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by elchief 7y ago
Gee, I wonder why Millenials, who got burned so very hard in 08, are avoiding risk
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by elchief 7y ago
There are multiple major highways in urban greater Vancouver. The Trans Canada is the big one, and Oak street is essentially highway 99 (which becomes the I5)
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by elchief 7y ago
Same in Canada. My dad has dementia and is in a home in Vancouver. They had him pretty zombified until I intervened. He's a bit of a pain in the ass, so it's easier for the staff to drug him up...
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by elchief 7y ago
Magazines and blogs/articles exist to keep you coming back. Same with serial television shows. The content is not self-contained, or particularly high quality. Only enough to bring you back for one more episode or issue. Books (and mov
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by elchief 7y ago
This is just an attack on people with mental illness https://www.nami.org/learn-more/mental-health-public-policy/...
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by elchief 7y ago
If you served your time, you served your time. If not, shoulda got more time
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by elchief 7y ago
we did a survey of cyclists and gendered bathrooms were much preferred. this was 9 years ago though...
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by elchief 7y ago
she thought the earth would literally tilt back and forth (as though in place) it's tilted. and it moves to the other side of the sun. so its tilt relative the sun changes. but it doesn't rock back and forth on its own
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by elchief 7y ago
seems backwards in my mind... build data lake first. perfect schema. then load into redshift
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by elchief 7y ago
even w LED bulbs?
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by elchief 7y ago
Did a fun project for my MBA. A bike parking facility downtown, where you can park your bike securely, showers, lockers, towel service, ironing boards, buy some coffee and a snack. Raised $80k for it...needed 100. Anyways We modeled the sho
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by elchief 7y ago
My ex taught grade 6 geography. Is a principal now. Thought the seasons were due to earth tilting back and forth. Didn't get that the tilt was the same, but the position around the sun was different
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by elchief 7y ago
I recently had to get personal workers compensation insurance for a contract (bc). Could have gone through a service to do it. Employer would have paid. Would cost them $6000/year, with a ~$2400 tax liability to me. Did it myself for $
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by elchief 7y ago
Ah yes. A problem they solved 50 years ago
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by elchief 7y ago
Exercise causes minor temporary inflammation, but lowers chronic inflammation https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/315255.php
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by elchief 7y ago
JET should die (or whatever the storage engine is called). But the GUI builder is useful. You can use postgres or whatever as your backend
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by elchief 7y ago
I read the book, and found it useful I'd also recommend Feeling Good, by David Burns. It's about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which is similar to Stoicism. It has a couple chapters on dealing with difficult people. There's a
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by elchief 7y ago
Should come with a bicycle to generate power
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by elchief 7y ago
An ORM is pretty darn useful for CRUD Use a query tool like QueryDSL or Jooq for querying. It's not surprising that you fail if you don't use the right tool for the job
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by elchief 7y ago
How do plants deal with rising water from floods, or falling water from drying out, or overly hot cooling water from high temperatures? These are all in our future. I'm genuinely curious and not trying to troll
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by elchief 7y ago
My solution is to give enormous bounties. Then the haters stfu I have lots of points to give away though
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He thinks we only started recording temperatures in January, I guess
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Chrome uses a LOT of automation to do what it does The actual number of lines is not important
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by elchief 7y ago
It's funny how a 3-line bash script is considered an automated agent, but the 100's of millions of lines of code that Chrome uses to download, parse, and display HTML is somehow not "automated"
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by elchief 7y ago
I'll believe it when I can buy it at Costco
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Patient: What should I take after finasteride? Doctor: Viagra
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by elchief 7y ago
Genius! My old employer blocked Netflix though. I didn't want to watch movies, but they had some interesting looking machine learning blog articles that I couldn't read
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Didn't amazon lose billions for years?
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Your all-electric has to be your best looking car model 200 km is not enough

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