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by 205guy 6y ago
I hate these extreme thought puzzles. They try to simplify the problem by analogy and try to highlight the issues of the original problem through severe imagery (incendiary in an orphanage, wtf), but all they do is mislead, because the choi
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by 205guy 6y ago
> have unbalanced apostrophes? It’s been a while. I see what you did there (but maybe you don't see it yourself :-) PS: at least MY parentheses are balanced.
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by 205guy 6y ago
Maybe because a semicolon is valid in URLs. Although the top answer on stack overflow also says: "However, if you're plucking them from relatively unstructured prose, it's probably safe to assume a semicolon at the end of a U
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by 205guy 6y ago
I am generally for the non-militarization of local policing, and was inclined in that direction for federal policing as well, but this article and your mention of the FLETC (which I had never heard of) made me realize that perhaps it makes
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by 205guy 6y ago
> you may know how to drive a car, but can you synthesize DNA? I think the framing is wrong here. A cell synthesizes DNA mechanically and without will or intent. The cell is made up of molecules that grab other molecules and operate on t
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by 205guy 6y ago
> Tahoe for example. If you can’t work from home, it’s unlikely you’ll find another job locally. That’s the situation now, but after 1000 remote tech workers move there and 500 decide not to go back to the city, 100 might pivot to lifest
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by 205guy 6y ago
I’m sure it has happened, that like in he article, the recycling collector just puts it in the trash. But in many places, recycling is collected in garbage trucks, and sometimes in the same trucks as the trash with separate internal compart
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by 205guy 6y ago
We understand, and it's clearly about politics. After all, taxation levels and government spending are nothing if not political. And that's fine, everyone is free to move around and find the place that works for them given their p
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by 205guy 6y ago
There was also a discussion of mail chutes in old buildings a while ago, and many suffered from blockages (or being non-operational, as in your case). I could see someone finally clearing out a blockage during a renovation, then dropping th
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by 205guy 6y ago
There was a similar thread about typewriter emulators a while ago, and I found this one online: https://uniqcode.com/typewriter/ It is an accurate simulator with all the sounds and quirks of using a real typewriter. Al
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by 205guy 6y ago
I was thinking the telepresence aspect of it--coupled with teamwork--was really intriguing. Imagine if office buildings were equipped with whatever advancements will come of this concept, everyone with office jobs could go back to work toge
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by 205guy 6y ago
I was wondering how fast myself and found this: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/ Voyager-1 is the fastest at 38,000 mph (61000 km/h) with respect to the Sun, but currently about 90,000 mph (144000
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by 205guy 6y ago
Did you see the tidal causeway at Mont St Michel? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont-Saint-Michel : “converted into a raised causeway in 1879“
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by 205guy 6y ago
It took me a while to realize that all the skins are interactive and playable--not just animated. The playlist is the same for all (and includes the llama soundbite), but all the buttons and equalizer sliders work. Really neat (and in-brows
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by 205guy 6y ago
Youtube hadn't shown me any of these songs yet, so this posting was my introduction. I watched a bunch and it's a fun trend--now I suppose I'll see them recommended. My observation is that finally those history majors, Englis
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by 205guy 6y ago
I know the comment was tongue in cheek, but the area in question (Los Angeles) doesn't have navigable rivers. In fact, the Los Angeles river is better paved (lined with cement for various reasons) than some roads in the area. And as a
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by 205guy 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North "In July 1987, North was summoned to testify before televised hearings of a joint congressional committee that was formed to investigate the Iran–Contra scandal. During t
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by 205guy 6y ago
Agreed. My high school economics education was limited to supply and demand curves. It would be so beneficial to having a class about household budgeting, loans and interest, credit rating, mortgages, property, investment, stocks, LLCs&#x2F
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by 205guy 6y ago
I always found it to be a fun coincidence that San Jose, CA, now the heart of Silicon Valley, was founded in 1777--a year after the US Declaration of Independence. And that was right at the beginning of the colonization of "Upper"
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by 205guy 6y ago
Maybe I should just let this just let this comment stand for its own inanity, but dammit, someone is wrong on the internet. That poster was at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, where you might expect to learn the
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by 205guy 6y ago
That's what I thought too until I found this guy's website: http://bigdogadventures.com/ He has a Honda CB500X and Husqvarna 701 (I don't know much about motorcycles, but I do know that's not the same as
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by 205guy 6y ago
Your comment made the think: The Atlantic, the Verge, Vox, New Yörker, they all sound the same to me. Whenever I pick up a magazine these days, I don't know what I'm reading. My other thought is that bouncing between cities is the
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by 205guy 6y ago
The sentiment of nutrition hacking with supplements expressed in the parent comment just seems wrong. Not factually wrong, I'm not able to judge, though it could be--one expert says one thing and the other the opposite. It just seems l
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by 205guy 6y ago
> Table's notion of antifragility sigh, someday we'll have auto-correct that just works. Doesn't even need to be AI, just use words in the current page. Heck just use contextual info such as the capitalization. Somebody, p
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by 205guy 6y ago
I first came across this phenomenon with the Kosovo issue mentioned elsewhere. But it immediately made sense to me from driving a gas car (you don’t notice it in an electric): hold your foot on the gas pedal without moving it and go up a hi
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by 205guy 6y ago
> Cities are incredibly expensive to maintain The whole thesis of the strongtowns.org website, with lots of data and references to back it up, is that medium dense city centers and town centers are the only parts of a city/town that
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by 205guy 6y ago
So uncharitable, and false. Unless you were already remote in Gold Country or Markleeville, your “back door” was a 3-5 hour drive each way, depending on traffic. Kinda kills your efficient carbon footprint for living in a city. Been there,
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by 205guy 6y ago
I type English and French in Windows on the same QWERTY keyboard. I once learned to type on Azerty, but I mainly type English now on a standard US keyboard layout. For the French, I find the windows alt-numbers works the easiest for accente
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by 205guy 6y ago
I too enjoyed Teknoman117's and renewiltord's contrasting slice-of-life anecdotes about near-death experiences. It's neat to get this kind of insight into human nature. But I really don't understand the need to make up a
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by 205guy 6y ago
> It is also a place where 97 percent of the land is held in traditional tribal or communal commons arrangements. This creates challenges for modernizing and developing because you can't sell the land, which means you can't mor

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