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by wizzard 7y ago
I was lamenting this exact thing to a friend the other day. Books are just too long for most self-help advice and it ends up being 80% filler. The worst is when the first three chapters are about how rich/smart/successful you&#x27
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by wizzard 8y ago
Yes, this bothers me greatly, particularly since in 2018-19 you could throw a pebble in any direction and hit someone who knows JS/jQuery/CSS/HTML. You almost have to go out of your way to find someone who doesn’t. I’m sure t
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by wizzard 8y ago
Sure, it is the Ubiolabs Wireless Charging Pad, Model AWC1018. I have an iPhone XR and it works great.
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by wizzard 8y ago
I was of the same opinion until I got a charging pad from Costco for Christmas. I decided to try it out to be polite, and was surprised at how much I like it. I don't have to fish for the cable, I don't have to try to plug it into
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by wizzard 8y ago
Sure, but you won’t get a refund for your ticket or your time. And some people might feel compelled to alert their fellow passengers if they felt the airline was planning to put them on a plane they felt was unsafe. These things could lead
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by wizzard 8y ago
Seems to me like she hired someone to help her pass. They had remote access so they could make it look like she was taking the tests on her own laptop. They'd have to do it during times when she wasn't using it herself. If she was
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by wizzard 8y ago
Ham-fisted is right. This is going to kill family vloggers, or even just vloggers who happen to have a family in the background. YouTube is a lot less engaging when you don’t feel like you can interact with the creators or other viewers. I
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by wizzard 8y ago
Even if millions of people from Asia and Australia were interested enough to watch a live stream of it, I don’t believe they can categorically state that the majority of the people on the entire planet watched via live stream. I’m mostly ar
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by wizzard 8y ago
> The so-called “super wolf blood moon” was eagerly watched by millions of people around the world, mostly via live streaming video. How do they know most people watched via live stream as opposed to just looking out the window or a tele
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by wizzard 8y ago
Do you think a single-payer system creates more sick people? If not, what do you think is currently happening to those people who need mental health care or routine surgery in a non-single-payer system?
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by wizzard 8y ago
It seems unlikely that EVERYONE hated the schedule changes, given that the changes were designed to benefit the majority of them. We can speculate all day about how people may have felt, but we just don't know. The district should hav
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by wizzard 8y ago
The article didn’t present it as “white citizens have an outsized influence” but as “the squeaky wheel gets the grease.” A smaller number of VERY upset people makes a bigger impact than a large number of moderately happier people. It seems
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by wizzard 8y ago
Did you read the article? If you did then you’re being purposely misleading about what you read. The article was about the many non-CIA officers affected. There is plenty of evidence of brain injury, just no evidence of how it happened or w
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by wizzard 8y ago
Another breathless article about l33t hacking where the method is just stumbling across passwords. It’s like a bank leaving its doors and vault open, and whoever walks in and grabs the money being lauded for his bank robbing prowess. Also,
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by wizzard 8y ago
I’ve tried Honeycrisps a few times and I just don’t understand why they’re so loved. They have a super crisp skin with a mealy interior, and I swear the flavor has a hint of tomato. It’s so off-putting.
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by wizzard 8y ago
Also, by the time you show any symptoms, you’re as good as dead. So you have to anticipate whether the animal that bit you might have had rabies or not. Many people are reluctant to seek treatment when they feel fine, especially given the c
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by wizzard 8y ago
Right? "Voters need to wait until all the choices have populated before making a selection." Absolute BS. Software design 101.
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by wizzard 8y ago
This is a well-known phenomenon called the cascade of intervention: http://www.childbirthconnection.org/maternity-care/cascade-o...
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by wizzard 8y ago
The same problems could cause lethal over/under-doses with much more reasonable numbers of pills, i.e. accidentally ordering 2 pills instead of 1. The fact that 38 pills were ordered shows how crazy the problems can get, but a crazy nu
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by wizzard 8y ago
I had to read this in middle school (ages ago) and it has really stuck with me. Whenever I read about some “strange” practice of another culture, I think of this study and it quickly rearranges my perspective.
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by wizzard 8y ago
The Peter Principle is about being promoted to a job that demands different skills. Athletes are promoted to jobs with the same skills, so the principle doesn't apply.
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by wizzard 8y ago
> Another question you could answer would be “if I start on a road trip at 6PM, what time would it be when I get to my destination 16 hours later?”. That would be 6 + 16 mod 12 which is 10. So many things wrong here. Why would you repres
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by wizzard 8y ago
I think plenty of people would have still written in but almost certainly the tone of the letters would have been different. Also, more people probably would have second-guessed their intuition, at least for a moment, and perhaps there woul
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by wizzard 8y ago
Exactly. I have no problem debugging or creating a small-ish feature in an open office. When it's a bigger feature that touches a lot of places in the code, or when refactoring, it's a major struggle. If it's a big enough cha
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by wizzard 8y ago
All my favorite working arrangements have involved sitting in small teams, either in a room or in individual cubicles (such that you're only in really close proximity to a few other people). I've had my own office before; it'
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by wizzard 8y ago
Are you saying that: * No website or app should ever call out to any third party API * Every single piece of functionality a website or app has should be developed in-house * The functionality third party APIs provide would often take &quot
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by wizzard 9y ago
> They told us that it was to stagger the buses and give high schoolers time to work part-time jobs One additional reason is so that the older kids get home before the younger kids so they can supervise. It's all perfectly rational.
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by wizzard 9y ago
My kids' elementary school doesn't start until 9:00, and both of us work. We've had to get morning childcare just for 30 minutes before school. It's expensive and stressful for all of us.
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by wizzard 9y ago
So he should have either hoped that corporations would feel charitable, or submitted himself as a guinea pig to a system that doesn't exist. Got it.
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by wizzard 9y ago
I have roundabouts in my neighborhood. They have the exact same problem. If you don't come to a full stop and/or look around your A pillar deliberately, you may never see the car or bike hidden behind it. I've also had the sa

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