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by blamazon 4y ago
I went on a kick looking up Severance locations recently, the 'Perpetuity Wing' is the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY, and is worth a visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River_Museum It's int
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by blamazon 4y ago
"And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
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by blamazon 4y ago
This article lists a few products in that space: https://www.conexpoconagg.com/news/improving-jobsite-product...
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by blamazon 4y ago
Same here. 12 mini, tried in safari and YouTube app.
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by blamazon 4y ago
There's an official sign in Boston that advises drivers they need only travel 3,365 more miles to reach Newport, Oregon: https://twitter.com/MassDOT/status/806867577112854529
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by blamazon 4y ago
Some time after a period of my life where I was routinely traveling to and from Cleveland, I woke up from a nap on a plane to Milwaukee and saw this sign, it really got me: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/welcome-to
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by blamazon 4y ago
Ha, that unlocked a memory of removing those resistors on my motorcycle to get more power. I did not get more power but when I explained what I did to the local mechanic I did get a valuable lesson in how combustion works.
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by blamazon 4y ago
Haha, love the story. Always wanted one of those Citroen sedans. It sadly feels like that culture of being able to get out of a jam with one's car with a bit of simple mcgyvering disappears a bit more every day in modern times. And yes
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by blamazon 4y ago
That'd be the Green Bank Observatory[1], located within the US National Radio Quiet Zone [2] where radio emission is tightly managed. In the highest sensitivity zones near observation facilities, only diesel engines are allowed in moto
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by blamazon 4y ago
Haven't been to Svalbard but sadly my experience on the mainland in Norway and other nearby places with polar night is that cloud cover is near constant. Perhaps 75% of the time. But, the sky is jaw dropping the rest of the time.
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by blamazon 4y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33576267 9 hours ago with 48 comments.
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by blamazon 4y ago
No worries!
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by blamazon 4y ago
I'm light-sensitive but for me the problem of sleep can be remedied adequately with technology. Aluminum foil is one easy way to make a room extremely light-proof, and from there one just has to simulate the sunrise/sunset with li
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by blamazon 4y ago
Ah, so it is in there, I missed it. (I'm not cut out for life in Svalbard, for this and many other reasons) I love how condensed that statement is.
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One thing I didn't see in here that is absolutely relevant to life (but perhaps considered a foregone conclusion by the Norwegian government) is the concept of midnight sun and polar night, where the sun is periodically either above or
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by blamazon 4y ago
I want to give you a thorough answer but I've a lifetime of bad experiences with that airport and I'm on my phone where I can only type for so long before my thumbs hurt. My issue is not so much about the physical design of the ai
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by blamazon 4y ago
I intended for it to be an obviously farcical comparison. Wordplay, if you will. The word lived is part of the 'punchline' that spending 18 hours somewhere is comically different than 18 years, as you point out, even if it did fee
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by blamazon 4y ago
Agreed, but it's absolute paradise when you're stuck in CDG.
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by blamazon 4y ago
I once lived in the CDG airport for 18ish hours and that was unpleasant enough. RIP to a true legend. There's been a Sheraton hotel inside one of the terminals since ~1995, hopefully he got a chance to stay there before he died.
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by blamazon 4y ago
A 30 minute documentary from the year 2000 about Sir Alfred is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ngNP8ZNutNY He speaks well in english, smokes an exquisite tobacco pipe indoors and you can hear the airport flip boards
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by blamazon 4y ago
From his Wikipedia article, I imagine this book provided some income as well: > In 2004 Nasseri's autobiography, The Terminal Man,[6] was published. It was co-written by Nasseri with British author Andrew Donkin and was reviewed in
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by blamazon 4y ago
I forget who, but some human described crypto as speedrunning the past century or two of financial history, which seems apt. I think the traditional banks and regulators learned similarly hard lessons too, it was just mostly before I was b
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by blamazon 4y ago
Mythbusters and Alton Brown teamed up in 2012 to try cooking a thanksgiving dinner with a car: https://youtu.be/tqABijWMlxA Alton Brown was recently asked about this and replied simply: "inedible", but Adam Savage
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by blamazon 4y ago
Although I'm a fan, Brightline also leveraged a bunch of existing rail, whereas the California project is almost entirely new right of way. That makes it hard to compare the projects apples to apples in my eyes. It seems intuitive that
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by blamazon 4y ago
I flew relentlessly for work for years and the view out the window of the plane was the one thing that never got boring or I took for granted. Actually, add lie flat seats. Everything else definitely became part of the wallpaper. It... migh
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by blamazon 4y ago
You're still a hero. Thank you for sleeping so I don't have to feel awkward making you think I am looking at you while looking out the window.
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>This is a scan/OCR of Exhibits H and J from the Twitter v. Musk case, with some of the conversations de-interleaved and of course converted from a fuzzy scan to text to make for easier reading. https://danluu.com/el
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My experience as a frequent flyer is that First Class is the most likely cabin to have all windows closed for 100% of the flight. It's baffling to me, people will even keep closed the window facing New York on the approach to LaGuardia
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And if abortion is first on the list of women's reproductive rights to take away, what's next? Affordable access to reliable birth control is currently enjoyed by many voters in this country.
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There's been just as much, if not more, 'loss porn' on that subreddit. I think people just upvote the extremes. The middle of the bell curve is uninteresting: "Take it to /r/investing" as they say.

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