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by dirtyhippiefree 2y ago
> Even comments looked down as misguided by mainstream academics can be substantial They still get voted down fairly uniformly regardless…acceptance of that which we cannot change…
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by dirtyhippiefree 2y ago
Translating poetry is tricky at best…worse if transliteration and cross-cultural currents pull in multiple directions…
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by dirtyhippiefree 2y ago
Doesn’t really ring, no rhyming bling…
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by dirtyhippiefree 2y ago
Alembic Inc. still exists . Google Maps indicates it moved from Santa Rosa to Rohnert Park. Rolling Stone article from a decade ago: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dead-wood-is-t...
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by dirtyhippiefree 2y ago
If there’s a disk failure, the archive is useful to determine what’s missing. If there is none, they probably restored from a backup…but that’s the trick… Are they truly identical or does it merely seem that way…
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by dirtyhippiefree 2y ago
He refers to deviations from the book…I see what you did there…
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
We learned during the Great Recession that our whole economy is built on housing. Headline is more accurate than homeowners (now corporations speculating by buying houses as investments, see Zillow) care to admit.
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
FTA: Instead, it's much more efficient to sling asteroids down to Earth first, and mine them on the ground. Until now, all asteroid analysis has focused on keeping asteroids away from Earth. Redirecting asteroids •to• Earth won’t igni
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SoumniBot: The new Android banker's unique techniques(securelist.com)
2 points by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago|0 comments
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
Even libraries have dropped late fees, but YMMV…
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
Some areas of the country have multiple counties with unbelievable selection between all the branches!
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
Glad they fixed that. https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/27/7926001/youtube-drops-fla...
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I Became a Python Programmer–and Fell Out of Love with the Machine(wired.com)
2 points by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago|1 comments
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
https://archive.is/A2S72
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
> Sure, it's very easy! I have issues when someone says a complicated issue can be solved easily…realistic expectations…
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
They’re doing what Hallmark did by buying the competition…podcast analytics…everything… Google “Spotify buys podcasts,” read ‘em and weep. (sad tone of voice, no irony or snark)
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
Bedbugs love fabric for hiding…many good reasons for the switch.
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
The story of Eugene Debs parallels what might happen currently. We’ve had a presidential candidate run from prison. His crime was protesting WWI…
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
Worth mentioning that the concept is how Fast Times at Ridgemont High was written by Cameron Crowe. Take a look at the prices for a used copy. Not many books pull it off.
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
Shann Nix, former KGO radio host. Been awhile. I see she’s living in Europe now. https://www.chucklinggoat.co.uk/meet-shann/
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
>Greece isn't as tidy when it comes to administration. Bingo. Winning by becoming invisible.
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
Considering the state of the Greek economy, I perceive he’s living “off the grid” like a king. With decades behind him, he likely won by remaining invisible.
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
I remember Larry Ellison (Oracle) in the news saying that Privacy Is Dead a quarter century ago, long enough the article merely referred to it as famous (no date needed) in 2018. It was written six years ago... https://securitycu
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
Daniel Keyes wrote a book in 2000 about writing the book…Algernon, Charlie and I… The ending has the author talking to the scientists doing the research described in Flowers for Algernon. Science wasn’t anymore put off by fiction than the s
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
I remember a quote from when I was in Amway. Points can’t be eaten and have no nutritional value.
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
Please use Ask HN at the beginning of posts like this. Thank you.
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
FTA: Even Osso, the former district attorney who first brought the case, said he could see the hypocrisy in the sentence. Six months of jail time is standard for a first defender charged with a third-degree crime, he said, but “the crime it
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
They could have had more than one Oompa Loompa. See Twitter link below.
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
Let’s face it. The domain queer dot af simply wasn’t going to last, given Afghanistan’s current government…
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by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
> Numerous Vice editors and staff writers were paid salaries as little as $35,000 a year in New York City (you’d find retirement or financing a home purchase easier with a career at fucking Quiznos). The link to Glassdoor demonstrated th

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