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by tacon 4y ago
aliations -> affiliations hyper-nancialization -> hyper-financialization Maybe more. Did cut and paste do this?
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by tacon 4y ago
Are there any similar boards or projects for taking over a large wall-mounted LCD clock? I would love to hack on that display.
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Lorentzian-geometry-based analysis of airplane boarding policies(journals.aps.org)
2 points by tacon 4y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 4y ago
After the post, there is a button to remove the preview. Is that available before posting? Or would immediately removing the preview avoid the ban? Just wondering...
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by tacon 4y ago
If a company is going to give some employees a bad taste in their mouth, I would think the very last group to do that to would be those recently promoted. Those are people that just got the seal of approval from Amazon and are in the best
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Not All That Glitters(theknowledge.io)
2 points by tacon 4y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 4y ago
On the proctor webcam, is it not obvious that the test taker's mouse icon is tracking the remote mouse's movement?
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by tacon 4y ago
My experience is that Outlook will accept email from a new IP ... for awhile. But rather quickly they block it. I think they watch for a commercial amount of traffic, enough to get a reputation from various services. Not enough traffic f
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by tacon 4y ago
Essentially all residential IPs are blacklisted for email servers, at least on port 25. Many ISPs blackhole any traffic on port 25 to residential IPs. Do you have port 25 working on your residential connection?
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by tacon 4y ago
There is one piece of not so obvious data that is public in Meetup profiles: zip code. The city is listed, but hovering over the link that has the city as link text shows the zip code that member registered with, possibly long ago. This c
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by tacon 4y ago
You are confusing movie ratings, by the movie industry, with government censorship. Movie ratings are just labels anyway, and not censorship.
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by tacon 4y ago
>Sorry but in terms of obesity and weight loss, it's really not more complex. No, it is extremely complex. "Calories in < Calories out" isn't even stating the principle you think it is. You want to make a stateme
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by tacon 4y ago
I believe the source of that idea is this famous quote: "Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."
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Russia says it is pulling out of the International Space Station from 2024(businessinsider.com)
3 points by tacon 4y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 4y ago
The pandemic forced many boutique personal training businesses to go virtual. Discover Strength out of Minneapolis is a leader in high-intensity personal training, and they have organized the Resistance Exercise Conference (REC) for more t
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Shannon's Demon and how returns can be created out of thin air(richmondquant.com)
63 points by tacon 4y ago|51 comments
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by tacon 4y ago
>And there are no longer pronounced subcultures either This article is an elaboration on an earlier post by the author about there being no countercultures in today's world: "14 Warning Signs That You Are Living in a Society Wi
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by tacon 4y ago
"Vaccines are defined as immunogenic preparations of a pathogen that evoke an immune response without causing disease."[1] "Some vaccines offer full sterilizing immunity, in which infection is prevented completely."[2] [
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by tacon 4y ago
Not engaging a buyer's agent via a contract is a mistake, but few people understand that. If you have no buyer's agent contract, then guess who you are dealing with? The seller's agent! Yes, that very friendly person that
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Materials with nanoscale components will change what's possible(technologyreview.com)
1 points by tacon 4y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 4y ago
Alas, the majority of Christians are not very "reasonable" in that way today. Fosdick was asking 100 years ago (1922) if the fundamentalists will win[0], and it is pretty clear today that they have[1]. [0] http://bapti
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by tacon 4y ago
I perked up recently when I learned that one can now become an accredited investor via a Series 7, Series 65, or Series 82 license, bypassing the income/net worth requirements[0]. [0] https://www.investopedia.com/articl
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by tacon 4y ago
Here is a test of your will power. Next time you see some junk food in your pantry, pick it up, take it to your outside garbage can, open the package, and dump it irretrievably into the container. Once you do that the first time, you swit
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Unnecessary Mastectomy Math(hwfo.substack.com)
3 points by tacon 4y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 4y ago
>A concert pianist doesn't just walk up on stage and wing it. Well, sometimes they have to. There is the famous example where a professional concert pianist realizes when the orchestra starts that she practiced the wrong piece. Th
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by tacon 4y ago
>I'd love to hear who you think is the most convincing materialist here? Sean Carroll has a paper arguing that we know much more about the laws of physics than we know about consciousness, so it seems much more likely that we can ex
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When Magic Was Real(treeofwoe.substack.com)
2 points by tacon 4y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 4y ago
This books has an excellent reputation for the foundations of data-intensive software: Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems https://www.amazon.com/Designing
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by tacon 4y ago
An old Mixergy episode from around 2009-10 was a legal software firm. They were having lots of sales resistance until the crisis hit, and a lot of large corporations moved their legal work in house to save money. That customer segment was
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by tacon 4y ago
And if the Ukrainians get momentum, they will retake Crimea. Maybe the negotiating point would be to let Russia keep the Sevastopol base?

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