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by amyjess 8y ago
If I ever end up in a position where being able to drive and owning a car is feasible for me, I'm going to get a Kia Stinger GT. It tickles my fancy in a way that no other 4/5-door car below $60k does. I can't think of a sing
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by amyjess 8y ago
> a thin facade to escape their reputation for costumer dissatisfaction Not quite. TWC switched to the Spectrum brand when they were acquired by Charter, because Charter was in the process of rolling out the Spectrum brand for their own
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by amyjess 8y ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant that women who don't become interested in having a long-term committed relationship until later in life have the option of dating men who followed the same path as them, as well as the option of dati
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by amyjess 8y ago
> When youth starts to fade away, reality kicks in - the highly desirable partners are not interested, and the average ones are already committed to long time partners who valued them in their own youth. You're forgetting about a) d
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by amyjess 8y ago
> I'd argue men still have a ticking clock in some senses. Sure you can still get it up and produce children, but your capacity to engage with them and raise them goes down over time. I used to work with a woman who was 47 at the ti
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by amyjess 8y ago
You haven't seen Texas. Dallas and Austin are absolutely booming with tech jobs, and we're about as non-transit-oriented as possible. And most of the tech growth is in the suburbs, not the cities.
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by amyjess 8y ago
> Ward Cunningham decided to close c2 to new material in part because he got tired of battling a determined vandal who was all bent out of shape over grammer and spailing It's honestly pretty upsetting that one vandal is enough to r
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by amyjess 8y ago
You can blame how reading is taught in schools. There is nothing that will suck the enjoyment out of a story faster than a high-school curriculum.
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by amyjess 8y ago
Unless the drug in question is a controlled substance, it's only illegal to sell Rx-only medications, not to buy them. On the extremely rare chance customs confiscates your shipment (which in practice only happens one week a year, duri
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by amyjess 8y ago
And that is why libraries are closing.
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by amyjess 8y ago
It may be different in other countries, but in the US font design cannot be copyrighted. The TTF/OTF files can, and so can the hinting algorithms, but the actual design of the font is legally guaranteed to be copyrightable by anyone. W
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by amyjess 8y ago
Noto. It feels like having access to an entire professional foundry as a FOSS download. Though the sans is humanist and not neo-grotesk like Helvetica. Hell, Noto Sans is available in more weights than Helvetica Neue LT Pro. I've actua
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by amyjess 8y ago
What I find to be rent-seeking bullshit is when licenses impose higher fees on using fonts in PDFs over static images. Why? Because a pirate can theoretically extract the TTF/OTF from a PDF, so the licensor needs to be paid extra money
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by amyjess 8y ago
I just wish they'd at least use a humanist sans. I was really sad when Google switched Android's default font from Droid Sans, a humanist sans (and the direct predecessor of Noto Sans), to Roboto, a neo-grotesk. Or when Apple went
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by amyjess 8y ago
I work on anime fansubs as a hobby, mostly as a typesetter, I use Noto Serif as my main dialogue font, and I default to Noto Sans (in various weights and widths) when I need a regular sans to set on-screen text and signs. It is absolutely
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by amyjess 8y ago
All I can say is that Noto has been one of the most wonderful gifts Google has given the world. An ultra-high-quality, visually attractive font family that includes a wide array of weights and even a decent selection of widths on top of w
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by amyjess 8y ago
If you're flying domestically, check out Southwest's low fare calendar.
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by amyjess 8y ago
coverage.com would also be perfect. "If you need coverage, just go to coverage.com!"
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by amyjess 8y ago
Ack, I didn't know they closed the Longbridge plant. That's pretty sad. Thanks for letting me know.
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by amyjess 8y ago
I agree with you, though I'd say that this may not apply fully to late-stage startups in Series C or Series D.
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by amyjess 8y ago
I'll point you to what happened to MG Rover. Company went bankrupt, a Chinese company bought the assets, and now they make and sell cars in the UK.
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by amyjess 8y ago
...and I just learned that Richard Garriott named his island city after something real.
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by amyjess 8y ago
When I said "Bush-era", I was talking more of the national zeitgeist during Bush's presidency and not so much about how Bush himself was perceived. The Bush era—or rather the core of the era, from about 2002 to 2007 (i.e. aft
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by amyjess 8y ago
Office Space and Silicon Valley, sure, but Idiocracy has aged _horribly_. That movie is full of memes that haven't been relevant since the mid-00s (and specifically, the humor in the movie has a distinct Bush-era vibe which straight-up
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by amyjess 8y ago
You could also make the same argument about Paris Hilton. By all accounts, she's a really shrewd businesswoman.
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by amyjess 8y ago
Um... where do I sign up? Because that sounds like the perfect job for me. (Edit: I'm not actually looking to change jobs right now, so don't take the first sentence literally and start sending me positions. But I'm contempla
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by amyjess 8y ago
Hmm... I'm an Office 365 customer, so I guess I'm not getting ads then. Good. Also, I love Edge to death (it's the only browser I'll use when I'm on my Surface), but I forgot another reason why I don't want to
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by amyjess 8y ago
Reminds me of how house-brand medications at CVS mimic the color schemes and design layouts of their competitors.
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by amyjess 8y ago
I'd recommend taking a look at Walmart's clothing section. It's full of stealth brands. (edit: Forgot about Walmart's electronics section. I'm typing this on a really good mechanical keyboard sold under Walmart&#x27
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by amyjess 8y ago
Thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only person who thinks this way.

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