mquirion

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by mquirion 2y ago
I run 5-6 times a week, and I've run many half and full marathons. I've never loved a run. I always love the feeling of being done with a run.
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by mquirion 2y ago
Glad I'm not entirely alone in having this thought.
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by mquirion 3y ago
Our local community college had a game dev camp in the summer, and that was a great start for my 9yo b/c it had a program for him to follow and kids like himself with whom to learn. Then this past holiday season we built a game togethe
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by mquirion 3y ago
It's probably all the "travel teams" pushing up the averages. In my region travel teams for all sports are out of control. So long as you're willing to pay, your not-really-talented kid can play. And if your kid can&#x27
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by mquirion 3y ago
EMPs to kill the AI. (I kid. (mostly))
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by mquirion 3y ago
This is very concerning, but I think my bigger, more immediate worry - and one I suspect will happen at a much larger scale in the US, if not the world - is the use of these tools in bullying, particularly among school-aged kids. The detrim
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by mquirion 3y ago
Not OP, but reasons that are pretty easy to imagine: - Living in America and suffering from either cancer, heart disease, or any chronic illness. - Have any number of children and not having a family member available to care for them before
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by mquirion 4y ago
Exactly. It's an abject failure of journalism if a dozen national journalists aren't currently sorting out why this was the case.
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by mquirion 4y ago
How is this different from an insured cash sweep that practically every other bank offers?
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by mquirion 4y ago
This is right. The dot-com crash was an absolute crash. Not "we're laying off 5-15% of our company." It was a lot of "This media darling that had an IPO after 2 years of operations no longer exists." In my social gr
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by mquirion 4y ago
TeamWorx Security | Multiple positions | Full Time | Hybrid in DC/Baltimore or Remote (USA) | https://www.teamworxsecurity.com/about/careers/ MUST BE A US CITIZEN TeamWorx Security is on a mission to create e
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by mquirion 4y ago
Based on what you say about your parents, I have a feeling a lot of your success here is because you've grown up being shown the way. Congratulations. It's a helluva skill. Many, many people grew up without such examples.
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by mquirion 5y ago
I'm a bit of a Disney geek, not for their content, but for their business history. I got reading a bio on Walt years ago and was astonished by how much Disney really is a "start up" in many of the ways we think of them today.
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by mquirion 5y ago
You're forgetting the key bit: It was during a pandemic, and so especially during the first 6-12 months, people didn't feel safe being around others. They also often legally didn't have any space outside they could enjoy. Sub
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by mquirion 6y ago
It's a 2-dose regimen, needs to be stored at -70C, and Pfizer already said they'll only have 1.5B doses over the course of the next year. It's going to be a very slow roll out.
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by mquirion 6y ago
This is a really poor understanding of several things, including, for instance, how the USPS actually handled the ballots. This "randomly shuffled" thing is flat wrong. There's actually a lot of really good data about how man
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by mquirion 6y ago
Wisconsin is already heading in that direction. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/09/30/wisconsin-hos... North Dakota has 22 ICU beds left in the state.
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by mquirion 6y ago
NyQuil and Alka Seltzer would beg you not to kill the cash cows. Plus NyQuil and AS can be produced and sold in such a way as to net a profit. We don't know that's the case for a cold cure.
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by mquirion 6y ago
I almost never comment, but the answer here is simple: markets. The common cold doesn't kill. There's almost no economic impetus for a cure. Note, I said "almost." There may be some, but there's still not enough to
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by mquirion 12y ago
And then the ISP just sells the data in a marketing profile. See also: What Verizon already does.
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by mquirion 12y ago
Yeah. Your grocery stores have known more about you than anyone for decades. And it doesn't look like that's going to change anytime soon, frankly.
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by mquirion 13y ago
Oh yeah. This sounds familiar (6 years at IBM). Very familiar. I wasn't even in the software division. I was in GBS. EVERY thing we did would get discussed and executives would ALWAYS ask if it could be patented. Half the time stupid
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by mquirion 13y ago
This isn't a trade-off that most consumers would consider. The "it's just the cost of a coffee" pitch is a marketing pitch for the mass market. And when the mass market hears it, they'll buy it on a whim. Essentially the same pitch has wor
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by mquirion 14y ago
I'm the OP. Just wanted to share a site some old college buddies started. I think it's a very nice setup. They control the supply chain entirely. They have both an on-demand and subscription model. Personally I like it b/c I can get flo
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Show HN: My friends' new Flower E-comm Service(thebouqs.com)
1 points by mquirion 14y ago|1 comments
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by mquirion 14y ago
Baltimore, MD / New York City, NY http://www.lotame.com/about-lotame/marketing-technology-jobs Lotame is hiring across the board. Web app devs, data scientists, big data devs, infrastructure, support, QA, account exec, etc... We've create