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by JBlue42 9y ago
I worked with someone that was living on an boat he had purchased (for not much) in Marina del Rey. He would commute by motorcycle (much cheaper than a car) and was probably making a minimum of $50k-60k. Seems like a smart way to save money
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Or have to be told that even though '123' as a password is 'easier' for them, that no, it's really not a good idea. As to FB, if you were there in the beginning, you can definitely watch the scope creep: Some of us
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by JBlue42 9y ago
People also act like everyone has access to good lawyers or ones that would take on a case like this. The aforementioned 'lying in business' part comes in to play here where instead of 'we don't hire [race x]' it&#x
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Wait, you don't cross lanes of traffic staring at your phone? That seems to be the new way people want to commit unintentional suicide.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
That was my suspicion. I've lived in very suburban areas before as well as rural ones where you might even be going 55 on a two-lane road with no street lighting whatsoever. Here in LA, it's dense and traffic can't get up to
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Wow, didn't know that. A lot of politics, unfortunately, is showing visible progress. Whether it's $300mm or $100mm, some sort of impact should've been visible on the streets or at least touted by our mayors due to the politi
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by JBlue42 9y ago
>this doesnt even cover the 73,000 homeless people in Los Angeles county we cant seem to find a place for because no beach city wants to house their own unsustainable numbers of homeless, and no desert community is within a radius of hea
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Thanks for the links. Everyone is moaning and slicing and dicing what the self-driving vehicle did wrong but, since you're familiar with the area: are pedestrians typically expected to be crossing this road? Seems like the accident has
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by JBlue42 9y ago
I think the original idea of 'crunch' is that short period but games (and, in my experience, vfx) tend to just normalize that constant long hours (though they'll hire you saying that hours only get bad at peak times without m
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Yeah, I think that works. Honestly, one of the 'surprises' of American adulthood was finding out how many different categories of folks are expecting a tip. I would much rather have prices up front - whether it's someone doin
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by JBlue42 9y ago
My barber has been cutting hair for two decades and a masseuse I go to has various certificates. I assume they're all professional yet still have to tip on top of the regular prices. I don't tip at the dry cleaner or after having
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by JBlue42 9y ago
I use SumatraPDF and it looks ok. Maybe the size of the font as well as the type isn't the best but it's legible.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
This is an important point. I'm probably counted different now that my six months of unemployment have run out. I didn't necessarily 'turn down' work but I also didn't apply for jobs that would have me driving over
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by JBlue42 9y ago
That's interesting. I always assumed it was because of social perception here in the US that bells on bikes were for kids. The background soundtrack of my time spent in Amsterdam and Copenhagen is that have bike bells ringing.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Hey CalRobert, thanks! I'll reach out soon!
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by JBlue42 9y ago
>I’ve stopped recommending it to non-programmers because I think much of it’s magic is knowing how much of it is actually possible in the future. That's sad. Recommend it and they either pick it up and read or don't. That'
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Sounds interesting. Thanks!
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by JBlue42 9y ago
But will someone investing in fusion make someone else money, esp. since the electricity is free and some of the resources aren't scarce? We don't do a lot of things, at least in the modern US, because we have tie economic incenti
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by JBlue42 9y ago
>I understand that bikes are more concerning than cars for pedestrians due to being quiet and going the wrong way, and I hate as much as the next guy. We seem to be very against bells in the US.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Someone posted this the other day and everything it said hit home: http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millenni... Relevant pieces: >Despite the acres of news pages dedicated to the narrative th
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by JBlue42 9y ago
>There's got to be diminishing returns on beautiful surroundings, surely - seeing a mountain for the hundredth or thousandth time can't compete with seeing it for the first time. So better to give dozens of people a chance to s
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by JBlue42 9y ago
It's something that would happen in elementary or middle school but by the time I entered high school (late 90s) was definitely seen as not a cool thing. Can't imagine that in a workplace.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
I agree. Maybe my sarcasm was a little too veiled. :)
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>When the citizenry is so sheltered and content to know nothing about the world this is what happens. I thought we were supposed to learn that lesson after 9/11?
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by JBlue42 9y ago
I have no idea where my copy of that book is now so thinks for a link to that archive!
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Yeah, teasers are about the best I'll do for the same reasons. Most good reviewers don't go into plot too much or spoiler-y. The ethos at RogerEbert.com is to help people make informed decision. Same for those sites targeted to pa
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Like so? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gG56SCs5-E
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Just to give an alternate take on the comment from how others are replying: Maybe look at it as joining a community, not specifically being about cycling. Being a cyclist gives you something in common with someone else that you can talk abo
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by JBlue42 9y ago
That's a nice one. Will have to bookmark. If anyone needs to check their parcel for lots of info, ZIMAS is very useful: http://zimas.lacity.org/
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by JBlue42 9y ago
For myself, I try not to watch trailers for something I want to see in the theatre and don't read reviews until after. AV Club has smart film and tv people but the site is unreadable now. Vox and RogerEbert are good, plus I subscribed

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