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by corrral 4y ago
IIRC mine had a chat with my wife and one of the first things he did was ask me how many kids I had. If he'd gotten answers he didn't like, I assume it would have been a lot harder to convince him to do the procedure.
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> - The slow motion pass of the Mustang in Empire Of The Sun, that is for planes nuts like me ... "P-51! Cadillac of the skies!" God, that's a powerful scene. So much tension of themes and emotions and situation.
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by corrral 4y ago
I've more than once seen a new database company grow from nothing to a serious business by being 2-5x for one narrow set of users and 0.1x-0.5x for the rest, but being sold as 2-10x for everyone. Most of their market doesn't e
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It is perhaps a relevant observation that "free market" and "capitalism" don't share a Wikipedia page.
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> Now, most people spend a majority of their time in a locked down environment (phones and tablets) consuming locked down content (subscription only, on approved devices). The default 15 years ago was open, now it is default closed. I l
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People use "upper middle" to mean different things. Some use it to mean the upper portion of the middle class, by income. Others use it to mean a distinct (and much smaller) class between the middle and upper, with distinct tenden
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Soft buttons and software-mediated knobs replacing real buttons and real knobs that actually do things. Best microwave I've ever used was made in, I think, the late 70s. Didn't even have a turntable, and worked just fine without i
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I'd class smartphones and in fact the entire Internet as largely negative, for me. But there are a handful of uses of both that are so damn valuable that they're hard to get rid of. I used to dream about getting rid of both comp
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I know for a fact that a lot of people who build real things take pride in seeing them in use and still around many years later. I think they'd absolutely be demoralized if the typical case saw their work torn up and discarded without
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10%? Holy shit, I'd say a solid 90% of my output never brought enough value to justify doing it in the first place. Much of it without ever seeing a real user. Software development feels like digging holes and filling them back up agai
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by corrral 4y ago
Definitions for this are all over the place. Fussell's "upper middle class" lifestyle couldn't be stably maintained by households under the top quintile (probably not under the top 10%, even), nor could the upper-middle
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Current minivan market is batshit crazy. We've had dealerships call us up offering thousands more than we paid for our (used) minivan three or four years ago, with 1/3 the mileage it has now. It's basically gone up in value
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My last (used) car shopping experience saw me struggling to get over paying more than $10k for a car, because we really wanted a minivan and they're (IMO) damned expensive. That was a few years ago. I am... concerned about how painful
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by corrral 4y ago
Can they not use other kinds of tires, and/or are those a cheap kind of tire? Because otherwise I expect that most that are on the road longer than a tire change, won't be using that kind, and that'll get more true the more
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by corrral 4y ago
"I think" can usually be inferred from context and isn't needed, but bad or adversarial (hard to tell the difference) reading & online forums have encouraged everyone to write worse, in order to defend against flames from
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I think it falls naturally out of trying to recommend greats to people—at some point you need an, "OK but if you are only going to watch one of these, it should be this one...." Not objective, sure, and not authoritative. On a r
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by corrral 4y ago
> Conversely, living on top of a hill, the wind absolutely screams in winter. After two or three days of constant howling wind, sometimes I feel like I'm going nuts. Indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Win
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by corrral 4y ago
If a marketplace lets itself get so dodgy that this kind of thing's normal, that's absolutely the marketplace's fault. There's a big, shady flea market in a bad part of my city. Barbed-wire protecting the roof. Heavy bar
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by corrral 4y ago
I'd watch the various Great Plains aquifers. I think the main outcome of drying isn't going to be thirst, but hunger, and that's the area to keep your eye on for when that'll really kick into high gear. Those aquifers
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Short answer: no. Long answer, according to Garner: Cummings, E.E. The poet Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962), a shy man, early in his career used the lowercase i for the first-person singular pronoun. (This habit, now commonplace in Int
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by corrral 4y ago
How many exchanges building on this before we reach a particularly helpless flavor of solipsism, you think? I'd say about three more posts.
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> Spreadsheets like 123 started becoming mainstream in the late 80s, then slow slide to "High Level" started. Then the trend greatly accelerated when presentation software became mainstream. Before that, it was easier to talk d
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> If I was going to be disparaging, I'd say that their closest Christian analogue is the nakedly revisionist evangelical Christianity of the the American 1970s and forwards. I think the current strain, as far as Biblical interpretat
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They're very prone, in my experience, to believing that their explanations are ultra-rational, though, reality be damned. And to falling for arguments with the trappings of rationality, but deeply flawed premises or early steps slyly
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by corrral 4y ago
If you're considering maintaining homes on two continents, I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess the local job market in at least one of those two places doesn't affect you at all.
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Heh, at least it's their own money in those cases.
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A boss-type one time: "When I was with X, I built four datacenters" Me, with a career that overlaps a time when one or two people building a datacenter with a little help from contractors for e.g. the electrical work and hvac, was
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by corrral 4y ago
I was always told the ones in Kansas were going to/from Mexico on this migration, but I gather from Wikipedia that that was all actually happening much farther West, and ours weren't the migratory kind.
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> 1. "Wow, have you read all these books?" means "I never read books." There's a short story, I think in one of my New Hugo Winners volumes, in which a character responds to that question with something like, &qu
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> Soft skills I don’t mind; grown up interviews I don’t mind. BINGO. I'm good at the job and good at normal interviews. I more-or-less enjoy both, even. I like talking to clients, and I'm good at it. I can sell myself. And I

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