If you were a true boss you would sign it and return it after you change “per word” to “per letter.”
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You can see cool shit with a sub-$200 telescope easily, this writeup gives a good breakdown on what to look for and recommends getting a 6" Dobsonian.
You might also look into getting some astronomy binoculars instead of a telescope, you can pretty easily see the 4 Galilean moons with a decent pair and they’re easier to use than most telescopes.
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I’m interested in responses to this as well. We’re moving 
in about a month and I’ll be in a spot where I’ll have slightly less light pollution.
In which Cody posits that John Krasinski is a real life Ryan from The Office.
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I just went to look at some on Amazon. I see people saying they’re heavy enough to require the use of a tripod. So by “easier to use,” do you mean being able to locate and focus in on the celestial object?
I was into astronomy when I was in high school. I had a small-ish mirror telescope, maybe like 4 inches, and could see Saturn’s rings and Jupiter’s bands pretty clearly from the back yard in a low light pollution area. It was a gift, but I would guess that telescope was maybe 300 bucks at the time.
The biggest hurdle is just that they’re kind of a pain to set up and then locate whatever it is you’re looking for. You know how when you throw binoculars up at a baseball game or whatever, you have to look around a bit to find what you’re actually looking for? Well picture that but instead of looking and seeing a baseball diamond you can use to orient yourself, you see blackness and some dim stars that you probably can’t see with the naked eye. It was always a bunch of scanning around until I got something bright in view, and then using that to slowly navigate to what I was actually looking for. Then if you accidentally bump into the telescope when leaning in to look, you now have to start over. I’m sure with a lot of practice it gets easier, but that’s what eventually made it collect dust in the garage for me.
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I have these which are heavy but not so heavy that I need a tripod to use them but yeah I was mostly referring to trying to find objects, it just feels more natural to me when moving around the binoculars compared to fiddling with knobs on a telescope.
In addition, you get people like our in house lawyer for my team where we’re like “Hey Lawgurl we have no budget for external counsel so please review the attached 24 docs each 115 pages long, we need them by the end of the week”.
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I was thinking of buying a telescope a few years ago but never bothered. There’s ones with GPS-style databases and auto-locators now. Just tell it what you want to look at and it points itself right at it. Not even all that much more expensive.
Without, but as I said it’s more natural compared to adjusting the view with an equatorial mount telescope where to track an object you have to fiddle with two knobs trying to get everything moving the direction you want it to.
Do you live in SF?
There is no bottom to Devin Nunes’ incompetence
https://twitter.com/tobymorton/status/1276626883103334401?s=21
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I feel like a large percentage of contracts I have reviewed over the years had quite a number of mistakes. I am surprised anything ever gets done.
Pretty much seems that way with all documents. I work a ton with regulatory documents and executed manufacturing records, things like that. One of the problems is that when they get circulated for review nobody reviews them because they’re so busy, and they all just assume everybody else reviewed them.
We had this problem at one of my first programming jobs where we converted a PC client app to a web-app. For the PC client app, our employees had to install it onsite, so there was literally zero chance we could accidentally give one client access to another client’s data.
But the web-app was multi-tenant. So if they just pick the wrong study from a dropdown - all of a sudden a Merck employee could see how a Glaxo-Smithkline study is coming along. This would be inconceivably bad for our business - like we would probably just have to shut down our clinical trials division and all be out of work.
I kept raising this alarm and their answer was - well we always have a supervisor sign off on access to any study. Uh huh, and I’m sure that supervisor doesn’t just rubber stamp whatever their underling puts in front of them?
Eventually after a close call we put some better safeguards in place.
Do any of you smart people know what “greenies” in baseball actually were? Yes I know they were amphetamines - but which one?
Basically I’m curious if my ritalin is basically a greenie, or if it was something more like crystal meth.
Edit: Ok I found the right google - they were dexedrine. Anyone ever done dexedrine? I’m guessing ritalin is different.
Edit edit: Ok reading between the lines on dexedrine - it sounds pretty damn similar. https://riveroakstreatment.com/prescription-drug-abuse/adderall-addiction/vs-dexedrine/
But if they’re black, then it’s hard to claim BLM when you’re encouraging that people eat them.
John praised the CIA numerous times on his Twitter account. Guy’s almost certainly a closeted Trump supporter.
Anyone think it’s crazy to put a deposit on a rental vacation house in Scotland for the summer of 2022? It’s on a smallish island with limited options, so we want to try and lock down the reservation. However, it’s hard to see any light at the end of the tunnel regarding the cv-19 situation.
2021 or 2022?