BayAreaEscapee

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by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago
Lol, that's the best description of Dubai I've ever read.
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by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago
Wasn't it the great economist Milton Friedman who said, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"? Or was that someone else who said that? In all seriousness, the way the west (and California in pa
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Suboptimal Optics: Vision Problems as Scars of Evolutionary History (2008)(evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com)
2 points by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago|0 comments
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by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago
I also own a couple of Brother black and white laser printers. They are quite durable and cheap to operate. Way way way better than any inkjet. The only complaint I have is that after a large number of pages the printer will insist that t
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by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago
I'm much more afraid of George Soros. Way more dangerous than Peter Thiel.
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by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago
True, but it's much easier to roll the middle class and small business. They don't hire expensive tax attorneys. Big corporations and billionaires hire tax attorneys to bury the IRS enforcement effort in legal processes.
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The Restaurant Amenity for Washington VIPs? The Secret Back Door(washingtonian.com)
2 points by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago|0 comments
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Why do Fire Departments still exist?(neddonovan.substack.com)
2 points by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago|2 comments
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Bridesmaids go professional(sixthtone.com)
48 points by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago|46 comments
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by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago
It makes me think of all those reports that claim that having a single glass of wine per day makes you healthier. It's probably the case that people who have just one glass of wine are drinking socially, and therefore have friends, and
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by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago
It's not just a bunch of fluff. It's hard to be certain, but I think there may be an actual cat under all that fluff.
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Hurl, Interrupted: What Ever Happened to the Playground Spinner?(si.com)
1 points by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago|0 comments
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by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago
I think that modern cars have electronics that keep you from starting the car without the clutch pressed. Cars I owned in the 80s and 90s would engage the starter when you turned the keys. Cars since then won't engage the starter unl
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Some ex-FARC guerrillas have become tourist guides in Colombia(economist.com)
1 points by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago|0 comments
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by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago
Woohoo! I just got back an hour of time every day, just as if a day had 25 hours instead of 24.
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Service retrieves your dead loved ones' tattoos and frames them(boingboing.net)
2 points by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago|0 comments
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The golden age of the aging actor(theringer.com)
112 points by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago|245 comments
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‘An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing the Future(nytimes.com)
4 points by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago|1 comments
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Who Stops a ‘Bad Guy with a Gun’?(nytimes.com)
2 points by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago|0 comments
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by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago
I just tried it in four browsers (Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Brave) and it worked fine in all of them. Maybe it's just you? Or your IP address?
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by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago
For anyone interested in this topic, I recommend the book "Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business" by Anja Shortland Absolutely fascinating how this industry works! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07L5PKK5
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by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago
I agree with this. I use it on both Mac and Windows. The Windows version works pretty well: no major problems. But the Mac version has all kinds of quirks. The most annoying is that somehow it gets into a bad state where it won't e
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First 3D Printed Rocket Launcher(youtube.com)
1 points by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago|0 comments
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Car tyres produce vastly more particle pollution than exhausts, tests show(theguardian.com)
9 points by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago|4 comments
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by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago
tl;dr: people with no marketable skills living in high-cost areas can't afford the rent.
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Cockroach Reproduction Has Taken a Strange Turn(nytimes.com)
3 points by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago|0 comments
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by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago
I have some sympathy for the stores: they've obviously put in a lot of these features to keep people from scamming the self-checkout system. But I also share the author's frustrations. I've had a number of times where it dec
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by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago
Apropos Far Side cartoon comparing what cats hear versus what dogs hear. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6d/36/fa/6d36fa7cc9d762952a62...
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MIT, Harvard scientists find AI recognizes race from X-rays and nobody knows how(bostonglobe.com)
13 points by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago|10 comments
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“Taken Down” a Look into Apple’s Transparency Reports(applecensorship.com)
2 points by BayAreaEscapee 4y ago|0 comments

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