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by base698 4y ago
Yeah it's funny how much I disagree with the OP. My dad always ends up buying me duplicates of what I have whether it's coffee or cooking. Then you have to do the dance to make sure the one they bought you is the one you use whe
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by base698 4y ago
Autopilot in planes does change course. In GA it's called GPSS steering and a lot of planes have it. I believe jet planes have more sophisticated autopilot that can change when ATC gives a new heading.
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by base698 4y ago
Lack of solid real world social networks. Religion used to be a solid defense but people are now less religious.
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by base698 4y ago
Noticed this in a playlist of about 80 videos. It's now 55. I have no idea what it is that's missing.
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by base698 4y ago
Humble?
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by base698 4y ago
I went to a Philosophy conference with a professor friend in the early 2000s. I was standing in a circle talking to about 10 professors. All 10 had some anecdote of Kripke's brilliance with a few questioning why even stay in the fiel
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by base698 4y ago
I'm not a designer full time, but have dabbled over my career and in my youth used Photoshop and Premiere heavily. I'd say Pixelmator and Sketch were more approachable, discoverable and had better workflows. This made the combo o
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by base698 4y ago
I don't eat goat meat, but love brisket. Doesn't that make me an antimeat vegan?
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by base698 4y ago
> Yes of course if you can lower your 5% risk of death by all means the vaccine is worth it.
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by base698 4y ago
I don't really understand this level of risk aversion. I'm probably old for hacker news, early 40s and my infection fatality rate is somewhere around 5 to 12 in 100k. I've got many hobbies and lifestyle choices that expose
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by base698 4y ago
Most of the excess deaths are not covid but attributed from effects of lockdown (drug use, untreated cancers).
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by base698 4y ago
Because pharma is 70% of the ad spend on Television news and one of the top lobbying industries?
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by base698 4y ago
IIRC I remember in Miami 20 years ago people with camcorders walking around. Some were brazen about it getting within 5 feet and zooming.
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by base698 4y ago
The National Association of Realtors is the second largest lobbying group. Bet they are at least part of the reason. https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders
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by base698 4y ago
Rescue attempts for a variety of mountain sports do put others at risk. In addition most of the above post was about the effect on first responders.
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by base698 4y ago
Thanks Nintendo and Instagram!
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by base698 4y ago
HELOC.
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by base698 4y ago
I know people even in the 2017 runup that got second mortgages and loans on their 401k.
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by base698 4y ago
Definitely seems like all risk little chance of reward.
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by base698 4y ago
From Frank's more recent book: > What this doctrine means for the politics of income inequality should be clear: a profound complacency. For successful professionals, meritocracy is a beautifully self-serving doctrine, entitling the
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by base698 4y ago
Costco only takes Visa.
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by base698 4y ago
I've seen a lot that go by stall number and it prints the receipt you put on your dash. Saw one recent that did license plate.
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by base698 4y ago
Seems like one row of numbers would suffice. Enter stall. How many minutes? Pay $2.
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by base698 4y ago
Recently been using it and have been happy with it. Being able to plug some of our existing providers in and have one solution to integrate with has been the big win.
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by base698 4y ago
Guess you've never heard about the Comanches that would rape a woman, gut her then put burning coals in the gut cavity while they were still alive. In addition plenty of really barbaric tortures done by the Aztecs documented.
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by base698 4y ago
I recently started the process of moving from my high cost of living California home to a low cost of living, but still on the coast city. Three years ago you'd see homes in this city for $300k. Almost all of them are now approaching
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by base698 4y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Managerial-Revolution-What-Happening-... > Burnham’s claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was being replaced not by socialism, but a new economic system he called “managerialism”; rule b
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by base698 4y ago
Assuming you don't own in a high cost of living area you may have waited too long. I live in one of the highest cost of living areas. My assumption was I'd end up moving and be able to buy with cash in a semi desirable area in a
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by base698 4y ago
Went through a similar situation where a company was taken back private. The RSUs converted to cash value day of deal close and had a staggered payout with roughly the same vesting schedule.
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by base698 5y ago
Christopher Hitchens wrote a book about the Clintons that was pretty scathing. It has a lot of what I assume is the "Clinton Stuff" https://www.amazon.com/One-Left-Lie-Triangulations-Jefferson...

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