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by jdblair 4y ago
Yes, I concede that was not a good rhetorical point to make. My reaction to the parent comment came from my feeling that men expecting their girlfriends to never confront them or disagree, especially in public, is a much more common, and ge
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by jdblair 4y ago
If you are a US citizen and you have any kind of middle class life that crosses international boundaries, you quickly become familiar with many of these terms and processes. Hold a balance in a foreign bank? File a FBAR (foreign bank accoun
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by jdblair 4y ago
You do understand that this reasoning cuts both ways. It is much more likely (and mainstream) for the man in the relationship to not tolerate views from their partner that could invalidate or compete with his position, to paraphrase your wo
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by jdblair 4y ago
A new experience for me since I moved from California to Amsterdam: A local shop where we often buy vegetables closed for the entire month of August, with a hand written note on the window. In September they were open again.
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by jdblair 4y ago
I'm showing my age, but the first thing I thought of when reading the headline was the Commodore Datasette. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette
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by jdblair 4y ago
+1, a super interesting read
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by jdblair 4y ago
Unpopular opinion: if you don't charge a fee to enter the permit lottery, people will stuff the lottery using bots. It is a shame the fee doesn't go to the park service, though.
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Avoid these 10 ‘cringeworthy’ phrases that are annoying your co-workers(cnbc.com)
1 points by jdblair 4y ago|1 comments
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The global housing market is heading for a brutal downturn(ft.com)
32 points by jdblair 4y ago|82 comments
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You should share enough context that your employees have a good grasp of business goals and can shape and prioritize their own work to build value. You won't think of everything and you don't want to spend your time tracking all t
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by jdblair 4y ago
Hey, why's the machine so slow? Oh, Frank is running a kernel build.
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by jdblair 4y ago
Bravo to nicely designed gadget.
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This is something I left in a book. I keep Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment on my desk, more out of nostalgia than anything. I flipped through it one day and found the receipt ($56!) from when I bought it, in 1995, at a Barnes a
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by jdblair 4y ago
that sounds totally made up!
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by jdblair 4y ago
Sometime in the 80s while the strip was still running (and I was probably 10 or 11), I attended a talk by Bill Watterson at the Akron Art Museum. He looked astonishingly like Calvin's dad! Over the course of about an hour he drew all t
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by jdblair 4y ago
I stand corrected! Thank you.
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by jdblair 4y ago
Oh good, my cynical take is incorrect!
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by jdblair 4y ago
It is impossible to be 8 feet away if you are sitting in the front seat during a traffic stop.
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by jdblair 4y ago
I believe this is most of all about stopping filming by drivers during traffic stops. It is impossible to be 8 feet away while sitting in the driver seat during a traffic stop.
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Tesla reportedly doesn’t have enough desks for on-site workforce(theverge.com)
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One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite(til.simonwillison.net)
747 points by jdblair 4y ago|127 comments
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Cover identity of Russian intelligence officer trying to gain access to the ICC(english.aivd.nl)
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Why Alto? (1972 Xerox Internal Memo)(digibarn.com)
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by jdblair 4y ago
If I had to guess, Spotify is optimizing for engagement and listening hours, not searchability.
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Everyone who grew up with 8-bit micros understands what it feels like to know the whole machine.
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by jdblair 4y ago
All houses need maintenance and upkeep to survive. My wood frame house in Oakland was built in 1896. Clearly it lasted longer than 70 years. Brick is a terrible building material in California, due to earthquakes. My brick house in Amsterda
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Is Crypto Re-Creating the 2008 Financial Crisis? (Interview of Hilary J. Allen)(newsletters.theatlantic.com)
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by jdblair 5y ago
It's not very clear, but this is a reprint likely from 1985.
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by jdblair 5y ago
The same place they are now. Squeezing out an existence doing professional services.
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Intel Corporation Makes Deep Investment in RISC-V Community(riscv.org)
37 points by jdblair 5y ago|5 comments

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