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by loteck 10y ago
Eventually all job hunters learn that you get the same response rate when you write one sentence cover letters as you do when you put a lot of effort into them. Weird way to look at it. I would think a company that would accept a one sent
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I'll admit I'm way out of my depth here! But wouldn't the fact the planets experience orbital decay that ultimately cause them to be pulled into the star they are orbiting, mean that heliocentric is "more correct" w
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San Diego man seeking help with effects of stroke gets stem cell treatments that leave him partially paralyzed and with mysterious tumor. http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/sep/20/patients-san-diego-stem...
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by loteck 10y ago
Read Goldstein's (edit: Bernstein's!) book "If You Can". It's a whopping 16 page book of plain talk and he made it free on the internet, no strings. [1] It's the best introduction to planning for retirement, es
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Why do you believe this?
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What if that person has a nuclear weapon? Still best to ignore them?
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I'm sure you're very comforted by that addition of the qualifier "currently." Correlated letter from 2011: "Dear streptomycin, your fingerprint data is currently not stolen!"
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I won't argue with you the difference between a technical document and a document with technical details. You're welcome to that definitional win. There are interesting technical details in this document about the exact methods, v
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by loteck 10y ago
Let's be fair: while the source may well be partisan, it is also a technical document. Referring to it simply as a partisan political document doesn't acknowledge its full contents or its value to a technical community.
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"Additionally, fingerprint data of 5.6 million of these individuals was stolen." They'll need to change their fingerprints immediately!
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Medical Marijuana Cardholders Banned from Buying Guns(fortune.com)
4 points by loteck 10y ago|0 comments
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In investing, my understanding is the opposite of a long is a short.
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Whether a lawsuit has merit or not is a big part of this issue. A lawsuit can be brought against you with or without merit. Getting to the point where a determination can be made on that question can be very, very expensive for you. Can you
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by loteck 10y ago
We can't let distaste for Gawker in particular blind us to the underlying narrative here. I think Popehat[1] summed up the deeply concerning issues this Gawker mess has brought to the fore: For most of us the scary part of the story i
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For example, in Canada (until recently) Until recently. This means that all people can obtain health care regardless of their ability to pay, and that the system is flexible enough to continue to experiment with the ideal implementation.
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If we are unwilling to confront the bloody, economy-crashing hellscape that is the foreseeable result of a system that only provides non-emergency care to people who can pay, then it seems like socializing the costs of care is the only meth
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by loteck 10y ago
Here's Andreessen on the future of the news business [1]. The part you are specifically pointing out in your comment is thus: "One start would be to tear down, or at least modify the “Chinese wall” between content and the busines
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Then it's hearsay and worthless and you shouldn't repeat it, frankly. If you do, people should call you out since you're inciting FUD.
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You should think twice about repeating doomsday hearsay like this without citing a documented, credible source.
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As a sysadmin, I'm putting my neck on the line anytime something breaks. In many years of doing this type of work, I've noticed this fear of your neck being on the line is a myth. Heads rarely roll merely because something goes
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From the sounds of it the man is former military and has been mistreated by the justice system. I presume his "record" will soon be clean. We should find this man a job inside the criminal justice system. Would he consider working
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The key rule that Gawker broke here was "Don't make powerful enemies" Gawker's reputation and missteps aside, this is not a rule any respectable journalism organization would agree with.
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PG: It's OK to be disconnected from reality(twitter.com)
3 points by loteck 10y ago|1 comments
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While I don't doubt bureaucracy plays a role, I think comments in this thread insinuating that there is something wrong with having an organized and thorough onboarding process are wrong-headed. Many, many mature organizations probably
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Borders delineate jurisdictions of legal authority, and accommodate the ability for different communities to enact different laws. If you are a fan of the rule of law, you should appreciate borders.
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> So when I hear people saying that economic inequality is bad and should be eliminated, I feel rather like a wild animal overhearing a conversation between hunters. But the thing that strikes me most about the conversations I overhear
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When you take an original piece created by another source, and suggest modifications for strength, clarity or other qualitative values, I believe we simply call that editing.
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It takes your original text and makes it easy to execute different drafts of that text based on stylistic templates calculated from famous authors. Kind of like Hemingwayapp.com. Creativity in writing takes a couple of ingredients: being p
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Any feature complicated enough to implement is indistinguishable from a missing feature. Would be interested to hear why it took so long to add this one-click functionality, which is common across clients, to Gmail. There must have been som
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One strange benefit I have found for note taking on paper has nothing to do with technology or memory or privacy. I have noticed that when I am discussing a project or issue with someone and I take notes about what they are saying, they fee

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