TheGrassyKnoll

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   by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago

   Exactly. The government has spend ~$3 trillion on virus relief. Most of that ends up in the hands of wealthy people and thus the pumped stock market and pumped real estate. (and the rich get richer of course)
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   by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago

   Well, corporate research money may be drying up, so now the public is being asked to fund it (at least in California). There's a $5.5 billion bond initiative (Proposition 14) on the ballot for 2020. This is similar to proposition 71 wh
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   by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago

   Port Chicago munitions explosion (~ 1800 tons TNT): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster
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   by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago

   Like what ? F16s ?
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   by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago

   Yeah, but we're here enjoying HN, and he's 'working'. So who's got the better lifestyle ?
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   by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago

   I had occasion to work the phone at my father's small business. He had numerous customers in rural areas. I think you're right; these people like to talk. They apparently have more time and don't mind a friendly chat for exte
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   by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago

   You get extra points for picking up styrofoam, because its just a compound mess waiting to happen.
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   by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago

   https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Graduate (1967) Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. Mr. McGuire: P
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   by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago

   (I'm reading the comments first) My first impression was that the article was written by a man. Calling yourself a 'bitch' would be a self-insult that could jolt you out of your laziness. I'm pretty damn lazy th
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago

    > "- system update when I want it,..." Windows ramming its updates down my throat whenever they feel like it is totally unacceptable among other things.
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago

    Don't be thinking there's only 30 of em: https://distrowatch.com/
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    https://parenting.stackexchange.com/
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    I think their best feature was speed. The internet in those days was clunky, but Google was impressively fast along with the clean interface.
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    The Saudis Have a High-Stakes Plan to Win the Global Oil War https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/the-saudi-crown-prince-s-plan-to-win-the-global-oil-war
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    $2.49 in Fountain Valley CA (that's Orange county); a very good price right now out here.
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    "...a practical exploration of using Python coroutines..." http://www.dabeaz.com/coroutines/index.html
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    Treasury Yield 10 Years (^TNX) NYBOT - NYBOT Real Time Price. Currency in USD 0.9380 -0.1810 (-16.18%) As of 2:59PM EDT. Yields are rising ? 10 year notes under 1%. They're talking about negative rates.
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    There's always TVIX for the casino minded players: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/tvix?ltr=1
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    You might enjoy tkdiff sudo apt-get install tkdiff
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    Power Etrade was pretty sluggish today for awhile as well.
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    You can check it here: https://encryptedsni.com/ -> https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    > "I appreciate art, not artists." Can you have one without the other ? Apparently, now, you can...
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    (pastiche: I had to look it up) pastiche n 1: a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources [syn: medley, potpourri, pastiche] 2: a work of art that imitates the style of some
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    I started out taking hand written notes decades ago but got annoyed when I couldn't easily search through them. Ever since, I just keep a giant text file in Emacs and heavily rely on the 'occur' command. Using these more soph
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    I try to change the oil at least every 10,000 miles to prevent automotive death.
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    As a big league procrastinator, it's just another tool in the toolbox.
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    !so -> Stack Overflow
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    So does https://spideroak.com/ (I have no affiliation)
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    (wanna be, old man Rust hacker here) If I *EVER* write a piece of code that's .1% as good as RipGrep, I'll feel like a damned Superstar.
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    by TheGrassyKnoll 7y ago

    Using Nightly on Linux (Bunsen Helium), 360 tabs, using 1.5 GB, but that will grow if I fire up dormant tabs. Starts going out to swap if I run it too long, then I kill it and update Nightly.