oldmancoyote

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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
"Men" don't fight. Some people fight. Asserting that men fight is a broad, gender-based stereotype.
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
Someone might argue that Apple is buying wholesale and selling retail where the standard markup is 33%. It's not my issue. Just an observation.
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
Ha! Talk about shameless cultural appropriation. There ought to be a law.
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
I have built 3 houses. Walls are among the cheapest components of a house. Stackable modules (of which there are many kinds) like these do eliminate some of the need for skilled labor and offer some advantages. My personal favorite is si
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
None of the suggestions address the writing process and what might facilitate that process. I was so frustrated with existing word processors in that regard that I wrote my own. It's built on my personal work flow augmented with spel
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
There are reasons to believe estimates of the population of Chaco Canyon may be too high. There are at least two kinds of communal structures in Chaco: the large elaborate structures; and lots of small pueblos scattered around the canyon.
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
You can beat distractions, but you can't avoid them. The trick is to divide the work into small enough pieces that you can finish one before being distracted. Once you have organized the pieces, you can finish one, let it go, accept
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
Only if they let out all the hot air. Seriously, I love California. As a geologist I can say "It's not physically possible".
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
Stanford's online courses.
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
Here is a wild and unprofessional speculation. Silicon is often considered as a potential substitute for carbon in speculative discussions of alternatives to carbon-based life. Since this is such bizarre behavior for a non-carbon environme
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
Performative scolding is about the egos of those who initiate it or perform it. It's not about the goals of a movement like environmental action. It's a "social disease" free of any particular ideology, and it is a des
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
For about 20 years I worked four days a week for 80% pay. It worked for me, but I could never afford a family. On reflection, that was too high a price to pay.
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You assert medicine is keeping folks alive longer as they deteriorate at the same rate. I believe people are living longer because medicine and healthy living keep fewer people from dying at an early age while slowing the rate of deteriora
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
I'm 72. It gets harder every year to be productive, both intellectually and physically harder. We all may live longer, but that does NOT mean we will be able to work much longer.
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
California, as it is today, is the only major player in efforts to curtail the excesses of the conservative juggernaut. This market is so large that California's liberal legislature can coerce many nation-wide businesses and instituti
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Self-driving car bombs?
2 points by oldmancoyote 8y ago|3 comments
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
When the Commodore 64 came out, I ask myself what in the world would anyone do with all of that ram.
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
A build up of emotional stress can cause this.
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
Thank you. I was a senior at Stanford.
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
Having programmed for 50 years and going strong, why would I want to submerge myself in pettifoggery? It sounds like something to be left to naive young software engineers who need to learn more about the real world.
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
A more general approach to building a marketplace would be to allow individuals to voluntarily register their interests and selected personal information with a web business, which then could then sell access (but not the information) to ad
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
This is a terribly important issue, but I'm not clear who the intended audience is. While it does somewhat improve my perspectives on the problem, I think it is mostly for those who might research the issue.
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
Hope is a powerful political tactic. Obama used it and got elected. However, Obama proved to be ineffective. Will Obrigon be effective? Who knows? Effective is much harder to do than hope.
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
The author doesn't understand Hemingway. He doesn't even understand Bull Fighting. Looks like scholarly nonsense to me.
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
Not rehashing. Repackaging, so these issues raise broader questions.
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
This article does not cite the basis for its claims.
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
This information is not that meaningful. Using the median rather than the average would have been useful.
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Is there an established, ethical broker bringing founders together?
1 points by oldmancoyote 8y ago|0 comments
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
A scientific abstract exists to summarize the results of a study not to promise the results. This abstract is poor professional practice.
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by oldmancoyote 8y ago
I didn't even recognize what I specialized in until after I retired and got retrospective. The word career and careen are so similar for a reason. My career (and those of others I think) was like a canon ball careen through a battlef

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