nickthemagicman

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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
I typed the same thing exactly as you did. I guess Mac kind of counts as Linux as it's just a BSD flavor.
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
>> but I just think a native solution of the platform is preferable over a 3rd party tool I had a job interview where someone asked me what I would prefer Terraform or Cloudformation for AWS. I said Cloudformation because it's ma
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
What if that system had only touched on an infinitesimally small amount of data in an infinite universe over hundreds of years and that system changed constantly to adjust to new discoveries so said system, wasn't totally reliable as a
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
In things such as the infinity of nature how can be sure how to handle either?
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
>>then your end results will just be worse by adding in your thinking Tell that to the people who decided against getting a labotomy after labotomies won the Nobel prize. ;)
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
Holy cow you have articulated what I've been feeling for decades. This is great! Having the ambient noise and not feeling alone and vulnerable but also feeling safe and amongst people is like the perfect set up for deep concentration f
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
Do you think Google and Facebook are putting every item that they ban through some sort of a scientific review were they carefully weigh the pros and cons of all the data of every side of a debate? Like there's a bunch of older gentlem
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
>>>There are indeed very definitive ways SARS-CoV2 (or any virus, for that matter) can interact with the body. >>>the virus is an inert particle. Couldn't the same thing be said about the thinking about Thalidomide th
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
They had me at adequate design spec.
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
>> adequate business context, a decent design spec, and letting them figure it out. I wish more PM's thought like you.
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
Did you ever think to yourself maybe the reason so many people are anti-(Covid)-vaxxers is not that they're brainwashed? Its that the anti-vaxx people may have a point? Many major scientific breakthroughs were made outside of the &#x2
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
>>your best bet is to accept the scientific consensus you got it right.. it's a bet Science is not the ultimate source of truth, it is data with a risk reward attached that you can use for your own critical thinking I do agree wi
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
Interesting. That sounds a little ominous. Are there projections that predict time frames with any precision until we finish the remaining supplies? Are we talking a century or a few decades?
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
My undergrad is in biology and I got it many years ago. I can only imagine how much has changed since then. Does anyone think that in the infinite complexity of the human body and the immune system that we think we have 'figured covid
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
A lot of parts of science and math are very different from the 60's while a lot of remains the same! How do you make sense of all of this and wrangle objective truth from the chaos? That's an epistomological question people have b
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
There is so much data involved with even the smallest thing in this world we're barely even scratching the surface with science. An expert may have a PhD and know 5000% more than you about a subject but compared to the amount of knowle
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
https://www.menshealth.com/uk/weight-loss/a744496/drink-beer...
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
Yeah seriously people should eat more of the celery and salad options at bars when they're smashed out of their mind.
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
haha the horror!
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
Each beer is like 300 to 400 calories. And then you eat bar food when you're drunk which is not known as the worlds healthiest.
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
>> mostly to do with factors affecting generalisability Ha. Its Science-ish!
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
>> muzzle loader An era when private citizens owned armadas with cannons and artilly that could level entire cities Muzzle loaders. These guys wrote a document that created one of the greatest democracies in the history of humanity, t
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
*Tilt whisky glass your way. "Bravo sir."
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
> Cars are a great example, because we absolutely weigh their costs and benefits. Exactly. You're SO RIGHT about government weighing the costs and benefits. Which is why the founding fathers made gun rights the second amendment! Isn
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
Half the founders of Moderna just made the 'richest people in the world's list. Innovators are going to be just fine.
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
Glad someone else thought so! I though I was crazy, for a second, thinking that people not dying was more important than some IP rights.
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
What you're saying is a slippery slope argument subject to whoever determines what items put others in danger. You could use your exact same argument that cars put other people in danger and we should walk everywhere. Or that it's
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
Vegas is interesting because the guy had to become a sniper and had to have a very specific location to do his shootings. Because of all the concealed carry. And what else is interesting is that the shooter chose an extremely crowded music
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
Even if your uncited claim IS correct..so what. Freedom is not safe and safety is not freedom. The world is not safe.
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by nickthemagicman 5y ago
I agree. There's perfectly good scripting languages if I need to do anything beyond bash.

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