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StephenConnell··on The Problem With Happiness
When you have 3 kids, your asked if you are going to have any more kids.
StephenConnell··on Surprisingly little evidence for usual wisdom about teeth
Right? Ha. My dad won't exercise, he says you see old guys working out and then they die of a heart attack. He would rather just relax. My grandfather had full denchers (age 94). Watching him brush his teeth in the sink and leaving them in a cup on the counter to soak/clean didn't seem half bad.
StephenConnell··on California declared drought free for first time in seven years
"California drought: Past dry periods have lasted more than 200 years, scientists say" https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/01/25/california-drought-pa...
StephenConnell··on A fifth of Earth’s geologic history might have vanished because of glaciers
My reef tank. Balance in this context means not loosing livestock. Aka us.
StephenConnell··on To Help Prevent the Next Big Wildfire, Let the Forest Burn
True, it was forest management, not just commercial logging.
StephenConnell··on To Help Prevent the Next Big Wildfire, Let the Forest Burn
Not the parent, but what I've recently seen in Northern California is all underbrush and low branches gone. They were specifically prepping the area to manage fire. Quincy area.
StephenConnell··on To Help Prevent the Next Big Wildfire, Let the Forest Burn
It started with momentum in an area that had recently burned and moved very quickly because of extremely low humidity and high winds. I live near by and have ridden dirt bikes all over the area it started. It's very inexesable. They could not get to it when it was small and it took off.

Here is an amazing video that shows just how windy it was. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2208918639386879...

StephenConnell··on Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve
Northern California gray water and black water is treated and sent to Southern California as drinking water.

So it depends on where you are.

StephenConnell··on America is losing the battle against robocalls
Instrumental portion of a Lindsey Stirling song.
StephenConnell··on America is losing the battle against robocalls
I was getting 1-5 three second voicemails a day. Robots being detected and sent to voicemail, then detecting and hanging up on my voicemail. I added 30 seconds of music to the end of my "please text or email me" message the voicemails have all stopped.
StephenConnell··on Is there an upside to having no social life?
Honestly, if you are wondering "why I'm spending time with these people", you should find a different group of people.

People you are excited to share with, see and spend time with.

Good groups of people are hard to find, but make a big difference.

StephenConnell··on Is there an upside to having no social life?
I don't think he was asking for advice. Ha. To your points, being honest is important, being sensitive and not rubbing something hurtful in is also important. Some times you can share your excitement, sometimes you need to share your feelings without your excitement.

I've been married for 14 years.

StephenConnell··on Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in age bias
It could be a deal, it could be a steal, or it could be too good to be true.

In either case it's a red flag that should be carefuly evaluated.

StephenConnell··on A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs?
If you are talking about fast food, I would opt for self checkout so that I can place my order in 10 seconds instead of waiting 2 min for a cachier to fumble with the machine. (or miss understand me, or punch it in wrong, or whatever) Grant it, not all cachiers are terrible but consistency in fast food sells, and machines are consistent.
StephenConnell··on I recommend against using biometric identification
That's what we did with our TI86 calculators in the 90s. Fake memory Clear was the name of one app. Teacher looks and sees what looks like a formatted calculator, clears the calculator if they want, then you exit the app and access your notes, games, and apps.
StephenConnell··on How Grammarly Grew to 6.9M Daily Users in 9 Years
This struck me as funny because "a sentence loaded with terms specific to a field" probably is too wordy.

Although it may be appropriate given the context and target audience.

I get what you are saying though.

StephenConnell··on How Grammarly Grew to 6.9M Daily Users in 9 Years
I liked it and it improved my writing. I stopped using it after I noticed that it was leaving css classes in wysiwyg editors that were showing up on websites that I had edited.
StephenConnell··on Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (2009)
I am not sure detecting humans is the right solution... But -2. Open the windows -3. A/C...
StephenConnell··on Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
I am an advocate of having your own domain and having control. But most people don't care as much as the hacker news crowd does. "Phone broke, here is my new number..." really? For business it's critical to maintain any form of communication you have ever offered. But for personal, a lot of people don't care if they change their [email] and inconvenience their friends and family.

The internet is not crucial to everyones daily life. And honestly, it probably shouldn't be as crucial to ours.

StephenConnell··on Flipped Iceberg (2014)
That's funny. The artists impression looks like it is based on a burried rock sticking out of the dirt.
StephenConnell··on Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Blocker Coming Next Year
Like popular music lyrics dropping brand names...
StephenConnell··on Guaranteed Minimum What?
Fair response. I guess it is probably both. Some businesses block, some just do not need the help at the going rate. And some just don't know they need it...
StephenConnell··on Guaranteed Minimum What?
Blocking talent? Or not in need of the talent offered at the price expected?
StephenConnell··on Google's controversial groundwater withdrawal sparks question
California is a big state. Los Angeles is in a desert portion of the state. I have not researched where alfalfa is primarily grown but that is important information. You can see alfalfa test plots on this map are not in desert portions of the state. You can also see how much of the state is not a desert. http://alfalfa.ucdavis.edu/-images/variety_map.gif

Buying in bulk is different than buying just enough to drink. A bottle of water for $5 at a movie for example.

Maybe the price of water in LA primarily covers infrastructure, not water. Their water does come from hundreds of miles away.

StephenConnell··on Ultra-low-energy consumption ultrasonic clothes dryer
Take operating costs into account also.
StephenConnell··on How I Let Disney Track My Every Move
I was just thinking that Sea World San Diego took finger prints Las summer when we went. I googled it and on the first result there is a comment from 2007 from someone mentioning the same.

http://www.fodors.com/community/united-states/borrowing-tick...

StephenConnell··on How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide
Would you say that using an app to avoid speed traps is obstruction of justice? What about radar detectors?
StephenConnell··on Instacart is playing games with its workers’ pay
Even if you consider the situation robbery, they still broke broke even with a 1k gain and 1k loss.
StephenConnell··on The Pulse Oximeter - A small device that’s made thousands of operations safer
Very true, I did not realize it was talking about a medical operation. Plus, I expected the yellow box to be some sort of black box. I only read the comments to figure out what the title was trying to say.
StephenConnell··on Game in-app purchases are warping kids’ understanding of basic economic ideas
Remember when you did not have a cell phone and instead you loaded games on your TI86 calculator? All those games were free!
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