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www.washingtonpost.com 1y ago

Chris Marks: Using Statistics to Increase Mine Safety

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www.axios.com 5y ago

China looks to take its digital currency global

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wtop.com 7y ago

Brain zaps boost memory in people over 60, study finds

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Is this a huge security hole in Amazon?

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hackernoon.com 7y ago

Failed Startups. A postmortem

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theconversation.com 7y ago

Brains keep temporary records before making a lasting memory

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washingtonmonthly.com 8y ago

The Libertarian Who Accidentally Helped Make the Case for Regulation

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www.atlasobscura.com 8y ago

The Memories of Plants

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www.wired.com 9y ago

A New Lab-Built Fungus Eats Sugar and Burps Out Drugs

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www.the-scientist.com 9y ago

Treating Alzheimer's Disease with Brain Waves

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www.npr.org 11y ago

The Hidden FM Radio Inside Your Pocket, and Why You Can't Use It

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www.smithsonianmag.com 12y ago

The Toxins That Affected Your Great-Grandparents Could Be In Your Genes

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www.todayifoundout.com 12y ago

The Engineer Who converted 12,100 Cups Of Pudding to 1.25 Million Air Miles

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visual.ly 13y ago

The Start Up Universe visualized

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www.newscientist.com 13y ago

Mindscapes: First man to hear people before they speak

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www.sticknfind.com 13y ago

Bluetooth tracking stickers on the market

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www.wired.com 13y ago

Child-Porn Suspect Ordered to Decrypt His Own Data

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neurocritic.blogspot.com 13y ago

Can Brain Activity Predict Criminal Reoffending?

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www.npr.org 13y ago

Tiny DNA Switches Aim To Revolutionize 'Cellular' Computing

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learn.media.mit.edu 13y ago

Learning Creative Learning Online(MIT Media Lab)

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www.nytimes.com 13y ago

Money Changes Everything

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management.fortune.cnn.com 13y ago

Meet Amancio Ortega: The third-richest man in the world

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www.brainpickings.org 13y ago

The Science of Procrastination and How to Manage It, Animated

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www.wired.com 14y ago

Unlock Your Inner Rain Man by Electrically Zapping Your Brain

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www.scielo.br 14y ago

Opposum protein protects mice from poisons and toxins

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www.federalnewsradio.com 14y ago

Looking for a few good women and men to code and kick-ass for America

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newsroom.sprint.com 14y ago

Sprint enters the landline business

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m.npr.org 14y ago

When Not To Quit: Man Revived After 96 Minutes

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www.washingtonpost.com 14y ago

Health and fitness habits can help people keep their youthful good looks

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www.whitehouse.gov 15y ago

White House initiative to encourage entrepreneurship

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Imagine for a second, that you managed to convince me that I am truly the master of my destiny, as are we all.

Wouldn't I then be lucky that we were both in this forum at this time?

We'd be so fortunate that you didn't get into a car accident yesterday that would have prevented my epiphany...

that you weren't abducted as an infant and never seen from again....

That your parents were together that fateful moment...

or maybe I misunderstand?

That's your perspective.

I've been very lucky in my life.

I was introduced to programming at a young age and found it immensely satisfying.

I've been conditioned to work hard towards my goals, and have seen the benefits therein.

I'm quite happy with my level of success, though I do intend to get much more. I believe that my lucky strokes have and will continue to multiply.

But I also believe that anyone else with my circumstances would have nearly identical results.

There's no "blame" to dispense.

Apologies in advance but I must confess.. I don't get it.

Can someone define luck?

-I didn't choose my DNA.

-I didn't choose my parents.

-I didn't choose my circumstances.

-I didn't choose which neural pathways were reinforced based on my experiences.

-I didn't choose which environmental factors altered any of my biological systems.

-I didn't choose not to die in my sleep every night from an undiagnosed ailment.

Removing, for the moment whether or not "Free Will" exists...

What can anyone choose that isn't based on prior experiences; Experiences that they couldn't control?

What can't be attributed to luck?

Thanks for furthering the discussion!

I'm not rebutting anything, so there isn't really a point to examine or agree with. I'm merely pointing out that the parent is conflating two different situations, perhaps without realizing it. If the parent, or you, believe that the two are the same, simply state so, and perhaps we can have that entirely different discussion... instead of threadjacking here.

You mention devolving into name calling, and it initially confused me, as I didn't see it in my statement. Then I realized that you must have meant the GP's usage of "victimhood mentality" which is clearly a pejorative and one of the reasons for my post.

Duly noted.

I love the thought that you have put into this comment. I would like to caution you about two things though:

1- The situation that you endured is a lot closer to the one that immigrants face which, although similar, has fundamental distinctions from the history of African-Americans in America.

2- If a _wealthy_person/male_ said "I think the biggest problem for _poor/female_ people in America isn't _rich/male_ privilege, but rather the victimhood mentality that many have..." I think that you'll see the inappropriateness of the statement. Which, I hasten to add, isn't just the particular criticism leveled, but also the identity doing the criticizing. I am hard pressed to think of a substitution that isn't fraught with baggage...

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Good candidates will have knowledge of leading edge web development practices and an insatiable curiosity. Better candidates will be willing to experiment with the latest web technologies to deliver all stages of front-end development- from mock-ups to completed web pages, widgets, and templates.

This inspired, self-directed individual will excel in a collaborative Agile environment, work tirelessly to identify user interface needs, design and communicate conceptual solutions, collaborate and refine strategies, incorporate best-practices and new innovations through Javascript, CSS, and HTML5.

Skills:

  * Great sense of design and product

  * Experience building apps powered by REST APIs

  * Experience with Agile methodologies

  * Strong desire to learn and grow as a developer

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  * Experience with MVC Javascript frameworks like AngularJS

  * MEAN Stack Experience

apparently, they tried.. : "I became doubly worried when they failed to send me the miles on time ... saying they had no record of my order! This seems pretty incredible given that I mailed the package registered and someone on their end signed for the package... Thankfully, I made copies of everything, and took photographs just in case. When I sent them proof, they quickly sent me the miles."

My apologies, I didn't realize that a disclaimer meant that everything preceding it could be ignored.

If you truly believe that the proportionality is not debatable, then feel free to cease debating it.

I'm sorry to inform you, but I'll need to see something at least on the level of a 12th grade essay to concisely consider your argument. Simply yelling "It's Too Much!" is not helpful.

DISCLAIMER: I didn't realize that a disclaimer meant that everything preceding it could be ignored. If you truly believe that the proportionality is not debatable, then feel free to cease debating it. Simply yelling "It's Too Much!" is not helpful.

If the crux of your argument is the number of employees and funding are disproportionate to the number of deaths, you have to extract the number of employees and monies dedicated to terrorism specifically (If any).

Most of the DHS employees are part of pre-existing agencies that were combined to form DHS.

"187 federal agencies and departments, including the United States National Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the United States Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the United States Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the 14 agencies that constitute the U.S. intelligence community and Civil Air Patrol"

Edit: removed FBI reference, posted subsumed agencies as per Wikipedia...

I greatly prefer Waze. The biggest annoyance for me was that Android doesn't have a way to default to "avoid tolls", so every time I started up, I had to dig into the settings or risk a momentary distraction putting me on a toll road.

Waze has more of an interactive experience (with the ability to report hazards and backups, and some random reward system), but it is more of a focused app than Google Nav.

But as with anything YMMV (Sorry, obligatory pun)

This is all a YMMV situation... I find that if I google something associated with a physical address on my desktop machine, logged into google, my phone will have a card with directions to that location.

That can be useful, but it's usually just an annoyance as I only wanted to call them or do something on their website.

Anybody have a solution to deactivate that behaviour?