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by british_india 6y ago
“Time Enough For Love”, by Robert Heinlein. It’s the life story of a man who lives 2,300 years.
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by british_india 6y ago
Read fiction.
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by british_india 6y ago
I own a copy of "The Letters of Mozart and his Family" and they are a wild bunch, especially the letters addressed to: "Cousin Buzz Fuzz".
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by british_india 7y ago
Laying the groundwork for the attack on Bloomberg
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by british_india 7y ago
Sol (our sun) is located between the Sagittarius and Perseus arms of the Milky Way spiral galaxy. Specifically, our home is located on the Orion Arm.
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by british_india 7y ago
Methane clathrates in the Arctic sea floor. Methane from decomposing formerly-permafrost in Siberia and Canada. Methane.
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by british_india 7y ago
Thank you!
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by british_india 7y ago
Also Fresca is packed with grapefruit juice.
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by british_india 7y ago
My BCBS plan has a $4,000 deductible per insured person per year.
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by british_india 7y ago
There is no mystery. Arctic sea floor Canadian permafrost Siberian permafrost The Arctic sea floor is releasing Methane Clathrates, i.e. the so-called Methane Clathrates Gun is firing. As for the two instances of "permafrost", bot
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by british_india 7y ago
The British left India with a pressurized, always-on water system. Through lack of maintenance, most of that water system is no longer pressurized--the water comes on intermittently. That leads to the common practice by water consumers of h
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by british_india 7y ago
If the system you are facing is object oriented, then the traditional flow-chart is a bad match. Still, you need to create a map of how the entire system works. Learning to do that is the single greatest predictor of your success.
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by british_india 7y ago
Nothing is worse than trying to debug Camel.
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by british_india 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC-JCvFyjlo The 787 Dreamliner is a nightmare. Bad code produced by offshore teams. International teams totally violating safety procedures.
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by british_india 7y ago
Multitasking is harmful for left-brain dominant persons, because the left brain processes information in a linear-sequential manner. This does not permit the resumption of interrupted tasks. Multitasking is not as harmful for right-brain do
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by british_india 8y ago
I will add that taking calculus in high school was the final stake in the heart of my belief in god. Calculus shows you that complex outcomes can result from quite simple causes.
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by british_india 9y ago
I didn't start being a developer until I was 35. Going strong 20 years later.
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by british_india 9y ago
Think of a restaurant: you use the menu to order things from the kitchen. If an item appears on the menu but is not actually available from the kitchen, you would be pissed off. The menu is the API, what comes out of the kitchen is the imp
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by british_india 9y ago
The author of the piece, Michael Kinsley, is a flat out genius. That is and has been apparent going back to his both incisive and funny comments on Crossfire. I started reading the article and was blown away within the first paragraph by th
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by british_india 9y ago
Was just looking at this problem!
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by british_india 9y ago
No, stop permitting companies to give their IP to a foreign subsidiary to pay license fees that wipeout their domestic US taxable income
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by british_india 9y ago
What a ridiculous article. It just takes a lot of experience to become an actual Full Stack Developer. Most developers begin in the front end and then have to claw their way out of that to become back-end developers. But that doesn't m
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by british_india 9y ago
The author is another Republican looking to dump on anything that helps the Environment. Jump in a lake, Jenny Beth. I'm sure you're a-okay with subsidies to Petroleum companies on the taxpayer's dime.
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by british_india 9y ago
The author is another scumbag Republican looking to shit on anything that helps the environment. Fuck you, Jenny Beth. I'm sure you're fine with fossil fuel exploration subsidies on the taxpayer's dime.
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by british_india 9y ago
So, you're making the argument that annihilating humans from the earth is okay.
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by british_india 9y ago
Unfortunately, anyone who wants to fork over $5K for one of these gems has to consider how brittle Apple products have become. Who wants to spend that kind of scratch only to have it become a brick in a year.
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by british_india 9y ago
The real problem with health care is that it's a gravy train for all involved. Doctors, who don't invent anything new and who just practice garden-variety medicine are wildly overpaid. They don't like it be known, but the ave
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by british_india 9y ago
This is a joke.
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by british_india 9y ago
Read hardbacks in the bath tub. That's the secret.
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by british_india 9y ago
When you get comfortable reading a lot, you don't need to re-read books. Certainly, a rare few books benefit from multiple readings but not all. I retain a surprising amount of details and can describe passages from Dickens and the mai

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