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   by robmiller 8y ago

   Bob's Red Mill
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   by robmiller 8y ago

   I heard the guy who wrote the government regulations for cloud computing promptly resigned after it passed and went to go work for AWS.
3. 63.▲
   by robmiller 8y ago

   The current generation in ad-tech and the previous generation in financial engineering. We've got greater problems to solve that need big, but altruistic, thinkers.
4. 64.▲
   by robmiller 8y ago

   Well, this is timely. I'm hopping on Amtrak tomorrow for a 30 hour trip with three young kids.
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   by robmiller 8y ago

   The plight of promising an object but not a dimension! :)
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   by robmiller 8y ago

   Advertisers are now getting more value being viewed on my 4K display scaled for the website. A dollar for four pixels!
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   Wall Street Topped $100B in Profit for 2018(bloomberg.com)

   1 points by robmiller 8y ago|2 comments
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   by robmiller 8y ago

   Thanks, now I understand what all those "Debby's" storefronts were when I visited my hometown over the holidays.
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   by robmiller 8y ago

   Of course it is. Breach of service?
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    by robmiller 8y ago

    For me, when I started working at a company in 2007 was hearing our CEO call us a 'family.' It didn't feel very family-like in 2010-2012 when the layoffs finally came. I stayed there a few more years and 'family' c
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    by robmiller 8y ago

    You'd think TSA would be able to pay their employees at $5.60 per head through their lines. They state that they raked in $4B in 2018 in 911 Security Fees[0]. I'm sure there's entanglement between government departments (payr
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    Squarespace is down

    1 points by robmiller 8y ago|0 comments
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    by robmiller 8y ago

    I sympathize. I trained in a technical field, and thought I'd spend my day doing that, but probably 75% is spent on email, 10% is technical and the rest is errata.
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    Putting Laurel and Yanny in context(asa.scitation.org)

    1 points by robmiller 8y ago|0 comments
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    by robmiller 8y ago

    It's amazing that calendar invitation spam isn't more prevalent. The times it has happened to me have been incredibly infuriating because declining means a response to the spammer and ignoring can leave it on your calendar.
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    From Sputnik to SpaceX: 60 Years of Rocket Launch Acoustics [pdf](acousticstoday.org)

    1 points by robmiller 8y ago|0 comments
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    Archaeoacoustics: Re-Sounding Material Culture [pdf](acousticstoday.org)

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    by robmiller 8y ago

    Well, the Smith-Mundt Act[0] was repealed in an NDAA passed a few years ago under Obama... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Mundt_Act
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    by robmiller 8y ago

    > consumer Google+ What is our relationship to Google? Are we really consumers of Google? Content creators? Ad targetees? Impressionees? Folks? Lemmings?
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    by robmiller 8y ago

    Mortgage interest rates were about 12% in the 80's, and as high as 18%(!) in 1981. At 20% down, the 30yr fixed mortgage would have been $600/mo at 12% vs $900/mo today at 4.5%.
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    Ask HN: What's your favorite Easter Egg?

    1 points by robmiller 9y ago|0 comments
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    by robmiller 9y ago

    There is an irony here that the US invaded Afghanistan, the world's largest opium exporter[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanista...
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    by robmiller 9y ago

    The pressure on my head hurts at the bottom of a 10 ft pool. I don't know how divers do it...
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    by robmiller 9y ago

    Press PrtScn for desktop, Alt+PrtScn for active window
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    by robmiller 9y ago

    it sounds like there was no electronic way to share the digital version of the CT scan Seems unlikely. A few years ago I was given a CD-ROM of the scan of my jaw and was able to download a free DICOM viewer to look at it. These things s
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    by robmiller 9y ago

    Or when Disney animated Doc Hollywood and called it Cars
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    by robmiller 9y ago

    Found this interesting comment on Reddit about "H" teams, and evidently they're at Kaiser. https://www.reddit.com/r/BabyBumps/comments/6ar5xi/trigger_t...
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    by robmiller 9y ago

    The ability to protect the health of mothers and babies in childbirth is a basic measure of a society's development. Yet every year in the U.S., 700 to 900 women die from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes, and some 65,000 nearly
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    by robmiller 9y ago

    My memorabilia of RadioShack, https://imgur.com/a/BolEA I even worked for them in Nashville before grad school. Sold a lot of cell phones, but my favorite was selling a karaoke machine to Harry Connick, Jr.
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    Acoustical Measurements with Smartphones: Possibilities and Limitations [pdf](acousticstoday.org)

    1 points by robmiller 9y ago|0 comments