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by squozzer 8y ago
I have begun wondering aloud about whether the social media era is our closest approach as a species to telepathy. And while hardly a (modern) sci-fi maven, I never encountered any works that tried to step through how a species would achiev
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by squozzer 8y ago
>“I didn’t know how to do x, so I just had to figure it out.” Hiring managers, are you paying attention?
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by squozzer 8y ago
You expounded my point brilliantly. I was thinking of Playboy / Hustler when I made that statement.
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by squozzer 8y ago
All points agreed with - and I'll add to the sixth. >"Parents want success for their kids," said Mike Clifton, who teaches machining at the Lake Washington Institute of Technology, about 20 miles from Seattle. "They g
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by squozzer 8y ago
In the ATL, a common antidote to residential cut-throughs - where drivers also routinely exceed the posted speed limit - is speed bumps. Not the ones normally seen in shopping center parking lots, but ramps that will send a car airborne w
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by squozzer 8y ago
This news rhymes a bit with events from the mid-2000s. That said, I can see a future where most "full-line" automakers have 1 or 2 economy car models (e.g. Toyota Yaris and Corolla), a couple of crossover SUVs to occupy the mid-ra
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by squozzer 8y ago
Not sure if any job or career exists that is impervious to some kind of replacement / oversupply. Maybe doctors, but the barrier to entry is almost stratospheric. Ultimately, to paraphrase Machiavelli, our ability to thrive rests on ou
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by squozzer 8y ago
I went to a friend's house once and fetched a couple of old shitguns from her attic. They were serviceable, but had developed a this coat of rust, enough to require re-bluing. I believe the heat cycling (heating + cooling + condensatio
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by squozzer 8y ago
1) Savings, but not too much (~10%.) 2) Guitars. More of a noodler than a player, started cheap (Ibanez) but now have my first Gibbie (an LP Studio, still allergic to $2000+ guitars.) 3) Home Improvements. I had a new driveway and garage fl
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by squozzer 8y ago
Thank you author -- I knew cumulative / long-term probability had a name but did not know it -- Bernoulli Process. >He could leave [his gun] in his attic with a couple of cans of ammunition, just in case something horrible does tran
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by squozzer 8y ago
>so... so long and thanks for all the fish. This is the second time in as many days that I've heard this ref, after a 30-year drought. Yesterday's ref was a song by A Perfect Circle.
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by squozzer 8y ago
I'll go along with that as an opening for a later discussion. But consider the value of a CEO is probably more than just profits generated - or to use a Moneyball term - "wins above replacement."
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by squozzer 9y ago
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed some of Atlas Shrugged. >It's not the Henry Fords and Steve Jobs who exploit people. Problem is not all of the 1% is Steve Jobs, Henry Ford or Warren Buffett. It also includes, for example, royal f
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by squozzer 9y ago
>And while the individualized profile-driven manipulation exposed by Cambridge Analytica feels abhorrent, it's really no different from what every company wants in the end. This is why all your personal information is collected, and
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by squozzer 9y ago
Parents might disagree with the conclusion "Parents Over Children" but my take on it is that a good bit of America has already been infantalized (e.g. What Do We Want? Something! When Do We Want It? NOW!) and it does not seem to h
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by squozzer 9y ago
I found most of them too cheesy to watch for very long. What makes them fun is trying to figure out if (or where) the voice is a robot - usually child's play because robots frequently places the em-PHAS-is on the wrong syl-LAB-le. But
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by squozzer 9y ago
Regardless of who goes to jail and why, I can only figure on three possible activities for convicts - 1) Rot in their cells. 2) "Busywork" i.e. stuff that resembles work but has no value other than occupying convicts' time. 3
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by squozzer 9y ago
The only thing worse than a video game based on a movie is a movie based on a video game. Maybe if someone makes a movie based on Zork - basically 3 hours of Star Wars "crawl"?
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by squozzer 9y ago
I'm with you. I like Foundation too much to accept anyone's interpretation but my own. But who knows? Apple's take might kick ass. I liked the Galactica reboot until the Starbuck weirdness in Season 3.
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by squozzer 9y ago
Many members of Congress owe their jobs to the deliberate cultivation of obfuscation, while running for office and in the development of laws, so I'm not sure if their ire at Z comes from genuine concern for their constituents or if th
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by squozzer 9y ago
If all we cared about was solving crimes, we could make US law enforcement much easier by doing away with a lot of things, such as certain amendments to the US Constitution. But law enforcement is only one component of a functional society.
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by squozzer 9y ago
I'm channeling Einstein's (aprocryphal) statement of adopting a child's mindset when learning things for the first time. In the 1970s RS and presumably others used to sell those "100-in-1" project kits with various
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by squozzer 9y ago
A certain conservative radio talk show host has a hobby of stringing together identical-sounding phrases from various sources in the establishment media, as if they all read from the same memo. It seemed certain someone had coordinated thei
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by squozzer 9y ago
Talk about a coinkydink - last night I turned on The Simpsons for the first time in years, and it's about Krusty becoming a pariah - for being a clown - and making a foray into serious acting.
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by squozzer 9y ago
I doubt many libertarians harbored illusions that things would get better after 2016, no matter who won. Too many negative things for libertarians going on, both politically and socially. But, I prefer to look at the bright side (feel free
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by squozzer 9y ago
I wouldn't mind trying the same test on guitars -- especially a '59 Les Paul v. 2018 Les Paul. That said, a fancier instrument might help a person play better, because of the confidence it brings to the player's psyche.
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by squozzer 9y ago
>"We were told, things like that don't happen here." The perfect epitaph for Western Civilization.
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by squozzer 9y ago
I think your idea is more practical, given the state of spaceflight technology - BUT, should it succeed, then little incentive would exist to leave Earth. Given the impulses of people in power now, coupled with whatever steps the future tak
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by squozzer 9y ago
Don't forget to do the same for Hogan's Heroes.
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by squozzer 9y ago
So, is it the consensus of HN that this incident is more or less important than Equifax incident, and why?

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