johngarrison

Frankly, I don't trust password managers. Perhaps I'm naive and they're perfectly safe, but still.

My solution is to develop an algorithm for all my passwords that is pretty quick and simple to memorize but allows me to "generate" a unique password for each service that I use.

Although I seriously doubt anyone could figure out my algorithm by learning one of my passwords, I'll admit that if they were to gather 3 or more then they'll probably be able to figure out my system. But since I never write down or record any passwords whatsoever (all I need to remember is my algorithm), someone would have to steal my credentials from multilple sources and also be able to know which credentials from one service match a user from another, etc.

If someone doesn't think "robots" (i.e., automation) hasn't devastated the usual human modes of keeping a livlihood, they haven't been paying attention.

When you consider how nearly half of working age adults are unemployed, how many of those actually in jobs spend most of their time largely inactive and unproductive, and how many people are removed from the job market entirely by being warehoused in education or incarcerated, it's astonishing how much our lives have been "taken over".

Not if inflation is 3-4% per year.

Yes, it is poorly written. But the idea is that you wouldn't properly metabolize whatever you're eating with the drink. Or whatever is floating in your bloodstream when you're drinking.

Whether it harbors intelligent life, however, is still up for debate.

I've been decrying Amazon's usability for years. Such an unintutive mess of menus and sub-systems. Such a poor customer experience for anything other than simple "click and buy" usage.

I blame their extreme position ahead of other emarketers. They have very little reason to be nice and helpful. People will throw money at them regardless.

Sometimes I wish I was wealthy enough to buy out horrible companies, just so I could have the power to dismantle them and end the suffering.

As a physician, I say most doctors would enthusiastically welcome it. With today's constant threat of litigation, practically all doctors are getting second opinions on every diagnosis anyway to help defend their actions in case something goes wrong. If they can say "Watson agreed with my diagnosis" instead of "Dr. Jones agreed with my diagnosis", work gets done quicker. Waiting for second opinions is hugely annoying and a big time waster in a doctor's day.

Because, in theory, if anything goes wrong during the course of a patient's care the doctor can just say "Watson agreed with me" and the chance of litigation drops dramatically.

I'm happy to say I think you'll be pleased with the level of critical thinking here. I have also despaired at the state of Reddit.

Though, depending on your interests, some days there may not be much on HR that tickles your attention.

I usually overcome such mechanisms on Chrome by holding down the back arrow until the list of past pages comes up, then going back to the page just before the last one.

I wanted to enjoy the book, but it was pretty sub-par. I admit it made me smirk when I "got" an 80's reference, but it also annoyed me how obvious it was that the book was deemed "great" just because of such a cheap, transpartent tactic.

Admirers of Rand making appeals to authority? That's an obvious contradiction to anyone who had even read one page of the cliff notes of her philosophy. Someone, you or they, are confused.