DavidAdams

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by DavidAdams 5y ago
Since my mom moved to an iPad for her general internet consumption, my thankless tech support tasks dropped to zero.
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by DavidAdams 5y ago
This kind of thing is solvable. When I built my house in Park City, Utah, I discovered that the growth in the area is projected to overwhelm the municipal sewer system in the coming decade. So I had to pay an impact fee of $3,000 per bathro
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by DavidAdams 5y ago
I lived in Park City for a decade, and it's the same. If you live your life being mad at the traffic during the Sundance Festival and Christmas vacation skiiers, you're just an old man yelling at clouds. That tourist money pays fo
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by DavidAdams 5y ago
I don't think that what this article is describing is similar at all to Eastern Europe-style public housing. The US also had a big experiment in public housing in the 20th century, that also had a lot of bad results.
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by DavidAdams 5y ago
Speaking as a payments industry insider, it's surprising to me, but PayPal payments represent a huge proportion of online payments, and they're on an uptick. I'm not sure why. I mostly use PayPal when there's some kind o
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
The production values of this Soviet Lord of the Rings strike me as quite similar to I, Claudius. And it's worth noting that the televised low-budget stage play production values of I, Claudius notwithstanding, it's one of the bes
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
I had the exact same thought: #1 I use Google Flights all the time. Daily, sometimes. #2 Google Flights and Travelocity aren't comparable in their utility.
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
I registered .com domains with my kids' names when they were born, and when one of them discovered that they could get the email address gmail@hisname.com he was stoked. His friends don't understand how it's possible for that
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
The trick is that we all have thousands of ancestors, and if you luck upon one thread that connects you to the aristocracy, their genealogical records are more complete than common people. That's why, after a few generations, people on
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
Yeah, but I'd 1000x rather commute to work when it's still dark than have it get dark before I get home.
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
It's hard to believe now how common it was for children to die in infancy before modern medicine. Parents didn't love their kids any less, though, so it was a source of great pain. As the article points out, "memento mori&quo
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
That's only good for early birds, because you end up with it being light for hours before most people are awake (during the summer). If you keep DST in place permanently, sundown happens later, and you eliminate the need for an extra h
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
That was by design: From the wikipedia page: The monks that built it were "considered the strictest of the monastic orders, they laid down requirements for the construction of their abbeys, stipulating that "none of our houses is
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
It's funny that this showed up at HN, but I'm personally interested because one of my ancestors, Aoife MacMurrough, was buried at Tintern Abbey. Her daughter and son-in-law, Isabel de Clare and William Marshal, were big time patro
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
It's posited that Howard Hughes' increasingly strange behavior and eventual withdrawal into reclusion was precipitated by a series of TBIs he suffered in test pilot crashes.
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
When I was an English major we studied a bunch of commercial products, and we had to buy them from huge corporations. Sometimes the authors of those products were alive enough to actually receive a royalty, sometimes not.
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
That's a great idea, if your goal is to impel every website to either get rid of its forums or devolve into 4chan.
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
Yeah, my first thought after reading that anecdote was that the new COO should have been fired.
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
You're right about this. In more adversarial cases it's probably best to tell the police that you will talk to them, but only in a formal interview with your lawyer present (even if this isn't true, and you don't want to
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
That's true. The cops would have to coordinate with the DA to make that happen. Which they would never bother to do unless they really needed your testimony, which is why it's a good way to get them to buzz off.
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
Substitute McKinsey, Bain, or Accenture for a US version of the joke.
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
This is a good suggestion. If I've already gone to the trouble to make a machine-readable resume, it would be nice to at least seed my CV with the data from that file.
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
Interestingly, waterproof fabric-based tape was originally called "duck tape" (for its waterproof quality). The same kind of tape was later also called duct tape, but it's actually pretty terrible for ducts. You want to use t
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
There's a trail I like to ride on in Utah that's an old railroad grade. It's part of the Great Western Trail now, but is not heavily traveled by hikers. I've never seen a single other hiker or biker on the trail. It&#x27
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
For some reason, the history page on the Pinkerton website has a big hole in it between 1907 and 1962. What could they have been up to in the early 20th Century, I wonder? https://pinkerton.com/our-story/history
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
That's currently the case in the UAE. Only fancy people who race camels own camels.
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
My sons attends NYU's Abu Dhabi campus, and they have a population of feral resident cats on the campus.
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
My guess is that these elephants weren't actually domesticated, but rather tamed. That is, as with Asian elephants, they were captured in the wild rather than raised in captivity.
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
Except that Roku is playing games and you can't get an HBO Max app now.
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by DavidAdams 6y ago
I wonder if CRISPR tech could mitigate some of the dangers of inbreeding.

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