RhysU

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by RhysU 4y ago
> People already find water brought in from _Phoenix_ which is _13_ miles away to be too expensive. Too expensive for what? Too expensive is a continuum.
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by RhysU 4y ago
> "You can be friends with your children when they are 14 or when they are 40, not both." A friend recently taught me: If you raise your children you can spoil your grandchildren. If you spoil your children you will raise your
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by RhysU 4y ago
It can't be against the constitution to be a lousy Christian any more than it can be against the constitution to be a good Christian.
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by RhysU 4y ago
But what was the agenda that it was pushing for the audiences watching it at the time it was released?
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by RhysU 4y ago
Saving Private Ryan? Though it's been a few years since I watched it.
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by RhysU 4y ago
It could have all of those things, however, by act of Congress and/or constitutional amendment.
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by RhysU 4y ago
Agreed on the value of the list. I additionally dedupe as follows: H() { history | egrep -v '^ *[[:digit:]]+ +H +' | grep "$@" | sort -rk 2 | uniq -f 1 | sort; }
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by RhysU 4y ago
My silly little town in NJ is 300 years old.
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by RhysU 4y ago
That is an excellent book.
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by RhysU 4y ago
I am waiting for cable companies to resurface. Brokers that package a bunch of services together selling a single bundle to the end consumer and negotiating upstream with the many content providers.
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by RhysU 4y ago
JIRA might be OK if the organization on the receiving end of the JIRA queue is OK. JIRA can be no better than that organization.
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by RhysU 4y ago
Motorcyclists generally don't lanesplit on single-lane roads because it's dumb. Sure, I could ride my liter bike to the right side of a Civic on most roads but I would be nuts to do it even were it legal. Or I could ride it down t
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by RhysU 4y ago
> I challenge you to find anything supporting a Democratic or liberal position. Three weeks ago the editorial section ran a piece by Joe Biden: https://www.wsj.com/articles/my-plan-for-fighting-inflation-...
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by RhysU 4y ago
> you'll probably end up paying in interest what you would have paid in principle Is that a better outcome from a mortgage interest deduction perspective?
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by RhysU 4y ago
You cannot afford to ill-equip your offspring, beyond a point. It is a loooong game that we all play.
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by RhysU 4y ago
Home prices are higher, yes. But the higher prices are sticky, especially if local parents tend to get involved in their children's education. You can make up the cost when you sell the home after the kids are gone.
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by RhysU 4y ago
Move to a town with good schools despite the property taxes. Property taxes do not scale with the number of children that one has. Cheaper by the, etc.
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by RhysU 4y ago
Isn't ABD status the time from successfully proposing a dissertation to a specific committee until successfully defending that dissertation in front of that committee? The former step is intended to clearly define what is sufficient wo
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by RhysU 4y ago
Right. Because the tax due on $0 net is $0.
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by RhysU 4y ago
> The unwillingness to break out of it, is because of the fetishization of car technology. Careful tossing that first stone. This is Hacker News. Surely most people here have made some technology purchasing choices moreso for coolness th
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by RhysU 4y ago
> the spirit of the document What do you mean by this? > It’s a shibboleth It is known by all. What definition are you using for "shibboleth"? > It’s referred to when there’s a need to call on a talisman... There's n
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by RhysU 4y ago
Berkson's paradox, I believe. Selecting for high nerdiness and high kickassery will tend to show a negative relationship in the resulting set if those two traits are (waves hands) independent. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org&
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by RhysU 4y ago
In a significant number of places in the US a significant number of children are dependent on free school lunches. The lunches provide nutritional stability that the child may not receive at home. So much so that some places give lunches aw
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by RhysU 4y ago
Anything past E90 is terrible for motorcycles of all sizes and many small engines.
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by RhysU 4y ago
I have heard it said[1] that the complexity of our modern government is a consequence of the computerization of its bureaucratic functions. In effect, the complexity of implementing crazily esoteric laws used to regularize how crazily esote
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by RhysU 4y ago
A checkbook register, mostly, along with reading the credit card bill.
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by RhysU 4y ago
Very true. But there are also unions with access to young minds, that control the skies, that intermediate our interaction with the government, etc. All of the public-sector unions have some superpower.
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by RhysU 4y ago
> That kind of thing is absolutely routine and police unions are almost certainly the single greatest obstacle to improved policing in the US. I always find it interesting that police unions are generally portrayed as bad while non-polic
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by RhysU 4y ago
I don't get why someone saying they want to study physics means they should be be scared away with graduate-level computational multi-physics. Baby steps man.
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by RhysU 4y ago
> we were thinking about ways to reduce the waiting-for-code-review Code reviews should be an interrupt for everything except downtime mitigation. Reviewing your peer's code quickly will cause them to do the same to you. It is a vir

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