jupiter90000

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by jupiter90000 8y ago
The thing that throws me off about Seattle is that there seems to be a large segment of the population that says, "yes, we have certain problems (homelessness, transportation) that we as a community should solve." But then, when i
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
Tangent, but I thought Dulles Airport's "moon buggies" felt super weird to have to go onto after a long international flight. It felt like I was loaded into an armored personnel carrier or something. https://en.m.w
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
Prisons often have incentives for good behavior and things prisoners can buy to make things more comfortable for themselves. Is your primary argument that earning more and paying more money for incentives will teach them how to budget money
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
There would need to be an equivalent or greater effort to help them obtain jobs and nice living spaces outside of prison, otherwise: "Can't find a job out here! I'm gonna go back to prison and get me that sweet $30/hr pr
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
Interesting to me is that PKD claims he was not under the influence of drugs at all when writing Scanner Darkly, although he admitted to using amphetamines for 18 years of his life (I guess before writing that book).
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
I think I see what you're saying now. I have bought for so long from online retailers that it's kind of automatic for me to realize there's a lot of garbage listed in shops that allow third party sellers. It was always par fo
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
I've never had a fraudulent item purchased that I'm aware of. I hear this all the time on HN when Amazon comes up, yet haven't once experienced it and have been using Amazon for years. If it did happen to me though, it would
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Synanon(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
lowercase L, not i
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Landmark Forum. They don't have the best reputation in general.
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If by good neighborhood you mean people smoking meth in building entryways, gun standoffs with police, addicts breaking into cars, parks overrun with derelicts, and armed robbery, then sure. http://www.capitolhillseattle.com&#x2F
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
This resource is pretty nice if you want to keep mainly on the self-teaching route: teachyourselfcs.com Do you know what the more challenging thing in CS you'd like to get involved with is (distributed systems, embedded systems, databa
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Indie android devs face extinction after Play store changes visibility algorithm(gamasutra.com)
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
AI seems more and more, in communication to the general public, to mean "computer program that does something useful, that hasn't yet been commonly called a computer program."
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
What about getting a nice check while thinking you're doing something actually productive which ends up, in the final analysis, being meaningless? Alternatively, what about doing something that seems soul crushing and pointless but is
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
It seems like the primary purpose of school is to make sure kids have been well trained to sit still and follow the rules, learn how to jump through societal hoops, and have a place to be for parents who can't/won't deal with
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
You're onto something interesting there. Another thing is the issue of giving our control of the data to facebook. Sure, I could occasionally download my own archive of personal data and then it could be made available, but what typica
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
There are skills that are very valuable in society that pay very little. For example, maybe a software engineer gets married and has kids. Those kids go to school so the software engineer can go to work all day. The teachers and school staf
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
Neither language requires an isolated dev environment, but it can help with avoiding headaches. As python has things like virtualenv and buildout, fortunately R has 'packrat' available, which provides a similar isolated/repro
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
That's what confused me about those people too.
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Isn't sexual harassment rife pretty much everywhere? When you listen to what both men and women have really been subjected to, it's just sad and the prevalence is honestly depressing to me. I even have worked with people who think
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
Also interested in an answer for this. I've looked up some in the past but not sure how good any of them are.
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
"Suicide decedents without known mental health conditions (11,039; 54.0%) were compared with those with known mental health conditions (9,407; 46.0%) for 27 states. Whereas decedents were predominantly male (76.8%) (Table 1) and non-Hi
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
I've been hoping there would be a feature added to FB that would be simply "do not show any posts with links" or "do not show any posts sharing posts from another account." The number of things people post linking p
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
For better or worse it's the easiest way I can stay up to date somewhat with what friends and family from various places are up to. Sure there are other more active ways to stay in touch. However I can often see curated info from peopl
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
This is an interesting question to me, because I've read lots of books over my life and I don't really think I can say a book has 'completely' changed my life. However, I've read books with interesting ideas that I&
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
That's pretty awesome. I hear often how perfectly on time the trains are there, which is usually true. However, I've experienced some train delays in Japan, mostly in Tokyo. One was so bad I ended up doing something else for a cou
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by jupiter90000 8y ago
When I was a kid, I was interested in game development & I found the e-mail address for someone at Infogrames that developed the Alone in the Dark game and said I was a young and learning game development and asked a bunch of questions.
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Seattle’s proposed ‘Amazon tax’ would hit Facebook, Google and other tech titans(geekwire.com)
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I always wonder what the behind the scenes really looks like at places that do this. For example, would a hiring manager say, "this person really would be my top pick, but lives in SV. Instead, I'll pick the candidate in Omaha I&#

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