JustUhThought

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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Another instance of tech thinking it did it first. In the rest of the economy, we call these "trade schools".
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
I had originally trademarked this phrase with Spanish style exclamation marks, but then put it in the public domain, because I loves me so folks. Let all your sharp pencils be free! Write baby, write! And,,, seriously though, this is why te
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Keyword: spread Just as finance has done for resource allocation, information technology is doing for culture. For better. Or worse.
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Don't know if I agree with the utilizing the whole "spell the word differently so it looks cool" naming scheme in this use-case...
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
So, you were talking about temp change to date. Not predicted. My comment speaks to your commenet incorrectly. Sorry about that. I can't revise or delete my comment on this device, or I would. My bad.
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1-2 degrees globally . Celsius . And the predictions are consistently outpaced by reality.
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
We are in for a shtt-storm. But go over to Bloomberg news, and they're wondering why the Japanese won't make the tough cultural sacrifices needed to increase immigration, to stave off stagnant GDP caused by declining population an
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Voted your comment up, but wanted to add, The "strangeness" indeed. But making up our mind as a society seems like it would be an unhealthy development. I believe one reason the U.S. has been so resilient is the combination of
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Cool. Well put. Thank you for putting that out there. It makes sense to me, given the conversations I've been a part of. And, likewise, this thread makes more sense in that context.
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Science is a tool. Tools are means, not ends. We use sciene to gather facts we can agree on. But sciene isn't the "truth". Science isn't the facts. It a process. That produces facts. If and only if they are reproducible.
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
The longer tail pipe thing is, whater. Annoying. An E.V. can be charged from any source. Electrons don't discriminate as to what excites them. With the purchase of SolarCity by Tesla, the pipe is now super short. From your room to your
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Agreed. That's how I read their platform.
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
I just went and read the Libertarian Party's platform. [1] Under the issue of Environment: "Competitive free markets and property rights stimulate the technological innovations and behavioral changes required to protect our enviro
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
"Libertarian" and "tax" in the same sentence. How does that even work?
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Doing the right thing in one instance of one aspect of "free speech" is not "protecting free speech". Protecting free speech is about a framework of process, transparency, inclusion, and democracy. Yelp is not a transpar
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Trust but confirm. The entire point of science, and this is not a hyperbole, is that results are reproducible. If the experiment is not reproducible one must take the results on faith. There is no such thing as faith based science. In ord
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Given LastPass has pretty much one job to do, protect your passwords, I feel they should refund subscribers' money (a month or several months) everytime it's shown they haven't done their job. It's gotten to the point of
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Double-plus good!
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Yoga!!! Don't knock it till you've tried it.
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
The Chinese and Indian markets are just now beginning to wake up. Even if it were reasonable to say anything is ever settled in the technology space (Blackberry anyone?), given that companies coming out of these new markets are sending clea
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Shouldn't be hard to believe. Sure, theirnipen source projects viewed in isolation might give one a certain impression. But, when considering corporations one must consider the whole picture. One must "incorporate" all aspect
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Embarrassing confession. I've looked at Nim before and don't want to use it because I think the crown is a ridiculous logo. Not being big on authority and not being big on people that think too highly of themselves, I'm suspi
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Just in case anyone else is tired and drew a blank and needs to google that, the confusion was that of strong vs weak not dynamic vs static. Strong vs weak applies to explict vs implicit type changes. Dynamic vs static applies to run time o
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Wait, wait. I'll take this one. No. It cannot.
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
I can't edit on this device. So, yeah, you're right. Change what I said to, "I totally agree..." And everything else is pretty much still good to go. Sorry. I'm pretty opinionated on this topic. As someone with dua
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Let's pause on the details, look at the language. "Distracting" clothing? This is the definition of victim blaming. "I can't work because she is making me stare at her butt, and it is her choice to wear that outfit.
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
Full disclosure. I'm a middle aged, middle income, college educated, male, and am white.
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
You. Are so. White. "Nobody really expects the cops to sweep the dorms at NYU for marijuana, even though this would probably turn up a ton of arrests." Switch out "NYU" with "ghetto" and your statement is insta
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
How can one change the game anymore without selling out to the VCs or Google or Facebook? It's sad really. To be expected, in a maturing industry, but very sad.
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by JustUhThought 10y ago
"The optimum level of carbon..." Such a human thing to say. Between that, and all the top comments as of writing this start out addressing how beautiful the data visualization is. That is why humans are doomed. Mother nature is fi

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