Kluny

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by Kluny 9y ago
> In India, there is the opposite effect: Because brides are scarce, families are under less pressure to save for expensive dowries. So weird. Note that it says "less" pressure, not no pressure. Women are in short supply, yet
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by Kluny 9y ago
They seem efficient and ingenious. It's clear that they're optimizing for their incentives. They're incentivized to pass the test, so they come up with these brilliant schemes for cheating. I can't even get three friends
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by Kluny 9y ago
Sure, I'll try it.
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by Kluny 9y ago
I'm importing furniture from Europe via container. There are several variables to consider. Tax rate, shipping rate, shipping insurance, sales markup, initial cost of the stock, cost of trucks and warehouses to move and store things, c
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by Kluny 9y ago
"It’s strong, and abrasion resistant." As a motorcyclist, I need to see a side-by-side abrasion resistance comparison. So far, nothing beats leather.
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by Kluny 9y ago
I read the Wait But Why series about Musk where the author had a lot of one-on-one time with Musk, and he basically said that's what's going on. It's just too complicated for twitter, that's why he doesn't talk abou
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by Kluny 9y ago
Adding friction doesn't work for me. But I can just say, "I don't facebook anymore. It's not a thing I do." And I stop. Fine, but there's still an itch that needs scratching. I bounce to instagram, reddit, imgu
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by Kluny 9y ago
No, I mean literally, if I paste those strings into my etc/hosts it won't block any of those sites. It simply doesn't work. You can still load the sites. It takes stronger measures to block them. I have to edit my hosts file
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by Kluny 9y ago
I wonder if that was the problem at my old office. I felt drowsy all the time there. Just figured I wasn't sleeping right or something. Two-three cups of coffee every day. Right now I'm working remotely from my parent's livin
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by Kluny 9y ago
It doesn't work though. All of those sites have backup domains that easily allow you to access them. To properly block all of facebook, you have to block something like 30 domains.
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by Kluny 9y ago
Yeah, I would gladly take an e-ink display or a frontlit lcd. Either one would be great. The closest I've found to what I'm after is the Freewrite typewriter, which is stupid expensive.
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by Kluny 9y ago
> The screen was pretty nifty for its time. It was dual mode, backlit or frontlit. You could go outside on a sunny day, turn off the backlight and have a high-resolution frontlit, completely readable (though black and white) display. I h
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by Kluny 9y ago
I would, for a chance to be trained in a technology that I don't know and have a steady job for 5 years or so.
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by Kluny 9y ago
Apprenticeship has been a thing as long as professions have existed. A common way to justify training an apprentice is to indenture them - they agree to work for you for a set number of years at a given wage, in exchange for training. Then
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by Kluny 9y ago
That's kind of what it is when you start. It's like working a muscle, you have to start with really light weights or you just get exhausted and discouraged. Like, start with a timer set for two minutes and work your way up one min
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by Kluny 9y ago
Wow, I love that. Still, there must be some small coin-sized battery on the motherboard that's saving state, which will have to be replaced at some point?
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I'm looking for a disposable camera app, not sure what to search for
2 points by Kluny 9y ago|0 comments
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by Kluny 9y ago
I applied. Who knows, maybe my job will let me take a month off :)
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by Kluny 9y ago
> Same way you go more composition instead of inheritance. What does that mean?
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by Kluny 9y ago
Oh god, he's on Vancouver Island now? Just what we need, another snake-oil-selling pseudo-hippie to run up real estate prices.
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by Kluny 9y ago
I've got a 2011 MBP and I'm going to upgrade to a 2015 model and pray that they stop doing stupid things to the MBP line eventually :(
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by Kluny 9y ago
On the equivalence of "chick" and "dude" - I would say they are equivalent terms, and both inappropriate in the workplace. It's just easy to cause offence by using dude in the wrong context. This usage of chick trig
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by Kluny 9y ago
Yeah, but that's exactly when the noise is most annoying for everyone else.
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by Kluny 9y ago
Every government is a democracy. Monarchies, fascist dictators, republicans, all of them are democracies. They function by the consent of the people. The people may be sheep, brainwashed, terrorized or whatever, but in every case there are
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by Kluny 9y ago
I'm from a town called Campbell River. There's a river called Campbell River running through it. The river is The Campbell River and the town, of course, is just Campbell River. Talking about the actual river was awkward. You had
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The Radical Left-Wing Theory That the Government Has Unlimited Money(vice.com)
24 points by Kluny 9y ago|19 comments
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by Kluny 9y ago
You just get so, so much roadkill on time change day.
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by Kluny 9y ago
It still won't store the cvc, and plenty of sites do weird idiosyncratic labels on their forms that break the autocomplete.
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by Kluny 9y ago
What I want to know is where does the recipe on the side of the box come from? The robots who came up with that are the true heroes, imho.
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by Kluny 9y ago
> " ... The note was damp, rolled tightly and wrapped with string. We took it home and dried it out, and when we opened it we saw it was a printed form, in German, with very faint German handwriting on it.” It was damp? How does a s

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