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by asark 8y ago
Yeah I imagine the key combo for getting a lot of LFLs in a neighborhood is low crime plus shit walkability. I mean if the nearest library's an easy walk away—or maybe even a half-decent used book store—the appeal's gotta drop. If
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by asark 8y ago
You're gonna need to connect the dots for us here re: why that necessarily makes the comparison dumb.
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by asark 8y ago
I've used the Magic Mouse, found the bottom charger to be a non-issue in practice because it stays charged pretty much forever anyway, and charges enough to get you back on your feet if you somehow let it run all the way down in just a
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by asark 8y ago
Yeah, I thought it was a huge, stupid mistake when I heard about it, until I was handed one at work. The charge lasts weeks, it's not like it runs down in a day or two. It's not a major problem.
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by asark 8y ago
> EDIT: Will someone explain what this theoretical 'non spec' thing that matters is? The Apple logo? Mostly the OS. I don't cringe before plugging into an unfamiliar external display. The touchpad isn't so bad it make
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by asark 8y ago
> I've never seen any popular candidates talk about changing the voting systems. Popular candidates are the ones that get elected. By definition. So yes, trying to push forward better candidates supported by a party the support of w
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by asark 8y ago
And why was it lifted and taken somewhere from the far end of town where the Grickle-grass grows? The old Once-ler still lives here. Ask him. He knows.
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by asark 8y ago
Miniaturized, cheap, low-power electronics and ubiquitous wireless Internet, plus modern image and audio process/recognition, are the end of it, really. It's over. War's lost as long as those exist, and good luck getting rid
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by asark 8y ago
> You're literally restating the tactic, as if that countermands the truth The truth is the current system stabilizes at two parties due to how the rules are written, and that most voters are de facto disenfranchised at the federa
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by asark 8y ago
Military folks tend to get married and have kids much younger than the office-worker set, from what I've seen.
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by asark 8y ago
It's a structural problem with how our elections work. No sense blaming individual voters for chosing "vote with the intent to maybe (but almost certainly not) affect the outcome" versus "definitely do not affect the out
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by asark 8y ago
Notably, out of school detention is punishment aimed at the student's parents , not at the student, in most cases. Rarely a student who actually cares about school and their grades will receive it as punishment, and even more rarely t
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by asark 8y ago
Something like this seems to be infecting our entire society. See: Graeber's Bullshit Jobs —he blames, more or less, the takeover of Finance and with it a new form of managerialism, generally. See also: common everyday experience and
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by asark 8y ago
>I don't mean that in a bad way. Rather, I don't think it's in our best interest for any single company to own the entire catalog that would appease these demographics. Well, best best interest would probably involve man
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by asark 8y ago
You might be able to get Kanopy free through a local library. Limited number of views per month—mine's 12/mo, dunno if it varies. Tons of documentaries, art film, lots of classic films and Criterion stuff, a fair amount of popular
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by asark 8y ago
Just like the old gypsy woman said, today a huge percentage of white-collar office work could literally be replaced with a shell script or a couple days' work by someone who knows their way around excel. But it still hasn't happ
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by asark 8y ago
Certain People in One's Life may be incapable of correctly addressing their messages without this feature, so yeah, it's pretty important.
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by asark 8y ago
What's the appeal of 8K? Is the support just there for some future VR plans? I already have my couch about as close to my 55" 4K TV as is reasonable, and can barely tell the difference between 1080p and 4K video. If I had an abs
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by asark 8y ago
It seems to me there's a bait and switch of sorts that we play on kids. We tell them science can answer their questions about the world, or that they can use science to answer those questions, but it kinda can't. Keep digging and
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by asark 8y ago
Yeah, I think it was Prilosec. With the first one, who had it the worst and had some actual damage by the time we got ahold of the medicine, we also ran through every formula known to man and ended up on some prescription stuff that comes i
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by asark 8y ago
Ours is the one where you end up with one hundred bills from a twenty different providers, fighting insurance & hospital billing departments for a hundred plus hours on the phone, and five-figures of out of pocket expenses for a complet
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by asark 8y ago
Yeah, there are plenty of non-single-payer ones that work. Probably it'd be safer to pick a system that works for a country more similar to ours (Canada, Australia, even France or Germany) but a Swiss or maybe Singaporean system woul
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by asark 8y ago
At this point the fact that the whole friggin' rest of the OECD states have managed to come up with something less-broken and less expensive than what we do, and that AFAIK even the most "free market" and incomparable to ou
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by asark 8y ago
Same with Flash. Or popups. Or popunders. Or loud auto-playing banner ads. We complained about those anyway, and mostly ended them. Then proceeded to bring it all back, but worse. I'm making a statement of the general mood regarding
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by asark 8y ago
Web developer: "Oh man I'm glad Flash finally died, what an annoying, standard-behavior-defying, resource- and bandwidth-hogging piece of terrible technology that was. So user-hostile!" Also web developer: makes the entire W
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by asark 8y ago
> Are there statistics on car accidents including infants due to sleep deprivation? Or even just injuries due to dropping babies when sleep deprived? Hell, murder-suicides while sleep deprived.
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by asark 8y ago
Oh yeah, incline on the first one with the (temporarily) effed-up throat remained helpful for a while. We also ended up on some wicked-expensive prescription formula stuff with that one, for two or three months. God was that a lot of money.
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by asark 8y ago
Two of ours ended up on (very mild) drugs for acid reflux, for a little while. Friggin' lifesaver, that stuff. With the first one we had to switch doctors to finally get one who'd listen to us (no, shrieking like they're on f
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by asark 8y ago
Addams Family's great. Good middle-difficulty machine. I find the even-better-loved and similarly-laid-out Twilight Zone to be much, much harder, for some reason—I just don't get along with it very well. Some machines are more n00
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by asark 8y ago
As far as depth, it's largely sequences. Most machines past the very early ones have tons and tons of sequences of actions you're trying to take—hit that ramp three times, then drop the ball in that hole over there, then the door

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