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by mdtancsa 4y ago
I am surprised no one has mentioned Paul Bloom's "Sweet Spot". He looks at the psychology behind chosen pain / suffering / struggle (e.g. running a marathon ) https://www.goodreads.com/en/book&#
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by mdtancsa 4y ago
I wonder if I could build and app / service for them -- TSOAS (aka Turn Shit Off As a Service) and charge them a small monthly fee to do it. BMW should be in the business of building cars, not pissing off people. They could outsource t
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by mdtancsa 4y ago
zrepl is awesome!! I have been using it for some time with excellent results to manage a lot (for my org anyways) of backups. Glad to hear rsync is making it available
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by mdtancsa 5y ago
this is all starting to feel either like "The Cassandra Crossing" or "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"... Probably the later :(
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by mdtancsa 5y ago
I guess my question is what is probable rather than possible or is that a risk that's even addressable to any reasonable degree
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by mdtancsa 5y ago
I am totally fine with FTL. My point is, if you have FTL travel, but the tech at the time cant invent a flashlight to illuminate a cave for more than 10m, or even have tech that allow them to see every imaginable detail etc... Dont create l
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by mdtancsa 5y ago
I can usually forgive some tech contradiction details, but its really annoying when there is faster than light travel... But to create contrived suspense because no technology exists to make a flashlight strong enough to illuminate a cave f
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by mdtancsa 5y ago
I great term I came across in the retail gas industry is "hostile purchase"... as in no one "wants" to buy gas in the sense that you wake up one day and think "Oh boy, I can hardly wait to go out and get some 87 oct
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by mdtancsa 5y ago
The above added costs as well as the challenge of getting it to refineries. Lack of pipeline capacity to the coast (particularly Texas) is a big factor too.
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by mdtancsa 5y ago
With every Click, I heard "Jack Barker's" voice from Silicon Valley
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by mdtancsa 5y ago
Its partially there. C and D are still not in the global tables according to routeviews ie. 185.89.219.12 is still not being advertised to anyone. My peers to them in Toronto have routes from them, but not sure how far they are supposed to
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by mdtancsa 5y ago
for what its worth, I had AZ as my first shot and it was pretty rough for 36 hours and then I was fine. My second shot of pfizer 8 weeks later barely left a sore spot on my arm. Not sure what if anything it means, but curious what will ha
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by mdtancsa 5y ago
I am in the same boat with glasses. In the winter, I use some decent quality medical tape across the top of the mask to prevent fogging. The 3M medical paper tape works really well and is not too sticky and doesnt irritate my skin.
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by mdtancsa 5y ago
Sheesh, So yesterday! :)
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by mdtancsa 5y ago
There is an assumption too for the long term that you will pick the right market and time it right. Things looked amazing in Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit for places to invest if you bought in the 50s. Same with New York City. If you had
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by mdtancsa 6y ago
my fingers still have muscle memory for "ftp ftp.uwasa.fi" which I think pre dated cdrom.com (for me anyways)
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by mdtancsa 6y ago
But where will I download TCPMan and Trumpet Winsock from now???
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by mdtancsa 6y ago
I am guessing smtp would be the most obvious choice here? checking certs issued by someone else against a CRL you dont necessarily control ?
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by mdtancsa 6y ago
I love the little trolling at the end with the stem in a glass of water! Cue, "Fight the Power"
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by mdtancsa 6y ago
its been a while since I heard the doc, but I dont think it was so much a "lets all learn another language" as opposed to looking what might be happening in the brain to cause such an odd disparity in how the disease manifests its
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by mdtancsa 6y ago
I cant find the episode now, but a few years ago an episode CBC's science show Quirks and Quarks interviewed a researcher that found being bilingual seemed to delay the onset of dementia by a couple of years. Although it doesnt sound
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by mdtancsa 6y ago
I think a lot about this quote as of late No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. James Baldwin We seem to be in a period of history with many pure hearts
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by mdtancsa 6y ago
... When I think "youth market monetization", no one knows "the kids" like Oracle does....Its fresh.
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by mdtancsa 6y ago
hahaha, the same. I thought it would be running through a corridor in a loop!
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by mdtancsa 6y ago
Any idea whats the target date for it in the tree ?
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by mdtancsa 7y ago
Canadian here and one who has records potentially leaked.... In terms of reaction, I dunno... It depends where on the spectrum of We kept our "passwords on sticky notes on Windows XP monitors" to "We did everything industr
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by mdtancsa 7y ago
Funny, I was hoping for NumberWang, or at least the German version...
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by mdtancsa 8y ago
Not sure. It might be younger people are more likely to take stronger positions so that they go out and protest? If you use voter participation as a proxy for moral engagement, kids as a whole dont seem to care as much as older people. ht
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by mdtancsa 8y ago
One of my fav Wired articles was about this... https://www.wired.com/2009/08/gone-forever-what-does-it-take...
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by mdtancsa 8y ago
There is a really fascinating (IMHO) podcast about the use of modern DNA analysis and the insights into ancient populations on the After-On podcast with David Reich https://after-on.com/episodes-31-60/034 Up until pod

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