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by FFP999 3y ago
> You’d think this MIT graduate would wise up, but he never did. The MIT campus has a major public road running through the middle of it, one of the busiest surface streets in the area. You don't have to stand there very long to see
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by FFP999 3y ago
Thanks; I guess if it were that simple, someone would have done it, being as neither pumped storage nor earthmoving are new technology.
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by FFP999 3y ago
I mean, when all you have is a hammer, and also your entire society is repressing massive post traumatic stress disorder, everything looks like a nail.
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by FFP999 3y ago
It'll definitely raise the cost, I acknowledge that what I'm talking about isn't going to be a small project. I just wouldn't necessarily assume that it would raise the cost so much as to make this infeasible. To be clea
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by FFP999 3y ago
You may not have heard, but they had a little trouble there at one point, I wouldn't take a kid there.
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by FFP999 3y ago
Is there any reason that "lakes" (i.e. big holes) can't be dug where they would be useful for this purpose? (Update: for those who are downvoting, it was a serious question.)
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by FFP999 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics
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by FFP999 3y ago
Well you have to remember, the editor of that paper did really hurt their feelings.
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by FFP999 3y ago
A society that puts ordinary people's interest ahead of capital's?
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by FFP999 3y ago
> I was forced to pay a daily tax for every night of hotel stay, which had to be paid for in cash. "I also thought it was weird that I had to pay this tax directly to the desk clerk, and we had to meet in a bar down the street for m
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by FFP999 3y ago
> Aren't you sick of this tired old argument? Per Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
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by FFP999 3y ago
So, meet back in this thread this time next year to update those numbers to "2024" and "175" respectively?
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by FFP999 3y ago
They call this "KMart Realism" sometimes, KMart being a chain of discount stores that was prominent way back when, comparable to Walmart. The idea is to enhance versimilitude by dropping in signifiers from contemporary consumer cu
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by FFP999 3y ago
Speaking as one of the eight people to ever write Elixir professionally, this was a small ergonomics feature that I really got to like (along with the `|>` pipe operator).
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by FFP999 3y ago
Seriously. If either of my parents had asked me this when I was a teenager, my brain would have immediately gone into overdrive trying to figure out what they already knew about, what they suspected, and how best to keep my secrets secret.
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by FFP999 3y ago
I did this once with a client's machine at the rinky-dink data center I used to work at. The breakroom fridge kept his server going long enough for us to get his data off.
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by FFP999 3y ago
I think we can extract a grain of truth from the bullshit of the final quotation: > "What Americans really want is the ability to stream, download and customize music playlists to meet their personal preferences," Carpenter sai
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by FFP999 3y ago
Interesting, if you don't mind sharing a little, what do you do with your time?
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by FFP999 3y ago
> Or should we implement regulations? I shudder at the thought. If OP reads this: why do you "shudder at the thought"?
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by FFP999 3y ago
> people (and their attitude) I've always found that New Yorkers aren't as rude as people say, they just tend to get right to the point in a way that people from, e.g., northern California may find off-putting.
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by FFP999 3y ago
> It's not the role of the police to be pinning crimes on people I don't think the cops got this memo, could you please tell them.
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by FFP999 3y ago
At the very minimum they should not be a cop. Better still would be if we considered this a serious felony and a cop who did this was liable to trade in their blue uniform for an orange one. I doubt this will happen in my lifetime.
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by FFP999 3y ago
Next time you have a presentation to write, try using LaTeX with the Beamer module instead of a WYSIWYG editor. I wouldn't ever go back, myself.
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by FFP999 3y ago
Literally 100% of my immediate family married someone they met online. 75% of us, including myself, are still married to said online date.
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by FFP999 3y ago
Yes but then that would mean less money for the company and the investors, so you see the difficulty that poses. /s
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by FFP999 3y ago
Depends on if you're the bank or the customer. If you're the customer, yes, it is bad.
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by FFP999 3y ago
No you got the order backwards. Remember the old saying from college: "Polynomial quotient rings before acid, the rest of your day will be quiet and placid. Acid before polynomial quotient rings, you'll wish that you hadn't d
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by FFP999 3y ago
You are correct...and yet, between work and finance, which pays better?
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by FFP999 3y ago
I bet if there were meaningful consequences for sloppy custody of data (i.e. fines large enough to hurt, as opposed to the "LOL whoopsie doopsie have some free credit monitoring" nonsense), credit bureaus would clean up their act.
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by FFP999 3y ago
Props for the best pun I've seen in a long time.

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