randcraw

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by randcraw 6y ago
What you say about churches being welcoming agrees with my experiences too, from what I've seen of others, given that I don't attend. But I think faith is only part of the reason for attending. Essential in the choice to join a c
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by randcraw 6y ago
Do you imagine that one of the social groups you belong to would willingly play the role in your life that church members often do? Would someone from one of your groups: - drive you to a doctor appointment? - repair your house when you ca
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by randcraw 6y ago
> [religion] fills some of the gaps. But what does it fill the gaps with ? All monotheistic religions demand that you believe that an all powerful deity underlies and motivates everything in the universe. That's a pretty bold pre
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by randcraw 6y ago
Frankly I see little point in writing objectives. It's not a contract with your employer, since the objectives are written by you and at most it gets rubber stamped by your manager. If you do or do not achieve your list of objectives,
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by randcraw 6y ago
Unlike Excel, AI truly can deliver a competitive advantage when used judiciously. In the right situation, it can deliver that small catalytic boost that lets you see just a little farther than before. And incremental advancement is the ba
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by randcraw 6y ago
Yes. But I'd go further. All holders of US political office at all levels should be unable to restrict any conference or interview in which they take part to any single interviewer or news agency, so they cannot control who asks the q
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by randcraw 6y ago
Yep. Ask them what are the essential duties of your role. Then ask, 'But what would be really GREAT?" Though it's probably obvious to you, my first thought about describing to others how to deliver an ideal front end would b
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I believe it. Hawthorne never wrote anything that was easy to read.
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by randcraw 6y ago
Writing is also a craft, generally the work of an artisan more than an artist. The first purpose of a well tempered sentence is the communication of an idea, while the plucking of heartstrings comes second or not at all. PG's emphasi
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He didn't say it, but I'm pretty sure Graham is talking only about writing non-fiction essays, especially posts in social media. Writing with verve and elan requires variety and timing and imagination, not just clarity and simpli
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by randcraw 6y ago
I think jargonistic writing is typical when trying to impress. Academics have long employed jargon to obfuscate in order to seem more clever and subtle. Expressed simply, ideas seem simple. Among folk who depend on appearing clever, the
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by randcraw 6y ago
There's advantage to promoting the imminent danger of an enemy in order to motivate voters to support your efforts to protect them from it. If the military doesn't have a big enemy, who needs a big military? Pretty much every can
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by randcraw 6y ago
Agreed. All social activities that willingly injure others can't be stopped; they can only be suppressed. Murder, theft, cigar smoking in enclosed spaces... you name it, the only way to counteract malignant behaviors is to punish tran
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by randcraw 6y ago
I think your answer begins with the site's full name: Hacker News Network (HNN). It's not about hacking, per se. It's about aggregating news and tech articles and occasional solicitations from YC's startups that are
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by randcraw 6y ago
I wonder if the study accurately reflects the lack of political common ground in the population. Are only 28% of us “moderates”? It’d be interesting to do the same analysis with photos of people taken 10, 20, 30, 40,... 100 years ago to se
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by randcraw 6y ago
Assuming this analysis has no problems with method, it's likely that the separation of any two groups on a continuous spectrum cannot ever reach 100% accuracy. In fact for such multivariate groupings as opposing political persuasion,
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by randcraw 6y ago
Selling goods does not rely solely on competitive prices. It may also reflect the lack of alternative vendors, or the negative repercussions of defying political pressure -- as eastern European countries who rely on Russia for gas and oil
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by randcraw 6y ago
Resilience to the destabilization of economies or nations through selective political pressure, as in: China Appears to Warn India: Push Too Hard and the Lights Could Go Out https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/28/
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by randcraw 6y ago
The problem of US-based or ally-based technology companies that fall behind competitively or economically and then are allowed to fail inescapably ensures US dependence for essential/secure tech supplies on others, some with motives co
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by randcraw 6y ago
I work for a major pharmaceutical. Effectively, there is no tech track in our IT organization. Technical advancement in IT peters out below principal scientist level. However, in our R&D division, chemists, biologists, chemical engin
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by randcraw 6y ago
Yes, but it's also true that drivers and peripherals are generally a lot more complicated today and hardware services more federated across layers of dependency and security than in the days of DOS or Windows 3. Reverse engineering to
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by randcraw 6y ago
> With modern machines, even without the discouragement of locked down operating systems, missing accessible programming languages and such... there is just no hope of making something "cool" you can impress your friends with.
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by randcraw 6y ago
I would love to fully access the data on my phone. But of course it would also introduce security holes currently unimagined. Maybe someone can devise a secure sandbox model to enable this, but after Java's failure to resolve this pr
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by randcraw 6y ago
I wonder if this portends a similar fate for Microcenter?
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It makes perfect sense as a politically-motivated decision. Some excuse was devised to destroy the pods, thus ending the debate forever of whether the Earth might one day return to a green space. It also forced Dern's character into a
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by randcraw 6y ago
I think the article's point is that procrastination is caused by your mismanagement of a pleasure gradient. The more you immerse yourself in the portion of the spectrum that is zero-effort and high-reward, the less you're motivat
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by randcraw 6y ago
I think personal computers are still in transition, perhaps now entering their third generation. In 1980 they were toys of exploration used mostly by hobbyists and early small business adopters. In 2000 they became our portal to the world
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by randcraw 6y ago
Though short, that was a really nicely written piece. As a major fan of R&T since the 60's, I've lamented the magazine's long decline. It's great to find writing talent like Kyle Kinard planting a flag there once ag
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by randcraw 6y ago
The op-ed is from a US senator who has partnered with Dr Kory to actively promote ivermectin, an anti-parasitic, as a treatment for COVID. The NIH is assessing the drug clinically. The FDA has not recommended it for COVID, though a Januar
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by randcraw 6y ago
The op-ed is from a US senator who has partnered with Dr Kory to actively promote ivermectin, an anti-parasitic, as a treatment for COVID. The NIH is assessing the drug clinically. The FDA has not recommended it for COVID, though a Januar

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