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by ashark 9y ago
We made a tomato sauce in a cast iron pan. Once. It was god-awful. It was like eating iron filings. You couldn't taste anything else.
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by ashark 9y ago
Why didn't other well-respected (better-respected, even) professions—doctor, lawyer, veterinarian—have to do this kind of thing to achieve balance or near-balance (or even swapping balance in favor of women)? Or did they have to do t
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by ashark 9y ago
> 1. teachers not adapting to new times. In ye olde days, teachers had the attention of the students basically guaranteed (as the only thing students could do instead of paying attention to the teacher was drawing messages on papers and
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by ashark 9y ago
"I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust." HD Thoreau, Walden
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by ashark 9y ago
That tells me I'm not going to have to install some command line tools, a couple scripting language or JVM runtimes (make sure it's the right version, which may not be the latest!), a new package manager or three, and a bunch of o
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by ashark 9y ago
> Main problem, how? Wouldn't doing what you say feel incredibly limiting since you know you could be enjoying so much more? More limiting in the sense that I would have fewer options for wasting time, yes. More limiting in that I&#
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by ashark 9y ago
TV with no antenna and putting part of what used to be your Internet+services money to a dvd or two a month, and maybe a game every couple months on some older console, probably wouldn’t be too bad. Or just using the library for movies. The
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by ashark 9y ago
I don't usually read a bunch of short non-fic by a single author, and I'm really bad at remembering who wrote a given piece. Wallace is one of the few exceptions. I like Orwell and Twain, but I think everyone does. I'm a bigg
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by ashark 9y ago
I'd agree with the more critical takes. I've read something like 3/4 of his collected short non-fic at this point and it's very uneven, and the gems one does find among the rest tend to be of the semi-precious sort.
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by ashark 9y ago
More generally, following a couple easy, basic rules like: 1) emphasize the most important verb by putting it first, and favor more-active and more-specific verbs over very general or passive ones, as in putting "increased" ahead
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by ashark 9y ago
To a significant degree, you're mainly buying precisely that culture of "you're (we're, i.e. the students themselves reinforce the culture, which is vital) gonna prep for the SAT, do well in school, and so on, because
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by ashark 9y ago
The term's broader than the one you proposed.
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by ashark 9y ago
Time lost to light switches in a year is measured in, what, 10s of minutes and maybe $20 in wasted electricity and bulb-life a year? If you have a pretty big house and are kinda bad at turning off the lights when you should? Even a perfect
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by ashark 9y ago
> For example: The members of the defending team adopt fielding positions based on a maximum potential for fielding a hit ball. But if there is even a threat of a stolen base attempt, the defense must change their positioning accordingly
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by ashark 9y ago
> Most of the failing inner cities with bad schools and high crime rates have been run by democrats for decades. So have the successful, thriving cities.
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by ashark 9y ago
We have three. If for any reason we have to care for only one for a stretch of time, it's like having no kids. Man, it's so much easier. Three kids is, no joke, like 10x as hard as one. Each one also makes housing way harder (=m
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by ashark 9y ago
> Sadly, there is now an entire generation of parents who have been advertised things like the "cry-out" method. For sleep training? It’s a somewhat rough 2-7 nights when they’re in the 8-12 week age range, or way, way worse la
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by ashark 9y ago
Bridge is freakin' great. It's recently infected my 25-35 age range circle of friends and now we've almost all caught the bug. It's like some kind of partners chess, but meaner, in card game form. A little like spades if
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by ashark 9y ago
God, strongly agree. My worse-than-a-coinflip skill at getting French gender correct on nouns that aren't very familiar too me is one of the big things keeping me from returning to it. Deeply discouraging. Thanks to easy rules, I can
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by ashark 9y ago
7 Wonders probably wins for best average popularity among our mixed-interest gaming group, when there are over four people who want to play. It has an intimidating rules explanation compared to some, but plays way easier than it sounds.
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by ashark 9y ago
A half-dozen lightbulbs, and that long for taking the new ones out of the box and moving the ladder around.
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by ashark 9y ago
It's not very useful to stress that they're "artificial" unless you're trying to introduce the term for rhetorical effect, say, edging it into the discussion on narrow or technical but not especially useful or broad
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by ashark 9y ago
Incandescent bulbs here are so cheap (and fragile, especially if they're used) they're definitely not worth bothering with, and they're still really common. Even CFLs are really cheap now, and don't travel as well (or la
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by ashark 9y ago
Heh, it'll be less than 1% of the total time I spend doing touch-ups and such. Maybe three minutes to save, yeah, $50-75. A tiny extra amount of effort on the actual packing and move, but time saved buying new bulbs when the ones in th
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by ashark 9y ago
I think a similar effect has been why power generation and efficiency systems (solar, "geothermal" heating/cooling) have been slow to catch on—for every buyer who sees them as a nice thing there's another who's turn
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by ashark 9y ago
We may be listing ours soon, and if we do I'm even swapping the LED bulbs for whatever's cheapest at the store. They're only about a year old and the house will sell for zero more dollars if I leave them up.
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by ashark 9y ago
I imagine I'd get three "CME? Dunno WTF that is", "How about Chicago Mercantile Exchange?", "Oh yeah, I recognize that from the boring parts of morning news updates on the radio. They do something with soy bean
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by ashark 9y ago
I got .20-someodd (.28, maybe? Maybe have even been in the .3 range.) years ago from spigots and a very brief experiment with mining, then thoughtlessly formatted right over the damn hard drive with the wallet on it and went "oh well,
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by ashark 9y ago
> The downside is that the most critical components of information which tie to identity itself, are the ones that businesses most commonly need to hold to verify identity. More challenging is that without a way to modify identity data (
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by ashark 9y ago
1) if they have competitors, they can't do much "passing along to consumers" to begin with, and 2) I thought insurance companies were supposed to be really good at assessing risk, and markets are magically efficient and all t

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