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by asark 7y ago
Filtered or bottled often tastes a lot better. Depends on where you live. Tap's noticeably worse than bottled or filtered where we live now, but not intolerably bad. We used to live somewhere (in the US, to be clear) that, if you made
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by asark 7y ago
Right. I'm just thinking, if someone handed me $16,000/yr and was like "use only this money buy all your benefits, retirement, kids' college tuition, childcare, et c. up to the same level as a French person, for your hou
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by asark 7y ago
I'm actually surprised the difference is that small. I'd guess the increased retirement savings, unemployment insurance, disability insurance, college savings, daycare costs, and so on the US household would have to purchase to ma
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by asark 7y ago
> At least in Maryland, California, etc., at that income level, a family qualifies for ACA subsidies that limit health insurance premiums to 8-10% of income, comparable to the health insurance payroll taxes in many european countries. Ar
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by asark 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadeye_Dick
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by asark 7y ago
This whole thing has been pretty funny. Valve: Here Linux, you finally have lots of video games, no silly BS, they just work. Ubuntu: Oh shit Linux might get popular, quick, we better break the video games! Valve: ...
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by asark 7y ago
Generally, it's a good idea to force labeling of businesses and products to match their potential customers' expectations of what they mean. It's one of those places where fostering a well-functioning free market (by decreasi
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by asark 7y ago
It also does a very good job of flowing from one character moment to another. A fried of mine noticed something I hadn't, recently: "this is just a scene of some Avengers doing team-up stuff in some combination, then one of a sing
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by asark 7y ago
> It doesn't freeze my machine to the point of rebooting, but a whole lot of seeing MacOS's "rainbow beachball." Yikes, still? That exact thing happening way too often—with like a half-dozen very normal tabs open, an
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by asark 7y ago
I'd think Ragnarok doesn't work too well unless you've at least got the gist of several of the other films, like the first two Thors (which... ugh, especially 2), probably the first two Avengers, Civil War AKA Avengers 2.5 wh
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by asark 7y ago
I wish the first half or so of Black Panther had stuck to the villain as the perspective character. It could have been outstanding, and not just by the standards of Marvel films. That's me Monday morning quarterbacking, of course, and
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by asark 7y ago
All I can figure is Sony got a taste of that sweet sweet BS money (that made from IP and online services rather than products per se , that is) and got lost in it.
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by asark 7y ago
Age of Ultron's probably the worst offender in the series for—call it the Man of Steel effect, where there's a 20-minute (or longer...) "final fight" and I just wanted to take a nap by maybe the 5min mark. Almost all of
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by asark 7y ago
Some even earlier directx games are damn near unplayable anywhere but real hardware, last time I checked. Heavily tied to a handful of video cards from a span of just a few years. Looking at you, Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. I don't thi
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by asark 7y ago
Used this to run some Windows-only NES Classic / SNES Classic "hacking" program thingy (hakchi2? Something like that) to add more games to those two devices. Worked great. Wine was a no-go because the program itself did some
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by asark 7y ago
Can confirm, had a huge "WTF?" on installing Win8 on an HDD and seeing the friggin' OS UI pause constantly for no obvious reason. It was like running Win98 on a 75Mhz Pentium with 16MB of RAM. On my beefy quad-core Intel with
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by asark 7y ago
> completely incompatible with cultural ideals (which those things are in the US) If anything's gonna change that, it'll be the current crop of kids coming up seeing shootings on the news, then having scary-real shooter drills
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by asark 7y ago
Then: felt like a year between major holidays. Now: feels like about two weeks between major holidays. "Wait, fireworks stands? Wasn't it just Easter?"
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by asark 7y ago
> I've sat out of the whole superhero franchise for, what, over a decade or so now? I just tried to figure out whether I'd recommend any of the Marvel films on their own raw merit to someone without interest in the whole series
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by asark 7y ago
Yeah I'm not all-in on charging 12 year olds as adults, but: > At 12, you don't understand what death is, what a lifetime prison sentence entails, or even that stabbing someone might kill them. ... really? > How can you unde
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by asark 7y ago
They're miserable to use. Sincerely, Person who has spent ~2-3x as much time in The Gimp as in Photoshop, and first learned image editing on Paint Shop Pro, not Photoshop, but would still choose PS if you told me to edit some images an
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by asark 7y ago
Most food, especially the sort that'll keep in a little box outdoors in even SF weather, probably doesn't have much value either, so far as the second hand market goes. If someone's stealing $0.49 cans of beans to resell for
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by asark 7y ago
I mean, if it's a give-a-can-take-a-can for when a neighbor doesn't have some black beans and needs them for a recipe, but sometimes those darn homeless people just happen to "rob" it? Or is food not under lock and key i
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by asark 7y ago
If you don't hate front-end period now, mobile's a hell of a lot easier and I think it still pays better than front-end webdev for some reason. As long as you stay away from the web-tech-on-mobile crap and write actual native co
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by asark 7y ago
If only you'd followed its directions, you'd have gone on an amazing days-long adventure that ended in your finding a fortune in buried gold. Alas, you second-guessed the navigation genie.
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by asark 7y ago
On the contrary, I think its existence suppresses other business models, by being somewhat more efficient (at concentrating money, that is). The coupling of a scummy ad business model with incredibly large caches of personal data turns out
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by asark 7y ago
The Hart & Risley book that's kinda the foundation of all this is a pretty good read. Not exactly a page turner but nowhere near the sleep aid one might expect, either.
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by asark 7y ago
The amount of money in the wallet would have to be well over $100 before I was more sad about that than about having to get my ID and various other cards re-issued. I can't get closer to the exact amount where the tipping point would b
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by asark 7y ago
A lot of the open concept houses around here use enough space for four rooms for one big one. Usually kitchen + dining area + a single living room easily large enough to be two. If you're lucky you have one other room in the public a
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by asark 7y ago
Turns out there was so much money in spyware, spam, scummy ad sites, and so on, that the corporate benevolent overlords of the Web went all-in on those exact things. All those bad actors won the war. If you want to help run the show, or i

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