DougN7

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by DougN7 6y ago
I wonder if people suggesting we change how we speak are also willing to give up vulgarity which is also offensive.
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by DougN7 6y ago
Although I hated Language Arts classes growing up, the skill of writing clearly has been hugely beneficial to me in my career. I was the last to be laid off from a company closing down and received a large retention bonus to stay to the en
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by DougN7 6y ago
How is this title different from “I lied publicly and people believed me” ?
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by DougN7 6y ago
I think people judge because there is an implicit assumption that the poor in the question is poor enough that they might be getting some sort of assistance. If that’s the case, a luxury purchase is essentially being subsidized by tax paye
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by DougN7 6y ago
IMHO there aren’t that many concepts to learn in sales and marketing that it’s worth switching careers. Eric Sink used to (still does) had an excellent blog series about marketing for engineers. Great place to start if it’s still out ther
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by DougN7 6y ago
I don’t believe that has anything to do with newspapers not having integrity and everything to do with much more competition in many more, and convenient media types.
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by DougN7 6y ago
Unrelated to drugs, but I’ve had one deja vu where I wrote it down, showed it to a coworker, and then we both watched as it came to pass. I have no theory how that could have happened but it did. I do know it’s not just memory order hitti
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by DougN7 6y ago
I fear social media IS the primary place that a lot of people get their news. That is a huge problem because of all the propaganda, fake news, knee jerk reactions and everything else that is spread there.
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by DougN7 6y ago
I’m against animal cruelty, but for that baboon?
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by DougN7 6y ago
Electrons might prefer Michael Jackson music and grapes in the summer. Not being able to disprove it is a looong way from it being true.
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by DougN7 6y ago
Cool! Thanks for the info
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by DougN7 6y ago
My kids in Idaho (that had visited Southern Utah not too far from Vegas) and all the symptoms of COVID-19 back in November. I guess quite a few people did. They were tested for flu and it came back negative, but breathing was hard. Guess
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by DougN7 6y ago
I’m betting (sadly) we’re watching the development of this generation’s Howard Hughs
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by DougN7 6y ago
If I’m sending credentials to one person, I’ll send the username via one method (text) and the password via another (email). No context for either message (i.e. NOT saying “this is for the Yahoo account) - that is sent and explained in a p
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by DougN7 7y ago
You are not alone. Smells/tastes like burnt dirt to me.
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by DougN7 7y ago
This sucks, but also means we’re inching closer to the 70-80% necessary for herd immunity so maybe a silver lining?
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by DougN7 7y ago
I wonder who will make the large investments necessary for new research if as soon as something is figured out, it is quickly copied and the investment is lost. Particularly with new drugs, etc (though the cost of new drugs hurts my family
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by DougN7 7y ago
My grandmother used to swear by this too! I had totally forgotten about it until seeing your post.
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by DougN7 7y ago
No kidding! It’s as if you could create the most ridiculous rumor you can possibly imagine and you would gain a following. It’s astonishing. How about this one: if we don’t start getting cars back on the road, the roads will break up an
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by DougN7 7y ago
I don’t know but I’ve become aware of just how difficult it is to remain pristine. Touch a door handle? After that did you touch your phone, keys or wallet at the store? Did you touch your car door handle? When you washed your hands, di
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by DougN7 7y ago
Have you looked at The Atlantic? I keep coming across articles from it and have the same feeling about them as I do The Economist, but I’m not a subscriber to The Atlantic so I don’t really kno
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by DougN7 7y ago
The problem, in my opinion, is they know about hundreds or thousands of scenarios that could possibly happen. It’s not possible or prudent to prepare for every one of them. Only hindsight is 20/20.
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by DougN7 7y ago
> I think this will leave many people in a more prepper / saver / hoarder mindset, I think this is exactly right. It’s what happened to the generation that lived through the Great Depression (heard many stories from my Grandm
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by DougN7 7y ago
Potential energy has mass? Is that true? It means a rock at the top of a mountain has more mass than it does at the bottom of the mountain. And a stretched rubber band has more mass than a relaxed rubber band. It’s been a looong time bu
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by DougN7 7y ago
I’ve read it’s because of viral load which is correlated with exposure.
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by DougN7 7y ago
I think many businesses will discover they don’t need to pay for an office. Would not want to own an office building right now.
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by DougN7 7y ago
My concern is not overwhelming hospitals translates to 20 years of lockdown. It isn't feasible. But we might not figure it out until we've destroyed the economy. Then we end up with the same deaths from the virus we were tryi
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by DougN7 7y ago
1. My concern is how long/much we destroy the economy (and people's lives) while waiting/hoping for the drug therapy's discovery, production and distribution. 2. If I am tested today, but get the virus tomorrow, the test
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by DougN7 7y ago
> The number of people an infected person infects is hopefully driven (far) below 1 through lock down. That is only true for the period of time the lock down is in force. Once lock down ends we're back where we started. Lock down
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by DougN7 7y ago
That is the only hope in my mind. But the government can't pay for everyone to stay home all that time. Hyperinflation is a terrible thing and it comes when governments start printing money wildly.

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