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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
There is a ferry from Alameda to SSF, so that would at least allow some people to make the trip. Otherwise you’re right, that’s a 1.5 hour commute each way from major East Bay locales.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I came here to say something along these lines. Letting accountants drive engineering is a fatal mistake, but so is engineering without any thought to costs and profits. I’ve walked away from more than one startup whose business plan was, “
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
The Earth will be inhospitable for life (as we know it) within the next 800 million years, in fact. It’s a bit sobering to think that we’ve progressed through about 75% of the time life has on this planet. Source: my favorite Wikipedia page
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
That's good advice, but I'm not sure I fully understand - did NordVPN have such a financial incentive?
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Is there a public database of spectral lines that would enable you to do some kind of lookup, and determine the chemistry of what the spectroscope is looking at?
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Maybe they’re still waiting for the transaction to commit?
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I’ve had a bit of interaction with the Farm. As a kid, my dad and I would sail past it (as close as you can get without being blared at). I’ve heard explosions coming from there, and seen people rappelling from helicopters into the woods. L
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
If nothing else, telltale traces of our nuclear industries will be clearly identifiable. There was a natural nuclear reactor in what is now Gabon, and the fission products it left behind (e.g. Rutherfordium) are how we know it was there.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Thank you. This kind of thing contributes to the continuing embrittlement of the workplace and of society itself. And we know what happens to brittle things when they encounter a bit of stress.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I’ve worked in pharma for much of my career, but will never go back. At one point I was working for a company that continues to milk profits off of a drug that was developed in the 1950s - the company doubled the price over the span of a fe
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I don’t think all of my emails and files get automatically decrypted and processed through Palantir, but of course I’d like to know if I’m mistaken about that.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
You should throw away the earplugs every few days. Or, you could use soft silicone putty earplugs, and sterilize them during the day.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I’m sorry, YouTube is too academic and dense. Could you post a TikTok or a meme with the same info?
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
They should just take it one small step further and blame it on the data itself. “We discovered that telephone numbers had synced up with advertising profiles. Twitter regrets that the data correlated in this manner.”
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Then we have to wonder why the NBA let him own a team in the first place.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
No, but since you asked, can you tell me what racist things Donald Sterling did, besides make some comments in private?
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
No one said anything about political discourse, just about differing opinions on various issues. Surely, racism is one of them. And just so you know, the prevailing Chinese opinion on that is quite a bit different that what we believe in th
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
No, it only shows that they essentially have no principles at all, or at least none that they’re willing to lose money over (which is ultimately the same thing). It’s always useful when someone reveals their true moral fiber, as the NBA ha
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I’ll expand on this by pulling two sequential quotations in the article from NBA commissioner Adam Silver: "It is inevitable that people around the world -- including America and China -- will have different viewpoints over different i
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
The NBA boycotted North Carolina over HB2 (the “bathroom bill”), but doesn’t have a problem doing business in China. I hope they go bankrupt.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
> While I have never seen the show You should have stopped there.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
In the name of all that is holy, why would anyone rip off that show? It is literally the worst thing I have ever seen on television, excluding reality TV. And I say that as someone who grew up during TV’s dismal 1980s.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Just as a heads up, this statement is often used as an anti-Semitic canard. You obviously didn’t mean it in that context, but you may want to use that quotation with caution.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
No, you should not be able to live anywhere you want. That would only be true if all places were equally desirable. They aren’t. I can’t live in Monte Carlo, for example, even though it looks quite lovely. And I accept that, because that’s
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
This is a very valid point that almost nobody makes, and I still cannot understand why not. People screaming about how unaffordable the Bay Area is, seem to feel like living elsewhere would be some kind of death sentence.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
That is a very interesting way to look at this, one I hadn’t yet considered.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
This gets my vote for worst technical situation.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Or, a “degraded” HTML, basically an HTML to markdown converter, that keeps text-like formatting and drops things like images, scripts, and the like.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Step 6 is the difficult part these days, specifically finding companies not built using this system.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
... with his $700 million exit. The whole thing is infuriating.

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