Kluny

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by Kluny 9y ago
"Just works" is a relative term - I use both slack and irc at work, and it took about 2 minutes to get slack running and start using it intuitively on day one. Getting into irc was a much longer process that involved researching d
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by Kluny 9y ago
The pipes that service a city are.
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by Kluny 9y ago
It's natural because there's only so much bandwidth and you can't make more.
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by Kluny 9y ago
My new startup makes employee id bracelets out of sterling silver with embedded rfid chips encased in sapphire, for tech startups that can't figure out how to spend their VC money.
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by Kluny 9y ago
> "Something like Apple Pay" Meaning a smartphone app to authenticate, instead of a lanyard or keycard.
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by Kluny 9y ago
Exactly. There are lots of babies on my facebook feed that I don't care about, but it's pretty easy to hit the mute button (and I do). But when it's my brother or my cousin's kid, I'm definitely interested.
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by Kluny 9y ago
If a kilo, for example, was made of 12 x 12 x 12 (1728) grams instead of 1000 grams, then you could sell stuff by the half-kilo, third-kilo, and 1/12 kilo without going into decimals. The number 1728 would still be written as 1000 in b
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by Kluny 9y ago
A car is a tool that a poor family can use to multiply their effectiveness and pull themselves out of poverty. Lots of people are willing to gamble their safety for the chance. edit: plus, it can hardly be worse than 6 children in a moped..
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by Kluny 9y ago
Historically, it's always been the cheap cars that win. Honda civics, toyota corolla, dodge k-cars, vw beetles, mk1 golfs.
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by Kluny 9y ago
Well, it is.
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by Kluny 9y ago
A balanced diet includes 2-3 servings of dairy per day. It does nothing for your health but it keeps the dairy industry in business.
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by Kluny 9y ago
Wow, almost every comment on there sounds like it belongs on /r/iamverysmart. They also match tone with one friend I still have on facebook, a guy who went to the same rural Christian high school as me and is now a London lawyer w
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by Kluny 9y ago
> when I learned what pH actually meant potential (for attracting) Hydrogen. I had to look it up.
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by Kluny 9y ago
What a brutally insensitive comment.
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by Kluny 9y ago
I tried a solid wooden bed platform with about 2 inches of foam mattress topper. If nothing else, it makes you really good at camping - sleeping on the hard ground is so much more comfortable when you're used to it.
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by Kluny 9y ago
Commenting to remind myself to check back later and see if you were right!
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by Kluny 9y ago
I'm also not clear on whether "functional" and "genteel" in this context are literally talking about the facade on the buildings, or their collective temperament?
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by Kluny 9y ago
No, you're not alone. The New Yorker is famous for using big words to try to sound smart. These two sentences, for example: > Fairly considered, the Texas legislature is more functional than the United States Congress, and more gent
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by Kluny 9y ago
Average is such a useless measure, what if there is a bi- or tr-modal distribution, or a huge number of outliers in one direction or the other? I wish they would include modes and medians.
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by Kluny 9y ago
Only if it's applied as a blanket policy that insures everything and everyone has to pay it. In a more limited way, you can look at British Columbia's Autoplan insurance. It's a crown corporation that provides insurance to ev
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by Kluny 9y ago
Yeah, it's another case of an old media company thinking that the internet is stealing the fanbase. No, it's because your product sucks. That's the only reason. There are still tons of sports diehards even among millennials w
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by Kluny 9y ago
Carry a book, or a fidget spinner.
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by Kluny 9y ago
Once they get to know you and your work, looking frumpy or whatever becomes a much smaller factor in their opinion of you. But the first impression is often what determines whether they will get to know you or not.
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by Kluny 9y ago
Right, so it sounds like the people who are happy with themselves have lots of emotional capacity for being interested in your thing, but other people can't do it so they change to an easier subject. The key is to make it about them .
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by Kluny 9y ago
Try to find an angle that the listener might find interesting, rather than trying to puff it up to make it sound as cool as possible. For instance: I was working with the development team for Time.com to fix a major security vulnerability.
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by Kluny 9y ago
Gosh, thanks.
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by Kluny 9y ago
Better to leave the car out of it then. After all, Boston's narrow winding streets aren't designed to accomodate them.
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by Kluny 9y ago
Don't you just sit in the back if you want to zone out and sit in the front if you want to talk?
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by Kluny 9y ago
It's used in Denmark, but "k" is pronounced "ko" (like co in co-working) here, so they, especially older ones, say "oh-ko!"
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by Kluny 9y ago
Interesting, and good to know. "Ok...?" from one of my peers would definitely be read as sarcasm, something like "I guess you want me to agree with that but I really don't" and there's an implied eyeroll. So wh

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