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by ashark 10y ago
Unless I've misunderstood all these years how pawn shops work, they would indeed have trouble operating under the same business model as average wealth in their area increased. Resale shops and such would be fine, but the difference
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by ashark 10y ago
Yeah, this looks less appealing than a single-wide. Since the real value in these not-mobile-home small housing thingies usually seems to be letting people live in a mobile home without compromising their sense of where they sit in the clas
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by ashark 10y ago
You can use search (which is what I use to launch apps even on the desktop) and switch apps from a keyboard on the iPad. Could you not do it at the time you tried? Even my iPhone can do most of what I need—if only it had mouse support for R
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by ashark 10y ago
I've had that result with some activities. No amount of distance running, it seems, will ever make it feel like something enjoyable and healthy rather than something incredibly boring that makes me feel like I'm less healthy aft
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by ashark 10y ago
You'd want to couple this with some ability to check data integrity and you'd still need an offsite backup of some kind—plus you'll need a third copy anyway to recover if your primary fails and you plug the cold backup drive
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by ashark 10y ago
Relatively high amounts of free time plus cultural (class) expectations of what you'll do with it, minus the incredible on-demand availability of low-culture entertainment we have today. Given those circumstances and a half-decent mind
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by ashark 10y ago
> even if the cable was bumped or something. This has resulted in the loss of a whole zpool and restore from backup. Yikes. Is it similarly fragile in the event of sudden power loss?
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by ashark 10y ago
It's also important to separate, say, life expectancy at 30 from overall life expectancy, which usually includes infant mortality and fatal childhood illnesses of all sorts. Those are important per se of course, but basically irrelev
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by ashark 10y ago
Can confirm, window motor replacement's not terrible, and Youtube will probably tell you exactly how to do it for your make/model/year (did for our '01 Honda, which is the only car we've ever had power window proble
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by ashark 10y ago
I think this is also why "no brainer" upgrades like solar panels (depending on location) and very efficient HVAC systems aren't installed. Ditto woodwork that's not actually glorified cardboard and can be refinished inde
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by ashark 10y ago
> I read a short story about this... a neural implant that starts off in passive mode, learning to be you, and then you switch it over to active mode at some point and you are it. "Learning to be Me" by Greg Egan? I read it in
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by ashark 10y ago
Gets tough when time gets really short, and you occasionally miss an entire week or two. You forget WTF was going on, how the controls work, and so on. Kills your connection with the characters in games where that matters.
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by ashark 10y ago
> Lower taxes tend to bring in more revenue and create more employment. Got some examples where this actually worked?
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by ashark 10y ago
Fun fact: One of the weirdest things about heavier-than-air flight is that upon posting any explanation for it online, several people will tell you you're wrong. Each of them will also disagree with one another. All will have sources
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by ashark 10y ago
~800-300 BC generated most of our surviving major religions (the major exceptions being Christianity and Islam, but both trace their origins to a religion that was formalized and created or finalized [most of] its canon in that time) plus t
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by ashark 10y ago
I just wish Math followed programming best-practices on commenting, variable naming, and including tests and their expected output. Bonus for IDE-like tools that can instantly tell me the type of a symbol or show me the expanded version of
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by ashark 10y ago
> "Mind your own business" means structuring things simply and in such a way that you get paid more (ie: minimize tax expense... which IS your biggest expense). I'm having trouble figuring out what you could mean by this t
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by ashark 10y ago
Not going to argue the general case, but for Android in particular the documentation is also full of bad advice and half-explanations. Plus it's not uncommon to hit a long-outstanding SDK bug. SO is great for Android development to f
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by ashark 10y ago
When faced with the choice to harm themselves a great deal ( i.e. losing their job, especially in such a way that might make it hard to find another) in order to probably accomplish nothing at all, or to contribute in a small way to evil,
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by ashark 10y ago
Eh, I'd guess the stuff in my usual $9-12 range is 3-5 euro at retail in Spain, judging from what I've seen on imported wines where I do know the price in their country of origin. So maybe not typical, but in the direction of o
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by ashark 10y ago
Article used the word "meanness" so I did too. Which is, of course, not remotely a "hidden" rule, and may be one of the best known rules of the Internet. Penny Arcade gave it a name, years ago: The Greater Internet Fuc
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by ashark 10y ago
I'd guess the biggest obstacle is competition, actually. There's excellent local craft beer in even smallish midwestern cities, plus a substantial selection of top-notch beers from the region and the rest of the country. It's
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by ashark 10y ago
Declickbaited: Anonymous Social Networking Apps Fail Because Anonymity Removes Meaning, Enables Meanness (and the apps focused on by the article are Secret and Yik Yak)
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by ashark 10y ago
More constructively phrased: make them run around outside a bunch during the day, and don't let them use devices with screens after dark. Works for adults, too (especially if you also reduce use of artificial lighting) though it can be
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by ashark 10y ago
Could youtube-dl the video then redirect the browser to a locally-served (locally from the pi-hole device, that is) page embedding the video, provided you've got the disk space to cache it and don't mind waiting a bit for the vide
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by ashark 10y ago
I'd bet the majority of people have no clue exactly how much data they collect, how much other info they're able to derive from that, and what they do with it. If you described what they're actually doing as a hypothetical,
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by ashark 10y ago
Is there some kind of search engine that limits itself to the "ancient"-style web, as it existed from its beginning to ~10-12 years ago, though not necessarily confined to older sites when newer ones fit the style and content of t
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by ashark 10y ago
> Not that I necessarily blame them, all the SEO and blogspam crap made searching the web with something similar to pagerank and impossibility a long time ago. I think the eulogy was served by the "miserable failure" thing when
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by ashark 10y ago
There'll be desktop-style GUI toolkits that render to webGL not long after webassembly starts seeing serious adoption, I'd guess.
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by ashark 10y ago
It seems unethical because it is. Making what appears to be a genuine offer to sell at a given price then saying "haha, sorry, just wasting your time to help me but without paying you for it, I'm not selling" is unequivocally

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