Pondering, Unverified. Software Engineer, specializing in Ruby, Rails and back-end systems.
San Diego
Joined July 2008
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During the Finnish Winter War, 1939-40, neutral Sweden allowed its military to go to Finland as volunteers. They were allowed to take one of Sweden's air fighter squadrons with them. Today the US is more afraid of Putin than Sweden was of Stalin & refuses Ukraine fighter planes.
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NEW: Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA) was the only Democrat to join Republicans in the Budget Cmte in voting against the $3.5T reconciliation package, just days after voting against a provision allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices.
His district, CA-52, has been blue for a decade.
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Procore Technologies (NYSE: PCOR) celebrates its IPO @procoretech Be a #Groundbreaker pscp.tv/w/c3UKGDIyODE3NHwxTW…
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Today Procore enters a new phase of our journey as a publicly-traded company (@NYSE: PCOR). This major milestone has been made possible by our employees, investors, customers, and partners – thank you for getting us here! proco.re/3oD2zJd #ProcoreIPO
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Here I will demystify “emergence” and make it utterly concrete.
Most people, if they think about it at all, regard emergence as a vague, “woo-woo” concept that philosophers and mystics deal in.
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You have the power to help your friends, family and community!
Add your smartphone to California’s exposure notification system #CANotify to get COVID-19 exposure alerts and protect those around you
canotify.ca.gov/
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Witnessed the most amazing thing on the train to Edinburgh yesterday. A guy boarded in Wigan & sat opposite me. He went to sleep for an hour.
When he woke up he bought a sandwich, ate it & went back to sleep. (This isn’t a maths test, you don’t need to know the distance/speed).
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Now live: Our monthslong project on YouTube radicalization.
As YouTube diverts more and more users down far-right rabbitholes, could its algorithm, in a way, radicalize an entire society?
To find out, we went to YouTube's 2nd-largest market: Brazil. nytimes.com/2019/08/11/world…
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Meanwhile, the returns to greed have gone way up, because tax rates on high incomes have gone way down. It used to be that CEOs wouldn't see that much personal gain from squeezing workers; now they do 3/
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'pore over' 🔍"to read or study very carefully"
'pour over' ☕️"to make expensive coffee"
'comb over' 💇♂️"to comb hair from the side of the head to cover the bald spot"
merriam-webster.com/dictiona…
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RT SEGOB_mx: ✅ Comparte esta Infografía que hacer antes, durante y después de un #Sismo #PrevenirEsVivir
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Picard management tip: If your crew is afraid to talk to you, they won't always give you the information you need. Be approachable.
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IMPORTANT THREAD: Before Trump risked our planet's (and children's) future by withdrawing from the Paris accord, 22 Senators told him to.
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1/ New college grads often ask me for career advice. At the risk of sounding like this guy…youtube.com/watch?v=Dug-G9xV…
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5. States with highest Black vote drop (MI, WI, OH, NC) had biggest vote list purges and new ID laws. It’s not "turn-out," it’s Jim Crow.
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I have a message for you guys. #ScienceMarch
