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by dba7dba 8y ago
It is weird. We just heard a private person is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to help fund a flyby of the moon. Strange undeed.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I will never choose a car with stick shift to drive around. Not in Los Angeles with the stop/go traffic freeway. Nope. But it is a useful skill to have. What if you go abroad and have to drive a stick shift. Looks like in many nations,
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by dba7dba 8y ago
The aftermath produced a lost decade for European economies and helped lead to the rise of anti-establishment political movements here and abroad. I was visiting family in Hawaii during the 1st Christmas after the financial cris
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I know a guy who was an engineer at a very well known US based engineering startup that made real physical products. Lots of top engineering grads from top schools apply there. His observation of young interns from top schools was that when
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by dba7dba 8y ago
My friend once interviewed for a low level position at a well known startup company. He passed HR, took and passed competency tests, passed interview by future coworkers. Last interview was with manager of the team who happened to be a you
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I believe, at least in California, raising gas tax is frowned upon by voters because the so called highway fund (filled with gas tax money) has been raided to pay for non-road related projects. No one likes bait and switch.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Yes, a career as a firefighter is a great one, only if you can get into it somehow. Those in the know already know this and actively try to channel their sons/nephews/friends into firefighting jobs. 1. Los Angeles Times recently
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I use personally hosted Confluence ($10 a year) to keep snips of notes and personal project related stuff. And also Google docs. Yes I'd be interested in having a tool to keep videos organized.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
You do not have to use any of the syrups. Far better off to just add bit of juice for taste.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
He lives in a house that is worth less than the armored SUV parked outside his house. And drinks cheap alcohol/food, and not for a photo op. What more do you want him to do?
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Jimmy Carter did not send the military. It was local South Korean military/junta that did so.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
In Netflix 'Fire Camp' doc, there's a section on inmates who join to fight fires. From what I could see, they inmates have to pass strict conditioning/training to actually work as a fire fighter. I'd guess if one di
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by dba7dba 8y ago
The thing with LDS is that it's more of an organization with a strong (aka oppressive? or too powerful) leadership at top. Every adult has to go on a 'mission' for a full year? On the flip side, there is no such distinct lead
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Western culture is not the only culture that has racism or issues with racism. I've been called chink by an old grizzled Mexican-American (I think?, not sure). Various Asian cultures have been accused of having racist views. Even again
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I grew up with no AC in a location that got very warm/humid in summer. A fan was it. Now I have a family member who grew up in Hawaii and consequently with AC turned on alot. When it gets a little warm/humid and no AC is available
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I am too.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Few years ago Hana Hou (inflight magazine of Hawaiian Air) had an article on Kimchi scene in Hawaii. https://hanahou.com/14.5/deep-kim-chee It covers a local Korean market where Kimchi is made and sold. And then the co
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I remember reading about how rice is bad because it is arsenic. Well. Stay the hexx away from my rice and kimchi.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
End of an era for sure.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Whether google does it or not, China will.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Nope. Who do you think you are? A customer that we really care about?
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by dba7dba 8y ago
The parts contract between Samsung/Dell was about a billion dollars over 10 years. It included CD/DVD drives, RAM, screen etc. A billion dollar in tech industry today doesn't sound like much but for late 1990s, that was a bi
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Maybe similar happened in 1980s. But I was talking about late 1990s.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
At least you can buy RAM if you really wanted to. For few years in late 1990's, you couldn't buy RAM if even you had the money. Companies like Dell/Apple were unable to manufacture computers to sell because of lack of RAM mo
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by dba7dba 8y ago
No not courts. Apple did not win in other non American courts. Not in Germany. Not in Japan. Not in Australia. Only in a courtroom in Silicon Valley. And with a jury headed by a jury foreman with very questionable opinions and patents himse
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I agree that cars are not good for cities. When I was in S. Korea few years ago, I got to visit a newer apartment complex, with dozens of 20 - 30 stories tall apartment buildings. One important feature the builder/architect added is u
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by dba7dba 8y ago
My goal is not to create a Venezuela like housing crisis. But housing investment is sucking in $ from everywhere, even non-American investors. Some at top are raking in money while everyone else is paying for it. There is a reason more and
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by dba7dba 8y ago
The REAL cause of the housing crisis is more and more rich people/companies view real estate as a way to make money. Not just as a way to park wealth to defend against inflation, but to make $. With astounding return rate. Frankly, I t
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by dba7dba 8y ago
One big reason for remote work was so that companies could stop paying big bucks for commercial real estate, which requires big money and long term commitment. But some and now many more seem to be going the extra mile and hire from outside
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by dba7dba 8y ago
+1 for Ansible from me. Of all the tools, I first heard of Puppet first and so I'm assuming it was first on scene? From my limited experience, it seems Puppet is most widely used tool because of that reason. Not necessarily the best of

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