rbobby

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by rbobby 7y ago
I woke up to my radio playing the Howard Stern show where he was talking about the crashes. For more than a bit I was very confused... they were making sense but it just didn't make sense. Didn't last long but it was a very surrea
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by rbobby 7y ago
That is perhaps the best picture of Mark Twain I've ever seen.
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by rbobby 7y ago
> His spelling is terrible There's a fix for that... MS Word and browsers :) Word's little red underline dramatically improved my spelling. Words that I would habitually misspell would annoy me with that little red underline. I
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by rbobby 7y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722956/
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by rbobby 7y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722956/
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by rbobby 7y ago
> ~40% of our payments are through PayPal There are far to many horror stories about PayPal for me to trust them as a business partner.
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by rbobby 8y ago
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4240730/ Misaeng. Provides an interesting view of life in a Korean trading company (not bitcoin). Apparently not too far off reality. Pretty great series.
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by rbobby 8y ago
Apparently lots of diabetics reuse lancets (thread on another HN story a day or two ago). But I can't imagine anyone sharing used lancets (or needles... except for desperate addicts).
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by rbobby 8y ago
My guy uses a machine that does a puff of air. I've never had my eyeball physically touched by anything at an ophthalmologists office.
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by rbobby 8y ago
Not sure it would be any different with people inside. If I'm using an Uber self-driver why would I care if someone tossed a rock at it (so long as the self driving sensors aren't damaged)?
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by rbobby 8y ago
Four: https://goo.gl/images/BfXfC7 Cite: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/World_Elephant :)
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by rbobby 8y ago
Why is insulin not an over the counter medicine? Would having it OTC cause problems on the scale of alcohol? What's the "value add" of having a doctor renew an insulin prescription?
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by rbobby 8y ago
The biggest benefit is that non-union members get the same employment terms as union members. So they essentially get a free ride on the cost of negotiation.
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by rbobby 8y ago
Hmm... someone mean could certainly have some fun sending fake emails to other employees.
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by rbobby 8y ago
Thus proving that the closer you look at money the weirder it gets. A bit like religion in a way. Which, I suppose, is unremarkable given that belief/faith plays such a significant role in both.
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by rbobby 8y ago
The book Angela's Ashes is a pretty solid read. Life in a poor area of Limerick Ireland.
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Beat the 'crunch': new union for video games workers launches (in UK)(theguardian.com)
3 points by rbobby 8y ago|0 comments
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by rbobby 8y ago
Anti-pattern does seem like a strong enough word sometimes. These domains are available: emai1-marriott.com email-marriot.com e-mail-marriott.com I wonder whether it might be better if governments took over the notification side of things.
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by rbobby 8y ago
> their latest version takes an AI approach to the problem of locating the heart within the field of view, determining its orientation, and prescribing imaging planes through the heart so all the important views that a radiologist would
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by rbobby 8y ago
And that was because it's function was/is to concatenate files: cat f1 f2 f3 >f4
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by rbobby 8y ago
Hard to say really. If the company is completely broke (i.e. no chance of liquidated assets) then it's a waste. But if there is any liquidated assets to be distributed to creditors then suing might make complete sense (depends on where
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Telltale hit with class-action lawsuit for breaking labor laws(polygon.com)
5 points by rbobby 8y ago|2 comments
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by rbobby 8y ago
Yikes. Using this is almost certainly illegal (cheating) in every jurisdiction, and could have significant penalties. This video and the github repository itself could be a crime... teaching someone how to cheat using a cheating device. Hec
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by rbobby 8y ago
Reddit ads were what finally pushed me into install ublock origin about a year ago (redditor since 2007). They had a misbehaving ad (downloaded a ton of "stuff" over and over and over). I reported it on one of the their support su
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by rbobby 8y ago
Gov't (fed, state, muni) employ about 23 million workers. Total workforce is about 130 million. So gov't work is roughly 1/5 of the workforce... hehehe.
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by rbobby 8y ago
Not to dispute you primary point (auction of personal data for someone else's gains)... I don't think this will work for gas stations. The margins are too thin to support discounts large enough to attract customers. It might work
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by rbobby 8y ago
> The wheelbarrow gave the Chinese armies such an advantage in moving goods that it was kept secret - early Chinese writings talk about wheelbarrows in code. It's strange to think that the wheelbarrow was at one time super high tech
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by rbobby 8y ago
> run them in reverse Surely you meant "reverse the polarity"?
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by rbobby 8y ago
> The submitting companies often want patents partly (or mostly completely) for marketing reasons For startups marketing to investors can be a key goal of patents.
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by rbobby 8y ago
If you have non-blonde hair... laser removal. For blonde hair it's still electrolysis.

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