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by gffrd 3y ago
You've read your fair share of T&C's …
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by gffrd 3y ago
Am I the only one who doesn't understand the obsession with ramming tech in to existing accessories? Why must sunglasses also be a camera? Or Alexa? It's not for lack of knowing the answer. Because you're already taking your
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by gffrd 3y ago
And don't forget the property values!
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by gffrd 3y ago
Say you were going to eat 8oz of beef. How many oz of mushrooms would one have to eat to get the same amount of protein?
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by gffrd 3y ago
Fair! If I've spent all day on calls, then proceed to watch, for example, anything Aaron Sorkin, I'm likely to treat it less charitably (because I'm tired of flapping gums) than if I watched it after a week in the desert (and
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by gffrd 3y ago
hahaha: https://www.ranker.com/list/actors-that-love-history-but-not... The _Actors Who Love History But Not Accuracy_ list. Mel Gibson holding #1, but look out: Costner is on the rise!
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by gffrd 3y ago
Isn't the advantage of ranking in support of what you're saying? If, in the future, your tastes change, a few things get ranked "above" what formerly held your top slot. The top slot was never "200 absolute points,&
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by gffrd 3y ago
Thank you!
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by gffrd 3y ago
Help: what are “headless e-commerce stores?” Is that like having an eComm shop built atop Shopify?
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by gffrd 3y ago
Parent is right. "Discount buyers" are their own camp, and aren't buying on price, objectively—they're buying on perceived savings. Note that I say _perceived_. If you had a group of discount buyers shopping for chips, a
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by gffrd 3y ago
First posted yesterday, 5/15: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37128642
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by gffrd 3y ago
An inattentive, indecisive driver is a cyclist’s biggest threat. Neither of those are options driving in a city of any size.
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by gffrd 3y ago
> Winter-holiday returns in the United States are now worth more than three hundred billion dollars a year. Zachary [Rogers] said, "So one and a half per cent of U.S. G.D.P.—which would be bigger than the G.D.P. of many countries ar
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by gffrd 3y ago
… and try crossing the street when to your left is a large SUV/truck—it's like peeking out of foxhole: you see nothing until all of a sudden 6000lbs of metal are inches from your face. Fun fact: An M1 Abrams battle tank has better
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by gffrd 3y ago
Where do you think “speed” sits on the stack-ranking of priorities for Eiffel Tower repainting/surface maintenance? For a monument of its value, I would almost think speed/lower cost would be seen as red flags.
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by gffrd 3y ago
Finally, a new ice product for cocktail enthusiasts to fetishize.
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by gffrd 3y ago
Solution: move to New York or Tokyo. Never dark!
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by gffrd 3y ago
Did you shift that "energy" elsewhere? I've found that my routines are like seasons: the time and place for a routine just passes eventually. This used to frustrated me. It's hard to build routines, and the initiation en
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by gffrd 3y ago
The boogey man loves to nibble on runners
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by gffrd 3y ago
But imagine the response the Higgs boson COULD have gotten by setting it in Arial instead!!!
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by gffrd 3y ago
He did pretty well. He was our neigbborhood bum, and positioned himself outside the high-end grocer. He expressed enjoying his lifestyle, and seemed to relish his “role” … almost leaning in to cultural stereotypes and subverting them.
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by gffrd 3y ago
Try your local health & wellness shop. (you know: the place you get non-FDA supplements, expensive toothpaste, and anything Himalayan salt) Mine has had a non-alcoholic wine + spirits section growing steadily over the past 12 months fro
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by gffrd 3y ago
It's advertised in window displays at mini marts and cigarette/vape shops, so a big no to that last one.
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by gffrd 3y ago
I once had a homeless fella ask me to buy him a beer by name: Voodoo Ranger. Which is like 9% alcohol, sold in 16oz cans. As casual drinkers drink less, maybe we're not the target market …
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by gffrd 3y ago
… and a permit is required to hold the property? (I'm curious why people are having permits issued if they have no plan to build) Is this like domain names?
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by gffrd 3y ago
So, they're missing the V then.
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by gffrd 3y ago
> All members are vetted By who? There's literally zero information that would make me trust this: who's running this, how's it backed up, what proof you have that this works. But, cool idea. Love the reciprocity focus. Ki
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by gffrd 3y ago
Yes. They're on your face right now, above your nose.
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by gffrd 3y ago
Thank you for saying this. I’m kind of surprised by how many of these responses regard reciprocity. Isn’t it enough to help make another person better?
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by gffrd 3y ago
They're also a great ride! I've been on a few Embraers, and been super impressed with their "feel" as a passenger.

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