MrMetlHed

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by MrMetlHed 4y ago
It is really annoying that MLB.TV has gone the route with games on other providers. I don't want to create another account or install some other app on my TV or phone for a few games a season. At least the radio broadcasts still work o
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by MrMetlHed 4y ago
You either print and rescan and crop the edges, or you type it all out yourself. It'd be safest to never put it online at all other than paraphrased summaries. The next safest would be to just type it all out yourself in your own word
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by MrMetlHed 4y ago
I imagine the Supreme Court is an environment where everyone prints everything. Everyone is in their 50s (some in their 70s) and they probably print and annotate everything manually. I imagine there are copies of everything floating around
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by MrMetlHed 5y ago
As a parent of a toddler, I have read plenty of books where gay or lesbian parents are mentioned in the story in passing. In context it's a nice way to acknowledge that different types of families exist without drawing attention to the
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by MrMetlHed 5y ago
I live in Arizona as well, and agree. I'd rather everyone else just pick a time and stick with it. Preferably DST so I can be 3 hours back of the East Coast and get 3 hours at the end of the work day there for solid working while no on
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by MrMetlHed 5y ago
And it's friendlier to the server you're getting the data from. As a journalist, I have to scrape government sites now and then for datasets they won't hand over via FOIA requests ("It's on our site, that's the
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by MrMetlHed 5y ago
I think (fear) you may be right about a lot of this. My worry is that if enough houses get bought up by large corporations there won't be the political will to let them fail or impose restrictions on them. The time to act seems to be n
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by MrMetlHed 5y ago
Oh I totally agree the lack of housing is a problem. I lived in New York City long enough to figure that one out. Death to NIMBYs. If I were in charge of the world I'd force every apartment building in New York to magically add a coupl
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by MrMetlHed 5y ago
Eventually an exponential-style tax would be too prohibitive for them to buy the nth house and they'd have to tap out, no? Can't pass off those costs forever, eventually it's too much for even the most well-off renter.
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by MrMetlHed 5y ago
Wouldn't the corporation just factor in the credit loss as a cost of doing business and adjust the rent accordingly? Seems better to stop them from owning more than a few properties to begin with, but I suppose both would be cool with
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by MrMetlHed 5y ago
It seems like if it's zoned as a single-family home or residential or whatever and you're not a single family it's hording. I'm willing to be talked out of that. Seems wrong to have to compete with a corporation to buy a
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by MrMetlHed 5y ago
Sure, I figured that there'd be lots of clever tricks around that. I figure you just make the law trace it up to the person at the top and have them as "owner" for exponential purposes.
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by MrMetlHed 5y ago
I've always thought the solution to this was exponentialy increasing property taxes beyond the first property you (or whatever legal entity you create to horde properties) own. I'm dumb, so I'm sure there are reasons this won
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by MrMetlHed 5y ago
Why would it have to be a bland voice-over? It's an email he sent to a friend. Have the friend read it. I imagine the friend would become emotional. That's far more riveting than a computer recreation, no?
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by MrMetlHed 5y ago
Still the case! (Journalist at Reuters)
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by MrMetlHed 6y ago
I saw on Twitter he has a patent for a guitar... "support device" that includes the greatest patent image I've ever seen: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4656917A/en
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by MrMetlHed 6y ago
What about some of these retirement communities like Sun City, Arizona: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sun+City,+AZ/@33.6291865,-...
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by MrMetlHed 6y ago
Gotcha. It was the only city that immediately came to my mind as at least having circles embedded in it.
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by MrMetlHed 6y ago
Washington, DC? https://www.google.com/maps/place/Washington,+DC/@38.9099853...
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by MrMetlHed 7y ago
They almost got their dream leader of NOAA when Trump appointed the head of AccuWeather, Barry Meyers, to lead NOAA. He withdrew his nomination for health reasons, but believes the government shouldn't provide any type of direct foreca
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by MrMetlHed 7y ago
How will Google avoid being sued (like Amazon / Audible is being sued https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-lawsuit/top-u-... ) for the "Live Caption" feature?
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'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of foes(reuters.com)
423 points by MrMetlHed 8y ago|224 comments
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by MrMetlHed 9y ago
This is basically how I see it, and it's probably going to be worse the more we get into whatever this "gig job" world we are entering is. Uber reduces payouts to enough drivers, or goes all in on self-driving cars? One of th
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by MrMetlHed 9y ago
For a journalist the answer is simple: Finding sources. Many of us have accounts solely to find an expert in a field or a person within a company to talk to. Why anyone else uses it I have no idea.
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by MrMetlHed 9y ago
So no one else had to open that Gif to find out the password? NSACHDU0VSKYEP!CTHNDR I guess Chudnovsky can't spell his own name (or is tricky with his passwords,) and calls himself EPIC THUNDER
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by MrMetlHed 10y ago
Why didn't they just improve Hangouts? I don't know anyone that uses Allo and as far as I know there's no desktop client. I linked Voice to Hangouts so I could get all of my messages in one app on both my phone and within gma
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by MrMetlHed 10y ago
Reuters experimented with this the last midterm, but did not for this general election. The AP is generally the source most major news outlets use in the US. It's a very difficult operation, with state-by-state rules and some precincts