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by aedron 8y ago
Yeah, that was a pretty transparent plug. And to answer the OP's question, yes, in the nineties the "generational robbery" was a topic: Real estate was booming, making existing (old) homeowners rich and pricing out first-time
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by aedron 8y ago
Now I'm imagining a guy whose job is to sit all day in a simulator vehicle, 'teleporting' from one stranded Waymo to the next and taking it around school buses and manhole covers, parallel parking, etc. I kind of think that i
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by aedron 8y ago
In a similar vein, the presence of lithium in drinking water has been shown to reduce violent crime, as well as general cognitive disorders [1][2]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1699579 [2] https:/&#x2F
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by aedron 8y ago
It's not the money, it's having to buy it.
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by aedron 8y ago
Yeah, I almost want that. The phone should be a bit flatter (and ideally a bit curved to wrap around the wrist), then I think I would actually like to have it on the upper side of my forearm at all times.
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by aedron 8y ago
Curved OLED is where it's at for smart watches.
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by aedron 8y ago
If ever there was a place for a curved OLED, a smartwatch is it. Along with a slight rotation off the center of the wrist, as you mentioned, this would be the great next thing in wrist-strapped devices, IMHO. If it had a SIM I might ditch m
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by aedron 8y ago
Seriously, it's not the first time that the real Silicon Valley turns out to be even stranger than the show. I guess the writers have it easy.
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by aedron 8y ago
Not in this case. The mujahideen were a specific group of warlords who fought against the taliban (which just means 'students' by the way).
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by aedron 8y ago
Maybe if they fly them high enough? Or maybe wind would become a problem. Also, dedicated drone corridors that are over roads or uninhabited areas, so at least only cars would be hit in case one of them drops out of the sky.
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by aedron 8y ago
I've read (and thoroughly enjoyed) them all, didn't even know Ball Lightning was a prequel (it was written after the trilogy). Perhaps some repeat characters? I don't believe there are any spoilers either way.
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by aedron 8y ago
Quite a disagreeable post, in my opinion. > Which leads me to the "but money can't buy happiness" position so many people have repeated over the years. Bull. Shit. Anyone who has ever said that simply doesn't know whe
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by aedron 8y ago
It's this kind of thing... Trying not to sound preachy, but it just doesn't make sense that people, especially people who work with their brain, drink alcohol 'because it's fun'. Sorry, but that is stupid. No better
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by aedron 8y ago
There are no indications that plants feel pain.
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by aedron 8y ago
There are many excellent roller coaster rides in amusement parks across the nation.
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by aedron 8y ago
The original creator is a bit much. John Romero was mostly a level designer. Carmack did the heavy lifting.
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by aedron 8y ago
Cheap borrowing drives up prices of goods. This is true in housing and it is true in education.
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by aedron 8y ago
A long time ago I joined IBM via an acquistion of the company I worked for. One part of the (lengthy) contract I had to sign, was a form listing any side projects I may have that I would be required to no longer work on. I simply omitted th
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by aedron 8y ago
The woman [...] said he coerced her into performing oral sex in a hotel room [...]. ... “Specifically, I never coerced a woman to have sex in a hotel room." I feel like I have heard this kind of word game before somewhere...
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by aedron 8y ago
"Leveraged buyout". I.e. borrow cash to buy out a company, using the company's own assets as security for the debt. Gotta love these innocuous sounding financial engineering terms. Barbarians at the Gate is a classic business
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by aedron 8y ago
It's an incredible story. One of the co-founders went on to build his own submarine, then brought a Swedish journalist along for a voyage on which he murdered and dismembered her. Or should we all just pretend it never happened?
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by aedron 8y ago
The point is you can give them any name, address or phone number you want. In most cases they won't even use the phone number, except for the driver if he can't find you when he is delivering the food.
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by aedron 8y ago
In India, because of lack of infrastructure, you can order food from KFC without giving your name, address or any cash up front. The delivery guy simply tries to find the location you indicated and hopes that you show up with cash. I am gue
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by aedron 8y ago
Indeed. Since we're here, this is just counter-propaganda. There are thousands of organizations doing similar things. The whole "Russia is creating strife on Facebook!" thing is ridiculous too if you think about it for just a
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by aedron 8y ago
> Do you have a dedicated individual or team that represents infrastructure engineering? Great idea! We could call that team 'Operations' and they would do all that stuff so developers don't have to!
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by aedron 8y ago
Arguably worse than worseless, when it is actually destructive to society. The history of banking in most countries is the story of a repeated cycle of abusing the trust of the people with money in the bank: The bank holds people's gol
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by aedron 8y ago
> you're prohibited by the license from using an alternative browser engine Interesting. Isn't that what Microsoft was tried and convicted for in the 90s?
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by aedron 8y ago
Since the summary relies so heavily on a Steve Jobs anecdote for the "don't follow your passion" advice: Steve Jobs was not passionate about Zen buddhism, whatever he may have said at some point in time. It was a passing inte
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by aedron 8y ago
Par for the course price volatility for bitcoin.
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by aedron 8y ago
Yeah. Neither Amazon, Google or eBay were 'toys', they were all built to tackle huge markets right from the get-go. Really bad examples.

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