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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
Russians are also Asian.
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
I love how it's turn-based. Everything is purposeful and strategic with football. Whereas games like hockey and basketball are very fluid, the strategy is more vague. There's a general sense of what you want to do, but it depends
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
There is so much beauty in the game of football. It's filled with the best athletes colleges can produce for that particular sport. The worst football player on any NFL team is probably better than the best football players from the co
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
This is unfortunately an ignorant statement. During the Swine Flu epidemic, British health care workers were given an untested vaccine. It left many of them with lingering health problems like narcolepsy. This is what happens when things ar
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
I scan my Airbnbs with my thermal camera to try to find hidden cameras. I'm pleased to say I've never found one yet.
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
If you pay at the higher end of rates and go with Superhosts, your experience will largely be flawless. I've never had a problem and my stays have been amazing, but I'm also spending hotel-equivalent prices or higher.
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
This is incorrect. There needs to be large investors willing to buy at $140 in order to say the CFO failed. There likely wasn't. You can't compare the actions of "smart money" like Fidelity, etc to a small investor swept
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
The reaction of the markets to Airbnb's IPO is definitely an echo of the dotcom days. The only question is, is Airbnb's IPO equivalent to Netscape (ie. near the beginning of the boom) or Pets.com (near the end). Only time will tel
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
Tesla has $20B warchest, I think they'll be fine.
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
Vitamin D taken via pill is not the same an that manufactured by sunlight. The pill form has side effects like causing too much absorption of calcium in the intestines, which leads to other problems. This is something that doesn't happ
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
The software quality of Apple is embarrassing. They have the money to hire the best of the best, and to do tons of manual QA yet their OS releases are always riddled with errors. Why is software the red-headed step-child of Apple?
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
Anyone who thinks this isn't a cost-cutting measure is delusional or utterly naive. This is strictly a bottom-line measure and they are draping it as a phony environmental move. Their profit margins are fat enough to afford a $5 charge
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
One of the first nasty bugs I had to work on when I first came to Silicon Valley was stack corruption from a fall through of a switch statement. After something like that, you learn pretty quick to always put break lines at the end of the s
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
Did you find it hard adjusting to grade 8?
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
What about that statement is anti-transgender? If anything it sounds like he is anti-transgender-extreme-activist. You can put me in that camp as well, I despise those that want to politicize innocent people for their own power. And I fully
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
The FTC should look into Musk's statements about self-driving, how it's almost done, etc. All that does is trick Tesla owners into paying for the $8000 upgrade for a product that will never, ever come, guaranteed. It just won&#x27
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
As it turns out, you were wrong, and all the ancient redwoods survived. I suggest being a bit more introspective and open to the idea that you could be wrong.
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
I'm not sure how long you think it takes to repopulate a forest, but 20 years isn't a very long time. As a human, with a lifespan of 80 years, it might seem long but to nature it's just a drop in a bucket. I'm pretty con
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
No, this is simply not true. There's nothing special about these "modern" fires. Some people like to think that it's different because we're around to see things, but we're not. 1000 year old trees are nothing
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
It's a terrible tragedy, but forests recover very quickly after forest fires. Although we as humans hate seeing such beautiful places get destroyed, it's a perfectly natural part of history and without these types of fires, we don
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
No he didn't, he said no such thing. If you listen to the video, all he did was say he knows nothing about the issues, but he'll "look into it." That's his standard line. He wasn't actually saying he was consid
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
That doesn't apply to ML-370 unfortunately
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
When I was in high school, I was at school camping event and we were playing tag in the woods. I ran down a slope and tripped, and fell chest first onto a log, right on my sternum. I was uninjured, but since then I've always thought, &
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
Considering how expensive college is in the US, I'm actively considering alternate options for my kids. It doesn't make sense to turn them into debt slaves and get into hundreds of thousands in debt just to get a job.
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
How did they possibly steal Elon Musk's Twitter account? We need a post-mortem on this because if he can be phished, then we need to know how, and if it was some internal hack then I also need to know how. That's extremely scary!
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
Right, that doesn't sound like much of a benefit to me, it sounds like a negatives. I don't think the best caliber engineers would take an offer like this, this sounds like, as I said, an option for unemployed engineers or despera
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
Why on earth would I quit my job or take days(?) off just so I can apply for a contract position? This would be strictly for unemployed software engineers, or truly desperate ones that needed to get out of their current job ASAP.
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
No, it wasn't missed. What happened was that doctors thought that steroids would suppress the immune system, and that is not what they wanted at the time. My wife is asthmatic, and she was warned not to use her daily inhaler because it
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
My parents had what is now a 50 year old can opener. It looked new because my mom would always, always always clean it after using it.
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
To be fair, Zoom is the best video conference software I've ever used. It's so much better than Skype or anything created by Google, Facebook, etc. When I first started using it at work 5 years ago, I was blown away at how stable

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