johngarrison

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by johngarrison 9y ago
Frankly, I don't trust password managers. Perhaps I'm naive and they're perfectly safe, but still. My solution is to develop an algorithm for all my passwords that is pretty quick and simple to memorize but allows me to &quot
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by johngarrison 9y ago
If someone doesn't think "robots" (i.e., automation) hasn't devastated the usual human modes of keeping a livlihood, they haven't been paying attention. When you consider how nearly half of working age adults are u
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by johngarrison 9y ago
Not if inflation is 3-4% per year.
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by johngarrison 9y ago
Yes, it is poorly written. But the idea is that you wouldn't properly metabolize whatever you're eating with the drink. Or whatever is floating in your bloodstream when you're drinking.
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by johngarrison 9y ago
Whether it harbors intelligent life, however, is still up for debate.
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by johngarrison 9y ago
I've been decrying Amazon's usability for years. Such an unintutive mess of menus and sub-systems. Such a poor customer experience for anything other than simple "click and buy" usage. I blame their extreme position ahea
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by johngarrison 9y ago
Sometimes I wish I was wealthy enough to buy out horrible companies, just so I could have the power to dismantle them and end the suffering.
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by johngarrison 9y ago
As a physician, I say most doctors would enthusiastically welcome it. With today's constant threat of litigation, practically all doctors are getting second opinions on every diagnosis anyway to help defend their actions in case someth
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by johngarrison 9y ago
Because, in theory, if anything goes wrong during the course of a patient's care the doctor can just say "Watson agreed with me" and the chance of litigation drops dramatically.
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by johngarrison 9y ago
I'm happy to say I think you'll be pleased with the level of critical thinking here. I have also despaired at the state of Reddit. Though, depending on your interests, some days there may not be much on HR that tickles your attent
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by johngarrison 9y ago
I usually overcome such mechanisms on Chrome by holding down the back arrow until the list of past pages comes up, then going back to the page just before the last one.
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by johngarrison 9y ago
I wanted to enjoy the book, but it was pretty sub-par. I admit it made me smirk when I "got" an 80's reference, but it also annoyed me how obvious it was that the book was deemed "great" just because of such a cheap
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by johngarrison 9y ago
Admirers of Rand making appeals to authority? That's an obvious contradiction to anyone who had even read one page of the cliff notes of her philosophy. Someone, you or they, are confused.