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Americans Have Shifted Dramatically on What Values Matter Most(wsj.com)
2 points by chkaloon 7y ago|1 comments
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by chkaloon 7y ago
Soon? Looks like someone's ahead of the curve: http://www.hngnews.com/lodi_enterprise/article_37e5f4bf-f699...
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by chkaloon 7y ago
I managed software developers for many years at a fairly well known software company, where the first gateway for a hire was an advanced Math or CS degree with an undergraduate gpa of 3.5 or higher from a tough school (undergrade gpa becaus
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by chkaloon 7y ago
What I got out of this was how much better the top 100 music of the 70s-80s was compared to the 2010s. Oh wait, that's right, I'm old.
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by chkaloon 7y ago
> "Sanford Levinson, a constitutional law scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, is sharply critical of the Electoral College system, but does not believe the interstate pact would solve all of the problems inherent to Americ
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by chkaloon 7y ago
People have said GE's numbers have been suspect since at least Jack Welch's days of year after year profit growth. But this looks kind of weasely.
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by chkaloon 7y ago
On a recent Vox Weeds episode there was mention made of the environmental movement's early connections to eugenics, sterilization and population control, and how national parks weren't so altruistic when it came to native populati
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by chkaloon 7y ago
One of the more disturbing things I've read recently
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by chkaloon 7y ago
Yes, I was in London last week and had the same issue with the tube exits. The tall buildings also make block level GPS pretty useless. I hope this is as good as it sounds
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by chkaloon 7y ago
I don't approve of the vigilante model, it just increases the general animosity in society. I'd rather there be public prosecutions of violence-advocating speech through the legal process.
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by chkaloon 7y ago
They don't need to process all of them, just a relatively small number of public examples.
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by chkaloon 7y ago
Old NYT article on mass shootings in the US versus the rest of the world. There are some good studies quoted in here, but, oh my, the first graph and the lack of explanation at the beginning... A case study on how not to present stats on
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NYT attempt at presenting mass shooting stats(nytimes.com)
3 points by chkaloon 7y ago|1 comments
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by chkaloon 7y ago
Maybe you're being facetious, but here goes anyway: Many times albums were created as works themselves, with songs as components. Rock operas like Pink Floyd's The Wall and The Who's Tommy as obvious examples. Each produced g
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by chkaloon 7y ago
A photo of that bad boy http://home.kpn.nl/a.dikker1/museum/blauwebak.html
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by chkaloon 7y ago
Back in the late 80s we had a PL/M development system from Intel we used to program 8051 and 8096 microcontrollers for industrial sensors at Honeywell. The code was saved on 8" floppies.
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by chkaloon 7y ago
Not much here other than "do weight training" and buy our book to learn how.
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by chkaloon 7y ago
Is there a way to absolutely verify that this website is, in fact, the correct one and not a scam to collect personal info? Ironically, if they had used the Equifax domain instead of equifaxbreachsettlement.com I would have felt more comfor
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by chkaloon 7y ago
The last 2-3 weeks in South Central Alaska have been crazy hot for that region. 90F common across the area, we hit 80+F at our higher altitude cabin several days in a row. First time we ever hit 80 in the 15 years we've had it.
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by chkaloon 7y ago
Pandora (even though I gave it up for Spotify years ago) seemed to be the best at keeping variety. Spotify is very bad at it.
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by chkaloon 7y ago
Interesting. I live a couple hours northeast of Anchorage, Alaska. It is a remote, mountainous area that is also in a rain shadow to some extent, thus fairly dry. I was having dinner recently with a local who has lived here his whole life o
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by chkaloon 7y ago
Well put. I especially like the reference to I.G.Y. I always loved that song.
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by chkaloon 7y ago
Yes, back in the day we used to consider thinking about security as sand in the gears of progress. A slog to get through with little payoff.
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by chkaloon 7y ago
One reason was probably the "taboo-ness" of the research. Reference Mr. Close's comments in the article. Attitudes like his hinder scientific advancement.
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by chkaloon 7y ago
After reading this, it occurs to me that a side effect might be the EU getting its act together and provide some real competition to US tech dominance. I would consider that a good thing. Not sure that's what Trump intends...
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by chkaloon 7y ago
I have the same confusion about his statement as you do. His weather analogy is also strange because the weather only takes one path, presumably determined by physics and initial conditions. I doubt many people would argue there's agen
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by chkaloon 7y ago
"Someone or something has crossed the technological Rubicon and has obtained what some would call the Holy Grail of aerospace engineering." Hyperbole much?
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by chkaloon 7y ago
"Amazon declined to comment on the specific black hat consulting firms named in this story, but it told BuzzFeed News that these 'bad actors make up a fraction of activity' on the site." So some number below 100% apparen
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by chkaloon 8y ago
So, it's a non issue? Nothing to worry about? https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2017/12/14/communities-fight... https://www.thelocal.fr/20180807/why-do-some-people-in-franc... h
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by chkaloon 8y ago
That's good for now. I live in WI and the blowback is rising. I'm guessing one reason for that is because of the low population density there. Once they start creeping into more dense areas, or less dense but more ecologically sen

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