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by wombatpm 1y ago
I routinely steal quotes from coworkers in meetings and use them in my surveys I never express my sentiments, just the sentiments of others.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Certain compounds like fibrin (in blood clots) and collagen (in extra cellular matrix) self assemble under certain conditions. Small volumes delivered via liposomes being triggered to self assemble in specific locations is fascinating.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Very slow increase to around 2 in an attempt to end QE, dipping to 1.5 before falling off a cliff with COVID. Compare to rates going back to 2000
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Rate increases didn’t start until 2022. I was with a startup in the mortgage industry and got to experience that company’s first layoff followed by a layoff at a different startup 10 months later because raising another round of capital was
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by wombatpm 1y ago
St. Augustine Built by the Spanish in 1565 and continuously occupied since then.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Might as well bring back the entire Microsoft BoB interface as well
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Now is a good time to read The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Can we get rid of LEED Certification levels next?
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by wombatpm 1y ago
And Asia
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by wombatpm 1y ago
If we can fly a drone halfway across the world, why can’t we have human augmentation for self driving trucks. Have a human, rested, and alert monitoring several platoons back at HQ. The only reason you want a person on the train is security
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Unless the stolen data is being used to compile lists of enemies of the state to send to the gulag. Like are any of these troublesome trade unionists immigrants? Time to send them to the gulag, solves two problems at one - that’s efficiency
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Ranking is a closely held secret. Non AMP COULD have a negative impact. Let marketing try and get confirmation from Google that it does not.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
I worked for a former Fortune 300 company that had an active internal investment strategy. They wanted the next billion dollar business, guaranteed, in 12 months. And wanted to invest more than 1 million dollars. Sadly they are now bankrupt
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by wombatpm 2y ago
I know the character is Lazarus Long. Which book was this quote in?
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by wombatpm 2y ago
With just enough whiskey so that I don’t have the smell of water on my breath. Same reason I cut my OJ with vodka.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
German Bureaucracy: see Th Trial by Franz Kafka for a fictional view that is surprisingly accurate
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Mad Science means never having to ask “What’s the worst that can happen?”
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by wombatpm 2y ago
My two favorite trading terms: “catching a falling knife” and “dead cat bounce”. You don’t want to buy until you’re sure it’s reached bottom. So you look for signs of rebound, but you can be fooled by a dead cat bounce. Because if dropped
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by wombatpm 2y ago
No alternative that is not subject to FOIA requests. Signal deletes messages in violation of the Presidential Records Act. That is why it is chosen.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Whenever I’m told there isn’t time, I remind the PM :Yes, but if it’s wrong or doesn’t work we will have time to do it over - it will just cost more later.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Word of the day is : wrongthink. Wrongthink is doubleplusungood. Don’t wrongthink.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
So he had confidential US documents and they did not arrest him? Or he had confidential French documents, the CBP recognized that, and sent him back? The initial stories reported messages criticizing Trump and his science cuts. From a scie
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by wombatpm 2y ago
I just heard a recruiting add for the CBP on several podcasts. Plenty of opportunities with signing bonus. I guess they need more jackbooted thugs.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
There was also a French scientist traveling to a conference who was refused entry because texts on his phone / social media were critical of Trump’s cuts to science funding. It was deemed terroristic to be hateful of the president.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Load bearing assertions. Even Design by Contract in Eiffel turns off assertions in production.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Tire shops are the worst. You might have better luck getting used tires from a junkyard/ u pull auto parts. I needed a new alloy rim. Got two rims with tires for 50 bucks. Saw they had tires for 10. Can’t say enough good things about l
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Crayola make dry erase crayons. No fumes, cool colors
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Divorce and remarriage create lots of nonsensical situations.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Been a user since 0.48 running on a SGI Indy with IRIX 7.x because I needed something with a UI for my undergrads to mark up image. Amazing how far it has come along.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Eventually humans ability to create new fresh data will be the justification for UBI. Fo shizzle

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