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by jobu 9y ago
That whole article is written like irresponsible click-bait journalism. After raising four kids I can take shit like this with a grain of salt, but as a new parent I would've freaked out and overreacted. When two of my kids were babies
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Shipping is only capital intensive if you intend to own the trucks, trains, or ships. Convoy appears to be more of a middleman between owner-operator truckers and shippers or manufacturers. The problem is that many (most?) of the truckers t
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by jobu 9y ago
"There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead." - Miracle Max (Princess Bride, 1987) That quote is meant to be funny, but with modern medicine it's also true. The girl's heart wasn't beating for
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> This post could benefit greatly from a little more quantitative analysis. The article does actually mention quantitative analyses some, and why critics dismiss it: Critics think advocates put too much trust in quantitative analyses wh
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> Or to be socially-connected to organizations that the health insurance company doesn't want to piss off. This is definitely true, and it seems like social media and sites like this or Reddit have the potential to bring this powe
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> It wouldn't be stupendously difficult to take down a major transmission line or switchyard if you were determined. It's actually ridiculously easy to take out power for large areas with a rifle - https://www.stg
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That's just insane, especially for someone that can afford to have a personal driver on staff.
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That's neat, but not very revolutionary. The Rutan Voyager flew for 9 days (around the world) without refueling back in the 80s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Voyager
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by jobu 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Beijing sets the broad emissions/pollution targets and then leaves it up to the regional governments to decide how to make it happen. If the regional leadership does well they get rewarded,
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Could not agree more. Makes it super easy to cook a large batch of bacon for the family. Also, we like to save the greasy baking sheet to bake brussel sprouts that evening. Cut the brussels in half and toss with some salt, pepper, and the b
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by jobu 9y ago
My preference is to sear the ribs on a _very_ hot charcoal grill for 3-5 minutes a side, then wrap them in tinfoil and bake for several hours at a low temp. They get the great smokey flavor, but stay moist and tender. Also, slather them wit
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by jobu 9y ago
"15% dislike academic CS (and think that talking about CS is a sign that a candidate will not be productive)" That seems really weird. Academic CS isn't really necessary for most programming jobs, but I can't see how i
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It's also the quickest way to move past something like this, especially once it goes public - take responsibility for your actions, offer a sincere apology, and take steps to correct it.
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Probably some combination of the two. The "science" around diet and exercise is thoroughly corrupted by huge amounts of money from various companies and people that try to push the results in directions to benefit themselves. Even
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"According to a 2004 EPA sample of 158 planes, 13 percent contained coliform. Two of the airplanes were found to have dangerous E.coli in the water." That is kinda gross, but realistically all that bacteria would be killed by he
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by jobu 9y ago
Also this: "With some self-motivation and a lot of self-help books, I made the decision to stop taking drugs. ..." That quote made it seem like no big deal for him to stop using drugs, but there are plenty of hard-working and re
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by jobu 9y ago
> When you "share" a story, you're just helping a spammer spam. The spammers are getting really savvy about it too. I recently read an article in my feed that was interesting and funny, so I shared it. The next day my w
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Many of the current "power users" are also "trend setters". If those users start switching away from Apple then it's going to be a big hit to Apple's brand value (and their ability to sell middling products and
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> Are you insinuating that they can't do both? Well they certainly aren't doing both at the moment. All of the Mac hardware updates have been so heavily "form over function" that they aren't very appealing to p
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by jobu 9y ago
"Abstinence only" is terrible at any level. It's a good idea to encourage abstinence, but withholding education about birth control and STD protection is dangerous along the same lines as withholding vaccines. Getting back to
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Are you being sarcastic? Transatomic walked back almost everything they said: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603731/nuclear-energy-sta...
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by jobu 9y ago
> Ever since then our family calls this ruse "red-socking-it", which basically means intentionally fucking up to get out of doing something you don't want to do. My kids try this shit all the time - either fucking it up,
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by jobu 9y ago
My thoughts exactly. Issues with rain/snow are a common concern, but I had never heard of the "dark car problem" : Current lidar systems can’t see a black tire, or a person like me wearing black—Velodyne’s [Puck] wouldn’t se
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by jobu 9y ago
We want to be able to generate things like pivot tables (charts, graphs, etc) using location and/or time data from the records compared with many other fields in the record. We're feeding a little of the data into Microsoft SSRS,
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Roosters can be mean as hell. I used to help my cousins with their chickens and we would always have to lure and trap the rooster before we could go near the hens.
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Anyone have suggestions for tools to help with data analysis on moderate numbers of very large records? We're working with close a million records per year, which isn't "Big Data", but the records themselves usually cont
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by jobu 9y ago
> Anker fully replaced their single-tier Astro line with their two-tier PowerCore line. Where do you see that? First I want to know the feature difference between Astro, PowerCore, PowerCore II, and PowerCore+. (WTF are PowerIQ, Voltag
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by jobu 9y ago
Anker may make great products, but their marketing is shit. They have way too many products and no good way to differentiate. Check out this site which tries to explain the differences: http://www.powerbankguide.com/anker-po
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> 1. [Marijuana] is reportedly a better pain killer in some cases than opioids so it keeps people off of the prescription opioids This is key. Prescription pain killers are the gateway drug to heroin, not marijuana. Many normal, workin
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Seems very likely given that the Russians have hacked the White House in the past: Even after spending millions of dollars on security, the White House admitted in 2015 that it was hacked by Russians.

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