brianlweiner

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by brianlweiner 3y ago
parent comment roughly paraphrased the advice... the core advice is to never speak to police WITHOUT YOUR LAWYER present. Certainly providing the menu that might exonerate you is probably fine -- but that's what a lawyer is for.
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by brianlweiner 4y ago
URL is blocked by my company VPN as being in the Russian federation
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by brianlweiner 4y ago
I don't even know if it's cargo culting as much as engineers using their day jobs as opportunities to learn marketable skills for job hopping. Nearly ever new technology introduced at places I've worked was because someone wa
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by brianlweiner 5y ago
https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/coexisten... 70% of that is for livestock feed.
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by brianlweiner 5y ago
There's still lots of non Military / Fed stuff! And it's getting better. https://www.sparkpost.com/ https://www.cloudtamer.io/ https://www.contrastsecurity.com/ A few off the
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by brianlweiner 5y ago
Two factors that I'm aware of: -- Early in the pandemic, travel was way down. Rental car companies unloaded a lot of their fleet that were sitting idle. Now that demand is back up, they are back on the market for vehicles. -- Semicondu
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by brianlweiner 6y ago
FYI you probably meant 'egregious'
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by brianlweiner 6y ago
What's your model?
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by brianlweiner 6y ago
In at least some cases ... the prices you see on grubhub may be higher than the actual prices the restaurant is charging. E.g $17.99 vs $14.99
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by brianlweiner 6y ago
Probably the ludicrous notion that somehow Hillary Clinton is to blame for electing Donald Trump rather than the millions of people who voted for him despite overwhelming evidence of his lack of fitness for the office.
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by brianlweiner 7y ago
Seems like it ... my experience with Algolia was fairly lukewarm -- it seemed expensive for the capabilities offered.
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by brianlweiner 7y ago
John was a professor of mine, so I'll defend him a bit here :). To be clear, he's certainly a contrarian, and has a fairly pessimistic take on modern scientific progress. I pushed back in class quite a bit about his 'End of S
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by brianlweiner 7y ago
Employers have significant tax advantages when offering health insurance that individuals do not have access to.
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by brianlweiner 7y ago
I applied for the Baltimore City director of digital operations position. I interviewed with Frank Johnson and a variety of other city department heads. I got the impression they were a group of people that broadly understood their problems
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by brianlweiner 7y ago
This is one of the few things Baltimore does well! We have many food 'markets' that are essentially small stalls run by independent businesses with common seating areas, tray returns, limited bussing, and open seating. https:&#x2
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by brianlweiner 8y ago
The email introducing the feature (May 2017) described it as follows: `Get an inside peek at the Amazon-sponsored university competition to advance AI. The Alexa Prize "socialbots" are in early development and understandably rough
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by brianlweiner 8y ago
Is it not possible to breed insects to try and replace some portion of the natural base population? Obviously other changes causing the population loss would also have to occur (e.g more responsible use of insecticides, less reliance on mon
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by brianlweiner 8y ago
Making a chicken from scratch -- hilarious. Where do you source those 'recipes' ?
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by brianlweiner 9y ago
Only 13% of mothers are able to provide breast milk for 100% of their child's needs for the first 6 months, according to NPR. http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/09/23/22534912...
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by brianlweiner 9y ago
Don't most households own multiple smartphones? What makes them fundamentally different?
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by brianlweiner 10y ago
Literally posting one of the first google results so I cannot guarantee accuracy. "The gasoline-powered generators produce at best 6.13 kilowatt-hours per gallon of fuel, at worst 4.42, and a median of 5.7." [1] So it sounds like
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by brianlweiner 10y ago
While it's clearly true that more privileged kids have opportunities to recover from mistakes, there is also a worrying trend where even those kids seem to think they can't possibly make a mistake (get a C, do poorly on a standard
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by brianlweiner 10y ago
Parent was making a size comparison to the moon.
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by brianlweiner 10y ago
Between 1960 and 2007, the share of disposable personal income spent on total food by Americans, on average, fell from 17.5 to 9.6 percent http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/detail.a...
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by brianlweiner 10y ago
Or they are in response to internal rising costs; e.g outsource 20 IT positions because health insurance costs for your other 200 employees are increasing 16%.
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by brianlweiner 10y ago
"I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Painting and Poetry Mathematicks and Philosophy." - John Adams *he struck through painting and poetry.
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by brianlweiner 10y ago
Colorado tends to rank in the top 10 as far as ease-of-starting I believe. I think these kinds of regulations are often overlooked when states dream of starting their own tech hubs.
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by brianlweiner 10y ago
Indeed other research has indicated that lots of factors can affect a judge's decisions. http://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889.full A panel of judges would be one approach. Perhaps judges could be made
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by brianlweiner 10y ago
Were establishment Democrats particularly pro-wikileaks during the Manning releases? I don't recall that - in general both parties have been pretty much anti-whistleblower and pro-secrecy. If anything the Republicans (particularly pro-
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by brianlweiner 10y ago
But Venezuela has already seized and nationalized foreign-owned assets. Surely that burnt plenty of bridges? I'm more likely to believe that influential Venezuelans are exposed to the current bond market and are seeking to delay the re

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