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by jackskell 10y ago
Which, as an old guy, I just ordered a Raspberry Pi. Just enough of a contained system to explore without having to become expert-level in 5 other fields just to get the thing to work.
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by jackskell 10y ago
Simple on any screen. Links are obvious. Actions are obvious. Loads quickly on slow connections. Forward/back loads are quick. I don't have time or interest on burning cellular data on bloated websites that take lots of scrolling
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by jackskell 10y ago
One word: rental cars. Out-of-state buyers already practice this.
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by jackskell 10y ago
3 person household with 2 drivers. 3 cars, FMV totalling about $5000. I keep an extra car to get to work when one of the others is broken down. One of the vehicles is a compact pickup with a canopy for diversifying utility, if needed. We&
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by jackskell 10y ago
A class action from fired employees? Not if they signed an arbitration clause as a condition of employment...
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by jackskell 10y ago
Asimov's clear style is the form I try to emulate whenever I'm called to write something. His use of parenthesis in particular is excellent at gracefully adding information to a sentence without bogging down the paragraph with ex
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by jackskell 10y ago
Have another iPhone waiting on the other side of the border and carry a flip phone. Not that hard. It's not the data they want, now. It's the control.
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by jackskell 10y ago
The quality of the discourse here is why I lurk. Thankfully, HN isn't well known and polluted. It is a refreshing place for civil discourse on the Internet, and I have not found very many other places like it. If there's a donate