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by gdubs 7y ago
HotWired — sibling to “Wired”, and was a fertile ground of invention for the early web. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotWired
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by gdubs 7y ago
I use an Emile Henry pizza stone.
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by gdubs 7y ago
With mortgages people are generally paying a ton of interest up front, and it takes a long time to build up equity. People are limited by the equity in how much they can borrow against the loan, and for a very long time the bank has a milli
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by gdubs 7y ago
This is exactly my point though. If you look at averages, a jumbo home owner in the US is considered wealthy — but only if you ignore their local market. Like in the Bay Area where you could earn $100k a year and still be considered “low in
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by gdubs 7y ago
With the Green Egg, you’re paying for a brand name for sure. The Kamado is definitely not cheap , but it’s typically around half the price.
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by gdubs 7y ago
They’re not wealthy by the standard of the Bay Area, which is the point of the comment you’re replying to. Wealth is relative. Otherwise you could say that just about any American middle class family is wealthy — just look at the entire wor
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by gdubs 7y ago
I have a green-egg[1] style ceramic grill that works really well for pizza. Wood-fired, and can get up to a pretty good temperature. I use a pizza stone in it. 1: The exact brand is a Kamado ceramic grill.
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by gdubs 7y ago
I would bet that the majority of small businesses in Austin bank on the yearly spike in traffic, and that missing out on that is a very big deal.
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by gdubs 7y ago
If we’re going to overgeneralize, there’s a comment like yours on every article criticizing any of the big companies. It’s more productive to the conversation to simply state why you don’t think the conversation is accurate, or why you feel
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by gdubs 7y ago
For all my cynicism with politics, I was really impressed that the mayor of Austin stepped up and forced the cancelation of SXSW. That’s an enormous amount of money for the community, and it could not have been easy. Not a lot of “lessons
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by gdubs 7y ago
Interesting theory that reminds me of the Japanese researcher’s paper posted around early April which proposed that shallow breaths of alcohol vapor (by dissolving boiling water into whiskey or sake) could “disinfect” the lungs, and provide
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by gdubs 7y ago
There seems to be a wealth of information here. I wonder, though, if the goal would be better served breaking this up into a series. Or perhaps applying the 80/20 rule to the list to come up with truly “a few” items that will have the
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by gdubs 7y ago
Basically what COVID-19 does is bind to receptors in the delicate tissue of your lung’s air sacs. This prevents oxygen from crossing the barrier into the bloodstream. What makes it worse is that your own immune response, which comes to try
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by gdubs 7y ago
I’m too tired at the moment to figure out where I stand on this [issue of free speech / assembly] but I have a general question: I thought the Supreme Court has already shown that there are limits to speech, such as yelling “Fire” in a
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by gdubs 7y ago
Ok, finally seems like the right place to share my pitch for a Silicon Valley spin-off: Gavin Belsom, and a bunch of other billionaires, flee to New Zealand only to find it’s crowded with all of the people they know (and despise). So now
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by gdubs 7y ago
Really beautiful results. It’s interesting to see Ray Tracing’s durability. In the 90s it was so prohibitively expensive (computationally), that a whole bunch of techniques were developed to achieve realism in somewhat... hackier ways. Now
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Interaction Geometry: An Ecological Perspective(fs.usda.gov)
1 points by gdubs 7y ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 7y ago
Definitely feels like an inflection point. With all of the rush to return to “normal”, I’ve been thinking about a lot of the ways in which “normal” is pretty busted. And yes, many of us are fortunate to live in this point in history. But a
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by gdubs 7y ago
Wow, this is amazing. The trenches are super cool, but there’s a wealth of info in the article, especially around how they arrived at creeping varieties, and how they cold-hardened lemons by painstakingly moving each successive generation’s
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by gdubs 7y ago
I recently posted a link to Bill Mollison’s “Introduction to Permaculture”, which is available to borrow digitally on the archive.org [1] One critical aspect of permaculture is water management. It’s usually one of the first things you cons
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by gdubs 7y ago
Stanford’s study should give us more info soon. They recently screened a decent sized group in Santa Clara County to get a sense of how widespread it is, using their newly developed finger-prick test which looks for both antigens and antibo
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by gdubs 7y ago
How does the price compare to traditional survey methods?
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by gdubs 7y ago
Ok, this is tangential but there’s a lot of people in this thread who seem to have a good knowledge of lidar: How close can you get to creating a decent topographical survey of your property with what’s available to consumers? Could you wal
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by gdubs 7y ago
It’s fair to be skeptical when there’s a laboratory that studies SARS-like coronaviruses in the area where the outbreak occurred. People are conflating ‘engineered’ with ‘lab leak’. It would actually be pretty irresponsible not to fully a
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by gdubs 7y ago
First, the human immune system is astounding. That’s become more clear to me than ever. That cells can signal distress, that memory cells exist — it’s all pretty unbelievable. Second, it’s still so crazy to me that we let this get out of co
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We Need to Talk About What Coronavirus Recoveries Look Like(nytimes.com)
5 points by gdubs 7y ago|1 comments
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by gdubs 7y ago
Does anyone have a favorite example of the coolest thing done in Emacs / coolest, most interesting configuration?
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See how your city’s climate might change by 2070(nationalgeographic.com)
2 points by gdubs 7y ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 7y ago
Is the source on this fact “The Big Short”? Because, it’s contested and not black and white. Mortality rates actually decreased during the Great Depression. Also, this isn’t a normal “unemployment” situation either — disaster relief isn’t
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by gdubs 7y ago
Not really. Only in that the kids symptoms were fairly mild — cranky, cold-like symptoms, etc. Which is apparently fairly common with coronavirus and younger kids (thankfully).

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