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by asciimov 5y ago
Thanks for your answer. It sounds like most things involving religion, complicated.
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by asciimov 5y ago
So my Jewish friends could technically eat a cheese burger, as long as the cheese was placed on the burger after cooking? Would they have to wait till the burger cools down so that it doesn't melt the cheese? (Here I am concerned about
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by asciimov 5y ago
It's not that past generations had some special knowledge on building structures that we have forgotten, but they were doing the best they could with the materials they had at the time. Lot's of adobe buildings were made by the in
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by asciimov 5y ago
Turns out vehicles are pretty important when you live in rural communities and don't have access to public transportation.
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by asciimov 5y ago
I know of a few people that live in dugouts in west texas. One of them has had the property in their family for generations. They say that it stays relatively cool during the summertime and warm in the winter.
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by asciimov 5y ago
If the author wants to see the outcome of this kind of development they should read the history of the Llano Estacado[1]. Lubbock and it's surrounding communities built up during the latter half of the 19th Century, with the small comm
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by asciimov 5y ago
As a Texan, who has spent a good chuck of their life in the Panhandle and west Texas: So far I have only made it through half of this, but it is clear this person has not ever spent any amount of time on a farm or a ranch or in any part of
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by asciimov 5y ago
Two thoughts: 1. There is a phenomena that happens to people that get immersed in an art form, they stop seeing the art as a whole, and only see the parts. For a musician listening to music, they will start picking out their instrument and
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by asciimov 5y ago
There are several different thoughts on this, but the ones that I've seen most often (in no particular order): 1. Roam by Roam Research 2. Zettelkasten there is a good book by Sönke Ahrens that covers the method in detail. 3. Org-Mode,
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by asciimov 5y ago
You joke, but one place I worked had just fired another "asciimov" for the role i took. The first week I was there, they kept asking if I had another name they could call me as they didn't like the former guy and calling me b
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by asciimov 5y ago
I agree, I want paper menus always, but maybe for different reasons. Today it is difficult to go out to eat with friends or family without everybody being on their damned phones. Making people use QR codes just gives them an excuse to get i
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by asciimov 5y ago
Not the amazon of today at least. I had supposed without Ad's you wouldn't have had the dotcom boom of the 90's. No dot-com boom means venture capital wouldn't have flowed as readily. Amazon still would have started, but
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by asciimov 5y ago
Ad's got us here to begin with. Without ads the internet would have been only for the rich. There would also have been no google, no amazon, no android, no kindles. I'd still be ordering everything from the Sears Catalogue, waitin
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by asciimov 5y ago
I would fix the order of URLs instead of http://news.ycombinator.com/item it would be https:com/ycombninator/news/item
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by asciimov 5y ago
That would have just made the internet in accessible to the poor. I remember my dad scraping enough money to buy us a computer in '97 with unlimited internet (aol was still selling the internet by the minute back then). As a kid who ha
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by asciimov 5y ago
Careful, Oracle is likely to sue you for copying their API.
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by asciimov 5y ago
You will hate yourself later for the things you could have afforded doing today. In a few years, you will have more responsibilities and it will be harder to change your path.
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by asciimov 5y ago
The largest groups that live in my metros downtown core are, swaths of poor people who's crime ridden neighborhoods have yet to gentrify, the insanely wealthy who gentrified the best of the dilapidated old homes, and young hipsters who
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by asciimov 5y ago
Just wait, one day you will have an update to linux and suddenly your whole system wont boot. This doesn't happen often, I've only had it happen 2 or 3 times in 10 years. It is good practice to have a restore thumbdrive around rea
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In Defense of Science(steady.substack.com)
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by asciimov 5y ago
The biggest issue with with cars made in the last 25 years is the amount of plastic used in both the engine and interior. As plastics age and go through heat/cool cycles the get brittle and easily fail. It’s infuriating to have to dism
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by asciimov 5y ago
We should be doing the opposite. We should investigate how the ransomware occurred and then fine the business depending on how preventable the attack vector was and how much it effected public interest.
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by asciimov 5y ago
I'd rather see an explanation behind the issue rather than a complaint about people not working on boring stuff because a bunch of text editors can't agree on a word count. I remember taking a typing class some 25 years ago and be
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by asciimov 5y ago
If you can really lock it down, maybe. Kids are prone to loosing items while a watch is likely to stay on them.
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by asciimov 5y ago
It's a good compromise for mom. Let kids run free, and give mom the reassurance they can call someone if they need help. I don't like giving cell phones to kids younger than 12 or 13 because childhood should be free of a lot of th
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by asciimov 5y ago
It's between that, the zero tolerance policies that many places have, and the unwalkable suburban residential nightmares we have built. I know for several of my minority friends, they won't let their kids go anywhere alone due to
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by asciimov 5y ago
> We're planning to compromise by letting her do it, but only after we get her her first phone. Might I suggest looking into one of those cell phone watches for kids. They allow you to lock down who they can send and receive calls&#
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by asciimov 5y ago
After living next to a house that was on AirBnb for 3 years (rented at least 4 days a week), I want nothing more than the complete outlaw of the company and these types of rentals.
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by asciimov 5y ago
A friends family doesn't have a single desktop/laptop/tablet/printer in their house. They all have decently highend cell phones. If the children need to type up a book report one of the adults brings home their work lapt
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by asciimov 5y ago
I have a special hatred of floating point numbers. I wish and advocate for a better standard. My issue is that I've come across errors due to floating point in weird places. One example, searching a list of strings for another string.

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