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by _bxg1 8y ago
I just look at the clock when I arrive, round to the nearest quarter hour, and unless there's something pressing I leave 8 hour later
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Grand Canyon Museum Had Buckets of Uranium Sitting Around for 18 Years(npr.org)
155 points by _bxg1 8y ago|101 comments
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by _bxg1 8y ago
> taking a huge risk with everyones safety You presume they have any interests that aren't self-serving. It's not a risk if you don't care about the consequence.
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by _bxg1 8y ago
Things get very complicated when someone who has authority over you tells you to do something illegal. The president is commander-in-chief, and it's not the first time a president has given a command that's not strictly legal.
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by _bxg1 8y ago
Okay, but pragmatism dictates that we don't get a do-over with the governing structure of the most powerful nation on earth. We can work to make it better, but that's a long and slow process, and in the meantime we need to get the
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by _bxg1 8y ago
> By which, you surely mean, the next six. I think we have a very good chance of un-electing him. He's alienated all but his most dedicated core base, and there's a huge list of Democratic primary candidates from which to whitt
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by _bxg1 8y ago
From my understanding it was consensual, which is not harassment. Not quite the same as "grabbing her by the p *y".
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by _bxg1 8y ago
As a prime example, take the Punisher emblem (and the mentality behind it). These days you see it on trucks and land rovers all over the place (at least here in Texas). The character, for those who don't know, was created as an antiher
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by _bxg1 8y ago
Bill Clinton... cheated on his wife that one time
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by _bxg1 8y ago
I've seen lots of unflagged articles on here about world events which aren't necessarily related to tech, and given that this is a .gov website, there shouldn't be (as much) concern about it being politically charged.
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by _bxg1 8y ago
As someone who's spent a lot of time around Republicans, their driving mantra is that any means justifies the ends. The most principled still believe in something resembling admirable ends behind all the actions they take, but even tho
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by _bxg1 8y ago
The best we can hope for is to weather the next two years without suffering damage to our nation that's truly irreparable, and that the brazen cronyism on display will be a reality-check for all who would otherwise dip their toes into
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by _bxg1 8y ago
I just make mine super vague. I put in the number of hours I was in the office, and I summarize most days with some variation on "Made improvements and bug fixes". That's the only way I can spend time doing anything other tha
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by _bxg1 8y ago
A couple of interesting examples in this (loose) subject area: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/neural-network-imple... https://pruned.blogspot.com/2012/01/gardens-as-crypto-w
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by _bxg1 8y ago
And the very first thing he did was define natural numbers as a grammar of operations with rules for interpretation
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by _bxg1 8y ago
It's extremely obvious that the author is a computer scientist
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The Verge Says YouTube Reaction Videos Aren’t Fair Use, Sparking Backlash(arstechnica.com)
18 points by _bxg1 8y ago|1 comments
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by _bxg1 8y ago
True, though they only get which cell towers you're connected to, not your actual GPS location.
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by _bxg1 8y ago
"But while Apple's location data processing is anonymous, two hard-to-find settings— "Location History" and "Web and App Activity" — allow Google to keep track of everything their users search, and everywhere t
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by _bxg1 8y ago
I don't have chronic pain personally, but anecdotally (from friends, not just myself), there tend to be general correlations between anxiety, depression, food intolerances, allergies, chronic pain, migraines, chronic tiredness, eczema,
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by _bxg1 8y ago
Every time I see one of these I'm validated in my decision to switch to Apple.
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by _bxg1 8y ago
And for a tooling example, VSCode is basically a much more cohesive and holistically-designed version of Atom.
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by _bxg1 8y ago
The strength of JavaScript is also the problem: it's really easy to create and distribute really flexible and dynamic code. This encourages a massive, vibrant ecosystem of packages which are extremely modular and flexible, and often ti
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by _bxg1 8y ago
Fwiw I didn't take it as condescending
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by _bxg1 8y ago
Same with the yogurt; I'm actually planning to start taking probiotic supplements to simplify that aspect, as well as a fiber source called phylum husk. Sorry to hear about the Borderline. Just remember that mental health diagnoses are
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by _bxg1 8y ago
The bigger issue is less about weight (most of that doesn't end up in the final bundle anyway) and more about the fact that each of those dependencies is a point of possible a) breakage and b) security compromise. The latter in particu
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by _bxg1 8y ago
As someone with both IBS and anxiety, this is slightly scary
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by _bxg1 8y ago
"but they aren't about learning math" Hmmmmmmmmmm
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by _bxg1 8y ago
> But do think they can grow or die in strength as a result of our actions. Are you suggesting it's desirable for them to die off? America is built on its diversity of subcultures. Just because there's some tension between them
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by _bxg1 8y ago
> Why can't "American" be the right cultural background, or better yet for math nerd kids, "mathematicians who are also musicians" (common), or "mathematicians who like drawing pictures" / "ha

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