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by wombatpm 3y ago
I would have gone with decibillionaire
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by wombatpm 3y ago
I worked for a fortune 300 corp in pre pandemic times. I interacted with people in NY, PA, and IL on a daily basis. Every meeting had at least 1 person dialing in. Other than grabbing lunch with coworkers I miss nothing about being remote.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Shout out to https://explainshell.com/ for being a great resource to understand cli tools and options
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by wombatpm 3y ago
It’s been done. The secret is to reward participants and make it long term. Check out the General Social Survey conducted by NORC. It’s one of the longest running longitudinal surveys with multiple cohorts tracking the public’s changing vie
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by wombatpm 3y ago
All children’s programming from that era. HR Puffinstuff and New Zoo Revue come to mind.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Drawings for parts should have tolerances called out. I did mechanical inspection for a manufacturer for several summers. Every dimension had a plus/minus value listed. Holes and screw threads had go/no-go gauges
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by wombatpm 3y ago
There are a series of TikTok videos that show the actual construction where you see each piece being fabricated.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
My favorite Douglas Adams quote: I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as you go past them
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by wombatpm 3y ago
The city needed the cash today, not in 75 years. They did a similar deal with the Chicago Skyway. Both deals had a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose vibe when implemented.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Robert Ludlum had many that were great. The original Bourne Identity got my family hooked. Beware the post death authorized books David Morrel also had some good ones. Brotherhood of the Rose was great.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
When I was in college you could find a pickup game late at night in the dorms. In grad school we could have two games going every day at lunch and enough skilled players to put together a tournament after finals. Daily play did wonders for
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by wombatpm 3y ago
And now that newspapers and magazines are dead, you can’t cut and paste your ransom notes either.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Boat Drinks Find Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude Cheeseburger in Paradise
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by wombatpm 3y ago
I agree. I feel ok for the John Wayne Gacy’s, Richard Spec’s and Ted Bundy’s of the world. I have a problem when it’s a mentally deficient person in Texas who may or may not have murdered someone and was represented by ineffective counsel.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
My son is T1D since age 7. He is now on the OmniPod pump and the Dexcom G6 sensor. It’s been a very effective combination that’s covered by insurance. The challenge with the open source projects is limited equipment that can be hacked.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Lewey Body Dementia is common with Parkinson’s
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Doesn’t solve the problem of LLCs owning property. I buy a property with an LLC. I then sell the LLC to another individual. Property remains owned by the LLC. No title transfer tax, no fees, etc.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
I had a boss who was a VP in sales. His philosophy was "On the days I go in late, I make up for it by leaving early".
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by wombatpm 3y ago
In the US you can expect healthcare, assisted living and end of life care to wipe those gains away. There are several industries dedicated to extracting maximal value from people from retirement til death
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by wombatpm 3y ago
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/prenda_law_attorney_... ADA sham lawsuits have been a staple of corrupt lawyers since it’s inception. The civil enforcement mechanism is the biggest failure of the ADA. The
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by wombatpm 3y ago
I believe Prenda Law had a side business in these types of lawsuits when their copyright troll work hit a snag.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Instead, we abandoned many rails lines. Just ion my area of the Midwest there are two lines that were unused in the 70-80's. In the 90's they were converted to bike trails. Now the rail companies wish they had those rights-of-w
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by wombatpm 3y ago
I'd start with the trillion spent on wars we didn't need. Holding an empire together is expensive. If Trump hadn't tied Biden's hands, we would still have troops in Afghanistan.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
I was in grad school when Pons and Fleischmann published their paper on Cold Fusion. It was exciting and anyone with a lab was trying to confirm or disprove their results. I’m getting similar vibes here.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
But if you can get credit for Calc 1 and Calc 2 because you took the BC AP Calc test you should do. Starting Calc 3 as a freshman was great because it was a much smaller class.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
The existence of National Security Advisor General Mike Flynn would seem to support the thesis that we have crazy people who lie at the highest levels of government.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Good thing Hunter lost his election.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Who is going to be the neutral arbitrator who assigns Dewey Decimal numbers or Library of Congress codes to web pages? Can’t trust the page authors that’s for certain.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Pycharm does a good job
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Crimes against humanity at the Hauge. Same place we tried Nazis

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