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by patorjk 9y ago
> night owls were especially vulnerable, many appearing so chronically jet-lagged that they were unable to perform optimally at any time of day. I experienced this with an 8am biology class I was required to take. It wrecked my whole day
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by patorjk 9y ago
I think it will be a minor blip. There's been such a drum beat about FB being bad for privacy over the years that most users probably don't care. I know it's just one data point, but none of my friends have mentioned this lat
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by patorjk 9y ago
If you don't mind, I have a question about Adrian that I've wondered about for a while. I first came across his name when I was researching the author of an old AOL hacking program known as Fate X. It was pretty popular on AOL at
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by patorjk 9y ago
That page isn't loading for me, but he was not the Magus behind the famous Fate X AOL prog. I actually talked to that Magus and several of his friends a few years ago [1]. I'd heard Lamo claimed to be Magus, and maybe he went by t
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by patorjk 9y ago
That's true, though this particular spot isn't very popular. Until recently, I'd never seen someone else take a sunrise shot from this particular point of view (the beginning of summer is when the sun is closest to the bridge
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by patorjk 9y ago
I had a similar thing happen. While browsing Google Maps I found what looked like a poorly cropped version of one of my photos: My photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/40423570@N07/35437050686/ Their photo:
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by patorjk 9y ago
Years ago I worked on a project where a lot of the code was done in Tcl (pronounced "tickle"). Management would not say "tickle", instead they insisted on saying T-C-L. Tcl is a pretty neat language, and while I was on t
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by patorjk 9y ago
Thank you for posting this. This issue happened to me for the first time last week - I thought my account had been hacked. I had no idea how a rouge spammy event got added to my calendar. I ended up resetting my password and spending over a
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by patorjk 9y ago
I'll list some sites below. Though the new main focus of the game is "raids". When you open the game you'll encounter gyms at various locations. 2-3 times a day a gym will have a Raid Boss (you'll know a Raid Boss w
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by patorjk 9y ago
This was something that was discussed recently in one of the Pokemon Go FB Messenger groups I'm in. The group is mostly people in their 30's and 40's, and some of the people don't have any friends outside of the group. T
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by patorjk 9y ago
Based on research, it looks like around 30% of Americans own a gun [1]. So you may just live in an area with a lot of gun owners. Also, not everyone owns a gun for the same reason. Some for protection, some for hunting, some for antiques, e
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by patorjk 9y ago
In a sense, we're already reached that point. Everything that can ever be talked about or written, can be found in this library: https://libraryofbabel.info/ Though that includes all possible gibberish as well as all p
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by patorjk 9y ago
But doesn't that make "storing" ambiguous? It could mean "storing" of the 3 following categories, or "storing for shipment" of the 3 following categories.
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by patorjk 9y ago
I found that baffling. Not only had I never heard of that story, it doesn't seem to pass the sniff test to me. Companies going out of their way to hire anti-social people? I think it's the other way around. A company might keep a
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by patorjk 9y ago
I'm having trouble understanding the follower visualizations. Does the X axis represent her followers in the order they started following her and the Y axis is the date they (the follower) joined Twitter?
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by patorjk 9y ago
My dad had a similar experience. He's taken several different DNA tests, and all of them give him different results. His great-grandfather apparently had an affair with a Native American women, who had a baby but didn't want it, s
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by patorjk 9y ago
Maybe good for the genes, but for the sentient individual, it really depends.
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by patorjk 9y ago
You should consider adoption. You'll get to be a dad and you wont have to worry about the issues related to your wife having a child in her 40's.
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by patorjk 9y ago
I would actually speculate that it's the opposite. Though not exactly the same, 2 of my 3 most upvoted comments on reddit (465 and 510 votes) contain edits where I ask about why I'm getting downvoted. As soon as I added that quest
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by patorjk 9y ago
Some people think she may be thinking about running against Trump in 2020 - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/21/kevin-oleary-thinks-meg-whit...
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by patorjk 9y ago
Scammers know the older generation is ripe for exploitation. One of my older relatives, who I'll call Bill, has had a few hacking incidences. Most recently they had their email compromised. The perpetrator must have dug through it quic
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On YouTube Kids, Startling Videos Slip Past Filters(nytimes.com)
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by patorjk 9y ago
I agree that a name matters, though I disagree about needing to sound a certain way. A name is a first impression and a small form of marketing. At it's best, a name should try and say something about what it's representing. Howev
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by patorjk 9y ago
I've not only seen the same, I've seen people who actually work as developers who struggle with basic for-loops. I used to get worried when people rang alarm bells about jobs going overseas or there being an influx of developers i
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by patorjk 9y ago
There really isn't a good reason to have used the first 2 pictures. They just make the presenter look bad. It leaves me wondering what they were thinking: Did they only take 3 photos? Do they need a certain number of photos per an arti
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by patorjk 9y ago
I have some family in McCloud, CA. Apparently this was a big concern when Nestle came to town and wanted their water. There ended up being a big legal battle, but in the end the town won [1]. I forget all of the details, but there was some
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by patorjk 9y ago
> ‘‘Now, in less than half a year, spinners are done,’’ Osborne says. ‘‘I’m moving on to squishies’’ — squishable toys that are also (questionably) marketed as attention aids. ‘‘I think they’ll last at least a few months.’’ As a side not
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by patorjk 9y ago
I was born in southwest and moved to the east coast as a teen. I spent 30 years pronouncing pen as "pin". Even when my wife pointed it out to me, I literally couldn't hear the difference at first. She had to slowly sound it o
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Are You There, Dad? It’s Me, Alice(nytimes.com)
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by patorjk 9y ago
According to the "Methodology" section, the data is based on: > May 2016 Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), U.S. Department of Labor. Unle

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