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by afpx 7y ago
I’ve probably traveled through Breezewood a few hundred times over the decades. What’s strange to me is that it never seems to change. The photo from 2008 looks pretty much the same as now. And, it looked pretty much the same in 1990. With
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by afpx 7y ago
I usually skip past posts that have more than a couple dozen comments. That helps a lot.
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by afpx 7y ago
The USDA publishes their list of approved chemicals. https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&SID=9874504b6f1...
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by afpx 7y ago
"moved to a 4-day working week a couple of years ago, taking a 20% pay cut in the process." I moved to a 5-day, 35 hour work week while not taking a pay cut. I just leave early. F em. I'm not burning myself out again.
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by afpx 7y ago
It’s not the vocab that’s the problem. It’s more like a problem of ‘translating’ an abstract idea into words and vice versa. It’s like there’s an extra few steps that my brain has to do.
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by afpx 7y ago
I’d bet a disproportional number of readers of such a site would use duckduckgo.
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by afpx 7y ago
I’ve not been diagnosed with ASD, but I did have to take parts of the Wechsler a few years ago. My results were lopsided, as this paper describes. My doctor was surprised at how fast I completed the block design and matrix reasoning parts.
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by afpx 7y ago
Naive question - why isn’t more open source dual licensed commercial and GPL? If it’s licensed commercial, you would still be give it away for free.
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by afpx 7y ago
Processing foods is what likely helped Homo to get enough energy to evolve big brains. So, processing foods isn’t all that bad, and it may even be hard-wired in many of us. But, Humans tend to take things too far, and inventing new ways of
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by afpx 7y ago
Have you ever looked at the IDIQs? The list of subcontractors is amazing. And, 20 states have received over $100M.. and only 4 states haven’t received any so far. Everyone is happy! Except the public and the soldiers, of course. But, seriou
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by afpx 7y ago
This is a useful perspective. Thanks. I have some colleagues who work in training at DoD. We often discuss how weapon systems (and training) could be vastly improved if well-defined use cases, requirements, and experience design were sketch
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by afpx 7y ago
Here's the author's github with the reference implementation. https://github.com/bforte/Alchemist
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Alchemist – A non-deterministic programming language based on chemical reactions(esolangs.org)
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by afpx 7y ago
Decline of the family? How about decline of the entire Homo Sapien social structure ... I’m looking out my window, and I see houses of neighbors I’ve never met, and the rest are owned by people with whom I have nothing in common. So, needle
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by afpx 7y ago
Hasn't a lot of GDP growth over the last century been caused by population growth? What happens when the GDP pyramid scheme pops?
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by afpx 7y ago
What if the most money with least effort is made though tricking or manipulating people? Lately, that seems to be the trend. I’ve played mobile games recently where the only “content” updates were A-B testing schemes.
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by afpx 7y ago
It’s not speculation, just logic. Shareholders seek as much profit as possible. The moment that being PrivAAS is worth less than not being one, they’ll switch strateg
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by afpx 7y ago
Because, eventually, Apple will lose revenue, and their shareholders will demand profit. And, Apple will be sitting on a trove of data, or metadata, or predictive models built from that data.
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by afpx 7y ago
When I was a teen, my uncle, who was an executive at Oracle at the time, yelled at me for admitting on a medical form that I smoked pot. I said, "But, it's confidential, right?". He told me, "It may be confidential now,
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by afpx 7y ago
The best you can do is inform people about known risks and benefits, as best as you can. For instance, I smoke, and I know that it’s bad, but I do it anyway because I know that I’ll enjoy life more than the years that I will lose.
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by afpx 7y ago
I am no expert; I only read a lot. But, my understanding is that early Christianity was a reaction away from Judaism. And, that the Old Testament was only added as part of the canon later. In contrast to Judaism, Christianity was must mor
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by afpx 7y ago
As were the Obama administration’s early ties to many technology companies. Obama explicitly attempted to bring on “technocrats” into his cabinet as a way to try to modernism the effectiveness of government and leverage the internet. In con
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by afpx 7y ago
It’s a defect if it causes a person’s brain to have an illogical stress response. For instance, the vast majority of pet dogs are harmless. But, my daughter, who was nipped by a dog when she was a toddler, will probably always be somewhat f
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by afpx 7y ago
And, both Christianity and Stoicism were influenced by Buddhism. (Buddhism was practiced in both the Greek and Roman worlds, and scholars note many similarities between the two.)
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by afpx 7y ago
At what point does it become “big data”? 10s of billions, 100s of billions? I would love to get a single PostgreSQL server to index all of my data in a timely manner. Heck, I’d be happy with a sharded scheme, if it worked. But, I don’t have
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by afpx 7y ago
I personally find the Meditations (of which I’m not a fan) to seem almost like a Christian gospel with regard to its tone and teachings. It makes me think that either Aurelius was influenced by Christianity, or Christianity represented a be
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by afpx 7y ago
Plus, check out some of the engineering on this $10B masterpiece. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201800... In my opinion, much better for Human advancement than the typical $10B infrast
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by afpx 7y ago
That's a bit cynical. There are many examples of NASA missions that had far exceeded the original expectations.
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by afpx 7y ago
So bizarre. The US defense department even says that climate change is one of the largest threats to US security. So, basically the Trump administration is pure politics.
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by afpx 7y ago
This is very cool. It would be so fun to run qemu on it. https://www.qemu.org/ .

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