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by RickS 8y ago
> My understanding is weed is more expensive per intoxicating amount than alcohol in seattle I'm a Seattle resident. No way that's correct. The pot is way, way cheaper. Using fairly "middle class" products, percentage
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by RickS 8y ago
It's shockingly hard to find a single list, but yeah, he was prolific and extremely effective. He also did the UPS, PBS, ABC, Enron, westinghouse, and surely many other big ones that slip my mind. PBS and westinghouse are especially fa
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by RickS 8y ago
Anecdotally, yes. My grandfather worked at IBM, retired comfortably, had many hobbies, and notoriously packed the christmas tree every year. I was shocked to find, only this year, that despite a basement full of oscilloscopes and tape equip
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by RickS 8y ago
I don't necessarily buy fully into all of these (I am in favor of homeworks, but they should be paid and later staged [this usually means more phone screens. can't win em all]). But since you asked: 1) because meaningfully large s
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by RickS 9y ago
The above is an affiliate link, if you care about such things. Here's one that isn't: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501156985
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by RickS 9y ago
For possibly the first time ever, I really liked this one, and it makes great sense why it happens. It showed a clear demo in seconds, and then automatically closed itself to reveal the UI it was just showing. The demo is so robust I probab
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by RickS 9y ago
If you enjoy writing html without the annoying punctuation, you might also like Pug: https://codeburst.io/getting-started-with-pug-template-engin...
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by RickS 9y ago
On the lighter side, "wat" is really fun: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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by RickS 9y ago
Because normal people don't understand or care about what equifax is or does or has. They "know" what a credit score is insofar as it's a number that lenders care about. That's about it. People are mad about faceboo
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by RickS 9y ago
On 4chan, you can sign posts with a name and password you choose and it will show a hash of the password beside the name. This hash can be useful to prove the same identity (or an easy password) across multiple posts.
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by RickS 9y ago
>avoid the word “accident” in stories about traffic crashes, saying the word “can be read as exonerating the person responsible TFA indicates that the person has indeed been exonerated.
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by RickS 9y ago
USA. It has mostly to do with personality. People who can take 4 weeks in South America and not feel guilty do, and appear to have a great time. I typically take normal holidays (two weeks for xmas, a week here or there ~twice a year). I th
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by RickS 9y ago
The detection is JS based after the proper article loads, so you can smash the escape key in a timely way to disable it.
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by RickS 9y ago
I think that's what the poster means. If you disqualify impactful people who are imperfect, you have disqualified all people.
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by RickS 9y ago
Agreed. I'm surprised not to have seen this. It reminds me of the "skeleton" wordpress themes from ~10 years ago. You get a view layer that's marked up and connected/connectable, but that has no styles.
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by RickS 9y ago
>To game this, you would have to create tons of accounts upvoting bad arguments, downvoting good ones, and overloading the links to biased secondary sources. But the arguments would still be there. This doesn't seem like much of a h
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by RickS 9y ago
This list presumably updates/moves around often. Is there a service that, say, subscribes to a live list of this domain set (like adblock consumes easylist) and updates my hostfile automatically? If not, that is a piece of software tha
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by RickS 9y ago
> younger generations can see in practice why many of their elders were intuitively resistant to social media. The idea that "their elders" were "intuitively resistant" because they understood the decade-later implica
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by RickS 9y ago
IMO this is less a fault of websites that contain media, and more the fault of the OS that mediates what media is playing. In other words, there should be a toggle to "default mute the web and keep spotify running".
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by RickS 9y ago
When it comes to Russia's interference in the US, you'll have to excuse my incredulousness in the case of "mhkool vs the bulk of the global intelligence community"
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by RickS 9y ago
That's compelling -- I catch myself starting to ask Alexa to play a song while driving at least three times a week.
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by RickS 9y ago
Also maximizes the time to discovery if there are real issues
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by RickS 9y ago
If the Intercept is to be believed, yes: https://theintercept.com/2018/03/06/google-is-quietly-provid... With that said, while I'm generally a fan of their work, they've reported on some things I ha
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by RickS 9y ago
> I asked them what the deal was with helping the NSA in their surveillance capabilities and what not Tshirt nonwithstanding, did you actually get any answers about the question?
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by RickS 9y ago
> When I got my first glasses in, I was shocked to see that trees across the street were much more detailed than I realized. :) This was one of the most illuminating bits to come from getting glasses, because it pointed out a serious bia
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by RickS 9y ago
Another option is to politicize manufacturing. Take "Made in USA" vs "Made in China" and the connotations of those stickers in parts of working class america. The equivalent could be a right-leaning silicon valley in mid
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by RickS 9y ago
It's not that simple. Instant verification is shaky and relies on 1) the ability for a computer to properly read your document and 2) the information it reads to exist in a 3rd party repository of your personal information (these are t
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by RickS 9y ago
The secret weapon to my last few moves has been airbnb. Book 30 to 45 days somewhere central to the areas you'd like to live, or in a neighborhood you want a feel for. You get a block-by-block feel for the locale really quickly, that y
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by RickS 9y ago
The other posts' links are informative, but this graphic is my favorite representation of how many sub-brands are owned by massive parents: https://i.huffpost.com/gen/585370/original.jpg
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by RickS 9y ago
Product designer with some front end chops, interested in working on design systems / design tooling / complex application UI. http://ricksteeledesign.com Location: Seattle Remote: If the company is remote-only Willing

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