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by sopooneo 13y ago
It could also be a matter of public health advocates being savvy about how their messages are received. If we say it's probably safe to drink d drinks per week, then some percentage p of the population will assume it's okay to dri
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by sopooneo 13y ago
I had a hard time gleaning the tone of this piece. At first I thought it was facetious, since the list of purportedly annoying responses from IT actually seemed quite reasonable. The last one in particular, “You never said that is what you
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by sopooneo 13y ago
It is a fact of life, but still one that amazes me, how unclear most people are in their communication. And it is at least partly my issue, because I've worked with many very successful people whose written requests strike me as one
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by sopooneo 13y ago
I love this guy. He was the only place online that I could find an explanation for why the left pedal of a bike screws on opposite to normal direction. Everyone that fixes bikes knows the left one screws on "wrong", but no one at
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by sopooneo 13y ago
Does anyone on here have engineering knowledge related to bicycle disc brakes? It seems like they would have a harder time stopping the bike as the friction surface is closer to the hub and thus has less mechanical advantage. So what's
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by sopooneo 13y ago
Realize, please, that many as passionate as you, and with many of the same opinions, have gone into education to try to improve it. Not just now, but for decades.
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by sopooneo 13y ago
Why do they call it a "memcached" server rather than a "memcache" server? I realize that the daemon process for a server application is usually the normal name followed by a 'd', but that is not usually how we
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by sopooneo 13y ago
An undercover cop, who swears allegiance to a gang he is infiltrating, only to testify against them later, is he deceitful? Wrongly so? It may be that Snowden did an immoral thing. But I think it is possible to hold allegiance first to a hi
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by sopooneo 13y ago
A year ago, everyone in my office got memberships to a gym down the street. All the other guys had long discussions about what was best and this article and that one, including a lot of stuff about only doing strength training. I did the st
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by sopooneo 13y ago
Free buses would likely attract more riders, so the cost of providing the service would increase at the same time the 25% fare revenue disappeared. This does not counter your point, it just strikes me as a confounding issue.
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by sopooneo 13y ago
I know this happens, with places pricing themselves out of the market, but it surprises me. Wouldn't they want to lower the cost of owning/renting a unit until the can actually get some buyers? It would still be a loss, but wouldn
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by sopooneo 13y ago
They can. But the odds are vastly, provably, lower.
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by sopooneo 13y ago
I agree with everything you say. But I am also reminded of all the highly accomplished people, who, looking back on their lives, say that "the only reason who took this on was that we had no idea how hard it was going to be."
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by sopooneo 13y ago
I agree. Especially since he isn't the first. None other than Scott Adams of Dilbert fame marketed a burrito with the exact same goals a while back. Combined with water it was to be a complete food source with first adopters potentiall
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by sopooneo 13y ago
Will you challenge us to find quotes from major figures of American history referring to the nation as a democracy?
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by sopooneo 13y ago
I expect that the lack of a clearly defined "what they were trying to do" was a large part of the problem.
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by sopooneo 13y ago
There are at least two questions to consider. (1) Is your argument reasonable? (2) Is your argument legally compelling? It is important not to conflate these two questions.
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by sopooneo 13y ago
Throw away the rock for a few years and see what happens. That's the test.
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by sopooneo 13y ago
Though, in a general sense, thorough education might change your own opinion.
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by sopooneo 13y ago
Penalties that require the offender to restore the area to its previous condition. Screw up a redwood or endangered species? Fix it. Unspeakably expensive? Tough. Get some bids and hire a firm to do it and if it costs half your net worth th
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by sopooneo 13y ago
But who has truly RESTful objectives in mind? Are there any widely used REST APIs that truly adhere? I acknowledge that there may be. It's just the ones I come across always make significant concessions. Sometimes people tell me that "the w
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by sopooneo 13y ago
I think today's idealist youth are a lot less joyful then yester-decade's. I think this is troubling to those who came up in the sixties, and I can understand why: we should not be martyrs to rationalism. But I also think that pragmatism do
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by sopooneo 13y ago
I don't know the man or his works, but on my first reading, I thought he seemed like a misguided liberal.
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by sopooneo 13y ago
This speaks to something that has baffled me for a long time. If we have to bend/break the rules of REST to make things usable in the real world (and I believe we do), why have REST as an ideal in the first place? Why work halfway towards A
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by sopooneo 13y ago
It seems likely to me that the marketing people are working with a third party to do that actual construction and installation of the adverts. Their options for what physical shaped plastic the advert will go in are certainly limited and th
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by sopooneo 13y ago
I think most QR code readers can handle reading at an angle, and calculate what angle they're at by the relative distances between the reference squares you'll see in three corners of the code. But telling the difference between a code that
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by sopooneo 13y ago
I think the URL the QR code references typically has some token in it that can be used in server analytic to tell which location the code was scanned at. You could reasonably get a person to type in the URL "BurtsApples.com", but not so eas
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by sopooneo 13y ago
Why are the salaries so much lower than in the States? I know part of it is that demand outstrips supply here, so perhaps my question resolves to why there is less demand. I assume that the point of software is that it can be an efficiency
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by sopooneo 13y ago
Do you mean that you believe austerity will help avoid collapse, or that austerity will bring it on ? I think you mean the former. I'm too ignorant on the issue to have an opinion myself.
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by sopooneo 13y ago
Except you're effectively budgeting ten hours divided by the probability you get hired.

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