DougN7

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by DougN7 1y ago
There is some dish detergent that advertises it cleans dishes up to 100% clean. I guess they figure showing “100%” is all that is needed and the dumb public won’t question it further. It’s still an insulting ad.
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by DougN7 1y ago
These ideas interest me. How does this happen practically? All money is devalued? An end to ownership of everything? All infrastructure destroyed and if not, who would keep it running and why? After the fall of the Soviet Union are thi
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by DougN7 1y ago
You could self host with your OS’s web server and a dynamic DNS service pointing to your home computer.
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by DougN7 1y ago
Why not use a dynamic DNS service instead? I’ve been using dyn.com (now oci.dyn.com) for years and it has worked great. A bonus is many home routers have support built in.
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by DougN7 1y ago
This is a great resource on the debate from professors at the University of Washington: https://thebullshitmachines.com/index.html
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by DougN7 1y ago
It probably scores about the same as a calculator, which I’d say is zero.
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by DougN7 1y ago
What is “the genie” that is referred to a few times? An AI coding copilot?
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by DougN7 1y ago
Wow, how would you code that?!
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by DougN7 1y ago
This. And stay in contact over the years. Everyone needs more friends, and some people really need them. That is worth far more than almost anything you could give/buy.
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by DougN7 1y ago
I’m trying to decide how outraged to be about this. When I walk through my yard or the forest I’m also likely crushing bugs, ant hills, etc. Is it the same thing if that ant hill is old or big? Is it a big deal because it’s a cruise ship
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by DougN7 1y ago
Not if it uses fear and intimidation as a tactic.
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by DougN7 1y ago
Yes, I left a job after it turned out that the company was basically a massive email address harvester, personal information data broker, and spam company. Bunch of very slimy people for the most part.
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by DougN7 1y ago
Until elephants gain rights in law that conflict with human rights. It seems all of life is some sort of competition for resources.
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by DougN7 1y ago
I found this thought provoking. What happens to society with no more shared culture? Or is that silly because there is still so much we have in common (health, school, grocery shopping, being part of a family, etc)?
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by DougN7 1y ago
As a programmer I fully understand and even support what you suggest, but I’m not sure it will ever work. My mother, wife, good friend, etc - none of them can grok what a computer program is, or the file system. I’ve tried and tried for m
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by DougN7 1y ago
Ok, I have to ask: the difference between “positive” and “non-negative” is …?
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by DougN7 1y ago
I really don’t know, but could there be 100 other substances as dangerous and easy to mix/administer as cyanide? There must be some cut off since you can’t test for everything. I’d be interested to know what that test matrix/dec
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by DougN7 1y ago
I think you won at life and I’m genuinely happy for you. Though I’m of a similar mindset, circumstances don’t allow me to do similarly, but it’s not the money.
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by DougN7 1y ago
This isn’t anonymous enough for me to give any details. Nearing retirement so I’ll just say I can buy almost whatever I want, especially if I raided the retirement account, but have finally discovered those things don’t bring happiness. T
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by DougN7 1y ago
That’s a good way to put it. Short term is dominated by mood/PR/talking heads, etc, but long term seems more about fundamentals. A company not making money can survive and pull a lot of stunts but sooner or later investors want
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by DougN7 1y ago
Is there a way to teach reading, which increases reading test scores, that is bad? I’m having a hard time imagining what that would look like. Just because someone comes up with a pithy saying that some people call a “law” doesn’t make it
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by DougN7 1y ago
Well as practiced by supposed believers. He said there will be many to whom he’ll say “I never knew you”. And I expect they’ll be actually surprised, until they really compare their actions to what he taught.
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Fossils show puzzling lack of evolution during last Ice Age peak(newscientist.com)
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by DougN7 1y ago
… so if the test is good … Reading is such a basic skill it seems like a pretty reasonable thing to come up with a decent test.
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by DougN7 1y ago
Why don’t you “kagi” that? Could work, but it’s not free (but very worth it IMO).
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by DougN7 1y ago
That was a great read! Thanks for sharing.
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by DougN7 1y ago
Yes, I agree. I was honest with a large customer about how small we were and although _he_ was willing to take a chance on us, he said we absolutely needed look bigger to gain other customers.
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by DougN7 1y ago
Wow. That’s a really important message. Unfortunately, I didn’t get that at all when I read it. I just read about some dude that wanted to party with the rich kids. And I was trying to pay attention and got good grades. The issue might
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by DougN7 1y ago
You keep making some sort of vague attacks against the democrats, and yet haven’t made any concrete comparisons. Starting to wondering now if you’re a Russian shill.
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by DougN7 1y ago
How many of those centuries would they have been able to inspect, catalog, and widely distribute their findings about stuff as small as bacteria? The tools we have now are quite new, and still insufficient even now. Maybe in another 100 y

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