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by havblue 4y ago
The state farm insurance claim passage about the brick layer is great and doesn't depend on the rest of the book. http://infinitesummer.org/archives/608
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by havblue 4y ago
I think it helps to read summaries or explanations of infinite Jest and not just dig into it. Eventually you get a good mental picture of the entire timeline, the rough details of how the dystopia works and how the story is told in a loop.
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by havblue 4y ago
I liked the David Foster Wallace reader to start with. It was basically a greatest hits of his best material including a decent chunk of Infinite Jest.
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by havblue 4y ago
Yeah, if Google were to abandon the licenses then it would mean they'd just be giving up on gaming indefinitely. I don't see them doing that as all the big tech companies want to control the family room. They're probably just
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by havblue 4y ago
I would think it would be trivial for them to pay to let another service transfer the licenses. Of course, this would benefit potential future competitors' market share. So I guess they think it would be better to screw their customers
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by havblue 4y ago
I wonder if it's just that a single 20oz of diet/zero sugar soda doesn't make a big enough difference one way or another. Likely not so good for you but not as addictive and statistically significant as say, alcohol, nicotine
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by havblue 4y ago
My wife told me that having a cat on my profile was a positive: it showed I was at least responsible enough to take care of a small animal.
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by havblue 4y ago
If she finds out the stethoscope is only used on cats though, she might not be as interested. "He's a doctor! Wait. He's a cat doctor..."
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by havblue 4y ago
It definitely helps with the associated upper back pain that gets amplified when I indulge too much...
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by havblue 4y ago
So how much of this increase is because of increase in car weight and how much is it "road rage" or whatever you want to call it? I definitely have noticed more aggressive drinking post covid and I hear about it more. Even a gas s
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by havblue 4y ago
Problem being: opinion pieces are cheap and very entertaining if your audience agrees with you. Investigative journalism is expensive and can be boring, not to mention potentially bad for ad revenue.
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by havblue 4y ago
Yeah. I guess it's supposed to imply a red vs blue state conflict. Proud Boys versus Antifa fighting in the streets! MSNBC fans firing tear gas at Tucker Carlson viewers! Reylo shippers versus original trilogy fans, hitting each other
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by havblue 4y ago
This would certainly impact people with older houses disproportionately relative to the wealthier folks doing the teardowns, though. Probably a political downside.
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by havblue 4y ago
It is interesting to think back on the websites we created twenty or so years ago that we looked at only occasionally. We would check on them every year or two without realizing eventually that the server hosting them would be junked. On th
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by havblue 4y ago
I guess you can justify this if you just think of the price of concessions as part of the overall experience. It's really a $300 ticket but you get to drink 5 beers and have some bar food in the meantime.
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by havblue 4y ago
I agree that cars are better, but are vacation destinations like Disney really better? If you see parade footage from magic kingdom in the nineties you'll see that the crowds are far less. Sure there's more variety, more thrill ri
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by havblue 4y ago
I might as well repeat the overprotective parent perspective. Fatalities are higher if you're in a sedan in an accident with a pickup or semi. There are a lot of trucks on the road as well. Finally, road accidents are the one of the bi
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by havblue 4y ago
Ironically, economists know that people aren't obsessed with growth as much as just acting according to their own nature...
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by havblue 4y ago
So would we say that the state in Robocop is too weak to meet the totalitarian requirement for fascism?
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by havblue 4y ago
"This could look bad for OCP, Johnson. Scramble the best spin team we have." The Old Man, Robocop 2
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by havblue 4y ago
That was somewhat of a plot hole where you think a state of emergency would have been declared at the end and the army would be sent in.
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by havblue 4y ago
I notice an odd thing when I want to procrastinate/am feeling overwhelmed: I tend to get tired and fall asleep. Which I guess means I'm not making progress but trying to will my brain to pay attention, so it takes a break. Anyone
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by havblue 4y ago
Certainly the culture hasn't stopped, but how would you say that music has moved forward in the past decade or two? While I can name a lot of groups that make new music I enjoy, I can't say that there have been revolutionary genre
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by havblue 4y ago
I don't entirely follow the logic of this article: abortion is illegal in some states and Google knows your search and location history. So it seems like it's saying police will scour account data to target women with the intentio
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by havblue 4y ago
I know a family with teenagers that helped this by only allowing each kid a phone without social media at first, when the kid was in eighth grade or so. And after a year they could use social media on the phone. Also, after a certain time e
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by havblue 4y ago
You parse it as: "The title of the article doesn't match the content."
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by havblue 4y ago
"learn to publicly pretend that it doesn't exist" I definitely see this with public school redistricting where I live as the population of some parts of my city surges for apartments while neighborhood housing population stay
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by havblue 4y ago
It's surprising how well Agile can be used to disguise the fact that a project isn't moving forward. Maybe consider it a feature you can use to cya while you jump ship. Sure you can point to a weak manager here but ultimately you
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by havblue 4y ago
I was wondering about that as well. Aside from drugs and productivity, do some of these people simply have a lot of passive income where they don't have to concentrate on a "job"? Must be nice.
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by havblue 4y ago
Personally, my undergrad was in electrical engineering so I always felt a little behind as a software engineer. Getting an accredited Master's in software engineering from Harvard extension gave me more confidence in a lot of the class

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