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by ghaff 6mo ago
When I was traveling to Raleigh NC semi-regularly I liked going to a really good Laotian restaurant there. One of my favorite places to eat (along with Beasley's for their fried chicken).
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Yeah. Technically I suppose you could describe it as a fish sauce but definitely more on the umami and vinegar side. I'm also not sure the degree to which Worcestershire Sauce is especially a mainstream American condiment. I have a jar
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by ghaff 6mo ago
At least in the US, fish in general is somewhat polarizing and, probably especially, strong tasting fish like anchovies, fish sauce, etc. Just not something probably the majority of people grew up with.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Nothing against multi-story garages. Just go (or don't go) to places based on how much of a hassle it is to do so. If enough people--local or otherwise--want to visit good for them. I definitely make choices based on how easy or hard i
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by ghaff 6mo ago
I have space in garage for car at times of year when plowing may be needed. But plenty of space outside on driveway at times of year when it's not. Live in a very safe area and it's easier to just pull up in front of the garage do
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by ghaff 6mo ago
IBM (among other companies) used to have multi-month internal training programs based on their specific needs. And, in many cases, the expectation was that you'd be there for 25 years or whatever afterwards.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
I don't know specifically about Minuteman though a different ICBM uses inertial guidance but also does a star sight to calibrate at some point in its trajectory--says the Internet ahem. And, also yes, the modern inertial navigation tha
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by ghaff 6mo ago
I forget where I saw it (probably YouTube someplace) but the fire control systems (including radar) on the Iowa-class battleships apparently way outperformed their Japanese counterparts. The Japanese has a couple (?) ships with bigger guns&
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by ghaff 6mo ago
It was also rather eclectic in a way that later magazines like PC Magazine weren't (even if PC Mag did still have features like assembly programming columns). I certainly can't think of any magazines remotely like the big computer
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Exactly. I already don't go into the large relatively nearby city as much as I used to because of both general inclination and traffic/parking hassles. Which is fine. But if people in the main stop going into the city you'd p
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by ghaff 6mo ago
I think it's a corollary of Parkinson's Law: Crap expands to fill the space available for it. It's one reason I've never gotten a shed rather than just depending on my garage to store stuff in the winter when I need to g
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Haven't been there in years but the Nike facility in Marin is well worth a visit if you're there when it's open. The control stations were originally on a higher ridge but they have one of the (basically) containers next to t
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Don't disagree with the general point but I'm not sure J-School was ever a particularly good entree into journalism. Most of the journalists I know and knew didn't have the grad degree.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
That's a rather expansive view of cities based on what the US Census categorizes as urban vs. rural. Between myself and a couple neighbors, we're on close to 100 acres, but that's urban according to the census because we&#x27
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by ghaff 6mo ago
I'm fairly far out from Boston/Cambridge but I'm pretty much the same situation. Going in for a commute (or 9-5 event), the commuter rail is pretty good; I'm a 7 minute drive to the station. But it's basically unwor
496.
by ghaff 6mo ago
Not sure it's a bad thing. So, they would employ maybe 30 people after they're built. Consume a lot of power and water. I'd have to see the details of a specific proposal but I'd probably vote against personally.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
And you'd better be prepared to fight for it through the courts. Might take a decade or more if someone is really opposed to selling.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Really? Take it all the time going to NYC even though it's not really very convenient for me to get to a northern station. Amtrak is priced to make it a good idea to book tickets in advance. Shinkansen isn't cheap either, especial
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Good luck building a bunch of new interstates today. Opposition was already coming in at the end of the interstate system buildout. Drill down and you'll find various odd connections (or lack thereof) throughout the system that resulte
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by ghaff 6mo ago
With relatively little between the Bay Area and LA to serve as a viable customer base. Hence, a lot of the problems getting California HSR going. Imagine you had the Boston area and the Washington DC area and took out NYC and Philadelphia i
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by ghaff 6mo ago
The 5th amendment isn't exactly recent. But a lot of factors make it harder--for better or worse--to exercise eminent domain today than in the past. You could probably never reasonably build the equivalent of the interstate highway sys
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by ghaff 6mo ago
That's a sad story though getting a bit far afield from young kids taking public transit or otherwise traveling away from their homes. At 17 I was in college and taking urban transportation (and flights) all the time.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
The usual contrast being drawn is kids wandering around a suburban area, walking to school, playing with kids in a nearby rural property. It's not hopping onto a bus to the city a few tens of miles away. You do see schoolchildren in Ja
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by ghaff 6mo ago
There's doubtless some wiggle room but it's like home office deductions. Triggering an audit by the "tax man" is rarely a good idea for most people and may well cause accounting bills that exceed any marginal gains.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
And it's not even a tax write-off until you have enough income to offset expenses. (Which is nice as far as it goes but is small scale where you can write-off a few $K in expenses against a few $K in income.)
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Hard to keep up with what generations are supposedly uniquely disadvantaged. For Millennials specifically, houses would seem to be rather late in the game as they're probably mostly buying in their 30s maybe if they're buying at a
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by ghaff 6mo ago
You should. It's short and it's one of Asimov's best.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
I agree with all that. I've known a couple of people (at least one was out of investment banking--think both were) who pretty much fully retired in their forties, which of course isn't really that young. Some people hit the star
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Some people do have live-in nannies and au pairs for kids of a certain age but I'm guessing it's not very common, at least below a certain income bracket. People do use childcare and lean on relatives (or one parent just doesn&#x2
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by ghaff 6mo ago
"Famous" engineers--probably. I doubt the person taking care of the steam engines lived in a fancy house. I'd much more expect the steamship owners and captains to live in that sort of property.

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