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by tejohnso 8y ago
>...turn ugly when you start breaking down components into smaller and smaller components. Care to elaborate? This seems opposite to how components ought to work.
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by tejohnso 8y ago
> Which still overpredict... Overpredict? According to what? According to NASA[1] we're already at a 0.9 degree anomaly for 2017. The IPCC prediction[2] is 1 degree anomaly in 2020 for the worst case prediction in the worst case sce
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by tejohnso 8y ago
The costs are astronomical because we've been taking on massive amounts of environmental debt for over a century. Mostly over the last 25 years. It's payback time. According to the IPCC, even their conservative estimates indicate
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How rising seas could cause your next internet outage(grist.org)
1 points by tejohnso 8y ago|0 comments
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by tejohnso 8y ago
Media content storage and delivery is an advertised use case [1] > ...highest level of availability and performance is ideal for low-latency, high QPS content serving And the cost using Google Cloud CDN isn't necessarily going
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by tejohnso 8y ago
> Every large company I have visited has internal employee groups for all matter of topics; sports, movies, gardening, art, jogging, and more. > Yet we see that most companies have such groups. There's a significant culture diffe
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by tejohnso 8y ago
> "Do you think a Swedish employee group at Crédit Agricole is a problem?" For the employees, I would think it strange that they group themselves as such within the company since their common interest in Swedish culture has not
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by tejohnso 8y ago
"Three months later he spoke to a meeting of our Black Employees @ Netflix group..." Wait, what? Black employees have a "group"? How many different race, culture, sexuality, and gender identity groups are there at Netfl
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by tejohnso 8y ago
There's plenty of blame to go around. He has written a paper about what he calls "scientific reticence" and talks about it here[1] as well. Scientists self-censor. It's hard to get a message across when mainstream news i
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by tejohnso 8y ago
The Arctic sea ice extent September average in 2012 was about 45% lower than the 1981-2010 average. Recent years haven't been quite as bad. http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/sotc/sea_ice.html And it looks like volu
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by tejohnso 8y ago
I shorted (a very small amount) from about $320 down to about $270. That's when Elon had his very standoffish and defiant earnings call. After that I exited at a profit because I didn't think the downward reaction was severe enoug
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by tejohnso 8y ago
Requests are expected to complete within 60s so a websocket connection is probably not sensible. https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/how-re...
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by tejohnso 8y ago
Software 1.0: The car is parked IF it is on the side of the road AND it hasn't moved in X time, AND ... But not if... etc. Software 2.0: The car is parked if the neural net says so. Okay, if software 2.0 is all about
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by tejohnso 8y ago
And if you received TV Ontario there was also Readalong, Read All About It, Write On, The Edison Twins, Eureka!, and probably others I've missed. All highly focused on educational content. Oh and Mr. Wizard's World coming out of C
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by tejohnso 8y ago
I agree with proper confirmation and 2FA requirements. But the really bad UX is that it's OPT-OUT instead of OPT-IN. If you're going to force users into your system and insist on opt-out then you should at least have the decency t
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by tejohnso 8y ago
For those who are unfamiliar with Munro, have a look at the build quality discussion he had here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpCrkO1x-Qo
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by tejohnso 8y ago
"I suspect that a significant source of programmers flooding into management is the decreasing wavelength of full scale re-education on how to accomplish the exact same thing slightly differently with diminshing returns on tangible ben
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by tejohnso 8y ago
> Autism is complicated because it is more a set of descriptions of related symptoms, in which each individual may have more or less of each symptom. From what I understand, autism can't be viewed as a "rating" of better o
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Wall Street’s Latest Secretive Trend? Board Game Nights(bloomberg.com)
1 points by tejohnso 8y ago|0 comments
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by tejohnso 9y ago
> Two children diagnosed with the disorder can have no overlapping symptoms. Is there a precedent for this with other disorders? Seems to me that if there are no overlapping symptoms, it should be a separate disorder. Even if it's j
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by tejohnso 9y ago
I don't think skeptics and "deniers" should be considered equivalent. One group endeavours to verify facts before accepting them, while the other ignores facts or deliberately misrepresents them.
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by tejohnso 9y ago
We don't hear enough serious talk like this. Dr. James Hansen called out the problem as Scientific Reticence [1]. While I'm not certain that CO2 is the primary driver of climate change, it's clear that there are wildly out of
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Children have energy levels greater than endurance athletes, scientists find(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by tejohnso 9y ago|0 comments
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by tejohnso 9y ago
I've been thinking the exact same thing for years and couldn't put it into words. The most annoying thing is I can never be sure whether the BIG TEXT CHOPPED-OUT is actually going to be repeated again later in the article. Otherwi
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by tejohnso 9y ago
I'm so glad Aubrey de Grey got a nice win here. I feel like he doesn't get enough credit for his other endeavours.
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by tejohnso 9y ago
Seems like there's a joke about movies portraying chest wounds on one's left side being much more serious than on the right side. But I don't get it.
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by tejohnso 9y ago
"The Founders of the republic originally wanted to force Congress to vote every two years just to keep a standing Army; these days Congress won’t even permit a vote to replace an Authorization for the Use of Military Force that was pas
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by tejohnso 9y ago
I thought it was going to be about the chocolate treat[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Blossom_(candy)
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by tejohnso 9y ago
He started by saying "Let's see how..." That doesn't sound like a prediction to me.
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by tejohnso 9y ago
SPX is down 7% from the February high. Are you referring to the February 2017 high? Looking from a yearly perspective, we've gone from a period of slow, stable growth to a period of uncertainty and loss, with a doubling of volatility.

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