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by bryondowd 9y ago
I was referring to his real number, which isn't in his FB account, but is likely stored in his friends' contact lists on their phones, which they in turn give over to facebook. This lets FB create a shadow profile for him. Even if
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by bryondowd 9y ago
My guess.. the friends you are coordinating with have your number in their contacts list, which they then allow FB to see. FB associates that number with that group of people, and also separately associates your 'fake' account wit
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by bryondowd 9y ago
What if the hospital is the one who was already hit and was about to pay because they are desperate to get back up and running?
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by bryondowd 9y ago
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/16/1512.16
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by bryondowd 9y ago
Don't know why this is being downvoted, it's an interesting point. There's a significant difference in lighting between a night with a clear sky and full moon versus an overcast night and new moon. Not saying that's the
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by bryondowd 9y ago
Obviously if there's room and time to swerve and avoid the pedestrian, you should, but swerving into an oncoming car? That sounds extreme. There's no way I'd risk killing myself and anyone in the oncoming vehicle to save one
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by bryondowd 9y ago
Seems like an insufficient reason to me. Many software developers automate processes which in turn eliminates jobs entirely. It's a little different, but still a case of one person/group benefitting at the cost of another's l
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by bryondowd 9y ago
At least for personal loans, debt to income doesn't use your total debt, it uses your monthly payments made on debts against your monthly income. So I assume you would have to compare the yearly payments on the national debt to total f
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by bryondowd 9y ago
Had a similar experience. VB class in HS was my first programming experience, but me and another guy finished the end of course project in the first month. It was a playable tic-tac-toe game. Instructor said if we made the computer actually
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by bryondowd 9y ago
I'd imagine computers are more consistent. If the situation is one the automation can handle, it will handle it pretty much every time, assuming it's in good maintenance. Whereas a human's capability varies widely based on a
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by bryondowd 9y ago
Wouldn't the route inefficiency compensate somewhat for the rider efficiency of the bus? If you break one bus route that snakes around town hitting a dozen or more stops with 12 cars each hitting one or two close together stops and goi
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by bryondowd 9y ago
The upfront investment of a Roman road might still be comparable to the lifetime investment of a modern one when you factor the human resource. How many man hours are spent on a mile of road, including building the tools (cement truck, bull
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by bryondowd 9y ago
I wonder how common even that much help is. That would be completely unthinkable to anyone in my circle. I personally send about $400 per month on average to help my mother make ends meet. I'm certainly not going to be getting a severa
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by bryondowd 9y ago
There is a cap, but the question is whether that cap is high enough to meet demand. If demand stays the same, and you increase the number of cars that can fit on a given road at once by decreasing the space between them, you've potenti
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by bryondowd 9y ago
Well, you could argue that automation could improve driving efficiency. Will full automation, you could potentially have more cars use the same amount of road space, since they have more immediate reaction times. Maybe not enough, but it&#x
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by bryondowd 9y ago
Not sure if I count, but I'm a soon-to-be ex programmer. Transitioning from writing software for the FAA's air traffic control systems to being an actual air traffic controller. Dev to user. Fingers crossed on the successful part,
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by bryondowd 9y ago
I wouldn't think math is science. Otherwise, the acronym STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) would be awfully redundant. And yeah, I'd say CS is closer to math than science, except maybe when you look at things like
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by bryondowd 9y ago
Ah, thanks! I should have specified that I was speaking anecdotally. I've just never been paid semi-monthly or monthly in the US or heard of it from others. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised if it is more common that I would have
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by bryondowd 9y ago
Is this[1] what you're referring to? That sounds like grounds for summary execution to me. My group had me write a git commit hook that demands all source files pass a dry-run of astyle before you can commit. It'll let you view th
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by bryondowd 9y ago
Interesting. Months aren't all the same, especially if you get paid weekly/biweekly, which seems universal here in the US. I assume it's a weekly 52/12 or biweekly 26/12? That's what I use for my own personal b
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by bryondowd 9y ago
Good point. Although I suppose you might still want to be home rather than running it while you're at work or otherwise away, to have a chance of grabbing the extinguisher and/or calling the fire department before your whole home
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by bryondowd 9y ago
The main cause of dryer fires is lint buildup resulting from poor maintenance, cleaning, or installation, from what I understand. Built up lint is an ideal material for starting a fire. I suppose if you added some sort of sensors, you could
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by bryondowd 9y ago
I'm no expert on the subject, so feel free to set me straight. It seem to me, though, that this is a bit like cargo culting. An association between some part of a process and the result that doesn't factor in the big picture. More
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by bryondowd 9y ago
My understanding is that this is a bit of a false alarm, because most devices target 150C, which is just enough to vaporize the PG, but not oxidize it, not 300C where things get ugly. So, with reasonable safety measures in place, this shoul
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by bryondowd 9y ago
Just for reference. 1-4 per day would be about a pack every 8 days, averaged. I'd be curious how that compares to a non-daily smoker who as the grandparent suggests, only smokes about once every other day on average. I expect it's
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by bryondowd 9y ago
In a direct democracy, maybe this would matter, but we have a republic. Politicians aren't machines that would collate the beliefs of the American people and act accordingly if only they had the information. They are individuals with t
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I mean, that shouldn't really be a surprise. It would be a very bad sign if people today thought signing something like the declaration of independence (presumably independence from the USA, in this case) wasn't too radical. In th
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by bryondowd 9y ago
Is there any research on which is worse? In other words, how does it compare to drink under 14 per week but without any rest days, versus drinking more than 14 per week but only during three days of the week. I feel like there's a lack
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That's the point. If they see atrophy in people who drink 14-20 units per week, that leaves room to wonder whether there's a significant difference between people within that group depending on whether they drink 2-3 units every d
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by bryondowd 9y ago
I do exactly this and have no problem with FB. I only friend people I actually know and care to have interactions with, and I kick anyone who's posts are overall more worth my time than not off my feed. This means my feed is actually w

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