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by merciBien 5y ago
I assumed from the article that most census taking was done online last year, do you know if there were fewer face-to-face surveys than in previous years?
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by merciBien 5y ago
The article says Australian and other country’s online census tools don’t allow people to continue with incomplete answers. The US version evidently does. It seems obvious that design decision would lead to more incomplete answers than the
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Covid Variants Could Be Named After Constellations(independent.co.uk)
1 points by merciBien 5y ago|0 comments
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by merciBien 5y ago
In my experience a bachelors degree is not required for most development positions. What is required for a non-intern position is experience in development work, and even that has to be in the same technology and language as the job you’re
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by merciBien 5y ago
Yeah sounds like Bari was unfair to Tulsi, the war in Syria is complicated and messy. Ironically I think this interview with Winston Marshall shows how he dealt with being unfairly judged in a similar way.
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Terrorized Mumford and Sons Guitarist Interview(bariweiss.substack.com)
2 points by merciBien 5y ago|3 comments
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by merciBien 5y ago
I often wonder if people’s financial irresponsibility is due to a parenting failure. It’s easy to blame the government for taking your last dollar if you’re unaware that you’re living like someone who makes 3x your income. I was raised by w
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by merciBien 5y ago
I admire your empathy for the dog, I love animals too! From the ironic tone of the rest of the article, I feel confident that Jake the Labrador is fictional. “No animals were injured in the making of this satire.”
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by merciBien 5y ago
This is so painful to read, Venezuela sounds like a failed state, it can’t even provide running water to its people in Ordaz. The daily human toll must be ghastly. How does a country ever get back on a positive trajectory after such a catas
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by merciBien 5y ago
Was it Mark Twain who said the coldest winter he ever experienced was a summer in San Francisco? >>> My friend Al, with Tesla Owners of East Bay, invited me to crash with him and his family and he advised me to get a jacket. Mind y
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by merciBien 5y ago
… charged with 17 counts of intentional damage to a protected computer and one count of obtaining information from a protected computer. This case is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Edited to protect the innocent
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Securolytics COO charged in hospital cyberattack(justice.gov)
2 points by merciBien 5y ago|1 comments
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by merciBien 5y ago
Thanks for posting this podcast, I enjoyed hearing Douglas and Terry talk about their “multimedia CD-ROM”. For them it was a major advance from text adventure games!
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by merciBien 6y ago
@ajarmst is that last related idea you quoted your own? That’s a powerful expression of how I see human culture: question everything, but remember to respect the ideas of the people who came before you. There might be a baby in the bath wat
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Offshore Wind data from unmanned vessels(rivieramm.com)
2 points by merciBien 6y ago|0 comments
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by merciBien 6y ago
Is the second sentence that starts with “The latter” a typo for “The former”? Or am I misunderstanding the paragraph? >>There has been an attempt ongoing for some time to harness the respectability of science and conflate it with an i
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by merciBien 6y ago
Agree! I need to find the video I used to rewire my bedroom light switch. The guys who painted my bedroom somehow connected it so my alarm clock would short out half the house. I watched some handyman’s video 10 times going bayand forth to
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by merciBien 6y ago
I hate to sound old-school, but Jenkins sounds perfect for your use case, with scheduled jobs, job retries and job history built-in. Reading the Jenkins install docs on https://www.jenkins.io/download then googling “Jenkins
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by merciBien 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this! It was worth reading just to learn about csvsql
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by merciBien 6y ago
I thought I knew Fubar’s etymology, this article deepened my understanding a bit. I don’t know why I enjoy this kind of word history, especially the speculation on what language a word derived from. Thanks for posting this, it was a fun rea
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by merciBien 6y ago
I wonder if Google Wave, or something like is more likely to succeed now that some many of us work 100% remotely.
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Ask HN: What Are You Afraid Of?
3 points by merciBien 6y ago|2 comments
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by merciBien 6y ago
I don’t read medium.com blogs anymore, I got annoyed by the reminders to login or lose access. Maybe I’m alone in that feeling, but I suspect not.
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by merciBien 6y ago
This might be my favorite post of the year. Powerful technology and years of experience focused on an important problem. Thanks making my day!
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Power line detect-and-avoid sensor for UAVs(flightglobal.com)
2 points by merciBien 6y ago|0 comments
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by merciBien 6y ago
That depends on what you mean by God, and what you mean by control. If something controls the weather, perhaps a combo of Physics, Geography and random chance, could that be a god worthy of respect and study? I think we can agree on what we
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by merciBien 7y ago
I love these paintings, reminds me how much I loved my art history classes in college. The interplay of math and art in the textures and sight lines are fascinating for me.
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by merciBien 7y ago
Fascinating to imagine witnessing these events. The mad king, disguised and dancing at a party, narrowly escapes death!
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by merciBien 7y ago
For those who were curious, this is a lecture by Richard Wolff, who Wikipedia describes as an “american Marxist economist” His recent Twitter posts suggest that economic inequality in the US can be achieved through taxing the rich, which wh
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by merciBien 7y ago
Truly impressive design and engineering work here! Not to mention the commitment to the project.

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