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by baldfat 9y ago
Parent poster here. I should have stated we took in 3 children in Foster Care (One was a kid at church that was abused and needed a home and from June to December we had three siblings) So we certainly choose this for our lives and I am gla
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by baldfat 9y ago
Rich ONLY get richer at the expense of others.
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by baldfat 9y ago
I blame Corporations getting rid of Retirement Plans for the sake of profit. My father's side grandfather had 2 retirement plans, 1) Navy Seals (12 years) 2) NYC Handy man (25 years) My mom's side grandfather 1) Custodian in NYC 2
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by baldfat 9y ago
I am so hoping that this might make flickr relevant again.
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by baldfat 9y ago
To go further back into the 80s where we were hard locked at 64k for commodore or 640k for DOS Assembly became the norm and optimizing for everything was the common goal for the whole community. It ended up creating a hack centric environme
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by baldfat 9y ago
> Is Excel not a GUI? Yes and Excel is horrible for Data Science. You have hidden data and to be honest almost every complex spreadsheet has at least 2 errors in it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/salesforce/2014&
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by baldfat 9y ago
https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/03/05/smart-speaker-ass... I would say Siri has been the worst of the three. Even an Apple centrist website shows how they are falling short.
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by baldfat 9y ago
> consumers have discovered it’s heavily dependent on the iPhone and is limited as a digital assistant Wouldn't this be based on Apple's privacy policy and lack of ability to do AI well with the data only available on a single
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by baldfat 9y ago
I work in education with children and background checks in PA is as follows. 1) State Child Line background check (Mail in a form $15) 2) State Police Background check (Online Access $20 I get this back immediately) 3) FBI Finger Prints (UP
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by baldfat 9y ago
As the father of a kid that died of bone cancer that is par for the course. Other cancers have made HUGE improvements but the hard dense sarcoma tumors still sit in the 1980s in terms survival rates.
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by baldfat 9y ago
Good question: I use RStudio but that might be a good project for someone.
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by baldfat 9y ago
I went the same route but ended up adopting feather from the makers of Python's Pandas and R's tidyverse, Wes McKinney and Hadley Wickham. https://blog.rstudio.com/2016/03/29/feather/ > SUMM
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by baldfat 9y ago
I much prefer the ads that are personalized to me then the random ads I get on mass media. One caveat! Can I please not be bombed by ads for days for items I purchased?!?!?! I bought a camera and I have seen the batteries and camera in my a
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by baldfat 9y ago
Okay here is a quote: Applebee's Also, whenever someone wanted to order a 'medium rare' steak, and I had to say we only make them 'pink' or 'no pink.' That's because most of the kitchen is a row of mi
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by baldfat 9y ago
But is your point that restaurants pre-pare and cook for the day it is served? I stated I didn't know Applebee's changed the way they prepared food and that's good. My point is robots can cook most of what we eat out.
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by baldfat 9y ago
> I don't think people are "mad". But you have a track record of saying trivially disproven, unsubstantiated things on HN and you backtrack poorly from them I either state my person experience from many years ago. (Don&#x2
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by baldfat 9y ago
I stated specifically outside not inside. You smell cooking from outside since kitchen's are vented. Now in NYC sometimes the vents are on top of a 25 story building and that beautiful NYC post winter stench might cover it up. If a res
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by baldfat 9y ago
Looks like Applebee's is actually starting to cook items. I guess public pressure has changed their ways. Good for them. They absolutely were the king of microwaved food in chain sit downs for decades. Appetizers are all frozen and pre
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by baldfat 9y ago
Applebees could be all cooked by Robots also since all their food is microwaved frozen food. (I tell friends if you can't smell (edit) cooking outside the restaurant they are just a microwave kitchen.) Fast food could also be run by ro
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by baldfat 9y ago
removed from the search engine is like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy where the demolition of the earth was filed in the basement in a file on a far off world.
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by baldfat 9y ago
> ‘right to be forgotten’ I really think that hiding facts is a mistake. Yes someone made a bad mistake why is it their right to have it removed from the internet? Now if there are factually wrong then absolutely they should have the abi
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by baldfat 9y ago
> The public interest would appear to outweigh the narrow rights of the .... If only that was ever used to make regulation. We might have a decent copyright law by now in the US. I still blame Micky Mouse and Disney for all bad copy righ
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by baldfat 9y ago
I want the original game with just updated graphics and ui: Caesar III Sid Meyer's Alpha Centure MOO 1 & 2 Fallout 1 & 2 Sadly this will never happen because what developer doesn't want to play with the code and have their
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by baldfat 9y ago
If they did that I would say sue them out of existence. That killed a woman and harmed the industry.
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by baldfat 9y ago
I still see facts as: 1) Nothing was reflective 2) She was walking across the road between street lights in a random space. 3) If a person hit the woman it would not have been homicide or manslaughter even if we didn't know the driver
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by baldfat 9y ago
I think that if you look into Music creation on computers you will see that most artist steal plugins and instruments all the time. When someone comes over to have me listen to something that are making I love making fun of how they purchas
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by baldfat 9y ago
I say your 98% wrong because you believe people even think about NASA and science at all. Only 2% of people actually spend time to care about these programs and believe that it is important to their day to day lives. Most people just push t
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by baldfat 9y ago
> reverse engineering That is certainly an issue if you reverse engineer anything. Google went out of their way to NOT reverse engineer it. The issue is can a public API be copyrighted. That is the scary issue.
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by baldfat 9y ago
Sure there are always going to be a ton of exceptions but we are light years past where we were just 5 years ago.
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by baldfat 9y ago
This is attempting to fix something that is already fixed. Morally I want to pay for everything I use. I music production I own a license for everything I use or demo. It is very simple to pirate plugins (Kayne West pirated DeadMau5's

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