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by harywilke 5y ago
No, but it should be obvious that it is a relevant data point to consider. If the article was about number of pool installations by congress members, and you left out that the husband of one of the members owned a pool installation company
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by harywilke 5y ago
He might have had those reasons at the beginning, but by the time the 2016 elections came around, he was, wittingly or not, a stooge with a grudge. He exposed himself as the corrupt, incompetent political hack when he went spouting conspira
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by harywilke 5y ago
Interesting. Noon is when the sun is highest. I had fun explaining time zones to my son the other day. I think he got lost in my train analogy: If the train travels around the earth at the same speed the earth turns, then it's always n
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by harywilke 5y ago
narrator voice: they all used apple infrastructure.
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by harywilke 5y ago
No company should have the power to tell another company that they must split up into separate entities.
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by harywilke 6y ago
related video on Compliant Mechanisms they briefly talk about a device to safety nuclear warheads. about a minute in and again at 10:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97t7Xj_iBv
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by harywilke 7y ago
I really wanted the company to be called ",,," when i read: "This medium post is about a project by three comma employees"
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by harywilke 7y ago
Reminded me of This article from a few years back. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2014/jul/...
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by harywilke 8y ago
A bit more pop-sci, but i found this book a great read about how we went from simple on/off relays to full blown microprocessors. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
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by harywilke 8y ago
"About a year ago in iOS 10.2.1, we delivered a software update that improves power management during peak workloads to avoid unexpected shutdowns on iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and iPhone SE. With the update, i
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by harywilke 10y ago
Dolphins put half their brains to sleep at a time.
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by harywilke 10y ago
Apple started developing the Newton in '87 so it's not that surprising to see touch screens in a prototype from around that time.
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by harywilke 10y ago
I think it's about 400 years late to be asking if Muslims are a good fit for US society. Some estimates put the first Muslim in America on the Mayflower, others say 17th century slavery. Either way, Muslims have been in America for a l
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by harywilke 10y ago
no, and i seriously doubt they were every going to. the list of conditions to be met was long.
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by harywilke 10y ago
Thanks for the memories. it never worked as well as you imagined it would. there are plenty of videos on youtube of it. just search for 'baking soda sub'
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by harywilke 10y ago
yea, but he is right that logic and reason are quickly thrown out the window by many people when the suggestion of either terrorism or child porn are brought up. I've experienced that in person while serving on a jury.
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by harywilke 10y ago
These stats[1] are form 2013, but i always find it interesting that just over 1/2 of the suicides in the US are from self inflicted gun injuries. 1. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm
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by harywilke 11y ago
Damn your duty, I have bills to pay. Point is, why risk my job when my boss wont have my back?
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by harywilke 11y ago
Avoiding the pitfalls of blind nationalism. again.
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by harywilke 11y ago
Geoff Manaugh has an amazing blog about architecture, space, the city and just about everything in between. his write up on his NYT piece. http://www.bldgblog.com/2016/03/panopticops/
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by harywilke 11y ago
"...and for a period of time was part of Microsoft’s Softimage arm, which later became Autodesk." Weird phrasing. Softimage was aquired by Microsoft, then later sold to Avid, which then sold it on to Autodesk.
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by harywilke 11y ago
There is an interesting documentary series based on that quote. Started in 1964 and every 7 years after. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Series
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by harywilke 11y ago
Why is it certainly false?
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by harywilke 11y ago
As a freelancer, the cost to cover my taxes/social security will be calculated into any offer i give. I am in effect employing myself and you are contracting out an employee of my company. The rate given will need to cover the costs of
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by harywilke 11y ago
soccer is just slang for "association football" and this whole soccer/football debate is a very modern contrivance.
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by harywilke 11y ago
Adding an extra log line is a bit different than custom tailoring a hardware id check that can't trivially be reverse engineered by a highly motivated party.
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by harywilke 11y ago
interesting stuff. I'd also add that light bulbs got deliberately worse for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
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by harywilke 11y ago
You are not voting for POTUS. You are voting for your candidates chance to chose your states representative to the electoral collage. it's a state election. not a federal election.
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by harywilke 11y ago
So only the rich will get patents?
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by harywilke 11y ago
The iPhone was a successful diversification.

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