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by maire 7y ago
I finally realized what bothers me about this article. It assumes that when you retire you are no longer a practitioner of your life's work. Being employed is your only definition of self. I might be a retired but I am still an enginee
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by maire 7y ago
I am not sure how old you are but everything seemed to change when abducted children were put on milk cartons in the mid 1980s. Before that, kids roamed free. I tell my foreign friends that kids used to run the streets in America and they c
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by maire 7y ago
Snow Crash came out about 8 years after Neuromancer and 17 years after Shockwave Rider so I don't think it was groundbreaking. Having said that, I did enjoy it and I do see modern weak knock-offs of Snow Crash that have gotten praise f
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by maire 7y ago
This is not a NOMs problem but a complete breakdown in planning to provide adequate transportation. The apps only exacerbated the problem. The problem is that California stopped building freeways in 1975 and we don't have much in the w
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by maire 7y ago
Getting Started in Electronics by Forrest Mims. The entire book is hand written and hand drawn. I think this is why the book is concise and direct. It is a work of art.
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by maire 7y ago
I am also American and I also learned it was a stalemate. The most significant battle of the war was was fought two weeks after the war ended! American historians think that the British complied with the meager settlement of Ghent because o
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by maire 7y ago
I am of two minds. There are people who are persecuted because they are outsiders and for no other reason. A case in point is the story of Rosalind Franklin. On the other side, some people are brilliant yet toxic. You can't have them w
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by maire 7y ago
How valid is this data? I can never reach my non-technical friends any more by email, I have to use text messaging or facebook messaging. My more technical family members use slack. Sure everyone has an email account, but the less technical
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by maire 7y ago
Every time I get a new OS upgrade with even more iCloud functionality I question why I still have Dropbox. Luckily for Dropbox they don't charge much so I don't cancel. I don't move new data to dropbox any more and I would ne
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by maire 7y ago
Some trees are relatively safe in a fire and others relatively unsafe. Redwood trees (as an example) are relatively fire safe. At the opposite end Eucalyptus trees are fire hazards. So - plant a fire resilient forest appropriate for your cl
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by maire 7y ago
Yes - Hans also said the same thing although indirectly. His life work was reducing child mortality (under the age of 5.) He discovered that the biggest factor in reducing child mortality was the education level of the mother. It turns out
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by maire 7y ago
This is the opposite of what Hans Rosling says in his book Factfulness. According to Hans Rosling's findings family size is linked to child mortality which is linked to poverty. When mothers see their children die then they want to hav
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by maire 7y ago
This is an issue beyond insulin. I hope they don't just focus on insulin. Generics do not work to lower prices on drugs because there is price fixing between companies. Price fixing is illegal in the US but does not seem to be enforced
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by maire 7y ago
After thinking about this over night I do believe that the difference between Zuckerberg and Gates is telling. It used to be that having Harvard on your resume did not mean much in tech since it was not considered a tech school. The feel of
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by maire 7y ago
I agree with you on Zuckerberg since he was chosen as the winner among a lot of competitors by the VCs. I am not sure what criteria the VCs used. Microsoft was generating cash by writing interpretors before they brought a VC on board. They
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by maire 7y ago
I remember when the CEOs of Apple, Oracle, and Microsoft did not have degrees.
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by maire 7y ago
I am curious how do you and your LTR define feminism. Nobody is forcing anyone to choose career over family. That would be anti-feminist. I never viewed feminism as mutually exclusive of having a family or a career. I might just be more mel
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by maire 7y ago
Social media and not feminism is the likely root cause of the decline in families. Families are declining world wide including in repressive societies. Social media itself is likely the root cause. Before social media people had to meet fac
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by maire 7y ago
Heather Jones seems like a classic fixed mindset child. An excellent book to read on this subject is Mindset by Carol Dweck. Essentially, by labeling a child as Gifted we are setting up in a child's mind that their intelligence is what
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by maire 7y ago
I am surprised that nobody has mentioned the Netflix rating system which seems more accurate. Netflix scales the rating against your other ratings. If you always say 3 = OK then 5 = great. If you always say 5 = does not suck then 3 = sucks
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by maire 7y ago
Byte magazine was like a paper github. People published everything including the source code for BITBLT. A scoundrel later patented BITBLT and sued Xerox! It wasn't difficult for Xerox defend against the fake patent since it was publis
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by maire 7y ago
I agree with you. I wasn't going to say this because it seemed too much outside the original discussion. School seems to have 3 roles: to gain skills, to certify skills, and to join a professional network. In today's world more an
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by maire 7y ago
Wow - so many negative reviews! This must be the most controversial thing I have posted! In general you are right that blue collar wages have not kept pace with the cost of living. This is particularly true in the SF bay area. I have often
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by maire 7y ago
My husband was a machinist for about 6 years then went back to school to become a mechanical engineer. As you can imagine he is an extremely good mechanical engineer. Nobody doubted his intelligence when he was a machinist because he was ob
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by maire 7y ago
I don't know what the TOS looks like, but Amazon is currently charging for books that are free on Project Gutenberg. Amazon does not seem to have a problem with making money on otherwise free books.
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by maire 7y ago
The interesting part of the article comes in the 3rd paragraph. The first two paragraphs just hijack the idea with a meme. > In the last several years, two writer friends of mine have told me the same story: Their (very savvy) editors ad
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by maire 7y ago
The issue is more than free filing. Everything seems to be broken. I helped my brother in law file for an extension through the IRS web site. The IRS directed us to private companies including TurboTax to file the extension. We clicked on t
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by maire 7y ago
I thought the unique product of primes argument was great! I assume most people on this list are engineers. They have college level math but not necessarily number theory. Number theory requires a similar thinking to the problems we solve i
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by maire 8y ago
Netflix might have a deep catalog of movies they once rented but they don't seem to be refreshing their catalog when a DVD goes missing. I suspect they are winding down their DVD service. We gave up on Netflix DVD when about half of ou
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by maire 8y ago
We might be saying the same thing since the only thing you need to memorize is the multiplication tables. ;-) How long can that possibly take? My grandsons are between 3 and 8 - so they are in this age group. They are amazing at solving pro

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