DavidAdams

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by DavidAdams 7y ago
Yet they will ride an ATV for fun, which actually will get them killed.
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
> Is publicly available documentation protected by intellectual property rights? Yes, by copyright. Copyright is one of the most straightforward and easiest to enforce IP rights.
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
This is also why the Jedi (at least in the earlier films) use two hands to hold their lightsabers. It's the Japanese style. Of course, Samurai swords were two-handed because they were heavy, due to the poor quality of steel available.
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by DavidAdams 7y ago
For one thing, despite their cool swords, I understand that the Samurai preferred to kill people with arrows when possible. They were all accoplished archers, including firing from horseback, which, as we all know from the Mongols, is a ver
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by DavidAdams 8y ago
Every single time someone says "where was the ACLU when X happened?" (Usually in the context of a conservative's civil rights being violated) a quick search shows that the ACLU was defending that person or at least speaking o
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by DavidAdams 8y ago
If you haven't seen the movie "New York Doll," about Kane's interesting life trajectory, I recommend it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436629/
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by DavidAdams 8y ago
They're not exactly the same. A skilled Product Manager is going to make a particularly good Product Owner, but PO is more of a role on the project, while PM is a role in the organization.
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by DavidAdams 8y ago
This is just one of many reasons why public libraries are so important. It's a major part of the mandate for modern libraries and librarians to offer a place where people with low incomes, low educational attainment, low tech literacy,
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by DavidAdams 8y ago
If you have knowledge of an unreported event that could affect a company's stock price, then you can short the stock and do your best to promote the story through social media, hoping it makes the stock dip long enough for you to make
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by DavidAdams 8y ago
Volvo's messaging is less reckless than Tesla's. They call their similar feature "Pilot assist." It's also always been stricter about trying to make sure the driver is engaged when it's enabled. As a Volvo owne
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by DavidAdams 9y ago
Can confirm. My flight from Zurich was delayed by over an hour today, causing my family and me to need to run, OJ Simpson-style, through the Philadelphia airport to make our connection.
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by DavidAdams 9y ago
My favorite: "Insolence of the young: shame of a nation."
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by DavidAdams 9y ago
I was not expecting Cliven Bundy to be a part of this story. Too bad he wasn't content to just be a famed ancient melon farmer.
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by DavidAdams 9y ago
Article mentions that Hitler didn't drink alcohol, but he sure was a speed freak and took a lot of other drugs. Also worth mentioning that the Axis and Allied sides both utilized amphetamines heavily during the war. I think that alcoho
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by DavidAdams 9y ago
Tesla is trying to "lean startup" the Model 3. Not clear whether that was originally their intention, but the fact that they're building parts of the Model 3 by hand immediately brings to mind the kind of non-scaleable stuff
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by DavidAdams 9y ago
Spanish speaking people have an even more obvious loan word from Arabic they use pretty commonly: ojalá. It means, "hopefully," or literally, "God willing."
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by DavidAdams 9y ago
The New Yorker also insists on typographical affectations such as coöperate and reëlect. Most publications have a "house style." The New Yorker's is particularly eccentric, and I think they like it that way.
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by DavidAdams 9y ago
This article is a great example of how the Apple Watch has failed to reach its potential almost entirely because of indifferent software product design on Apple's part. I'm sure that ever Watch owner and developer can come up with
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by DavidAdams 9y ago
This is not a very rigorous article. It's a series of observations/opinions of one particular expert who's worked with one particular set of kids. Not useless anecdotes, but anecdotes nonetheless. That being said, I think the
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by DavidAdams 9y ago
I think the comment is both quibbling about semantics (the article used the term "technology" overly broadly because the value of the one-click idea isn't in the implementation but really just in the concept) but I think also
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by DavidAdams 9y ago
Have you ever heard the term "assault and battery?" Battery is hitting someone. Assault doesn't have to include physical contact to be a crime, it just has to include action that demonstrates an attempt to harm or threaten. I
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by DavidAdams 9y ago
That's one of the oldest rhetorical devices in the book. It's a common technique of good storytelling. Clickbait is annoying because of its context, but the reason it works is because those techniques stimulate human curiosity, an
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by DavidAdams 9y ago
I suppose that it makes sense that the only employer in the country that needs to be able to (legally) routinely put its "employees" in mortal peril would have a carve-out from the health and safety regulations.
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by DavidAdams 10y ago
I'm sure it would be much more effective to go full Netherlands on Manhattan and set up dikes and seawalls and pumps.
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Obamacare launched a new wave of startups. Now they’re bracing for what’s next(washingtonpost.com)
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by DavidAdams 10y ago
How about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._congressional_dis...
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by DavidAdams 10y ago
Dextromethorphan is a "dissociative anesthetic" that some people use recreationally. It's a bit of a cliche that kids will sometimes abuse cough syrup because it gives them a mild ketamine-like high. I suppose it's not s
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by DavidAdams 10y ago
When you consider the array of different exploits the thieves had to use to steal this guy's bitcoins, I think that this is a rare case where they are accurately described as hackers. But in the more common cases, such as Podesta'
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by DavidAdams 10y ago
I'm so glad you highlighted that music file. I read the article with interest but didn't notice that music file. What a great song!
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by DavidAdams 10y ago
You can make your own charity and support whoever you want. Why does the National Rifle Association only support gun issues? Why not preserving historical buildings? Well, because there are other organizations to preserve historical buildin

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