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by ececconi 11y ago
I was so excited when 23andMe dropped their prices to $99 a few years ago and immediately gave myself a 'Christmas Present' and bought a 23andMe kit. I seriously thought this was the future. I was so excited to see my health info
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by ececconi 11y ago
I got my undergrad degrees in mechanical engineering and philosophy. I'd say the philosophy degree was for sure worthwhile for my life and career.
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by ececconi 11y ago
I majored in philosophy, albeit with mechanical engineering, and I'd say that my philosophy education has been much more helpful for my consulting career. True, my ME degree got me the initial interview -- but almost everyone who inte
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by ececconi 11y ago
Most places don't show you as a criminal, they show you got arrested.
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by ececconi 11y ago
I've stayed at an airport hotel for two years while on a consulting gig from monday-thursdays. It wasn't by choice, it was because the client had a negotiated rate with the airport. It was a nice hotel and all, but it is a bit t
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by ececconi 11y ago
After my dad died my freshman year of college, I wrote a letter and sealed it. It's so hard to understand that a person that was so important to you won't be there to hear everything you wanted to tell them. Since then, I'v
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by ececconi 11y ago
The fact that the surface pro 4 has a much more robust battery life, without the keyboard attached, makes it my product of choice if I'm going to buy one of these things. Thing is, I don't need all the extra horsepower from this
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by ececconi 11y ago
Let's say for the sake of argument that it costs about $100 per use to recover the machine from a labor/time perspective. That means they'll make back the initial investment on the machine in 20 uses. As long as the fraud r
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by ececconi 11y ago
When you're working with large companies that process enormous volumes of transactions you can't just download things to excel.
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by ececconi 11y ago
It's because this product is probably aimed more at the business side of the company as opposed to being a pure technology product.
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by ececconi 11y ago
I've been working exclusively in implementing BI solutions for the past five years. The thing that depresses me the most is not that BI solutions take forever to implement and cost a lot, but that clients many times just don't un
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by ececconi 11y ago
The book Fundamentals of Astrodynamics" by Bate, Mueller and White, where it seems like these notes come from was my Orbital Mechanics textbook in college. Our final project was to program a crude missile defense system. Great book.
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by ececconi 11y ago
Then I wouldn't see an advantage of typing on a screen vs drawing.
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by ececconi 11y ago
Abercrombie and Hollister are moving away from logo designs now that their CEO Mike Jefferies was removed from office. Source: a college roommate of mine works at the corporate office.
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by ececconi 11y ago
I think that's a very simplified way of looking at the way companies work.
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by ececconi 11y ago
Elon Musk is the CEO of a public company (Tesla) and also the CEO of a private company (SpaceX)
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by ececconi 11y ago
Funny, I use a lot of technology products to systematically track what I do in a structured way: Foursquare, Calendars, Asana, Evernote, Fitbit, etc. I use a physical journal for exactly the opposite reason. It's my non-systematic way
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by ececconi 11y ago
Kindle unlimited. Also, I don't think there's as big of a market as they thought for people who wanted to pay one fee for all you can read.
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by ececconi 11y ago
I guess it's because I value music much more than TV and movies. I listen to music all day at work, but I may watch a movie or show once every couple of weeks.
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by ececconi 11y ago
Funny, I pay for Netflix but consistently cancel it because I rarely watch TV or movies but I consume music so much.
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by ececconi 11y ago
The one product that I use and pay for that is so good that I recommend to all of my friends is Spotify. I'm so surprised how few of my friends actually pay for it though. They're willing to put up with ads and reduced quality f
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by ececconi 11y ago
I totally agree. If you want my favorite passages I hand selected to a majority of his corpus, the link below is what I put together my senior year in college. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1B3SGtiP-YkUMZauBdN9Dkx0caB...
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by ececconi 11y ago
I think the problem with medium is that it really markets to the self-congratulatory generation. I've read some really good articles on it, but so much of it is a product of a generation who expected the world and were upset when thei
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by ececconi 11y ago
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche has been the most influential single text I’ve read in my life. Over the years, with each reread, it’s changed the way I look at the world. Before I read this book, I took the definitions for th
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by ececconi 11y ago
American Spirits are packed much tighter than the average cigarette though, a lot more tobacco per cigarette. Yes, it feels much different than even a light cigarette... so it maybe be healthier. But they would mess up my lungs pretty bad
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by ececconi 11y ago
Have you seen the documentary on the amazing Randi? It's called an honest liar. It shows that he actively deceived people in order to push his own agenda of what 'truth' is. So I didn't think he was a debunker as much
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by ececconi 11y ago
You're totally right, the solid color version hurts my eyes looking at it because it's so bright and loud.
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by ececconi 11y ago
Humblebrag by association.
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by ececconi 11y ago
Oh for sure. Depression is seriously the worst thing ever.
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by ececconi 11y ago
The problem with being manic for months on end is that the initial exuberance and excitement has a way of turning into paranoia and anxiety. I'm not exactly sure how it happens, but it does.

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