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by Fins 8y ago
Having just moved from SJ to Austin, no, SJ miserably fails at being at least like that part of Texas.
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by Fins 8y ago
I've seen as good or better grocery or cheese shops in Chicago, but as much as I dislike SFBA for variuous reasons, there's no shortage of good (if usually vastly overpriced) restaurants.
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by Fins 8y ago
Oh, right. Yes, LthForum, Eater etc. are actually quite useful. Yelp, not so much. Interestingly, first time I tried to find Violet Hour, maybe it was a slow night, but I just couldn't. With no line of people trying to get in it was ni
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by Fins 8y ago
Violet Hour is a hole-in-the-wall to the point of being almost impossible to find, but isn't it rated as one of the best bars in the country pretty consistently? But really, does anyone still take anything from Yelp as anything other t
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by Fins 8y ago
It's Putin's creation to much greater degree than Kazakhstani, Elbakyan is not Kazakh at all, she just happened to be born there.
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by Fins 8y ago
It would be nice if there were a way to deliver something resembling a quality audio to wireless headphones first. And a way to connect quality headphones to that magical wireless delivery system. Then you can get rid of a jack.
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by Fins 8y ago
Sounds very much like Service Merchandise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Merchandise
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by Fins 8y ago
Quality underwear (unless you only have one pair of it) lasts years just fine. Personally, I wouldn't understand why would anyone chose underwear based on designs on it, though.
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by Fins 8y ago
Well, one of SV's founders (and YC graduate at that) said that Middle America is a shithole full of stupid people. With the donations from, and revolving door between Ivies and SV elite (I guess Wall Street as well, but people there te
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by Fins 8y ago
You my not need it, but FSB sure does.
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by Fins 8y ago
I'd be very surprised if the actual academic performance were anywhere near the top of acceptance criteria.
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by Fins 8y ago
Couldn't one ask then, if the problem isn't (only) with schools (American schools, unlike its colleges, are generally unimpressive, including California ones, really) but with elite colleges as well? It's no secret already th
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by Fins 8y ago
There certainly are high-end, well-made, good-looking, and bloody expensive frames out there (i.e. everything WP isn't) that aren't from one of Luxottica's brands. Off-hand I could think of at least Gold & Wood, ic! berli
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by Fins 8y ago
Certainly not in build quality.
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by Fins 8y ago
Isn't it? You need to keep recording something new to sell. Before you had to take at least some risks to find something that's both easily digestible and goes with the current fashion, and sometimes good music would sneak in, too
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by Fins 8y ago
Because people generally do not care for talented artists? They want easily digestible pop, which is entirely different thing.
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by Fins 8y ago
There's also the selection bias -- people who think the product is OK, but nothing special probably will not spend too much effort posting a review. But of course even if they do bother posting a review, ratings often do not have anyth
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by Fins 8y ago
I have some Y-3 fashion sneakers that I've been wearing pretty often for 5+ years and they are still in good condition (when I bother to clean them, anyway). Maurizi or Rossetti shoes seem to be holding up pretty well, too. On the othe
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by Fins 8y ago
Exactly. I remember when HP printers were built like tanks, too. The problem, too, is that apart from goods that are tested for durability, there aren't many signals a layperson can use to judge if say boots are well-built and made of
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by Fins 8y ago
Insole can probably be glued back easily enough. With things like these though, it's important to know if you are paying for quality, luxury/prestige, or some combination thereof, as these are different things that may be consider
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by Fins 8y ago
Not having to live in SFBA is worth much more than that to quite a few people. In my calculus, it'd be at least $15K a month for me to even think about moving back to SV.
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by Fins 8y ago
That would be news many people (e.g. El Bulli graduates in Spain) who are really innovating in food. Sure, Bay Area (although not so much SF itself) has some good, even great, if vastly overpriced, food, but "best, by a fair margin&quo
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by Fins 8y ago
That's the thing -- if one gets top both define what "intolerant" means AND banish those deemed intolerant, that's a moral hazard right there. Even if those doing the judging sincerely believe that their opponents truly
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by Fins 8y ago
The problem with the Paradox of Tolerance is that while in theory it is quite correct and rather profound, in practice it's often an explanation trotted out by those in power to silence those they do not like.
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by Fins 8y ago
Communists ruined (often permanently and quite fatally) lives of far more people. And they don't like the LGBT tribe much either. Short of this being a harbinger of the last communist being hanged with the guts of the last christian (w
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by Fins 8y ago
Umm, Bay Area has decent baguettes somewhere?!
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by Fins 8y ago
At least MUMPS gets the "noSQL" thing better than any noSQL tool invented by people who weren't even born when MUMPS came out. But coding anything sufficiently complicated in MUMPS is not the most pleasant task.
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by Fins 8y ago
Sorry.
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by Fins 8y ago
But Samsung isn't an SV company, so it's to be expected.
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by Fins 8y ago
Google Buzz (hmm, wasn't that "wonderfuil" person Zunger involved with that one, too?) is just around that timeframe, and the rollout of that was pretty bad.

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