johnny99

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by johnny99 2y ago
I would have also thought this an insult, until joining a company where nobody was classifying the tickets.
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by johnny99 6y ago
She tried to defund the Special Olympics. Her brother, Erik Prince, founded Blackwater, the security contractor repeatedly accused of murder and other crimes in Iraq. She had no experience in education prior to her appointment. Her stated g
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by johnny99 6y ago
I don't want to speak for anyone else, but the point might have been that there may be other ways to get energy which accomplish the goal without requiring that sacrifice.
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by johnny99 7y ago
Love that the meth ad has a picture of a kid eating a banana in the background.
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by johnny99 7y ago
Facts can't be copyrighted, so such things as whether or not a person worked for a certain company, or went to a certain school, are unprotected, and with this ruling can be scraped, at least in the U.S. Others things common on LinkedI
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by johnny99 7y ago
Compliance with robots.txt is and always has been voluntary, and many crawlers have long ignored it, including Archive.org.
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by johnny99 8y ago
Lincoln did criticize his generals, eventually removing McClellan from command for timidity. He was careful about how he did that though, and how he interacted with the rest of the general staff. But he proved to have a better grasp of stra
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Jeff Bezos Isn’t Afraid of Total Exposure(nytimes.com)
1 points by johnny99 8y ago|0 comments
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by johnny99 8y ago
Disagree. How do you suggest they operate their business? Does this extend to print magazines and newspapers--do you suggest they stop running ads and just give away their product? Do you think Facebook should start charging a subscription?
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by johnny99 8y ago
The solar resources in Kuwait are exceptional--this may be more about pragmatic cost optimization than anything else. With the falling cost of solar, if they can save the oil that would otherwise be used for operations and then sell it, I i
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by johnny99 8y ago
This is a legit blockchain application.
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A Failed Launch May Ground the World’s Astronauts for the Foreseeable Future(theatlantic.com)
1 points by johnny99 8y ago|0 comments
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The Information Terrorists Trying to Reshape America(wired.com)
4 points by johnny99 8y ago|0 comments
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by johnny99 8y ago
And now Fargate.
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by johnny99 9y ago
It would be great if Twitter had a way of accepting community contributions to addressing their bot/troll/spam problem. I see a lot more efforts like this coming from outside of Twitter than inside, and these kinds problems are ra
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by johnny99 9y ago
Wow--a crude implementation of Whuffie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie
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by johnny99 9y ago
The comments in this thread focus on senior engineers, but a lot of the big earners I know in the Bay Area aren't engineers--they may be in tech, but senior BD, marketing, product, finance, legal, and especially sales people can all ma
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by johnny99 9y ago
I, too, am pro-nuclear-energy, but that's quite a bit different from being in favor of testing bombs. The kind of nuclear power that does not blow up is much safer.
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by johnny99 9y ago
When reddit first launched I remember thinking, what a pathetically derivative site, they're going to get crushed :-)
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by johnny99 9y ago
And this is what populists should be irate about. Not... other things.
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by johnny99 9y ago
He said "seeing if I could go without" medication, which I think is different than saying he's cured. But your point about bipolar II is really important. Taking anti-depressants (SSRIs) when bipolar can induce rapid cycling-
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by johnny99 9y ago
I love you for writing this. I spent thirty years either trying and failing to fix myself, or being misdiagnosed (turns out treating bipolarity with antidepressants can do more harm than good). It wasn't until I had kids that I tried o
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by johnny99 9y ago
Sometimes you need a therapist and/or meds to figure out that you need to (or even can) figure it out, and it's possible to overdo just about anything, certainly including exercise and sleep. Depression puts you at the bottom of a
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by johnny99 9y ago
Well, money, and the concomitant access to things like good health care it provides, certainly tilts the board in your favor.
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by johnny99 9y ago
AGW is happening now, so unfortunately we're getting the opportunity to test the models. And carbon levels, and climate, have both varied in the past, albeit a lot more slowly. Those variations can be used to tune some aspects of our c
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by johnny99 9y ago
I've been friends two former Navy UDT team members (precursor to the SEALs), both of whom were Korean war vets, and one former SEAL. One was an old girlfriend's dad and the kind of person you describe--unassuming, very decent fami
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by johnny99 9y ago
I've run consistently for the past 30 years, most often in the spirit of the article: long, slow, meditative runs. What my cross country coach in high school called Long Slow Distance ("limber up gentlemen, we'll be doing LSD
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by johnny99 9y ago
Cost saving measures can also result in better care. We use Kaiser Permanente, and they often use nurse practitioners and physicians assistants to initially screen patients. It may sound like that's a lower level of care than seeing an
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by johnny99 9y ago
I think you risk minimizing the problem. Yes sexism is near-universal, but there are other areas with housing shortages, and other hard-charging industries, that don't have the problem at this scale. Your third point, I think, is true-
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by johnny99 9y ago
You're giving people too much credit. A lot of people, and companies, totally ignore their software. There's no risk calculation; they're not thinking about it at all.

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