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by jdhzzz 9y ago
I'll take Atlanta and you can have the other 19 also-rans.
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by jdhzzz 9y ago
I'm reminded of the Steven Wright joke: "Someone broke into my apartment last night and replaced everything with exact duplicates." ( https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/25236-last-night-somebody-b... )
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by jdhzzz 9y ago
The converse of: “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” ― Mark Twain
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by jdhzzz 9y ago
from Paul Graham's Essay "Mind the Gap" http://paulgraham.com/gap.html Another approach would be to ask, if you were going back to the year x in a time machine, how much would you have to spend on trade good
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by jdhzzz 9y ago
> The only reason they talk to you, with overt disdain and reluctance, is the government says they have to. They are trying to fix that.
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by jdhzzz 9y ago
Before the digital age, a stash of nine-digit numbers could be kept reasonably secure in a locked filing cabinet behind closed doors. So long as consumers volunteered the numbers judiciously, most people could make it through life without
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by jdhzzz 9y ago
When will they drop Yale?
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by jdhzzz 9y ago
I've been in industry 40 years and can think of 2 times I directly used what I learned as part of my job. 1. Calculating the temperature distribution across a fiber being heated by air (spoiler: it's uniform). 2. Calculating the a
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by jdhzzz 9y ago
That which you subsidize you get more of.
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by jdhzzz 9y ago
For me it is the glance over to the next cubicle or next aisle to see if the person is on phone, heads down working, or is easily interruptable. I don't have remote technology to do that. The best I have is an IM which is a cognitive
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by jdhzzz 10y ago
Dog bites man!
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I just drove a 2006ish BMW and was confused at the turn signal as it didn't "click in" when pushed up or down but immediately returned to center. It operated correctly though, turning off when the turn was completed. Also th
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by jdhzzz 10y ago
The point of this particular article is that you don't even need to be on Facebook. Your image is bound to be captured, perhaps only in the background in a public space, by someone who is. Your face will be recognized and it will bec
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by jdhzzz 10y ago
Reminds me of an anecdote from my days working at a medical device manufacturer. The sales person was responsible for assessing hospital stock of the devices they sold as hospital personnel were too busy doing actual work to do so. The sa
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by jdhzzz 10y ago
I would expect that a similar thing that happened when humans went from hunter-gatherer to agrarian. Exponentially more humans. We'll need that land to house all those people.
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by jdhzzz 10y ago
While I'm somewhat in this camp: I don't do twitter (or instagram, or snapchat, or whatsapp...) I don't have Sonos I only lurk on Facebook to find out what's up in other's lives I still really like working with comp
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by jdhzzz 10y ago
Uber for salaries.
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MIT accidentally discovered a cleaner smelting process(engadget.com)
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Expert on MH370 Disappearance: 'There Is Absolutely No Mystery to What Happened'(spiegel.de)
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by jdhzzz 10y ago
Your home can be seized by eminent domain as was done by the town of New London a few years back. They did so in order for a private developer to build more expensive housing on that property and generate higher property taxes for the city
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by jdhzzz 10y ago
I assume that hotel/car rental/occupancy taxes are just an easy way to generate revenue for the government without affecting local voters. Is there any relation between hotel tax and government services consumed by hotel guests?
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by jdhzzz 10y ago
Were this valid I would expect marsupials to be smarter than humans based on ratio of birth size to adult size. Or is a pouch considered an exo-womb?
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by jdhzzz 10y ago
Airbnb
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by jdhzzz 10y ago
Seconded. Ultra edit does the same tab->space conversion.
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by jdhzzz 10y ago
(old guy here) I'll never understand why the left-pane tree view isn't the default. Not having it follow the current directory makes it a waste of screen real estate.
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by jdhzzz 10y ago
Thank you.
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by jdhzzz 11y ago
I am currently in central Connecticut and it drives me crazy that natives employ the "glottal stop" for t's in the middle of words. To my (prejudiced) ears it sounds vaguely ignorant: Bu'on for button, the town of New B
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by jdhzzz 11y ago
I grew up 30ish miles west and moved out > 40 (Yikes!) years ago. We used both crick (a small creek) and creek (a larger crick). My mother lived all her life near or around Philly (and hated that that term) and put an 'r' in
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by jdhzzz 11y ago
Soft pretzels with mustard.
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by jdhzzz 11y ago
Still a fan of OS/2!

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