warfangle

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by warfangle 10y ago
> “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by g
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by warfangle 10y ago
And there are many lawyers who work on social issues like tenant advocacy that make a whooole lot less than, say, an M&A lawyer.
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by warfangle 10y ago
And the US is the only developed country where pharmaceutical companies are allowed to advertise specific drugs.
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by warfangle 10y ago
Forbes trots out an interesting figure: $2.6bn to win FDA approval for a new drug. That sounds like a lot! It also sounds like a number pulled from a hat. So I went looking. It's from a Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development st
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by warfangle 10y ago
Gamasutra published an in-depth article last year on how the developer of Super Win the Game implemented a shader to emulate the scanline (and phosphor decay) of CRTs. It's eyeopening, and was the first time I realized why my emulate
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by warfangle 10y ago
Wonder if they're going to somehow get the FAA to change their opinion on bluetooth/airplane mode.
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by warfangle 10y ago
The flip side of course, is if the small community shuns someone they have no other communities to migrate to without a geographic migration. (What you are describing did happen to me a long time ago, and it did take a long time to work my
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by warfangle 10y ago
Isn't that what SSL does? And if the SSL between you and the destination is compromised, you don't even know if the hashing algorithm you asked the client to use is actually the one they used.
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by warfangle 10y ago
> Some really odd red-necky types showed up - and don't mean negative - just poor. They were welcome. Old guys in wheelchairs. Young partiers. It was an unbelievably mixed crowd. And had a trans person showed up, how would that have
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by warfangle 10y ago
Fair warning: this page will blow up your browser history.
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by warfangle 10y ago
the commute to the middle bay area is a lot better from SJ than from SF.
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by warfangle 10y ago
This is specifically one institution that is at risk for having its accreditation revoked.
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by warfangle 10y ago
On the other hand, curl.exe has been available for five years.
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by warfangle 10y ago
Unless you're in enterprise software. It's really easy for enterprise companies to get in the trap of making every customer a spacial snowflake, because they need to to get a half mil contract signed. And then the product becomes
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by warfangle 10y ago
Better training is exactly the answer. Most officers get less than six months of training. In other countries (with much lower rates of officer involved homicides), officers receive years of training. It is exactly perceived threat . But t
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by warfangle 10y ago
I've learned coping skills to help me deal with what I take the meds for - coping skills that I could not practice / get good at while I was not being treated. I'm not as good as I am when I'm on them, but I'm a who
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by warfangle 10y ago
You're awesome and your psychiatrist is awesome!
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by warfangle 10y ago
o/ heya. I've been on psychiatrist-prescribed meds for a little over two years now. I've gotten a better job, my salary has increased by 52%, I live with less stress, I have a (mostly) tidy home, I am no longer dependent on a
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by warfangle 10y ago
It was a magnet school that had resources (one of the best performing arts departments in the state; one of the only AP comp sci programs in a 45 mi radius) that my locally assigned high school did not. The primary reasons the school-bus co
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by warfangle 10y ago
I had a total of 3 hours a day on a bus to/from high school. I wish I could have done homework during that time! But you know how spine-jarring school busses are. Maybe if I'd been able to complete it on a laptop instead of worksh
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by warfangle 10y ago
On the other hand, how many companies stonewall potential new hires that try to perform due diligence on the options package offered?
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by warfangle 10y ago
Facebook did block their IP address.
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by warfangle 10y ago
Why do people still build business process tools when they could point and click in Salesforce?
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by warfangle 10y ago
The weird minicars are not what they've been road testing. The ones they've been road testing for ML look like regular cars. And they have yet to hit a pedestrian or decapitate a driver with a semi. Be real; Tesla's is basica
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by warfangle 10y ago
Google's doing a lot better on the whole self driving front. At least in terms of fatalities per mile.
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by warfangle 10y ago
They also weren't competing against several companies that already had an assembly line.
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by warfangle 10y ago
Why aren't you just using an interpolated string?
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by warfangle 10y ago
The Matrix kind of did this, with the switch in color saturation & tint between "inside" the matrix and "outside." Inside was desaturated and tinted green; outside was desaturated and tinted blue. At the time it was
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by warfangle 10y ago
The average cost of a space shuttle mission was $450m. That's 8 astronauts and 23,000kg of payload. [0] Soyuz costs $62.7m/seat. [1] Which means that 8 seats to the ISS on soyuz is actually more expensive than a shuttle launch. I
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by warfangle 10y ago
Jet turbofans have an efficiency curve related to the velocity of the aircraft. They are least efficient when the aircraft is stationary, and most efficient when the aircraft is moving at the same velocity as the exhaust. A jet turbine gene

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