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by asciimov 5y ago
My first thought for the Scheuklappen-Effekt was blinders. Blinders are used to prevent horses from seeing sideways. Turns out, blinders are also called blinkers.
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by asciimov 5y ago
That all depends on how you fill out that w2. While you might get that money back, more if you qualify for the EITC, most people are still going to have their taxes removed from their paycheck.
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by asciimov 5y ago
You are missing all the things you need to have to get that job. First that guy offering the job is choosy, so he wants someone showered, with clean clothes, who doesn't look like they have major health problems or drug habits, they ne
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by asciimov 5y ago
Closer to $280 once tax and social security is taken out.
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by asciimov 5y ago
"One learns by doing." -First line of a Geometry book that I have long since forgotten. There is no secret sauce nor magical technique to learning, memorizing, regurgitating information. Only repeatedly doing the thing is how you
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by asciimov 5y ago
As someone who was involved with music competitions I can attest to being happier with 3rd than 2nd. For me it was the fact that if I was 3rd, well at least 2 people were better than me, but if I was 2nd (and it was a close competition) it
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by asciimov 5y ago
I bought a pair of Steelcase Criterions from a local used furniture store for $75 each. They have been wonderful. But I am going to have to order new pistons for them as mine has started to slowly sink. Those seem to run about $45 and are e
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by asciimov 5y ago
I have the same 3rd gen. I got my $70 offer emailed to me late last night. Maybe they are slowly rolling out emails.
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by asciimov 5y ago
Depends on how old of a unit you have. I have a 3rd Gen, and was offered $70 off a new Kindle (paperwhite or oasis) and $25 in Kindle credits. (I'm not sure the last time that I used whispernet, but I did see use when visiting relative
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by asciimov 5y ago
Does git have benefits, yes. Are git commands obtuse and unfriendly, yes. The problem is that git is not intuitive and isn't automatic. I've seen more people loose code to git than be saved by having their repo offsite.
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by asciimov 5y ago
> That said, I've always wondered if Dwarf Fortress would be a more smooth experience if it had more developers Maybe, but only if it was under the benevolent dictator model.
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by asciimov 5y ago
Yes, many people have great success with flax seed oil. However, many experience flaking from either improper seasoning, poor quality oil, or simply using too much. I stick to vegetable oils and shortenings because it's what my grandpa
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by asciimov 5y ago
I agree with this, from not being afraid to use soap, to you are putting too much oil on it when you are done with it. When I purchased my most recent new cast iron, I did power sand the interior with a drill attachment. I prefer the smooth
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by asciimov 5y ago
I live in one of these areas (Texas). Wolves were taken out by 1970. I do wish we would introduce them, but I'm not certain that my neighbors would be so happy about it. In my area, we have city deer. These are deer that live in the gr
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by asciimov 5y ago
I do not agree with #5 at all. You do not need to see your coworkers face. It is distracting, and mentally fatiguing to have to be on display for your other coworkers. Plus, not everybody has fast enough bandwidth.
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by asciimov 5y ago
> I found it to be ghastly, sitting closer to a coworker I detested than I lay next to my own spouse in bed. I could smell him. The only thing worse than working in an open office environment is having to sit next to someone who stopped
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by asciimov 5y ago
Yesterday while watching some random replay it was pausing the stream every 4 minutes to show 1 minute of commercials. (nbc olympics roku app).
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by asciimov 5y ago
I'm like you, but I have plenty of friends who are all about the story. They want to know all the struggles and heartaches that a person had to get where they are.
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by asciimov 5y ago
Those that I trust say that most of the content providers have gotten good at blocking known vpn hosts.
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by asciimov 5y ago
On one of the replays I watched it was a one minute commercial every 4 minutes. They paused the feed, played the commercial, and resumed the feed.
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by asciimov 5y ago
Because it is hard to find, not very well advertised, and isn't free unless you have a cable provider (youtube tv does work). For me, I had Youtube TV record everything, but NBC doesn't show everything, and its completely US centr
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by asciimov 5y ago
Depending on where you are, you are at best getting highlights. I like watching the sports they don't like showing. Nothing worse than NBC claiming they will be showing one sport only to find that it was 30 minutes of talking heads and
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by asciimov 5y ago
Anyone want to fill me in on what this "Perlis-Thompson Principle" is?
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by asciimov 5y ago
> Define fair share. Fair share, the cost to run the country. For most people that's 33% of what we make a year. For megacorps that can be as much as nothing. > I'll never understand this line of reasoning. While I understan
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by asciimov 5y ago
For you and me, you are right, but those on the top get to play by different rules. Also, while it's called a loan, think of it more like a credit line.
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by asciimov 5y ago
Bezos makes an easy identifiable target, much easier to call out Bezos than any of the Walton's of Walmart. The real issue is that major corporations aren't paying their fair share of the costs of running this country. From underp
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by asciimov 5y ago
Not necessarily. The wealthy put up $-worth of shares as collateral to borrow $$$$-worth of money from the bank at low interest rates. The bank doesn't just sit on those shares, they use them to generate money for themselves. For examp
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by asciimov 5y ago
I moved off of a standard release and onto a rolling release distro because the software I used the most was always a major release (or two) behind. Since it's based on arch, I assume they will pull the latest software from arch, test
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by asciimov 5y ago
This sure is a garish looking device. They also are trying to be clever and not show how thick it is.
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by asciimov 5y ago
> I wish they would do studies like this with children / teenagers. They have. I don't have said studies in front of me. But the gist of it seems to be that typing is a quicker lower process skill (pushing a button), where as h

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