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by andyv 8y ago
When I was a graduate teaching assistant at a 4-year university, the re-entry students never failed to impress me. They were the most determined students I had. They weren't afraid to confront me when I made a mistake, and I made a f
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by andyv 8y ago
They did both real measurements and simulations that they could compare against.
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by andyv 8y ago
Heroin with a small amount of fentanyl gives an extra kick to the heroin. Heroin dealers who don't include fentanyl are regarded to have an inferior product. If the heroin is cut with too much fentanyl, your customers die. As mention
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by andyv 8y ago
Advice given to me once upon a time: "If you want to save yourself a lot of trouble, find a girl you don't like and give her a house".
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by andyv 8y ago
The neatest thing for Stan Lee must have been to see the realistic-looking movie adaptions of all those comics that he worked on for decades.
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by andyv 8y ago
When someone comes up with a general AI, I have a feeling its going to want to be paid...
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by andyv 8y ago
Pretty much all candidates these days have websites... Just saying.
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by andyv 8y ago
People doing science programming are the worst programmers in the world. The reason is that they are focused on a calculation and result, not the program. I helped a guy speed up his program once. He was sorting around 10^4 to 10^5 eleme
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by andyv 8y ago
Computational research is incredibly difficult because it's usually hard to see the effect of a bug. A triangle drawn on the wrong place of a screen can be easy to see, but a typo in your integration subroutine? Hard to spot if you d
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by andyv 8y ago
If you want to run for office, how else do you tell the voters what you want to do, and why they should vote for you?
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by andyv 8y ago
There is a wonderful documentary "Flint Town" (currently on NetFlix) that follows the police department of Flint, MI, a town that is struggling. At one point, officers end up campaigning for a local ballot issue to renew a tax th
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by andyv 8y ago
I'm reminded of the scene in "The Return of the King" where Gandalf wraps the palantir in a cloth because he's afraid Sauron might be on the other end. New step one when seizing an iphone: wrap it in something opaque...
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by andyv 8y ago
I bought a book on Amazon. I don't have Prime, so it took most of a week before the third party seller even shipped it. It never arrived, and the order status only said "left shipper facility". After staying in this limbo
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by andyv 8y ago
It's indicative of how far gone he is.
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When the City Comes for Your Home-Based Business(wsj.com)
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by andyv 8y ago
City of Gold [0] is a wonderful documentary, well worth the watch. [0]( https://amzn.to/2JIe0JJ )
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by andyv 8y ago
My county uses the bubble form too. Accessibility is handled by a touch screen system (with headphones), which prints out a paper ballot . It's quite refreshing-- these guys usually mess things up.
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by andyv 8y ago
I live there, that road is well-lit. The Uber video is misleading.
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by andyv 8y ago
... and in a backwater colony with a population of 2 1/2 million or so. There are metro areas today with that kind of population, look at the kind of leadership they end up with.
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by andyv 8y ago
They want to make sure their profiles are real people, not bots. A profile that refers to shadow users is more credible. The security is for their advertising clients, who want to show ads to real people, not bots.
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by andyv 9y ago
Found a small bug-- if you accidentally hit '-', then the "amount saved" ends up negative. Couldn't undo it short of reloading the page. Mathematical hilarity ensues...
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by andyv 9y ago
The documentary "I am another you" (on Amazon, last I looked) is a great film about mental illness. The documentarian is attracted to the subject of her film based on his perceived freedom, which turns out to be an illusion. My B
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by andyv 9y ago
Very similar to the situation in "The Garden" http://www.thegardenmovie.com Basically, a property owner in South LA lets people grow gardens on his otherwise unused property. After a while the owner decides to do some
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by andyv 9y ago
Look at the returns for each of your 401's. Move your money from the poorly performing funds to the well performing funds. If your top-performing funds have about the same return, keep things diversified.
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by andyv 10y ago
"Heisenberg's War" is about the possibility that Heisenberg either didn't try very hard or perhaps deliberately sabotaged the German bomb effort. Very controversial, great read. https://www.amazon.com/He
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by andyv 10y ago
Over a decade, apparently more than half: http://http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2007/11/2...
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by andyv 11y ago
The social security tax is capped because the benefits are also capped. Billionaires don't need $100k/month in SS benefits.
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by andyv 13y ago
No kidding-- this year it's 30% more expensive, at least for me.
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by andyv 15y ago
"The domains of popular poker sites are no secret among online gambling aficionados." Since their DNS entries were seized, the IP numbers are about to become "no secret" among online gambling aficiondados.
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by andyv 16y ago
Oh, sorry. I would say that selecting the rounding policy is up to you. I'd agree with the poster that gives the fractional penny to the customer.

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