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by nwatson 9y ago
Is this purely a "screw the creditors" move a la Trump where company coerces negotiations via threat to fall apart? Except in Trump cases it seems he's usually avoided formal bankruptcy ?
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by nwatson 9y ago
At my work we give coding exercises to interviewees with screen-sharing and give candidates lots of time and as much interaction as they want. The questions we pose are simple and do not require years of algorithmic experience and generall
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by nwatson 9y ago
Some Java frameworks let class and interface authors use decorators on getters / setters to control how particular class/interface fields are used in some contexts ... e.g., one might have a field (due to an algorithmic considerat
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by nwatson 9y ago
Japanese companies bought into US real estate, infrastructure, corporations etc. in the 90s then had to relinquish much of it at cut rate prices. Same will happen here I imagine.
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by nwatson 9y ago
Britain is special in their extraordinary accommodation to money laundering. It just looks cleaner and respectable when it reaches Britain. https://www.google.com/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/cri.
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by nwatson 9y ago
Fortunately some states like North Carolina force credit bureaus to let consumers freeze credit reports for no fees. I froze our family credit with the big three and it didn't take long (one bureau required me too register an online ac
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by nwatson 9y ago
You might model software data and operations in some formal system at various levels using a language like "coq" and develop some formal verification proofs. I've not read this book that apparently explores verifications lik
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by nwatson 9y ago
My guess: they effectively turned C++ into Python with everything allocated from heap and wrapped with shared pointers ... and custom iterators and collections like old-style RogueWave Tools.h++.
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by nwatson 9y ago
It's real good to be heavily in debt when inflation increases beyond expectations. There were many government employees in Brazil who'd bought real estate in Brasília (the country's new-ish capital) with significant mortgages
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by nwatson 9y ago
I'd guess more likely that some local in-browser state during your session "flipped" to indicate the target account of interest didn't exist after a failed API interaction or a logic error. Your short term switch to an i
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by nwatson 9y ago
Slack et al work great for arguing and discussing, but confluence is the best Wiki for recording long term conclusions and providing long term structure for projects. Google Docs is a jumbled atrocity by comparison ... confluence linking
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by nwatson 9y ago
Costco recession special, ie, hotdog and soda with sauerkraut $1.50. Puts one in the happy place for afternoon coding. Even better if I bike to/from but the greenway isn't ready yet so it can get real muddy.
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by nwatson 9y ago
There's no mention of IVF/in-vitro-fertilization techniques and whether male micro-RNA can survive that process. There apparently are side effects of IVF and I wonder whether they could be due to degradation of male RNA transport
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by nwatson 9y ago
State machines are essential for a lot of programming tasks -- I wish they were more explicit more often, because there always is an implicit state machine lurking in there somewhere, and code would be cleaner with the state machine made ex
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by nwatson 9y ago
The grandparent to your post here, the one referring to "author of ZeroMQ", links to an interesting article by that "author of ZeroMQ" ... and that article is a "layman's rejection" of the notion that you
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by nwatson 9y ago
>>> Psychopathy is not the reason behind this scenario ... yeah, that's why I said "So these folks are the opposite of psychopaths".
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by nwatson 9y ago
Thanks for the pointer to the book, quite interesting so far. The author talks of psychopathy as an "adaptation" and not a "brokenness" in an individual ... but the adaptation so far mentioned is only in the sense of &qu
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by nwatson 9y ago
"Spotify & Apple Music" --> Rhapsody/Napster already had this in 2001. I was a subscriber soon after. So many thought music subscriptions were a strange concept, from mainstream media to TWiT, and that it would never
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Billy Graham, charismatic evangelist with worldwide following, dies at 99(washingtonpost.com)
76 points by nwatson 9y ago|30 comments
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What do you get when you cross an airplane with a submarine?(phys.org)
1 points by nwatson 9y ago|0 comments
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by nwatson 9y ago
Eating a burger /s .
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by nwatson 9y ago
And while we're at it, somebody needs to do the cryonics re-make of the not-so-classic 1960's movie "The Loved One": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-edybFkBiO4 -- Rod Steiger as Mr. Joyboy, the masterfu
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by nwatson 9y ago
Cryonics Myth #1: "Trustees 200 years in future at a time when your disease [X] is completely curable will care to bring you back." There's no corporate or legal or NGO structure in the business that will last long enough th
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Arizona Considers Allowing Residents to Pay Taxes in Bitcoin(investopedia.com)
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by nwatson 9y ago
Yep, it's vague, sorry, I'll need to try my hand at a video.
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by nwatson 9y ago
I think it's much easier and more direct to visualize the time-domain as superposition of helical components and the transform as an exploration of what happens when you twist the "cylinder" with varying "intensities&quo
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by nwatson 9y ago
Perhaps there's correlation between sunlight exposure and being out in "large spaces" where the majority of what you're seeing is farther away than your homes' walls. Having developing eyes focus on a mountain pano
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by nwatson 9y ago
Impeached Arizona governor Evan Mecham (shortened term 1987-1988) was probably very paranoid during his time in office, but nobody gave credence to his concern over the possibility of "reflected laser use" to surveil him. From Wi
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by nwatson 9y ago
I also was amazed to read of durable clothing made from fish skin: "The Secret Language of Salmon Skin Coats" ... https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/secret-language-...
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The Secret Language of Salmon Skin Coats(hakaimagazine.com)
2 points by nwatson 9y ago|0 comments

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