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by jurassic 13y ago
The predicted 1/6 death rate for routine surgeries made a big impression on me. A literal roll of the dice. Think of everyone you know who's had a surgery, and it's obviously a radically bigger problem than terrorism. I&#x
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by jurassic 13y ago
> mass, routine, and suspicion-less basis. That is not at all how drones are being used according to this article. Until then, plant some trees in your yard and keep calm. There are enough real transgressions going on that we don'
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by jurassic 13y ago
You seem to forget that you got a place to live for those years, even if your investment didn't turn a profit. I don't know what the rental market is like where you are, but a ~$200k "loss" seems comparable to what you
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by jurassic 13y ago
Did any of you actually read the article? Despite the sensationalist title, they're only admitting to 10 incidents since 2006 including one where a young boy's life was possibly on the line. I'm as anti-spying as anybody, b
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by jurassic 13y ago
Frightening to hear. I don't have children yet, but stories like this make me think about wanting to homeschool.
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by jurassic 13y ago
As internet filtering expands in the West, the only bright side of these types of notifications is that they will remind people that nothing they do online is really private and the internet is not really free. I know that I'd rather
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by jurassic 13y ago
So, basically, you're panning the massive open collaborative effort behind SciPy/NumPy/Pandas because you can't be bothered to learn a slightly different and more flexible syntax? Because that's what it sounds like
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by jurassic 13y ago
> What makes you think it would be any better had they not used MATLAB? Probably the most general cross-disciplinary reason MATLAB worsens an already bad situation is that it isolates scientists and engineers from people who are good at
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by jurassic 13y ago
The author is totally biased, but that doesn't mean he is wrong. If the bias offends you, you aren't the target audience. I personally have experienced several of the things he rants about, so I know his pain and now as a policy
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by jurassic 13y ago
Passive income was definitely a thing before Ferriss. I actually admire Ferriss because what he describes is building the simplest thing that actually delivers a valuable product to a customer, whereas most others who I've seen try to
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A Black Box for Car Crashes(nytimes.com)
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by jurassic 13y ago
19% part-time students. https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-university-search...
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by jurassic 13y ago
The article isn't very clear, but I think this SJSU/EdX collaboration was an attempt by SJSU administrators to save money by doing a "flipped classroom" with MIT educational materials. Maybe it's not politically co
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by jurassic 13y ago
For some weird definition of "middle", I guess. "Middle class" is a designation without meaning, the kind of label that nearly everyone is eager to claim for themselves. Hardly anybody but the most indigent will admit
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by jurassic 13y ago
> pointing out these simple facts generates lots of very aggressive resistance. This, a thousand times, even from my own family. I've simply stopped trying to give advice.
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by jurassic 13y ago
Things are definitely relative. You couldn't rent a 1 bedroom apartment in the Bay Area for my parent's mortgage on a three bedroom house, which my dad manages to pay as career military. But there is huge resentment against teac
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by jurassic 13y ago
I get that, and I accept it. I'm just trying to explain my perspective on why people in these communities are unlikely to have much intergenerational mobility of the kind discussed in the article.
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by jurassic 13y ago
Northwest Florida.
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by jurassic 13y ago
I do go back to see my family and one teacher who had a big impact on me, but I'm not really good friends with anyone who stayed anymore. I came out to one of my oldest friends at Christmas, and they told me if I didn't leave my
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by jurassic 13y ago
In the white trash southern town where I grew up being a teacher at $35k/yr is considered one of the better jobs available. Military service is the best option for young men who want to provide a living wage to their families, especia
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Communication Management Unit(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jurassic 13y ago
I'm not sure I'm understanding you. Are you suggesting that current retirees should get nothing of what was promised to them? What are they supposed to do? Seems like this would put a lot of old folks into a desperate situation
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by jurassic 13y ago
The author's son, Anwar al-Alwaki, on why the world hates the US: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-jf462h_Is
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by jurassic 13y ago
> This guy's son was a bad enough dude that he got put on a terrorist kill list. There is no oversight in this process, and even if there were that provides no justice for the innocent people at the cafe where the grandson was kille
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by jurassic 13y ago
My best use has been to set up email notifications for various "slow shopping" tasks on Craigslist and eBay. This is super handy when looking for semi-rare or infrequently posted items (e.g. specific out-of-print books), or great
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Vibrating window delivers ads straight to your brain(youtube.com)
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Annuit cœptis(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jurassic 13y ago
Totally. It was a small crowd but very positive, focused, and on message. I'd go again. The saddest thing was how many people we passed at Grand Park that had no fucking clue about the surveillance scandal. At all. The media is th
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by jurassic 13y ago
I wonder if private carriers, e.g. FedEx, are also under surveillance.
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by jurassic 13y ago
The bit about having to overcome feelings of guilt about disappointing your advisor in order to live the right life for you really resonated with me. Taking the long-term view to make the right short-term life choices is something that man

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