mrexroad

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by mrexroad 7y ago
> Due to the thin atmosphere at that altitude, however, he lost consciousness and was unable to pull the rip cord.
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by mrexroad 7y ago
Depends on how bright LED is
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by mrexroad 7y ago
When they’re small, maybe. But once they’re at an age where the device represents a portal to social engagement, I find a complete weekend-and-next social cycle basically approaches infinity in their eyes. A week is usually sufficient, but
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by mrexroad 7y ago
The auto playing of trailers has been enough to curtail my casual browsing of their app.
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by mrexroad 7y ago
I keep an EFF bumper sticker on my laptop for that very reason — advertising for non-profits or causes. I’ve had a surprising (or not?) number of people ask “what’s this EFF thing?”, and in turn had many good conversations with folks about
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by mrexroad 7y ago
For most part, I haven’t had a case on my XS since launch. Love the feel. Have yet to drop it. I do put a case on it when I’m doing things like camping or taking photos at amusement parks.
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by mrexroad 8y ago
Don’t forget to account for the temporal variance created by high levels of tachyon emissions.
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by mrexroad 8y ago
Sports — playing on team or train as ref/ump (pays pretty well!), BSA scouts (find a troop that fits kid), other camps or volunteering events... etc. Lots of stuff out there...
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by mrexroad 8y ago
Expedia's privacy policy [0] is a perfect example of why DNT, in current form, does nothing more than misalign customer expectations around privacy. "Do-Not-Track Signals and Similar Mechanisms. Some web browsers may transmit &quo
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by mrexroad 8y ago
Why do you think they’re allowed to exist, and haven’t been legislated out of existence? Public-private partnerships provide a great model for state-level actors to effectively do what they aren’t “allowed” to do...
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You Deserve Privacy Online. Here’s How You Could Get It - Tim Cook op-ed(time.com)
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by mrexroad 8y ago
Edit: added link [0] to lensrentals.com story about gear damaged during solar eclipse of 2017. Your cell phone camera has a wide angle lens. it's at the longer focal lengths where one might expect sensor damage, or even melt the curtai
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by mrexroad 8y ago
Yep, I was a bit confused earlier today why my wife was looking for wired headphones—-that is, until I got on an airplane and realized I can’t use my AirPods with the inflight entertainment system. At this point, I’d rather go without enter
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by mrexroad 8y ago
Does that still hold if you replace “public” with “religious?”
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by mrexroad 8y ago
“Theta phase acts as a clocking mechanism, organizing alternating attentional states” From the research paper linked to by article.
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by mrexroad 8y ago
> Isn't the only upside of being a manager the ability to make decisions? For me, the upside is in coaching and growing talent, or finding the right chemistry to enable work otherwise not possible. [edit: I’m strongly introverted, b
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by mrexroad 8y ago
I get near daily migraines from an open office layout with excessive glare from natural light. Polarized sunglasses help a bit, but not enough. It’s not a preference for me, it’s a disability. I love light, but glare is physically painful a
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by mrexroad 8y ago
> Toys "R" Us went bankrupt because they thought they were a toy-selling company, instead of a child entertainment company. These companies fail to innovate. Not exactly [1] "Toys "R" Us' debt problems date
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by mrexroad 8y ago
> Natural Selection: Languages and systems that are of sound design will persist, to be supplanted only by better ones. I loved coding in Smalltalk years ago. Guess “better” turned out to be rather subjective...
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by mrexroad 8y ago
Ouch, that’s rough. But dropped in to say I still think fondly of the last PSION I owned m, the PSION Revo.
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by mrexroad 8y ago
I’d argue that prejudice and bias applies most all statistics, but most often we just don’t notice or care. E.g. The biases inherent to specific domain, of those who captured the data, those who selected the data, selection of statistical t
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by mrexroad 8y ago
... as well as those who return to a subject decades after formal education. ... or those trying to have an meaningful conversation with someone from another generation. I honestly have no idea what my parents were taught in school. I’ve of
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by mrexroad 8y ago
Thanks for the warning. I’m trypophobic as well.
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by mrexroad 8y ago
You read Dark Forrest or Deaths End (other books in the 3BP trilogy)?
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by mrexroad 8y ago
To hell with Georgia!
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by mrexroad 8y ago
Until kids!
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by mrexroad 8y ago
Not disagreeing, but I'd also be interested in the percentage of Tesla fanboys who did not know what short selling was before Musk's ranting. I wonder if there's some meaningful inflection point in this metric that has sign
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by mrexroad 8y ago
I’ve owned every other generation iPad since launch. The iPad Pro 10.5 is something special. Keyboard cover, screen size, split view, effortless portability... they add up in a way that has significantly changed how I use it. I rarely use
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by mrexroad 8y ago
This. Have 4. Each time was completely different. Our first was by far the worst, it actually amazes me we ever had more—guess our reduced retention of memory from sleep deprivation was advantageous?
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by mrexroad 9y ago
One could also argue its a lack of distillation. Yes, an expert in field could/should understand, but does that mean it should be accepted that the papers are inaccessible to without same or greater level of expertise? Even experts str

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