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jbeckham

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    Comment #21073962

    And the largest portion of that is due to specialty drugs.

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    Comment #21008704

    In the late 90's with dial-up connections, most ISPs would not do this, hence the search for .su proxies. Today, it is much easier when you can spin up a VM in the cloud and contro…

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    Comment #21007453

    Back in the late 90's and early 2000's, there were a set of hacking challenges called the Zebulun Challenges hosted by the site CyberArmy. For the 7th or 8th challenge (Lt. Kernel …

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    Comment #20087000

    Walk through some IoT stuff using Stringify or ITTT. Let them help you create what is going to happen. Use the development tools on an Android device to change location to show geo…

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    Comment #20086390

    Maybe I'm cynical, but this looks more like a data hording scheme than a protect my privacy enhancement. If I use Google to sign in, Google and the app has that data and can moneti…

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    Comment #19730683

    Am I the only one that was expecting a site similar to the Darwin Awards?

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    Comment #19137159

    I actually use this one all the time. I do a little wood working and if I slice open a finger, I just grab my Rockler CA glue, put some on, squeeze the slice shut and wait about a …

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    Comment #18888011

    He is now in jail again for defrauding a 71 year old woman out of £700,000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Drewe

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    Comment #18116126

    I will actually give more credit to the Executive programs because they require prior work experience (normally 5 years). People are much more likely to remember and be able to use…

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    Comment #18116111

    I disagree. If you are building business software, it is very helpful even as a developer. To add to that value, if you become a team lead and have management responsibilities or h…

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    Comment #18116097

    If you are spending $150K on an MBA, you are spending way too much. In Louisiana, LSU's Executive MBA costs under $60K including all books and meals during the program. If you go S…

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    Comment #17963119

    Honestly, I didn't read the entire article. By the sixth paragraph, I already identified that the author was blaming the use of a tool for bad product management and software devel…

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    Comment #17357946

    Being that this is a civil suit, he has no right to counsel so anything he said can be used against him. Admitting anything was a dumb if he was planning on defending against a law…

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    Comment #17230179

    No I do not. I do know that the Windows Phone version communicated directly with Facebook due to network traces I had done back then. It did not use an intermediary. I could see so…

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    Comment #17230075

    I had a Windows phone that used these API's. When Windows Phone 7 came out, Facebook didn't create the Facebook App for that OS, Microsoft did. It looked like what you expected Fac…

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    Comment #17145246

    The NTSB always includes whether drugs or alcohol potentially played any role in an accident and puts it in their reports for all parties. This isn't a smear tactic, just standard …

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    Comment #16824189

    I'm pretty sure that this would drop the volume of the 0-100hz range to half the volume since we dropped the amplitude to 1/2 and shifted. Any sound system with loud subwoofers wou…

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    Comment #16495767

    These types of programs do exist in most insurance companies in the United States. Predictive analytics against claims and clinical data to do early intervention care management is…

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    Comment #15368282

    Thank you so much for #7. I'm in management now, but even during my 10 years of development, I had this same view. Maybe that comes from a work ethic drilled into my on a farm when…

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    Comment #15359312

    Absolutely. Dave Ramsey's approach is probably my favorite. Basically, don't buy it if you don't have the money for it. https://www.daveramsey.com/

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    Comment #14508356

    When i was still in college, I would use Google Docs + Dia. Google Docs has really good shortcut keys for doing outlines and anything drawn on a board, I was able to replicate usin…

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    Comment #13970480

    Chosen by God from R. C. Sproul. It explains the sovereignty of God in salvation very well. It is one of the best explanations of Reformed Theology that I've found that is meant fo…

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    Comment #13280087

    Nothing about this supports a Russian attribution.

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    Comment #12782321

    There is a format to the code that allows any code to indicate initial vs. subsequent. It is important for looking for first visit cure vs. multiple visits to cure a condition.