Nicholas_C

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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
There have to be a lot of welders in that region due to the oil and gas and heavy industry. If there aren't enough welders there I don't know what area would have enough. As others have said, maybe they're not paying them eno
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
The rules aren’t that hard but actually applying it to code and honing it to consistently pull exactly what you want is in my experience the hardest part.
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
I don’t remember Not Just Bikes mentioning the sweltering heat and humidity in his video but it wouldn’t surprise me if he conveniently left it out or brushed over it. But my point is that Houston is designed the way it is because very few
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
Dallas’ big criticism from Texans (and especially Houstonians, there is a bit of a rivalry) is that it’s soulless… so you nailed it.
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
I don't know the distinct history of those cities but Houston's population didn't hit 1 million until the 1960s, nearly all of its growth has taken place in a car-centric world. At least 3/4 four of those cities have bee
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
True. Another issue with all the concrete is that it doesn't absorb rain and has made the constant flooding worse. Zero tree cover is also a shame, there are hundreds of miles of concrete bike and walking paths along the bayous that wo
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
When I lived in Houston I would bike to work occasionally but it’s not a pleasant thing to do 4-6 months out of the year. Even walking to the bus stop at 8am in the summer I would be sweating. People who harp on Houston for being designed a
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
My eyesight did get worse while wearing ortho-k so I agree it doesn’t reverse or stop bad eyesight. But I do believe it does slow the development of bad eyesight.
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
You could unfreeze yourself when they figure out how to reverse aging.
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
Look into ortho-k contact lenses. My siblings all have terrible eyesight but mine is ok around -1.5 and I was the only one who used ortho-k contacts.
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
This was huge for me. I say some time aside at the end of the day and prioritize the next day’s tasks.
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
From their website it sounds like they know there is a market for this because they’ve been doing it manually for a while: “Our founding team spent the past decade transitioning Excel files to Python - from startups to insurance companies t
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
They would likely argue it’s more consumer friendly since they don’t have to pass the GDS fees onto non-business travelers via higher fares.
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
>The team found that, on average, people who had access to the Internet scored 8% higher on measures of life satisfaction, positive experiences and contentment with their social life, compared with people who lacked web access. The curre
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
Agreed. This will be considered a huge win by Apple's marketing department. People (online at least) are talking about the iPad like I haven't seen in years.
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
Will be very troublesome for countries with low fertility that can’t attract immigrants to keep the population from declining.
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
There are many other criticisms in the Reception section such as the below excerpt which is a good summary of how I felt about what I read of the book. > The historian David A. Bell, responding solely to Graeber and Wengrow's argume
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
The majority of internet users still use Google and these days it’s just a page full of sponsored links and products that are (purposely) hard to discern from the actual results. The content in the carousels for the sponsored products is ri
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
Another poster here referenced the Wikipedia page for the book which has some good content under the “Reception” section. Not all anthropologists thought it was a breath of fresh air. And again, I looked up a lot of the evidence and it wasn
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
Disingenuous interpretations of the evidence and stating things as facts that are very much still debated or denied by other experts. A good example: Graeber posits that the European Enlightenment came directly from contact with Native Amer
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
Thanks for the rec. I’ve wanted to read “Debt” for a long time but I recently read Graeber’s book “the Dawn of Everything” and it bent the truth so much every which way to get to his POV that I won’t read another book by him.
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
I was wondering if Zoho paid to have this article written. And then all these positive comments make me paranoid they’re paying for that too. Maybe I’m too much of a skeptic but companies definitely pay agencies to astroturf like this.
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by Nicholas_C 2y ago
I’m curious about your desire to not own a phone. Have you written about the experience anywhere?
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by Nicholas_C 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_marketing
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by Nicholas_C 3y ago
Rent-seeking is a better term for what the OP is describing.
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by Nicholas_C 3y ago
Also a friendly reminder to close accounts for people who have left your company.
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by Nicholas_C 3y ago
The HQ has a halfpipe ( https://ocramps.com/blogs/builds-installations/google-headqu... )
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by Nicholas_C 3y ago
My siblings and I were homeschooled up to about middle school. My mother had three years of college but no degree and taught all four of us at once. For financial reasons we all ended up going to public school at around late elementary&#x2F
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by Nicholas_C 3y ago
I noticed that as well, it’s gas flaring from O&G production. You can see similar patches south of San Antonio (the Eagle Ford shale) and in West Texas (the Permian Basin) and probably a few other spots too.

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