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by jlj 7y ago
Sounds like your tech skills are sharp, focusing on selling skills and finding an opportunity may be a better return on your time than certs and vendor specific tech. Unless it's something you want to do for enjoyment or learning. I w
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by jlj 7y ago
Seattle has had them for half a century or longer too.
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by jlj 8y ago
My 8 year old was really into Minecraft videos. I started noticing him watch videos of "mods" with gun-based first person shooter games, and "trolling" where they blow up each others' creations. He talked about &q
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by jlj 8y ago
One way I've solved for this in presto (Athena) is creating a table that flattens the JSON, and views on the table to un-nest arrays or show different grains of data for different use cases. Then transformations and joins to other tab
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by jlj 8y ago
SQL has opened a lot of doors for me. It's a starting point, not an end though. Learning about dictionaries, lists, and other data structures has proven valuable and compliments SQL and tabular datasets very nicely. I got into those
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by jlj 8y ago
All this data, but yet most traffic lights don't have sensors and are still on timers.
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by jlj 8y ago
A frustration I have with Seattle local politics is the property taxes. The increase land value from tearing down the viaduct already results in higher assessed values that get paid by the property owners perpetually. Throwing in $100+ mi
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by jlj 8y ago
The new tunnel is a downtown bypass route. The viaduct had a couple downtown exits, but the tunnel starts by the stadiums South of downtown, and ends by South Lake Union, with no downtown exits. All of the into-downtown traffic will be pu
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by jlj 8y ago
Lasers can also record sounds through window vibrations. Now they can be targeted transmitters too. They could continuously record and transmit sound and tailor the messages to real time conversations. Seems like high potential for abuse.
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by jlj 8y ago
What if upper case O was mapped to lower case o. Then only o/0 are available. No chance of confusion but could be distracting or annoying to read.. end random thought..
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by jlj 8y ago
Are you in a position to delegate or outsource the tedious parts?
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by jlj 8y ago
I passed on a consulting opportunity to move the city's bond finances from paper and spreadsheets to an ERP system back in 2008. At that point it sounded like no one really knew how good or bad things were financially for the city. I
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by jlj 8y ago
My point was that clean coal can mean a lot of things and sometimes making one part of a product lifecycle "green" just passes the problem down the supply chain. In this case, scrubbing the flue gasses and recycling the coal ash r
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by jlj 8y ago
It can refer to: "reduce oxides of nitrogen (NOX) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission" This was a boondoggle near my hometown: sttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healy_Clean_Coal_Project Sheetrock/gypsum board
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by jlj 8y ago
Also in the LIGO project, it's a branch of astrophysics called numeric relativity. The gravity wave signatures predicted by the simulations was what helped confirm the LIGO detections of black hole and neutron star mergers. https:&#x
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by jlj 8y ago
Saudi PIF has a large stake in SoftBank. SoftBank has large stakes in a wide range of unicorns in the US and globally. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/softba... http:/&#
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by jlj 8y ago
> If a large group of people reduced their energy consumption to help climate change it has the consequence of reducing demand and therefore energy costs will come down. That will make green energy cost uncompetitive and slow down the tr
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by jlj 8y ago
PBS (US) had a show covering this the other night. The tattoo locations corresponded to areas of arthritis. Also carried different fungi, one for fire starter, another for antisceptic. Interesting that the tattoos, tools, and medicine poi
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by jlj 8y ago
As a parent with young kids will tell you it takes a couple weeks for our family to recover from the twice yearly switch. It is also depression for me when I lose that hour of daylight in the fall. My body doesn't get the benefit of
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by jlj 8y ago
Saw something like this in Alaska in the late 90's driving south towards Glenallen on a youth hockey road trip. It was a localized spot of purple/blue Aurora. Came out of nowhere, the shapes looked like a cauldron of boiling wat
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by jlj 8y ago
In some industries, charegebacks are common when suppliers don't meet the terms of the contract. No PO number on the shipping label, late arrival, quality, or other T&C's. If that is not the case and this is strictly a financ
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by jlj 8y ago
Speculating that he might have lost less than $125 million by publishing the story. How much of the investment was recovered or it's that still TBD? Once the fraud was exposed and the company began winding down, spending would quickly
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by jlj 8y ago
Were his losses insured or recovered somehow after the collapse? Or was the investor money all gone by then?
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by jlj 9y ago
Ignore what? Consciously choosing a non zero-sum option? That there is a spectrum of ideas, that everything is not black and white? Ignoring that choosing the major parties gets you to the same end result? Aside from snark what is the sub
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by jlj 9y ago
Some of the reasons I avoided voting major party the last 3 presidential election cycles. There are other options.
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by jlj 9y ago
What are the benefits of having these features on a chip versus handling via software and the regular CPU chip? The measurement of time series data does not seem computationally intensive, but the analysis of the data could be.
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by jlj 9y ago
Could you elaborate on #3? Do you walk away at that point? A last attempt to show the value of good requirements and get them back to #2, else they are premtively "fired" as a client? Going to hold onto these. Good phrasing&#x2
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by jlj 9y ago
No one ever says "I wished I worked more" from their deathbed. Prioritizing money and status ahead of family and friends is a personal decision. Business and personal success can coexist in capitalism but many people choose the f
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by jlj 9y ago
Might be the "have one to sell?" link on each page.
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by jlj 9y ago
Let's chat offline about the health based idea, I had a similar idea. Also classes of produce. Crypto currency of anything, enabling real time comparison shopping globally. Crypto FX.. all decentralized.

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