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by jobu 9y ago
The principal at my kid's high school called it "Self Advocacy". Kids need to have the mentality that they are in control of their lives, they are expected to stand up for themselves, and they need to seek help or speak out w
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Interesting. I've been thinking about switching to Apple Music to have a bit more control over my music. Spotify puts out some amazing curated playlists that are constantly being updated, but then after a few weeks those playlists sudd
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The egg timer seemed like an amazing idea: set an egg timer every time I get up to talk and all eyes are on me. When the timer goes off, I am done. End of story. I can go on and on. I love to hear myself talk. I often cannot shut up. This
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First I've heard of the "Market for Lemons" concept ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons ) It seems pretty obvious now that I think about it, and it definitely goes hand-in-hand with the &
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by jobu 9y ago
IANAL, but this really sounds like document fraud and possibly mail fraud. If it is, then this DA could get up to 20 years per document.
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by jobu 9y ago
Aren't reference variables just syntactic sugar on top of pointers? I've seen this debate about pointers vs. references so many times that I'm starting to think I might be missing something.
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Yep, this article is a re-hash of what Dale Carnegie started teaching over 100 years ago. My main takeaway from that class was to ask enough questions when I meet someone so that I can to steer the conversation toward a mutual interest. Aft
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by jobu 9y ago
This was my thought exactly. "Wansink added another note to his blog post, acknowledging the problems and announcing that a statistician would be redoing the analyses." With all of the issues lately around replication of studies
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The Go-To Gene Sequencing Machine with Very Strange Results(wired.com)
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The problem is that so many sites have absolutely no shame about how many or what kind of ads they will jam into a page. LA Times is a great example - https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/la-times-and-a
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by jobu 10y ago
College has become little more than an aptitude test for many jobs. If you're willing to grind through the years of studying and financial hardship to get a degree, then you'll probably be able to handle the job.
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by jobu 10y ago
Interesting. When Nikola announced that truck last year it was a Hybrid with a turbine generator and a battery pack. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1103987_nikola-one-2000-... Anyone know when and why they change
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Hydrogen atoms are very small and hard to contain. The atoms tend to diffuse into the structure of whatever is containing them and can cause blistering or embrittlement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittle
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by jobu 10y ago
People tend to hate companies that behave badly.
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by jobu 10y ago
Random speculation, but I wonder if this is related to Ivanka getting a larger role in advising her father [1]. It's pretty obvious based on her speeches that her politics differ significantly from Bannon's. [1] http://
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by jobu 10y ago
I've been buying albuterol inhalers from Mexico for a several years now. Most of my life these inhalers cost a few bucks, but a few years back (2010?) they started costing me $50 for just the copay. It turns out the pharma lobby was ab
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by jobu 10y ago
Can't believe the article didn't mention mosquitoes: http://www.mosquitoreviews.com/blood-type.html No idea why mosquitoes would have a preference, but mosquitoes and mosquito borne diseases have had a huge influe
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The Powermag.com site seems to be melting down as well. After giving up on loading the page I was able to google a bit and found this article: "Nuclear Energy Startup Transatomic Backtracks on Key Promises" https://www.
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by jobu 10y ago
> Having said all that my kids will be getting physical books. The distractions in electronic devices is something I'm still struggling Having four kids myself, I would never have tried to start them reading on a device. Kids don&
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What is the color like for the Voyage backlight? Lately I've been using my iPhone in night-shift mode as a reading light with paper books. It may just be psychological, but I do seem to fall asleep easier than I did with a regular whit
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by jobu 10y ago
Wouldn't that create some incentive to move further out into the suburbs or rural areas to avoid taxes?
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NOAA is also the only source for river flood predictions: https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=rev&gage=... https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=fgf&gage=...
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by jobu 10y ago
There's definitely some piling on by former employees and reporters. It seems to be a bit of a human trait, and I remember some of this happening to Amazon in the wake of the NY Times piece a couple years ago ( https://www.ny
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> If you lose a lot of bad people then retention is not a bad thing. Bad people in a company means there's a hiring problem, which ultimately is a management problem. Losing lots of people means the pay is too low or the bullshit
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My kids used iPads at a previous school and I was initially thrilled, but that faded immediately when I saw one of them trying to type an essay on it. I think iPads can be useful tools for some things (reading, studying, learning), but even
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> The only politically viable single-payer system would be state based. If only that would happen. Colorado had a ballot measure last year that was soundly defeated (nearly 80% NO votes). This is in a state that went for Hillary, vot
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> plus mars gives nice tools to actually land, like an atmosphere. Actually Mars is a pretty difficult place to land. The atmosphere is just thick enough to require heavy heat shields, but too thin for parachutes to be sufficient. Here
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> Was it all just Jony Ive design hubris? Who is the Mac Pro designed for? Apple consistently chooses form over function, but they don't usually let the scales tip this far. The last time they fucked up this bad was the Mac Cube,
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by jobu 10y ago
The article mentions the star being an ultra-cool dwarf star, but doesn't give an explanation of what that means. Here's some info from Wikipedia that I found useful: TRAPPIST-1 is an ultracool dwarf star that is approximately 8%
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It always amazes me to hear stories about artists that won't give him permission to do parodies (Prince, Weezer, Eminem, and the Coolio debacle). One of my favorite stories about a Weird Al song was that Madonna actually floated the id

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