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by himom 9y ago
Very true. Rural folks have it worst: monopoly or no access at all. If a company like Sinclair also owned the broadband, only payola TV would work, YouTube access and bandwidth could a tiered add-on, they’d block whichever company didn’t pa
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by himom 9y ago
AT&T is rapidly becoming what it once was, especially if the TW merger goes through. We’d be renting Wi-Fi cards, access and with additional fees by the second and byte if they had their way.
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by himom 9y ago
Fuck Ajit Pai. Internet access (and healthcare) is like universal education, a basic human right. I hope a news organization finds some resignation- or imprisonment-worthy dirt on him... bribery, corruption or other such revolving-door impr
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by himom 9y ago
Yup. I just watched some video of a hardware engineer expat visiting Mumbai. Freudian YouTubing, for sure.
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by himom 9y ago
Crows are crazy smart. One of em snuck into my mechanic’s garage, stole a small package of sunflower seeds from across the other end of the shop and had a sunflower seed party with his buddies in the parking lot.
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by himom 9y ago
It’s all about appearance of intent and managing expectations. If you cannot deliver, don’t make a promise. Also, individuals tend to have their own range of fudge factor, think “claimed divided by actual.” George Carlin on BS: http:/
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by himom 9y ago
US voters need to have the option of calling a snap no-confidence referendum on all elected and appointed officials, such as Ajit Pai, Trump, William Jefferson, etc.
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by himom 9y ago
Also, a Japanese guy has lived on an island “alone” for roughly the same time: Japan’s Naked Island Hermit: VICE INTL (2014) https://youtu.be/ZBtBePnUOZU The thing is there are varying degrees of hermitage and a true herm
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by himom 9y ago
She was an MBB consultant turned manager turned startup CEO one-hit wonder. Although I do remember seeing the “supercar showroom” parking lot on the west side of Grelands Drive around the corner from where I lived everyday as one bookend of
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by himom 9y ago
As an exception that’s not a counterargument: in the 90’s, the galvanized-to-copper repipe plumber (and helpers including a son) whom did the house I grew up in also did dozens of houses in a wealthy area around SJ/Los Gatos for severa
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by himom 9y ago
I speed listened to the Stanford iOS course. Some lecturers just talk too slowly, pause too often or speak with low information density.
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by himom 9y ago
Exactly. It doesn’t make sense to build a recipes app when many already exist. All they need to do is link to allrecipes search by included ingredient, and preferably sorted by average rating. Feature added with much less effort.
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by himom 9y ago
Great work! Sorting by days left (asc/dec) or alphabetical would be nice.
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by himom 9y ago
The bigger, obvious issue is destruction of soils near either thriving biomes or human settlements. Destroying rivers, beaches, forests and areas around where people live is just dumb. There’s always two reasonable alternatives. One, use th