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by avn2109 11y ago
Out of curiosity, how does one learn to use lightroom?
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by avn2109 11y ago
Was I the only one who was really hoping this was going to be about best practices for cutting down trees?
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by avn2109 11y ago
Where I come from, in the American West, it is your job to fence your neighbor's cattle _out_ if you don't want them on your land. It is not his job to fence them _in_ so they stay on his land. This principle is enshrined in centu
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by avn2109 11y ago
Planned obsolescence. You need an incentive to buy a new iPhone.
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by avn2109 11y ago
A good first approximation is to regard your after-tax equity upside == 0 in all ventures that you didn't found.
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "That would be an idea for an alternate ad network. Simply let website owners select ads, every week, to be displayed. Or in order to scale better, create pre-agreements for some brands." Unfortunately, you have just rein
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by avn2109 11y ago
I know you're joking but this is on balance pretty solid advice.
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by avn2109 11y ago
This place [0] was one of the best in North America for real bread but they are now long gone. [0] http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Tassajara-Bakery-to-close... Sorry. Maybe they have a spiritual heir that someo
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by avn2109 11y ago
You might be surprised by the computerization and tracking that competently-designed out of home ad setup will run. They are surprisingly good at figuring out who drove by their billboard.
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by avn2109 11y ago
That's what I'd expect from any middling-to-competent regime, not just the commies (though they of course do it too). For example, the Argentines are famous for making up exchange rates, and my own (American) government has a poli
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by avn2109 11y ago
This fact - that weed is not an industrial crop solely amenable to cultivation by industrial agriculture - is one of two major reasons that weed isn't legal and tobacco is. The other is that grass makes the citizenry less economically
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by avn2109 11y ago
+1 for bro, it's super handy. I'm not affiliated with it but I use it all the time.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Also this makes me wonder if we should recategorize NYU.
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by avn2109 11y ago
My favorite Hemingway quote: "There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is the old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The sharks are sharks, no better, no worse."
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by avn2109 11y ago
Does it matter, for practical purposes, if they do laser acoustics to your windows from space, or from a drone a few miles away?
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by avn2109 11y ago
Someone claiming to be the site's creator is replying to these comments, but for some reason his (pretty new) account is dead, so nobody can see his comments unless they have showdead on :\
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by avn2109 11y ago
On the topic of retrospection: 8 years ago, Jobs himself said, "Nobody wants a stylus." [0] The times they are a changin'. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YY3MSaUqMg
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "If nobody supports it, nothing will be made." This is often mentioned, but it's just not true. Humans produced creative work long before there was copyright or even money, and they will continue doing so long after
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...1 million is not having to worry about housing, while 10 million is not having to worry about work." These numbers are low by a factor of ~2 unless you want to live in flyover country/a cheap country other than A
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "Are there any examples of new, dense construction in North America that aren't ugly or dispiriting to live in?" There are a couple of new tall buildings in lower Manhattan that aren't totally hideous, e.g. 8 Sp
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by avn2109 11y ago
AIUI most ATM's will still give you money up to a couple hundred bucks with their network connection down, in case of legitimate "storm took out the phone lines but people need cash to buy candles and blankets" situations. Th
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by avn2109 11y ago
Request seconded, Homebrew would be great.
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...work hard and pass the FE/EIT exam your senior year..." Mostly agreed, except that as someone who studied drastically, overwhelmingly too much for the FE exam (which turned out to be super easy) that if you have
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by avn2109 11y ago
Incidentally, there is a (small) school of modern architectural thought that attributes the longevity and elegance of Roman architects' work to their tendency to design far below the yield stresses of their materials. That approach is
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by avn2109 11y ago
However those "other drinks and foods" are also owned by Kraft, Altria, Nestle, and FritoLay , which are in turned owned by the same index investors, so we've just pushed our antitrust argument up one level of metaness. Yes
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "However we are interested in the potential for other products which might work in the US." I'm pretty sure there is a small but enthusiastic market in the US for sharing expensive sports cars, either through formal
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by avn2109 11y ago
Everything makes actuarial sense if they charge you enough...
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Yes, and they charge you 8-15% for this service in NYC.
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Very underrated comment, by far the best in the thread. Sounds like drug gangs are borrowing the business model of governments.
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Yeah, that "free money" is priced in to the cost of goods/services at firms that accept the cards. This is why you sometimes see a lower cash price, like at smaller gas stations etc.

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