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by et-al 7y ago
> The trick would be to have new tech perfectly emulate whatever the old generation grew up with. Sounds like skeuomorphism. Wait for the next generation of designers to bring it back.
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by et-al 8y ago
> GeoCities lost everything. Small nitpick, but Yahoo deleted everything. Let's not forget how poorly run Yahoo is.
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by et-al 8y ago
Bingo. > Surrounded by transplants, we together inhabit a prehistoric California of 1970s sedans, rickety on the highway, hot air blowing through open windows into the backseat. [...] Our coworkers had moved here to be a part of the futu
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by et-al 8y ago
How about growing up brown in the UK, but also being able to immigrate to California? > Born in England to Indian parents who later moved to Santa Barbara, Calif., [Pico Iyer] attended graduate school at Oxford and Harvard and then went
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by et-al 8y ago
re: stickers on Macbooks In an office, or conference, where multiple people have the same work-issued laptop, the easiest way for folks to not mix up their laptops is to slap a sticker or two on it.
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by et-al 8y ago
Get yourself some kefir or ayran instead. Yakault is a "pro-biotic" only in the sense that it provides sugar to the bacteria in your body.
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by et-al 8y ago
Except your comparison is invalid because the core point of government is to serve the people (tax and fund positive externalities), whereas private companies want to maximize profits from consumers.
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by et-al 8y ago
Yeah, this list is still pitiful: https://twofactorauth.org/#banking
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by et-al 8y ago
Two is one; one is none is more of a military slogan. Backups should follow the 3-2-1 mantra, fullstop: 3 copies, on 2 different media, and 1 offsite.
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by et-al 8y ago
> So, if Via is unsustainable and unprofitable, and was acquired by local government, that wouldn't really be any different from how the LA Metro got started. Why would LA Metro pay to acquire Via when it can just run identical bu
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by et-al 8y ago
For the record, it's the only TJ's in SF that does this. And I agree, it works well given how much traffic it gets.
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by et-al 8y ago
Yes, but I also saw the domain and context-switched to electronic music.
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by et-al 8y ago
SV has always worked with the DoD, and the internet was a DARPA project. More tangibly, Lockheed Martin was founded in Palo Alto, and Raytheon is still in the area. But I'm guessing your question is asking whether or not these products
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by et-al 8y ago
No one's mentioned marketing? We're probably bombarded with more marketing than we ever have before. In addition, it's so easy to buy stuff with 1-click shopping with 2-day shipping. It's known that web sites want to be
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by et-al 8y ago
And the other parts of the post are copied verbatim from the MTProto paper. Check out the "MTProto is not IND-CCA secure" section Eduard Toloza supposedly wrote: https://gitlab.com/edu4rdshl/blog/blob&#x2
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by et-al 8y ago
> The problems with PG&E were caused by the government giving it a monopoly. Making it non-profit won't help. The only thing that will help is competition. Admittedly, I don't know PG&E's history, but as a utility
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by et-al 8y ago
...or you just go skate, play soccer, throw a frisbee in a nearby park. Unless one happens to live in a skitown, snow sports are already more expensive than alternatives that don't require a roadtrip, let alone season passes. If someon
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by et-al 8y ago
Did the exact same thing, but was super paranoid, so bought CD-Rs from two different brands and and made two copies every time I burned a CD. One to send home, the other to carry with me throughout my journey. One of my CDs did have some co
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by et-al 8y ago
Last October (and this November) when the SF Bay Area was filled with smoke particles in the sky, I noticed the light was very "nostalgic". And it did make me wonder if older color photographs had warmer tones due to Kodachrome, o
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by et-al 8y ago
> the fact that the group is assembled for the purpose of the particular outdoor adventure still prevents there from being much organic significant friendship building I'm of the belief that you don't "create" close
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by et-al 8y ago
Your pilgrimage to Lourdes sounds interesting. Do you remember the route, or the at least the origin of your trip? Thanks :)
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by et-al 8y ago
What about beer gardens with communal seating? I'm afflicted with a resting bitch face, but if I'm at Zeitgeist in SF, strangers will usually strike up conversation with my party.
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by et-al 8y ago
IKEA in Shanghai had many elderly people socializing in their cafeteria, so IKEA ended up forcing the seniors to buy something if they wanted to sit there: http://shanghaiist.com/2011/09/09/photos_elderly_love
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by et-al 8y ago
Yeah, there was a recent Twitter survey on this issue by an SF Examiner reporter: https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/10620929010002042... Wired also mentioned that women in NYC pay on average $26-50/m
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by et-al 8y ago
(RDF? Resident Drug Friend?)
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by et-al 8y ago
Cheers--I didn't want to single out any country in particular because it's a fairly common stereotype in whichever expat scene.
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by et-al 8y ago
All the distance in the world means nothing if a traveler is still mentally tied to their home country. There's a good number of expats in [country] who hang out at Irish pubs with other expats, bitch about [country], and don't bo
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by et-al 8y ago
Agreed. For me, most restaurants fall into good/so-so/not good buckets, so I dislike ranking them and selecting a best, however folks love top 10 lists.
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by et-al 8y ago
Lyft offered this back in 2015 and called it "HotSpots". I thought it was great for the same reasons, but unfortunately they discontinued it after one summer. https://www.recode.net/2015/8/25/1161800
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by et-al 8y ago
The use case is: traveler in _______ country uses Skype to call local numbers. Be it a local restaurant, or a new business contact.

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