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by adwi 5y ago
If you’re as good a parent as your comment suggests, I bet they’d trade the money for more time with you.
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by adwi 5y ago
Fairlight inside Blackmagic’s Davinci Resolve. Completely free. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/fai...
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by adwi 5y ago
It is the case, and generally people that are savvy enough to purchase these are savvy enough to lock in a 3% rate when offered.
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by adwi 5y ago
Having purchased a multifamily recently I can confirm all of these are true. I bought during the plummeting urban Covid rents. When looking for my mortgage a few banks told me their underwriters were temporarily directed to ignore all build
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Epstein-Barr Virus Found to Trigger Multiple Sclerosis(scientificamerican.com)
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by adwi 5y ago
Tl;dr from author in comments: > The best choice is to avoid disposable batteries where possible and use low-self-discharge Ni-MH cells such as the Sanyo/Panasonic Eneloop. Even though the upfront cost is higher, it only takes a few
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by adwi 5y ago
The last generation Alexa Mini too. To OP’s point it’s shortsighted they’d accept a Mark I FS7 vs. nearly any image any Alexa has ever produced. The extra .8k it lacks on paper is more than made up in overall image quality.
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by adwi 5y ago
https://longreads.com/
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by adwi 5y ago
Very nice. I think a bit more spacing between text body paragraphs could help legibility.
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by adwi 5y ago
Don’t they have games built into the car that let you use the steering wheel (while parked, of course) to control? Surely this wouldn’t be turning the wheels?
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by adwi 5y ago
Fantastic soundtrack, as usual for Mr. Curtis https://open.spotify.com/user/alexwizard/playlist/0ioEeDoT30...
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by adwi 5y ago
> it's difficult to overstate how often cars/vans/trucks are double parked, changing the lanes available, forcing cars and bikes to improvise lanes. This isn't an occasional thing, this is a 10x on a 15 minute trip th
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by adwi 5y ago
Great first-person account of this story from equally great podcast: https://loveandradio.org/2014/08/choir-boy/
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by adwi 5y ago
> the minimalist design mid-2010s Apple, which achieved design simplicity by forcing complexity and frustration on users This is a really insightful, succinct take on how they strayed from the path.
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by adwi 5y ago
> The containment building is also smaller than a 747, so you can’t transfer the entire plane’s energy to it like you could with a larger target like the towers. I know very little about physics and found this to be an unexpected point I
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by adwi 5y ago
Bikeshedding > 1. Futile investment of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues. quotations 2. Procrastination. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding
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by adwi 5y ago
Or the good enough classic Sony 7506s. Studio mainstay of the last 30+ years. Comfy as hell. Accurate enough, if flattering. <$100. I have a 20 year old pair that got a few new sets of earpads but sound as good as day one.
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by adwi 5y ago
What cars were you leasing for $167/mo?
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by adwi 5y ago
Don’t think about it.
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by adwi 5y ago
Re the carbon footprint argument with Bitcoin: I’m curious how the energy use of just a top 5 retail bank compares to Bitcoin. Chase [0], for instance, has over 5,000 retail locations and 16,000 ATMs. And the servers, and call centers/
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by adwi 5y ago
> one way we do nuclear weapon containment is by lying about certain properties of Uranium (and of course mostly lie about lying, and of course, most researchers don't think it's particularly effective. What is being lied about
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by adwi 5y ago
How many thousands of words and no mention of Revel? Vespa-like electric scooter company operating in NYC for the last few years. Solves a ton of problems: 1) faster snd operates in traffic (so less issue with their 25mph speed vs bikes, no
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by adwi 5y ago
https://archive.is/XQ9Jn
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by adwi 5y ago
In high school somebody took a box of checks from my mailbox, forged an ID in my name, and used the account to cash stolen checks. It was a dormant account with a $0 balance. When he was caught, I was notified and found $3,000 in it that wa
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by adwi 6y ago
Now that’s how you write a headline
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by adwi 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
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by adwi 6y ago
Seems quaint, but contact Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s office and let them know as a constituent you’d like to see this problem addressed. https://mobile.twitter.com/SecretaryPete US Department of Transportatio
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by adwi 6y ago
I think that last part is a really important point; lots of talk here about logical solutions to the problem but depression isn’t logical. You may rationally know daily exercise could be as effective as your meds, but finding that motivatio
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by adwi 6y ago
Nice Reply All episode about tracking down and resurrecting an old Flash game: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/j4hlx6
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by adwi 6y ago
Good on them for acknowledging something a little embarrassing and responding with gratitude instead ignoring to try to save some face.

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