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by brimble 4y ago
They already did a Coke ad for like 5 awkward minutes in the middle of an episode of Stranger Things. Incidentally, all this talk of how badly they're doing just reminded me to cancel, which I did, minutes ago.
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by brimble 4y ago
Russia's why it was a net loss , but not why they missed their projection so badly.
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by brimble 4y ago
Hahaha, I guess I've avoided that because I rarely purchase anything that involves electricity from Amazon. I don't trust them not to burn down my house.
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by brimble 4y ago
There's a big difference between wiring up a new outlet that'll likely last for decades without further effort and will very likely require an identical or near-identical process to replace even 30 years from now, and care and f
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by brimble 4y ago
Yeah, McCarthy's one of the (simply the , perhaps?) most famous living English-language "literary" fiction authors around (had a somewhat-popular movie made based on his The Road , even) so if you don't keep up with th
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by brimble 4y ago
I'll try that! Dan Carlin's works are some of the ones I find easiest to follow, but still too difficult, so maybe I'll try it on him first.
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by brimble 4y ago
How much time does one need to spend on distant news to know enough of it for that purpose, though? If you've got a whole lot of refugees heading to your city, local news will cover it. Otherwise, knowing the basics seems like plenty t
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by brimble 4y ago
> I hear that said a lot, but I doubt it, at least not with those proportions. Those things offer important perspective, but to put it bluntly: George Washington isn't running for president anymore and slavery has been abolished for
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by brimble 4y ago
I think a big missing piece for the whole thing is the Just Works factor. You're either stuck with cloud garbage (some of which does, kinda, Just Work, until it doesn't), or a bunch of DIY. Meanwhile, with traditional dumb fixture
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by brimble 4y ago
The entire market of smart-home shit's gonna keep being terrible until/unless some decent, reliable, inter-operable, long-lived standard takes over or is imposed. It's all too expensive to be worth it unless you can be pretty
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by brimble 4y ago
> I understand the sentiment, and I'm also careful about how much news I consume, but there's a fine line between this and being privileged to be able to afford to skip news because those suffering aren't your family. I do
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by brimble 4y ago
Something about most podcasts make them really hard to listen to, for me. Not sure why. Among all media I find them uniquely difficult to follow. My attention wanders and I end up missing most of it. Radio-news-style programs are fine, fo
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by brimble 4y ago
Nearly everyone would be a better citizen if they swapped 95% of the time the spend on the news for reading classics and textbooks in political science, economics, and history. Even the days of the morning paper and evening TV news program
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by brimble 4y ago
> You can't really do much better than a private car. I once read an analysis linked on HN, claiming that cars are only a personal net benefit if you're rich enough to pay for someone to drive you around, or live in a city th
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by brimble 4y ago
> You don't and they screech about the resulting sprawl as development becomes more diffuse. Huh? Don't highways enable sprawl? The brand new neighborhood built way out "in the country" (not for long...) next to the
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by brimble 4y ago
Generational. Younger generations get their unhinged "takes" from Twitter and podcasts.
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by brimble 4y ago
"Elder Millennial" checking in. Since moving out on my own (quite a while ago, at this point) I've never had cable at all. Nor have any of my friends, who span from about my age down to the oldest edge of Gen Z. Nearly all my
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by brimble 4y ago
A 2nd-place news channel only watched by people old enough to still pay for cable, launched a streaming service with only bad or re-run content. Predictably, this didn't go well.
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by brimble 4y ago
Depending on field and author, that's downright common. French is still often untranslated in works that tend toward the literary or philosophical. Before the 70s or so, Latin (usually some unattributed quotation you were expected to r
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by brimble 4y ago
After messing with some RPis and Odroids, I went the other way and just got a single used Lenovo workstation off Ebay. After a memory upgrade (with ECC) and adding an SSD for the system disk, it was about $200, or about the same as fully ou
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by brimble 4y ago
I'd never heard the term until a few years ago. They were just bad puns before that.
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by brimble 4y ago
The cartoon Talespin, too.
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by brimble 4y ago
What's the flat fee? I have a gen 1 iPad Pro 12.9" with a broken screen and all the quotes I could get for screen replacement were about the same as buying another one used (which is how I got this one, with an intact screen at th
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by brimble 4y ago
Zeppelins look so surreal. So much work put into a now-totally-dead technology, making these huge, incredible machines, that were only favored for a very brief span of time.
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by brimble 4y ago
The end of CNN, maybe. Fox News seems to be doing fine. It's wall-to-wall alternate-reality stuff that turns out to be false or deliberately misrepresented, when I give it even a cursory check, but it's doing fine.
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by brimble 4y ago
If social media were about private communication among circles of friends and family, this wouldn't be an issue. Instead it's also some kind of broadcast medium with an opaque curation/boosting system. That's the part th
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by brimble 4y ago
I think the reason so many surprising distance comparisons in Europe involve Germany is that most people have in their heads that Germany's farther West than it is. And that it doesn't stretch as far East as it does. Maybe it&#x27
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by brimble 4y ago
This is about kids sending each other nudes, not the broader iCloud scanning thing that was all over the news a while back.
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by brimble 4y ago
Sometimes you want a bad movie, though.
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by brimble 4y ago
I'm really, really not happy about there not being a single OS I consider comparable, when it comes to getting work done. It's like the rest are all competing with each other and macOS is just off doing its own (better) thing, whi

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