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by rrauenza 8y ago
This supports that, yes, it was more aggressive 40 years ago, and simulatenously remind us that correlation isn't always causation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/01/03/how-lead-c..
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Weedkiller products more toxic than their active ingredient, tests show(theguardian.com)
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by rrauenza 8y ago
It's not even clear he did for sure -- he could have been fired for just claiming he could since the claim harms the company.
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Facebook has fired an employee accused of using privileged access to stalk women(sfgate.com)
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Therapy Dogs Work Miracles. But Do They Like Their Jobs?(news.nationalgeographic.com)
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by rrauenza 9y ago
Exactly - more importantly this is preparation for college or workforce. Your college professor or boss doesn’t care that you feel that Hemingway or Java is XYZ - they want reasons. There was a trend/fad to get kids to write by encour
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Blue light like that from smartphones linked to some cancers, study finds(cnn.com)
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by rrauenza 9y ago
My kids are experiencing Common Core in a SF bay area school. I think it's an improvement. Anecdotes from parents of older teens talk about a period of teaching where students were encouraged to write about how they feel about somet
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by rrauenza 9y ago
Some of the context missing is many theology students intend to go into the ministry -- becoming a pastor. Or a missionary. Many of the people on this track are intensely passionate about this calling. Many couples pair up because their g
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by rrauenza 9y ago
He probably also knew if he told her the citation, she'd just argue it... it would prolong the argument longer.
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by rrauenza 9y ago
I kind of feel he wouldn't tell her because of the way she approached him initially, and then had to stick to his guns, so to speak. He even kind of admits it later. That's not meant to be a criticism - just a description of what
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by rrauenza 9y ago
Her "status" didn't get her what she wanted, but I can't help but feel that conversation went on quite a bit longer than it should have -- because of her status.
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by rrauenza 9y ago
I once had to remove a LOT of files, so was looking how to do it efficiently -- find has a -delete option, so I straced it: $ touch a b c d e f g h /tmp/x $ strace find . -delete execve("/usr/bin/find&q
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by rrauenza 9y ago
There is also a tendency to try to mark something off-topic as quickly as possible... occasionally you see this in the Hot Question feed. A good question was initially voted to be off topic.
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Despacito YouTube music video hacked plus other Vevo clip(bbc.com)
1 points by rrauenza 9y ago|0 comments
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by rrauenza 9y ago
- Smaller body due to smaller mechanical footprint - using image processing for focus rather than finicky focus sensors which only cover a small part of the image (and having to tune your lenses...) I’ve been on the fence of getting the lat
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Non GPL compliance in some Chinese 3D printers(youtube.com)
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by rrauenza 9y ago
Was going to post something similar -- to protect myself as a student, I'd quickly adopt git to keep a history of my work. Not that this couldn't be forged... Does git count as a block chain for proof of work? :)
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Trump Hacked the Media Right Before Our Eyes(nytimes.com)
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by rrauenza 9y ago
He didn’t say always true . He said same weight .
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by rrauenza 9y ago
Nice! And timely for this xkcd -- I tried to use this as the image, but hit cross site limitations: https://xkcd.com/1969/
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by rrauenza 9y ago
Quoting a conservative source: [1] How did Facebook react to the much larger data harvesting of the Obama campaign? The New York Times reported it out, in a feature hailing Obama’s digital masterminds: The campaign’s exhaustive use of Fa
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by rrauenza 9y ago
I'd call it performance anxiety / pressure vs work pressure.
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by rrauenza 9y ago
Why do you suppose she props the door open with the chair? Because building shifts could jame it closed via the door frame?
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by rrauenza 9y ago
This seems inspired by Cantor's infinity proof. I've seen a halting problem proof via Cantor's diagonal as well... Are there any other significant proofs that use a similar methodology? Why does Cantor's method work we
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Did I just get DNS hijacked?(security.stackexchange.com)
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by rrauenza 9y ago
And if production is down, and you're the one under the most pressure, it's probably because you're the one who knows "production" the best.
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by rrauenza 9y ago
That kind of pressure isn't the same as interview pressure. I've been in whiteboard coding interviews and in situations where "production is down" and they are very different kinds of pressure and expectations.
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by rrauenza 9y ago
This is partly about the Mandella Effect -- many people claimed to have seen the episode, but supposedly it never aired. https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/07/24/the-mandela-effect/ It's named af
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by rrauenza 9y ago
A lot of people turn their 3d printers into plotters...here is one example: https://youtu.be/sXb9NDqn1Mo

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