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by watertom 7y ago
The Microcenter right next to Villanova University rocks, right now they are renovating and it's taking forever, but it's a great store.
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by watertom 7y ago
I think the climate is going to change much faster than any models predict, like 3-4x faster, because we went past the tipping point about 30 years ago. Phytoplankton populations will crash out in the next 10 years and the marine food chain
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by watertom 7y ago
I consider almost all charities to be scams, it's an easy way for a few people to make a lot of money and everyone else to get shafted.
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by watertom 7y ago
Depends on your goals. If your only concern is investor return then banking regs are pointless, it’s no different than the privacy laws impeding Facebook and Google. Fuck over the consumer, fuck over the public. I’ve worked at a very large
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by watertom 7y ago
My wife just purchased a Klein mug for our mathematician son for Christmas without mentioning it to me. I opened our email on Monday to see Cliff’s name and a truncated subject line. I then spent the next 20 minutes trying to figure out if
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by watertom 7y ago
Effective solutions to deal with emotional and psychological issues are only effective if they are compatible with the individual being treated. Unlike physical issues, where fixing a broken leg is the same regardless of the patient, emotio
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by watertom 7y ago
Formal logic and reasoning. Probably the best thing you could teach any student. Of course it’s applicable to CS, but it’s also applicable to life.
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by watertom 7y ago
Hippocrates's actual quote: "If you feed a cold you will need to starve a fever." Translation, when you are sick you should fast.
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by watertom 7y ago
But then someone can't build a total useless and redundant service and get rich.
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by watertom 7y ago
Cyber security standards are in place to make the process easier to understand for the non-technical executives, who approve the budgets. Without the standards the executives don’t know who they should believe, and invariably they believe t
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by watertom 7y ago
What’s that old saying “the things you see when you don’t have a camera”. Now I always have a camera. I gave up my film DSLR in 1998, I gave up my digital DSLR in 2012, ago and went to a superzoom, now I’m giving up my superzoom for an i
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by watertom 7y ago
Go read the terms for Grammerly. They own the rights to everything you type into a browser that has their plug-in installed. If you types a novel in google docs using a bowser they actually own the rights to that novel. They capture ever
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by watertom 7y ago
All U.S. citizens need to realize that publicly traded companies are NOT U.S. companies. Where the company was founded, has it's headquarters or where most of it's employees reside is irrelevant, these publicly traded companies sh
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by watertom 7y ago
Restaurants treat wait staff like straws, cheap, of no value and easily discarded and replaced. Using surveillance to track the efficiency of people who are poorly trained, poorly managed, and poorly paid is the hallmark idea of a consultin
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by watertom 7y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/restofthefuckingowl/
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by watertom 7y ago
Apple did not break your working software. It still runs on older versions of the OS. Let's face it you are cheap, you weren't willing to keep up with the Adobe products you purchased and now you want to blame someone, instead of
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by watertom 7y ago
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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by watertom 7y ago
The bogus concept of “capital gains” needs to be changed. Unless someone invest in a pre-IPO company, or purchases stock during the IPO, capital gains should not apply. Buying stock on the market is not investing a company, unless the co
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by watertom 7y ago
Big business likes the level of control. Employees are limited in their job mobility, especially to small companies. It restricts competition, it also suppressed wages. Big business in the U.S. gets what it wants, and if they didn’t wan
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by watertom 7y ago
When the planet has 6.5 Billion more people than it can sustain, why is any of this shocking?
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by watertom 7y ago
Why is the government buying these people out? The homeowners weren't forced to purchase these properties, so it's not the government's responsibility to remediate the situation.
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by watertom 7y ago
The only way forward, the only chance we have is to invent technology to trap and sequester green houses gases from the upper atmosphere. Reducing human greenhouse gas output won’t happen fast enough to fix things, and I’m not sure that it’
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by watertom 7y ago
My first question is why don't they list the TWO independent accounting firms that are auditing this non-profit? I realize that not all states require nonprofits to conduct audits but this seems like a wonderful area to scam people.
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by watertom 7y ago
How do you honestly function day to day if you need to have two dogs with you at all times? Do you work from home? How can you drive without being an emotional wreck? I'm not trying to be a dick, but I see your post and it causes my
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by watertom 7y ago
He was going to spend his life in prison this time. They couldn’t give him the death penalty so there was no deal to be made. Epstein was never going to talk, anyway.
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by watertom 7y ago
As usual with China we are focused on the wrong issue and asking the wrong questions. Who owns Huawei is irrelevant, who ultimately controls Huawei is the issue, but it’s a simple answer, the Chinese Government. I was in China on business,
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by watertom 7y ago
Once Microsoft unbundled the browser they started using their monopoly position to force OEM's to include the browser or facing increased costs for the Windows OS, and since and OEM couldn't sell a computer if it didn't have
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by watertom 7y ago
Really? You should attend some local government meetings, when only small dollar amounts, and ego is at stake.
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by watertom 7y ago
No, his plan was allow the cable companies to do what ever they felt like doing
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by watertom 7y ago
There are at least 5 positive feedback loops operating right now, ocean water temps, phytoplankton populations which impacts both oxygen production and cO2 conversion, phytoplankton is also the basis for the marine food chain, and their pop

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