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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
Also, middle-/upper-oriented people are more likely peer-pressured to placing in the "best" kindergartens, whereas lower-oriented people may skip it (much like skipping parental-school involvement). And, I suspect both nature
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
Some people have to rationalize their stuck-in-the-1950's, environmentally-destructive, post-truth lifestyles with gusto somehow. How else to explain expanded fossil fuel consumption/exploitation, anthropogenic methane output (ie
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
Interesting. Oddly enough, I used to have this massive custom sofa which was a real PITA to move... could only fit in storage unit if stood up on a roller dolly and so on. I bet there'll soon be an app using CV/ML to figure out
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
Alt-right gonna keep shoveling billionaire propaganda and/or InfoWars/Unabomber beliefs onto every and any memetic channel, because shouting lies loud/often enough is sadly rewarded by changing sentiment in low-fact environme
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
Recall, recall, recall.
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
HeathKit partically-reinvented themselves: https://shop.heathkit.com/shop I remember changing the channel on a color HeathKit TV at my grandparents by shaking house keys because the ultrasonic remote sensor circuit interpre
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
TC rarely covers non-tech fields unless there's a tech aspect. Plus, we're talking about TC.
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
There's a happier, less-dramatic sane-area leaving out overt misogyny and social-justice warrior cry-bully behavior. Also, in hiring there needs to be process removal of as many cognitive biases (ie blinding resume names/personal
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
I'm not using 1.0.0+ until it's codesigned and/or dmg gpg verifiable with a known-good signature. Do not install untrusted, unverifiable apps is security 101.
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
Apple's codesign ensures end-to-end chain-of-custody integrity with nonrepudiation, tied to a specific, named signer and likely also a credit-card. GPG signing and releasing fingerprints of all released artifacts on an https:/&#x
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
When I was there way-back-when, the dining account dept hooked us up with unlimited all-you-care-to-eat (non-packaged) dining, likely because it was cheaper in terms of productivity (a-la Google) to keep staff on-campus. Back at uni (somewh
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
I've been hearing about a bullet train for 30 years.
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig http://bensommer.com/blog/big-dig-big-corruption/ There's a mix of ineptitude, poor/non-planning and some shady deals. With larger projects, mo
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
Reminds me of the Bolivian public health issues of forgoing native consumption for cash crop export. https://intercontinentalcry.org/the-mother-grain/ And, also how many pounds of Costco quinoa I still have stockpiled
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
Building codes are not a one-sized-fits-all panacea, neither good nor bad inherently. They are both policy creation and enforcement to prevent as much harm as people can reasonably afford while balancing the tyrannies of the many and the fe
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
I used to work for R&DE as an FTE. Stanford campus is crazy expensive for mere mortals: parking permits are pricey, convenience foods (Tresidder) are movie theater prices. Treehouse and various bottom-of-med school bldgs have decent foo
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
Yup. Stack-based is great for high-level language VM interface ease-of-use (ie JVM languages) but generally sucks at the hardware level because most CPUs are register-based: the mapping doesn't scale as well because of the extra overhe
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
In high school, I was an assistant manager at an Egghead in San Jose and got the employee discount on the id Anthology. It was pretty sweet. (Not to mention we borrowed nearly everything good in the store and re-shrinkwrapped it.) When the
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
I don't get out of bed for less than $100k unless it's $10k for a local gig for a week. They're going to pester you endlessly for free labor post-sales if you let them, but consider offering a support contract on a per-incide
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
Their best goto-market is probably licensing and embedding in various existing consumer devices: battery-less TV remotes, external temperature sensors, cyclometers, etc. Otherwise, distribution and advertising becomes an uphill climb to typ
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
37signals did research on this. For a respectful community, start with a difficult-to-attain, invite-only profile where a person has to show a real, verified profile pic and post their also verified name. More like ASW. Anonymous positing i
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
That. is. hilarious. (Business is like life, love and war: difficult)
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
There's a niche field of malware economics, but it makes sense that for-profit malware is ultimately a business, albeit an usually illegal one, which has to optimize just like any other app: https://cyber.harvard.edu/cy
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
Also: Air Crash Investigation / Mayday / Air Disasters is an interesting series if one is interested in real-world, root-cause engineering analysis.
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
Shop smart, shop SMart.
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
Actual affordable housing means growing vertically and shrinking units to typical Hong Kong sizes.
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
It's awful and shouldn't be normalized: which is the point of the ACLU's argument. If this guy, whom is also a US citizen I might add, is suspected of breaking the law, law enforcement needs to meet the burden of proof of obt
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
Yup. Silence gives consent. Don't be a quiet slave.
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
Nothing spells "hubris" like a little success with a swollen ego.
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by throwaway4891a 10y ago
As an FYI: an average single male in Santa Clara county ( largest component of Silicon Valley) can get about USD $150/mo in cash aid and $200/mo for food (4k/yr). State/Federal Social Security for permanent disability va

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