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by davidw 2y ago
The argument about politics here is that it is more important than most tech discussions, so could easily crowd out the tech and 'interesting' (but perhaps kind of obscure) articles. For instance a discussion about Ukraine... w
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by davidw 2y ago
I can't be the only one who, when I read "space force" hears a deep, reverb-heavy, Buck Rogers kind of voice going "spaaaaaaaace foooooooorce"
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by davidw 2y ago
I did a fun small Elixir thing that fetches my Albertsons receipts and stores them so I can track our grocery spending there over time. It's produced some interesting results that have changed our spending habits a little bit.
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by davidw 2y ago
"Free trade is good, actually" where different places can focus on doing what they do best and trade for other goods and services. But you have to have reasonably sane trading partners for that to work and that has gone out the wi
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by davidw 2y ago
Trying to time the market is a bad idea, I keep repeating to myself. But the idea of having more cash on hand to weather uncertain times, including moving back to Europe if that looks like a good move, seems appealing right now.
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by davidw 2y ago
Probably trying to get whatever far-right, neonazi adjacent party elected there like in Germany.
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by davidw 2y ago
Here are more articles about housing, supply and demand: https://bendyimby.com/2024/01/01/housing-supply-and-demand/
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by davidw 2y ago
It turns out a friend has a broken ankle right now, so as an experiment I tried walking on it, but he just yelled a lot. I'm suspicious of these results.
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by davidw 2y ago
Meanwhile AP News is being hung out to dry because they are continuing to use the commonly accepted name. "Free speech" indeed.
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by davidw 2y ago
> Most people ate lunch together; often at a restaurant. This was such a big letdown when I moved back to the US from Italy. Over there, at the company I worked at, there were two big groups that mostly ate lunch together - those who bro
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by davidw 2y ago
I wonder if someone in the US will declare that, actually, Signal is actively targeting the Russia-aligned threat actors.
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by davidw 2y ago
> annexing Taiwan Grabbing territories by force or economic coercion seems like a despotic thing to do, doesn't it. Even threatening to do so would probably make people trust you less and be less likely to cooperate, I would think.
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Wow, that's pretty silly. These are roads, after all; there's tons of room for cyclists.
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My one big nitpick with it is that I can't use it from both my Chromebook and phone outside of the 'screencasting' thing where I can access the phone from the Chromebook. But that's kind of clunky. I detest using a phone
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by davidw 2y ago
Is this yours? It's a tough problem, I think. It's missing a lot of roads where I am in Bend, Oregon. Basically, anywhere in the western US with Forest Service or BLM land is going to have a ton of gravel roads. The trick is &quot
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by davidw 2y ago
The same one that declared that presidents are above the law and that the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment is basically meaningless? The one that slow-walked a bunch of cases related to presidential crimes? I don't think it&#x
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by davidw 2y ago
They declared that the DOGE stuff is official presidential records and thus not subject to FOIA. https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-doge-records-public-inf... Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the right one: they&#x2
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by davidw 2y ago
That's a key learning from this discussion.
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Sure seems that way.
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Too many people high on their own supply. I would gladly work for less money for a small company doing something valuable in the real world with realistic ideas about steady, healthy growth. They're tough to find though.
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by davidw 2y ago
I got a Kindle when I lived in Italy and it was so amazing being able to instantly get books in English with no shipping or import fees or any of that. Now I regret how much control Amazon has over a substantial number of books I paid for,
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by davidw 2y ago
Or they could just, like, call Tulsi Gabbard.
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by davidw 2y ago
Came here to mention ... Grant county being Grant county. Beautiful place to visit, though!
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by davidw 2y ago
The photo looks like it's an 80ies synth-pop band. Also, "Sure, one could download all forty Slackware floppy disk images, but it would take quite a bit of time on a 28.8kbps modem" Yes...yes it does. On a more serious note,
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by davidw 2y ago
I did some software work, years ago on a 'perimeter' machine that projects points of light at varying intensities so that doctors can track macular degradation. https://www.icare-world.com/us/products/#pe
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Except that foreign aid is a tiny part of the US budget.
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Strong Towns had people take pictures on 'Black Friday' of mall parking lots, just to see. Many of them still had a ton of excess capacity.
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Cars are about as healthy as Daleks are for cities.
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That's awesome! And, given current prices, a great opportunity for someone to own a home they otherwise might not have been able to. Here's an article about some of the other things happening: https://www.sightline.org&
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It's about right from what I've seen. "The high cost of free parking" isn't just an ironic title. https://cityobservatory.org/the-price-of-parking/ - and this is from before the pandemic.

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