BurritoAlPastor

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by BurritoAlPastor 11y ago
'Sharp spike' is relative. Look at the numbers; Mr. Winiarz is going from 6.55% to 2.69%. If a 'sharp spike' doubled his interest, he's still paying less interest than he was on the Fed's legislatively-fixe
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by BurritoAlPastor 12y ago
Confucius once wrote that 'seeing the right thing and not doing it is cowardly'. This is still true today. But you are right that the life of a coward is easier. Living a virtuous life is always 'hard mode'; if it were n
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by BurritoAlPastor 13y ago
The second sentence of this article is false. When the lede contains blatant errors, that's your signal, as a reader, to stop reading.
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by BurritoAlPastor 13y ago
It's a perfectly idiomatic contraction in spoken English, though.
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by BurritoAlPastor 13y ago
It exists; when I was in grade school (in the 90s) we learned about the Food Pyramid. As I recall, the base (and thus, the thing I should be eating the most of) was grains, and the top (the thing I should eat the least of) was sugar.
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by BurritoAlPastor 13y ago
You know, with a link title like that, I was really hoping to see a food processor powered by a steam engine.
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by BurritoAlPastor 13y ago
You suggest that it's important for junior tech professionals to try and answer their own questions with, e.g., Google. But I feel like every other month I see somebody talking about all the bad habits developed by people who trust W3S
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by BurritoAlPastor 13y ago
"Just raise the price" is an appropriate response to demand for a commodity, but it's an inappropriate response to these scenarios. For example: PAX is trying to build a community event. The target demographic is not "we
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by BurritoAlPastor 13y ago
It's always been my understanding that he writes that way simply because he enjoys it, and he's perpetually incredulous that he can make a living doing so.
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by BurritoAlPastor 13y ago
I believe the Springsteen song you're thinking of is "Johnny 99": "Your honor, I do believe I'd be better off dead / So if you can take a man's life for the thoughts that's in his head / Sit back in that chair and think it over, Judge, one
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by BurritoAlPastor 13y ago
Literally every Kickstarter project I've backed was for the printing of a finished work. (Mostly board games and books, plus one album and one movie.) Your suggestion defeats the reason those projects were ever kickstarter, and Kickstarter
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by BurritoAlPastor 13y ago
That only makes sense for tech kickstarters. Most kickstarter projects don't have any R&D to speak of, and anyhow many production delays are the result of the manufacturing logistics that a wildly successful kickstarter results in. Take
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by BurritoAlPastor 13y ago
How do you mean, they don't offer that kind of separation? It's very easy to back a project without ordering the product; simply don't select a backer reward level when confirming your pledge.
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by BurritoAlPastor 14y ago
The ancient remains of a great and enormous basalt structure, hmm? Now where have I heard of that before... Ah, yes! "And before the day was done Carter saw that the steersman could have no other goal than the Basalt Pillars of the West, be
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by BurritoAlPastor 14y ago
Well, it's about damn time. There's a lot of "Oh no! Not LucasArts! I loved Monkey Island / Grim Fandango / Zombies Ate My Neighbors / Indiana Jones Desktop Adventures!" talk going around, but that's misguided and a testament to the power o
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by BurritoAlPastor 14y ago
Misleading, especially the headline. The case doesn't directly concern the admissibility or implications of 5th amendment refusal to testify; that's settled law, as of Griffin v. California ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin_v._Californ
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by BurritoAlPastor 14y ago
"Please" considered harmful?
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by BurritoAlPastor 15y ago
I'd get my PhD in anthropology. (Another "PhD" response begged the question of "to what end" - in my case, artifact preservation and restoration museum work would be the ultimate dream job. It's totally impractical, though.)
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by BurritoAlPastor 15y ago
I work at a movie theater. We have four pairs of front doors, all of which open outwards. One pair has handles; these are the doors which should be used to enter the building. We sell tickets outside, and tear tickets at the door; if both t