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Solidia insists that their cement can be used for all sorts of concrete application. I was less convinced, because much of concrete use requires pouring and curing on site. Ensuring such uses are covered in chambers full of carbon dioxide
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9y ago
Key is rate here. If they work for an hour a week, that amazing number really isn't that amazing anymore. If they can sustain such a workload over time for hopefully much more than an hour a week (keep in mind, it was 1 free hour per
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9y ago
By glasses do you mean clear lenses?
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9y ago
I don't live in a beautiful place like sunny Australia, but I do live with sensitive eyes and wear sunglasses often. Probably 300 days a year (tongue-in-cheek from quote in video). Also have the annoying habit of sneezing when it'
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9y ago
There's way too much "conservative" in this.
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All the anti-Amazon Key articles mention the "service" costing $250. I must not be seeing it all. You get an indoor security camera, and a smart deadbolt for $250, right? ===================================================== I pa
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There are levels of rural, BTW. Of which more of these services aren't provided.
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I'll worry about this when I need to worry about someone breaking into my home and finding a reason to modify electronic devices utilizing the debug ports on stationary products. I also don't take myself so seriously when I don&#x
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Be careful judging others based on your quality of life standards. You might get angry realizing everyone has it better than you; but perhaps debt, lost love, resentment and bitterness is funding those extravagant purchases.
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5 year old: "Daddy, what's that??!?!??!" Me: "A drum solo" Two minutes later: "Daddy, I want to play drums!"
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And the last change really changed music itself.
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> Records on Ribs gives away its music for free. > To sell music for profit is to deny its worth. It is to reduce it to numbers, spreadsheets, targets. Desire cannot be quantified thusly. > We accept donations, but do not expect t
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The technology advancement allowed the concept of a concept album.
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Good radio stations still honor these unwritten requirements. Also, "Eruption"/"Running with the Devil", too.
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I wonder if the age ranges were well-represented. What I thought when I was 5 about my parents and what I thought when I was 13 were two totally different things.
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9y ago
It's only fashionable on HN; where once a week a new link to an old page about how bad Facebook is gets resurrected. (Mostly) Regular people - those most likely to use Facebook - aren't hearing these cries.
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9y ago
>it is like a McDonalds that has successfully lobbied for a ban on the sale of home cookware They've successfully lobbied to ban my personal website?
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What if one evolved into another career?
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9y ago
Sex(y) sells.
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9y ago
Just to clarify, cab-over trucks are still being used today in the US, though most new ones are smaller cargo-sized. From time to time, I've seen existing COE trucks used; but mostly for private farm use (as they're not nearly as
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Don't forget the OTR truckers who frequently like to bring a large companion pet with them, too.
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Yeah, HVAC and plumbing are just some fancy contraptions only the city folk get to have.
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Something tells me the sexist part of the joke was going to come out regardless of the racist part of it.
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I commented above about car culture here vs other parts of the US which tend to have better transportation or locality options. (Forget truck culture). It's one of only a few things I've found a lot of non-Midwesterns don't g
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> and choice of automobile comes across as yuuuuge levels of special pleading to justify levels of xenophobia that we'd think of as the stuff of stand-up comedy. I assume by the italics you really think that part's ridiculous
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> Out of all the companies that I've worked in the midwest, I've ever had a co-worker that was a black software engineer. I'm really sorry you had such a polarizing experience. But just to give an anecdote of my own, in a
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> Cost of living is also significantly lower as well. Especially outside of Chicago. Literally any midwest 'burb. Most of us have no problem driving 30 minutes to work. That vastly opens up the options, even working in a city.
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I've found there's a lot of us talented in the art of programming; whom don't always take it so seriously. That doesn't happen much outside of here.
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"reporter Alec McGillis marveled at the cheapness—and, it seems, the mere presence—of good orchestra and museum tickets in interior cities" I'm always impressed that foreigners (I'll call them that, since they tend to
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They're just stupid with it in high school, right?
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