does Ireland having the same size and population as Virginia have to do with my comment? Virginia is a state and I was specifically referring to Loudon and Prince William Counties, which are very tiny in proportion to the entire state
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by ideonexus 2y ago
I realize this headline means nothing, but there is something to nuclear power futures. I live in Northern Virginia and my recent 20 mile bike ride in Loudon county was nothing but massive datacenters and crisscrossing powerlines to support
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by ideonexus 2y ago
The objections to evolution on the grounds of racism and eugenics were in Bryan's closing statements. These were never read in court because the defendant did not give a closing argument. He never uses the term "eugenics" but
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by ideonexus 2y ago
Hello. Author of this 17-year-old blog post here. I was a little shocked to find this throwaway post from my ancient history making HackerNews today and I just want to make a couple of notes: 1. If I were to write the post today, I would dr
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by ideonexus 3y ago
The copyright law portion of the lawsuit is interesting and I'm curious about how that will go, but the NYT has a second argument that every article I read completely ignores: ChatGPT routinely attributes falsehoods to to the NYTs. It&
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by ideonexus 3y ago
Vox had an apt comparison of Musk to Trump in a recent article. They noted that Musk and Trump both overwhelm the public with their flood of scandals and falsehoods so that we can't even keep track of them anymore (I had forgotten abou
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by ideonexus 4y ago
You can become more specialised; but that will only take you so far. Coding will soon become no more than a means to an end. Which it always was. The only way out for developers is through expanding their vision beyond that of the tools ma
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by ideonexus 4y ago
Love the Tron soundtrack and am happy to learn about Wendy Carlos. Unfortunately, she has fought tirelessly to keep her music from being digitized and available online or streaming. I did however find this delightful collaboration she did w
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by ideonexus 4y ago
Here's the journal article that the OP is based on. It's not concrete, but it does identify several kinds of distracting information. After reading the article I did begin deliberately ignoring much of my social media and low-qual
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by ideonexus 4y ago
I have social anxiety disorder, which I deal with in the workplace by putting on a "Customer Service" persona. So in any interview, I consider the interviewer as my customer and I want to make them happy. In an interview for a pre
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by ideonexus 4y ago
So in the game we get to play Bladerunners, which are slave-catchers of the future--except their job is to murder the slaves who escape. It's weird to me that 30 years later people still don't understand that the whole point of th
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by ideonexus 6y ago
It depends entirely on who you talk to. Urban America is taking this threat seriously and locking down for the winter while rural America thinks it's a hoax. In Virginia, our cities are keeping the curve flattened, while the virus is s
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by ideonexus 6y ago
I think this is addressed here: "For there’s the real rub with digital isolation — the problem those billionaires identified when we were gaming out their bunker strategies. The people and things we’d be leaving behind are still out th
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by ideonexus 7y ago
One part of this still infuriates me and restricts my behavior on the platform (which I barely interact with anymore): showing my friends what I click like on if it's a public post. I've had politically-impassioned relatives attac
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by ideonexus 7y ago
> but so many of the lies spread via social media are easily disproved by consulting primary sources. I wish this were true. I used to post snopes links and primary sources to Baby Boomer posts on Facebook, but it's hopeless. They e
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by ideonexus 7y ago
Since there are multiple complaints about the photos in this thread, I think I should point out that the photos appear to be a metaphor for the hiring process. All of those highly-diverse ice cream cones look dazzlingly yummy, but we can on
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by ideonexus 7y ago
This really struck a nerve with me as a board gamer. There's a renaissance in board gaming at the moment, where new publications have tripled from about 1,000 a year to 3,000. Old, collectible games are increasing in value, and there a
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by ideonexus 7y ago
"When a video finishes playing, YouTube should show the next video in the same channel." This is how it worked just a couple years ago. I would binge-watch a channel's entire history of videos on history, board games, or othe
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by ideonexus 7y ago
I am a huge fan of Isaac Asimov, and I am seriously disappointed to learn that he sexually molested women so brazenly. I couldn't believe it when I read the article, but a quick google search produced primary documentation. Not only wa
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by ideonexus 8y ago
Best reply on the thread was: Now show us what 20-30 students in a single classroom does to air quality. I went to a brand new high school in 1992. There was a phenomenon of a few students passing out here and there. It was discovered after
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by ideonexus 8y ago
I was responsible for a software bug that forced the entire United States Coast Guard to revert to using paper records to track all of their Aviation Logistics for an entire month. The bug was in an aircraft maintenance dashboard that had o
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by ideonexus 8y ago
The free advertising infuriated me bitterly. I remember when Hillary Clinton had scheduled a major policy speech. So I took my lunch in a cafe to watch it on CNN. When I got there, the speech wasn't broadcasting and instead I got to se
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by ideonexus 8y ago
This reminds me of when my father-in-law got a fullscreen pop-up claiming to have seized his computer unless he paid $20. While I was looking at it to figure out how to close the window, he said, "I've already paid them twice now!
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by ideonexus 8y ago
I didn't realize it until I read this article, but this is what keeps me up at night and motivates me to spend so much time and effort on my children. Making sure my kids are successful adults and maintain the economic lifestyle my pro
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by ideonexus 8y ago
Two very different examples come immediately to my mind. These remind me of the fox and hedgehog kinds of intellectual. The fox knows many clever things, while the hedgehog does one thing extremely well. The first was a 65-year-old DBA I ha

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