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by a3n 6y ago
"Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie." That seems a safe assumption. It was their primary skill and pr
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by a3n 6y ago
Worldwide verification of the elimination of nuclear weapons is the minimal necessary metric to predict that our civilization will survive. Besides eliminating their immediate danger, it's a proxy for our ability to cooperate as a worl
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by a3n 6y ago
For most people there will always be a gate keeper for internet communication, because most people aren't informed or capable enough to know how to, say, register their own domain, much less know what to do with it.
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by a3n 6y ago
Comfort, and validating your worldview.
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by a3n 6y ago
Well, they're doing nothing, but are they good men and women?
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by a3n 6y ago
I don't think about it. Works for me.
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by a3n 6y ago
"But what about the cows!" https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cows+milk+daylight+saving+time&t=f...
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by a3n 6y ago
I had the bozo bit flipped on me. I eventually rage-quit without notice a good job of five years where I was contributing. Or so I thought.
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by a3n 6y ago
So you might ask why we have research universities anymore.
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by a3n 6y ago
The thing about ads as a user/product is that it doesn't feel like you're giving away resources at every interaction. You're just reading about grandkids and adrenochrome. It's about the lowest friction transaction
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by a3n 6y ago
One place I would look is some, but not all, medical device companies. Making devices that are helpful and not lethal is motivational and fulfilling for employees, and great PR. Disclosure: I worked at such a company, and have much respect
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Will My Popcorn Explode?(nytimes.com)
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by a3n 6y ago
For some reason this reminds me of a scam (?) that ran in the classifieds in Popular Mechanics many decades ago. The entire ad was "Last Chance to Send One Dollar," and a post office box. Urban legend was that the advertiser made
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by a3n 6y ago
Thanks. I've seen people order "and no bun." I want to get in and out, so i just order the quarter pounder and throw away the bun. Wolfram Alpha tells me a quarter pounder is 42g carbs, and it also tells me that the bun is 23
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by a3n 6y ago
Yes, at least this.
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by a3n 6y ago
The advisory panel's science is in the government's trash can. Industry has been served.
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by a3n 6y ago
Truck driver here, with Type 2 diabetes; metformin pills, no insulin. Trulicity recently because of high blood glucose; also acts as an appetite suppressant for some people. Most truck drivers in the US take a physical and get a two year me
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by a3n 6y ago
A lot of "civilian" doctors and nurses are the military doctors and nurses, in the reserves.
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by a3n 6y ago
The truth is very obvious to everyone. You can find a truth to fit whatever you prefer to believe, even when you don't think that's what you're doing. That's why.
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by a3n 6y ago
https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Download https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers https://www.python.org/
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by a3n 6y ago
Yep. In my semi truck having lunch at a rest area on I 70 in Kansas. Honk Honk
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by a3n 6y ago
Unless they're testing reactions, rather than the vehicle.
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by a3n 6y ago
Because it's easier to datamine the money on the table that is text, rather than video/audio?
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by a3n 6y ago
Most cabs have toilets? I'm an American truck driver, and "most" is far from true here. European cabs are even smaller. Is "most" your assumption, your experience, or can you point to something? The fact is, those d
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by a3n 6y ago
You don't get to those positions with a capacity for guilt.
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by a3n 6y ago
Actually I read the title exactly as what the article described. In fact I wasn't going to read it at all -- "meh" -- until I realized there was a small chance that it might be about something interesting rather than natural.
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by a3n 6y ago
If only Solar Winds had been in charge of managing his account ...
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by a3n 6y ago
"Facebook Criticising Apple’s iOS 14 Privacy Changes is a Hypocrisy" Hyper-huge internet and other information gathering companies (which includes Apple, Samsung, Sony and refrigerator manufacturers) are hypocritical by nature an
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by a3n 6y ago
Your linked article says that satellite's company is Finnish, not US.
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by a3n 6y ago
For anyone learning Python, experienced or not, Python For Beginners at python.org points to tutorials and docs appropriate for either profile. These are, of course, not-a-books. https://www.python.org/about/gettingstar

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